Eastern PA’s Retired Preachers’ Association will gather in May for Spring Regional Lunches at three convenient locations to enjoy food and fellowship together, as they connect with colleagues in their areas. Spouses are welcome. The first group will meet in …
Find rest, renewal in God at pastors spiritual retreat May 1
Eastern PA’s next Pastors Spiritual Retreat will happen May 1 at Quakertown UMC (1875 Freier Rd.) and online via Zoom, at 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. On each first Wednesday pastors are invited to “stop, take some time for ourselves to …
‘Radicle Methodism: Back to our Roots’
Enjoy a timely video course on Methodist history As we look forward to what will no doubt be a historic United Methodist General Conference, it’s a good time to also look back at the highlights and lowlights that brought us …
Meet Nathan Solorio on Native American Ministries Sunday, April 14
The Eastern PA Conference Committee on Native American Ministries (CONAM) invites all to its annual spring gathering at Innabah Camp & Retreat Center in Spring City, on Sunday, April 14, at 2:30 p.m., to meet a young, dynamic change-maker, Nathan …
Church and partners ‘Help Build Hope’ through new home
Bethel Hill United Methodist Church in Lansdale and its generous partners are proving that Hope can be chronic and infectious—not as a disease but as a cure. Together, they “helped build hope” by erecting a fourth house—their second duplex—April 5-7, …
Church friendship grows from lifesaving kidney donation
April is National Donate Life Month. In fact, April 3 was Donate Life Living Donor Day, a time to honor living organ donors for saving and healing lives. These observances and recent media stories and films highlight the urgent, widespread …
Woolverton helps leaders’ wrestle with vulnerability in ‘Prophet & Loss…’
The Rev. David Woolverton, a longtime Eastern PA elder, pastoral counselor, consultant and trainer, has just published a new book to resource ministry leaders for the emotional and spiritual task of providing personal and pastoral care to others. Prophet and …
Churches celebrate Holy Week with special activities
Churches across the Eastern PA Conference spent much of a busy but blessed Holy Week in worship through sermons, ceremony and song—many worshiping jointly with neighboring churches. But some attempted creative, energetic ways to demonstrate the sacred significance of this …
A Holy Week delivery of Undies for Easter
Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering, as though you were suffering as they are. Hebrews 13:3 (Good News Version) The Philadelphia Prison Complex received a special delivery …
Historic church survives fire, as its worship and witness continue
Recovering from an electrical fire that damaged part of its building, 162-year-old Arch Street United Methodist Church, just blocks away from Philadelphia’s City Hall, is holding Holy Week and Easter Sunday services. While Good Friday worship will be held online, …