By Rick Wolcott* Bishop Tracy S. Malone presided over the 51st session of Annual Conference, the first-ever virtual session in the East Ohio Conference. The worship services and business session presentations of the Sept. 26-27 session were live from the Great Hall at Church of the Saviour UMC, in Cleveland Heights. There, members of the [...]
The community was invited to Poland UMC on July 26 to hear religious leaders from across the Mahoning Valley share their powerful personal Stories of Racism in the Valley. Following the rally, those present had the opportunity to register to vote and to sign up for classes led by the Greater Youngstown Community Dialogue on [...]
More than 700 East Ohio Conference laity and clergy have signed a Covenant to Resist Racism to show their support for the May 28 Anti-Racism Commitment signed by Bishop Tracy S. Malone and the Extended Cabinet “as an act of repentance for our silence in the face of the racially motivated brutality that is pervasive throughout the [...]
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