June 6, 2021 View the recording.
Conference to offer two Laity Academies in 2021
The first academy is August 6-7, Friday evening and all-day Saturday, using Zoom video-conferencing. The second will be on October 1-2, when in-person classes will be hosted at several churches across the conference. Learn more…
2021 Laity Session – Full Recording
Additional resources provided by Rev. Jacqueline King:
2021 Lay Leader’s Report
Dave Koch, Conference Lay Leader Presented at the 2021 Annual Conference – May 21, 2021. View the video. Download a PDF of the script. See the full 2021 Annual Conference playlist.
CLM Program Class of 2021 Schedule
Certified Lay Minister ProgramClass of 2021, Certification 2022 Download Schedule of Orientation Sessions
Laity urged to join Conference’s newest Facebook group
More people each week are asking to join and participate in the new Eastern PA Conference Laity Facebook page. Why not join them and help grow our Facebook Community?
UM Lay Leaders urge laity to engage in social action
The UMC’s Association of Annual Conference Lay Leaders (AACLL) executive team has sent a letter to laity across of the U.S. church calling for their commitment to “love one another” and to work together to foster meaningful social change at …
Laity Academy: new site, new courses, new learners
By John W. Coleman View more 2019 Laity Academy photos in our Flickr Album. Tacking eastward into a new, more academic setting, the Eastern PA Conference Laity Academy dropped its nets at Eastern University’s scenic, Main Line campus in St. …
Laity Academy inspires joyful learning, music, fellowship
The joyful energy and communal spirit of the 35th annual Laity Academy, held August 3-5, seemed to fill the classrooms, corridors, dining/fellowship hall and even the sanctuary of Quakertown UMC, where Caribbean-style steel drums and a lengthening conga dance line …