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Help Build the Body at Healthy Church Leadership Days

Healthy Church Leadership Days, scheduled this winter and spring at various locations around the Conference, are aimed not so much at improving individual health as at energizing and revitalizing the body of Christ in Western PA. “It would be an understatement to say that I’m tremendously excited about what these healthy church events might mean to the vitality of our annual conference,” said Washington District Superintendent Eric Park, who will serve as a keynote...

Rethink Church - Change the World

By Jackie Campbell, WPAUMC News It’s time to shine the light of Christ around the world – and let others see it! On April 24-25, United Methodists will participate in Change the World, a movement to connect church members and friends across the world in service on one weekend to make a difference locally and globally. The weekend coincides with World Malaria Day, April 25. It’s the day our denomination kicks off the Imagine No Malaria campaign to eliminate the killer...

Dec. 4, 2009 The Journey Continues ...

I have always been a fan of the space program. I have, in a way, grown up with NASA. I remember John Kennedy saying: We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the...

Oct. 2 The Journey Continues ...

A few nights ago I sat at a restaurant on the river overlooking downtown Pittsburgh. The city was abuzz in anticipation of the G20 Summit. Boats, bikes, and helicopters gave evidence of significant preparations being made for visitors. The Hilton Hotel erected a huge welcome banner to hide their stalled renovation project and give visitors a good impression as they enter the downtown. Street crews were cleaning sidewalks and gutters to impress visitors. Businesses were actively preparing for...

June 5, 2009 The Journey Continues...

If you've visited our website (www.wpaumc.org) in the last few weeks, you’ve noticed a picture of me in a red windbreaker talking to a Hispanic woman. Contrary to some comments, I am not posing as a Domino’s Pizza deliveryman. Sally and I were privileged to go with a group of bishops and spouses to a Day Workers’ Church/gathering place in Gaithersburg, MD. Casa de Maryland, a migrant worker’s ministry sponsored by the Baltimore-Washington Conference, provides meals,...