“Digital Ministry for the Rest of Us” was an ideal title for a helpful online forum offered by the Eastern PA Conference Dec. 5, where church practitioners shared valuable knowledge and experience using limited tech-speak. The Congregational Development Team (CDT) …
Navigating evangelism across a shifting cultural landscape
The Eastern PA Conference’s annual Faith-Sharing Seminar, Nov. 14, was presented like a well-designed, well-packed suitcase, ready for travel to unknown but potentially exciting locales. Perhaps rarely has so much knowledge-sharing insight from an acknowledged thought-leader been so neatly packed …
Learn about Multi-Site/Satellite Model for churches
‘We’re stronger together’ The Eastern PA Conference Congregational Development Team will welcome the Rev. Mike Slaughter, pastor emeritus and global church ambassador for Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, to discuss “The Multi-Site/Satellite Model for Churches” on Thursday, Jan. 21, …
Local Pastor Licensing School, January 2021
The Eastern PA Conference has launched its new Local Pastor Licensing School, to begin in January 2021. Registration is open now for classes that will gather online for just six weeks, from Jan. 15 to Feb. 28. The school’s new …
CDT Book Club to explore Rendle’s new book in January 2021
Quietly Courageous, by the Rev. Gil Rendle, is the Congregational Development Team’s (CDT) third book to recommend and discuss in its new weekly Book Club, beginning Jan. 13, 2021. The new clergy and laity study group will gather each Wednesday …
Lebo to head revamped Local Pastor School
2021 school to be offered on Zoom with flexible curriculum The Rev. Dan Lebo, senior pastor of Gravel Hill UMC in Palmyra, is the new Dean of the Eastern PA Conference’s Local Pastor Licensing School, as of September 1. He …
New book club begins with Transforming Community
The Eastern PA Conference’s Congregational Development Team has launched a new book club this fall, and its first title explores how churches can use Methodist traditions to pursue missional transformation. Transforming Community: The Wesleyan Way to Missional Congregations looks at …
Harry Denman Evangelism Award
Submit nominations by May 27
Exceptional Evangelism The ministry of bringing people of all walks of life into a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ is expressed in Word, Sign and Deed, across all generations and in many contexts and settings. What distinguishes a Harry Denman …
Bishop promotes Evangelism in District Meetings
At five district meetings, 9/23 to 10/2, Bishop Peggy Johnson will urge churches to engage their communities in outreach for Christ and also discuss General Conference 2020 concerns.
Training disciples to share their faith through sacraments
Mount Zion UMC in Philadelphia hosted the Eastern PA Conference’s sixth Four Stations of the Holy Spirit training event July 20, extending a growing initiative to teach and embolden lay members to offer sacramental prayer to one another and to …