Read the summit report In 2014, GCSRW convened a research summit to identify the ways that unique struggles and stresses that clergy family experience, best practices for supporting clergy families, and to seek recommendations for how to better provide a …
North District Music Resources for Worship
The North District has made available these music selections that can be plugged into your worship services:
Style and Reference Guide
Style and Reference Guide Produced by UMCommunications
Local Church Communicators Survey
Local Church Communicators, please download, complete and return our short questionnaire, so that we can better communicate, serve and share resources with you and your church. Thanks! Download: Communicators Survey
Local Church Crisis Communications Plan
A Local Church Crisis Communications Plan produced by UM Communications. This document is a template that local churches can adapt to meet their own specific circumstances and needs. Review the template closely and determine where the plan may need to be modified. The …
Houses of Worship Security Self-Assessment Tool
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides this Houses of Worship Security Self-Assessment Tool. Prepared by the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), it is a security planning resource useful for church facilities. This tool along with …
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Redux
The Small Business Administration issued their guidelines on January 6 documenting how lenders will proceed with the PPP2 applications for non-profits. Presently, only churches who have not yet received a PPP1 loans are eligible to apply; but this process will …
NEWSpirit Communications Policy for Reporting and Promoting News and Events
NEWSpirit Communications will endeavor to report in its media all known events sponsored by the Eastern PA Conference, its Districts, Local Churches, Conference Administrative and Connectional Ministry Groups and Conference-Affiliated Groups. News and events of other Non-Conference Affiliated Groups that …