Gamification: the process of adding games or gamelike elements to something (such as a task) so as to encourage participation. The 2018 Eastern PA Annual Conference will be unlike any before it, probably in various ways but most assuredly in …
Revealing inclusiveness monitoring method returns for 2018
By John W. Coleman The Eastern PA Annual Conference in 2017 used a new and improved process for monitoring its session for inclusiveness—“a quality of including many different types of people and treating them all fairly and equally.” The process …
Hula-hoop at Annual Conference for Abundant Health
By John W. Coleman Members and guests attending Annual Conference this week will have plenty of chances to get their hearts and hips—yes, hips—moving, all to benefit their health. Doing what, you ask? Well, that answer also begins with an …
‘We Will All Be Sent!’
The Annual Conference Service of Ordination and Commissioning, always a climactic event, will again commence with robed clergy in a stirring procession, followed by sacred worship with powerful music and preaching. Then comes the high moment when vows are pronounced, …
AC 2018 awards to honor ministry efforts
The Eastern PA Conference Connectional Ministries Office grants awards at each Annual Session to recognize people, churches and institutions doing exemplary work in evangelism, church growth and urban ministry. Such recognition spotlights not only the recipients and the work they …
Annual Conference to hear voices of change, welcome, diversity
[box color=”yellow”] The registration deadline for Annual Conference attendees and exhibitors is Friday, May 18. [/box] The 2018 Eastern PA Annual Conference, June 14-16, will fill its stage with diverse sights and sounds, voices and visions, styles of worship and …
Annual Conference 2018 to vote on 27 resolutions
See all resolutions in PDF on our website’s Annual Conference page: 2018 Resolutions By John W. Coleman Members of the 2018 Eastern PA Annual Conference will consider and vote on 27 resolutions submitted and now posted online. They are being printed …
Exhibitor Registration for Annual Conference
The Commission on Conference Sessions is pleased to offer table space for exhibitors at Annual Conference–June 14-16, 2018, at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. Space is limited and all requests will be filled on a first come, …
2018 Annual Session: ‘We Will All Be Changed’
“We Will All Be Changed” will be the theme of the next Eastern PA Annual Conference June 14-16, 2018. The prophetic theme—perhaps a timely, symbolic one for our denomination—comes from 1 Corinthians 15:51. (“Listen, I will tell you a mystery! …
Givers keep on giving as scholarship fund nears goal
By John W. Coleman Eastern PA Conference members gave generously to offerings received at Annual Conference in June, and their gifts extended beyond just the offering baskets, thanks to the kindness of one church and the blessing of online donations. …