A heart-to-heart ministry Eastern PA Conference members and churches again reached out to incarcerated persons with caring messages of encouragement penned on signed Christmas cards. And again, we went the second mile by also donating unsigned cards that inmates can …

Summit urges churches to speak out against mass incarceration
Attendees of the sixth National Summit on Mass Incarceration were urged to go back into their churches and communities and open conversations about ways they can work toward criminal justice reform…

EPA delivers ‘Undies for Easter’ to grateful prison staff
Eastern PA Conference members delivered a modest but much-appreciated Easter gift to the Philadelphia Correctional Facility complex on State Road April 12. A team delivered 2,123 men’s briefs, 2,264 men’s undershirts and 625 women’s briefs for persons incarcerated there, bearing fruit …

UPDATE: Many are donating Undies for Easter
Our Undies for Easter campaign is enroute to becoming a big success! The conference-wide effort to collect 2,000 pairs of men’s briefs for persons incarcerated in the Philadelphia Prison System and donate them to the head chaplain there before Easter …
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Report: book group and undies for easter programs – 01/25/2022
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Chairperson: Marilyn Schneider Report submitted by: Marilyn Schneider Email:mschneider2222@gmail.com Phone: (610) 578-0446 Date submitted: 01/25/2022 Recent Events & Activities Undies for Easter Campaign launched 1/21/22 to provide briefs for men entering the PHL prison system. …

Clothed in Love*: Undies for Easter
Donate much-needed men’s underwear briefs to Philadelphia prison inmates for Easter
Each inmate arriving into the Philadelphia Prison System is given ONE pair of underwear. Can you imagine living with only one pair of underwear?

7,200 Christmas cards sent to inmates in 13 prison facilities
This year Eastern PA Conference members and churches again reached out to incarcerated persons with caring messages of encouragement penned on signed Christmas cards. And again, the ongoing pandemic required such determined creativity as arranging pick-up and drop-off sites at …

Give the gift that keeps on giving: Over 5,000 Christmas cards signed for inmates
Team now wants unsigned cards The EPAUMC Prison Ministry & Restorative Justice Team collected 5,570 Christmas cards signed and delivered to the Conference Office and various churches to be given mostly to inmates in correctional institutions across our region. While …
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Report: Connectional Ministry Meeting Report – 11/17/2021
Prison Ministry and Restorative Justice Chairperson: Marilyn Schneider Report submitted by: Marilyn Schneider Email: mschneider2222@gmail.com Phone: (610) 578-0446 Date submitted: 11/17/2021 Recent Events & Activities Working on revision of our team’s webpage on the conference website to make it up …

Time to share Christmas greetings with inmates again
Imagine what it would be like to be behind bars this Christmas, with limited contact with family and friends. Receiving a card with an encouraging note that shares the message of God’s love from someone “outside” would be such a …