Dismantling Racism: As you prepare to lead your church through this Advent season, prayerfully consider incorporating this theme into your preaching and teaching while adapting any of the following elements for use in your context. This Advent resource was prepared …
The spirit of Christmas giving lives!
Local church ministry reports Several churches generously responded to our appeal for information with news of their Advent and Christmas activities. Many thanks! Here are their lightly edited reports. Conshohocken UMC Conshohocken UMC is trying “to make this highly unusual …
Cabinet gifts churches with recorded sermons through January
Christmastide-Epiphany Sermon Series YouTube playlist. Or, click here to download the files from Dropbox. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented Bishop Peggy Johnson and her Cabinet from doing their annual December outreach visit to a church or ministry site this year. But …
How will your church celebrate Advent, Christmas in COVID-tide?
What are your church’s Advent and Christmas celebration plans, in light of—or in spite of—the relentless and deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Infections are increasing and taking a terrible toll everywhere. More government restrictions have been announced. And while churches can have …
Camina en la Luz por Bishop Peggy A. Johnson
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Sharing good news through good deeds—Churches celebrate Advent
The Christian season of Advent that culminates in Christmas is such a wondrous time in the lives of many churches. Throughout this month churches across the Eastern PA Conference have been: performing in Christmas pageants, parades cantatas and concerts, including …
2018: The Year of the Migrant
In the midst of the joyous celebration of Christmas there is a backdrop of suffering around the globe in the form of migrants. Studies indicate that there are as many as 65 million migrants, immigrants, refugees and displaced people in …
Sharing UMC’s warmth in frigid Philadelphia
A handful of spirited church members joined a young street-marketing team on the shivering sidewalks of Philadelphia’s Center City last weekend to offer hot cocoa and a warm Christmas welcome to passers-by. Their friendly, outgoing presence embodied United Methodist Communications’ …
Churches celebrate Advent, Christmas in many ways
It’s beginning to look and feel a lot like Christmas. Not so much from the wintry weather arriving this weekend, but from the Advent activities happening all over the Eastern PA Conference. From hanging of the greens nearly everywhere, to …
Even in frigid Philly, ‘church can happen anywhere’
We believe that for United Methodists “church can happen anywhere,” and it’s happening this weekend in and around Philadelphia’s chilly Center City. But we need more volunteers to come share some heartwarming love over hot cocoa. Yes, it was cold Thursday and Friday–very …