Newly Announced

Sunday School registration is now open from children from preschool through high school! We look forward to another year of growing in faith with your family. To register, please use our online form. Questions? Contact Ms. Deb, our Director of Christian Education. Thank you for your support of Christian education ministries at Wesley Church!

Summer is a great time to unwind with a new book — including the books from our Summer Book Club series! Join us for our remaining discussions:

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: Monday August 19

All book club discussions will begin at 6:30 PM. For more information, or to sign up for a reminder list, please contact Pastor Candy. 

Find some treasures at the Mammy’s Angels summer yard sale! The sale will take place Saturday August 17, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM, in Fellowship Hall. Shop for clothes, knick knacks, toys, CDs & DVDs, collectibles, housewares, jewelry, and so much more! The kitchen will also be open for food purchases. For more information, please contact Debbie Ace. 

Hello Wesley members! This summer, we need your help with painting projects in our preschool / Sunday School classrooms. The painting schedule is as follows:

Saturday August 10 (AM)

• Toddler room: cutting in, putting up painting tape, laying tarps (4 people needed)
• Infant room: removing wallpaper border  (2-3 people needed)

Sunday August 11: BRING YOUR PAINT CLOTHES!

• Toddler Room: painting walls (4 people needed)
• Infant Room: cutting in, putting up painting tape (3 people needed)

With just a handful of people giving 2-3 hours, we can complete this project. Just give a morning or evening! Bring a friend, bring family, or gather a few fellow church members. Let us know we will arrange to have supplies available to the group! 

For more information, or to volunteer, please text Alida Ammon at 610-393-2826.

Rosemary Molinaro, Wesley Church’s lay delegate to Annual Conference, shares her reflections of the recent conference sessions: 

BELONG – That was the theme of this year’s Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference, held May 21-23. The location could not be more inviting: the ocean-front Convention Center in Wildwood NJ! Communion on the beach started the morning, followed by full days of worship, praise, celebrations, and of course, attending to the work of the conference. 

Over the three days of the conference, everyone BELONGing was echoed in the music, the prayers, and the presentations. All God’s people – regardless of any difference between us on the outside – all BELONG in our spiritual connection to our Creator God. It is up to each of us to follow the command of Jesus to “love one another, as I have loved you” (John 13:34). 

Clergy and Laity were asked to vote on several important resolutions. A new hand-held voting device was used for quick and accurate voting results. Voting was not always easy, and anyone who had a comment, concern, or amendment was heard before voting took place. Some of the resolutions presented were: rental/housing allowance for retired or disabled clergy; equitable compensation for clergy; approval of seven churches to be closed; 2025 budget, a Memorandum of Understanding for GNJ and EPA to work together in a collaborative partnership, and many more. All resolutions carried, with one as close as one vote (207-206), and another voting five times before reaching the require 2/3 majority. 

And then we celebrated! We celebrated the commissioning and ordination of new clergy, the vote to reinstate our Christian sister Beth Stroud to BELONG in the UMC, the election of two episcopal candidates, the celebration of life remembrance of those who have been called home to the Lord, and the celebration of new assignments to local churches. 

What a blessing it was for me, personally, to be involved in this conference. There was so much to take in over three days. If you have the opportunity to attend an annual conference, I think you would feel the same way. Anyone can attend as a guest and sit in on the session (but as a guest you would not be eligible to vote). It is an amazing way to BELONG! Thank you for allowing me to attend.