Urban Commission Urban Alliance / Urban Church Initiative Grant Application The Urban Commission of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference will award grants to assist in funding Urban Alliances or Urban Church Initiatives. The Urban Commission hopes to offer grants twice a …
UM Metro Ministries Building Repair Grant Application
UM Metro Ministries, Inc. will receive applications two times per year with submissions due on March 15 and September 15. UMMM has limited funds and seeks to fund the most compelling projects that demonstrate high impact on the life of …
Wholeness Centers to spur BIPOC church-community ministry partnerships
The Eastern PA Conference is placing a new milestone on its justice-centered Dismantling Racism: Path Toward Wholeness initiative with the launch of its Wholeness Centers program this month. Wholeness Centers are intentional church-based partnerships with local residents and groups in …
Musicians partner with camp, church to spread gospel in verse
Ripe Creatives, a collective of young, dynamic, Christian poets, singers and rappers, has been delighting and discipling campers and staff at EPA’s Carson Simpson Farm Christian Center in Hatboro this summer. And they will bring their message-rich music—sung and spoken—to …
Merged churches inspire hope through mission center
“Hope Starts Here,” penned in colorful letters, is a small sign on the door of a big room where food is prepared at Mission First, a ministry located at the former First United Methodist Church in downtown Pottstown. And that …
Honoring Victims and Co-victims of Violence: An Urban Mini-Summit (Event Recording – 9/25/2021)
Honoring Victims and Co-victims of Violence: An Urban Mini-Summit September 25, 2021 View the recording.
Next Urban Summit to focus on victims, ‘co-victims’ of violence, Sept. 25
Honoring Victims and Co-victims* of Violence: An Urban Mini-Summit The Eastern PA Conference Urban Commission will sponsor an Urban Mini-Summit on urban violence on Saturday, Sept. 25, at 10 AM to 12 PM, via Zoom video-conferencing. That date has been the …
Phila. pastor hired to lead Urban Ministries
Terry Bridges, lay-supply pastor of Midtown Parish UMC in Philadelphia, will become the Eastern PA Conference’s new part-time Coordinator of Urban Ministries Sept. 1. Having served as a minister in Philadelphia Baptist churches for nearly 20 years, Bridges began assisting …
2021 Urban Ministry Awards
Members of the West Lebanon Mission Link receive a Herbert E. Palmer Urban Ministry Award for their collaborative food pantry ministry that also received an Urban Commission grant. Presenting the award to the Rev. Bruny Martinez (center) were (from left) the Revs. David Eckert and Myra …
UM Metro Ministries Technology Special Grant Application
UM Metro Ministries, Inc. Special Grants for Improvements in Church Technology & Media Ministries For UM churches in Chester, Norristown and Philadelphia, PA. Download the Technology Special Grant Application