The long-postponed 2020 United Methodist General Conference commenced April 23, after 2:00 p.m., with opening worship at the Charlotte, N.C., Convention Center, signaling a critical juncture for a denomination navigating through post-disaffiliation transitions and the global impact of the COVID-19 …
Long-delayed General Conference has begun
The General Conference of The United Methodist Church is underway in Charlotte, North Carolina, from April 23 to May 3. The denomination’s highest legislative body convenes every four years but last met in full session in 2016. The 2020 session …
Call to Prayer for General Conference and EPA’s Delegates
A Call to Prayer for General Conference (2024) and for EPA’s Delegates Judy Ehninger, Eastern PA’s delegation leader to The United Methodist Church’s General & Northeastern Jurisdictional conferences, shares a General Conference prayer calendar when she talks with groups about …
Two General Conference Information Sessions offered
A time for information and discernment The Eastern PA Conference’s elected delegation to The United Methodist Church’s General & Northeastern Jurisdictional conferences in 2024 will hold Information Sessions to share with conference members its understanding and concerns regarding general church …
Submit names for EPA episcopal nominations by Jan. 15
Eastern PA clergy and lay members are invited to submit, by January 15, up to two names of clergy the Annual Conference may consider, when it meets in May, to nominate for election to the office of Bishop in 2024. …
New NEJ task force, consultant to study strategic direction
A new task force will study and recommend a new strategic direction for The United Methodist Church’s Northeastern Jurisdiction (NEJ), with the aid of a hired consultant. The study will consider prospects for reduction and realignment of episcopal areas, due …
Court rules on General Conference questions
The United Methodist Church’s highest court has opened the door of some new delegates to be elected to the long-postponed and potentially momentous General Conference, now set for next year. The majority of the Judicial Council also ruled that to …
State of the NEJ Episcopal Address by Bishop John Schol
As the Northeastern Jurisdiction, we gather together to be in ministry with the world. Yet there are those who are troubled among us. There are United Methodists among us today and in our congregations who feel harmed, unheard and unseen…
Bishop Schol returns to EPA, meets with clergy
The United Methodists of Eastern PA welcome Bishop John Schol back to provide continuing coverage as our episcopal leader through 2024. At the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference, Nov. 1-4, he was reassigned to EPA and also to the Greater New Jersey …
Jurisdictions see shift in bishops, more cooperation
Even as The United Methodist Church faces mounting disaffiliations, those who plan to remain United Methodist are collaborating more across jurisdictional lines. Jurisdictional conferences also saw more women and more people of color become bishops and the most “firsts” since …