Taizé Meditations on the Sermon on the Mount
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., all regularly read and were significantly influenced by the Sermon on the Mount. It was a prominent text that …
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Renaissance City Choir Comes Out with New Name for 40th Anniversary
Western Pennsylvania’s only LGBTQIA+ and allies choral group proudly announces its new name: Pittsburgh Pride Choir. The choir has been a cornerstone of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQIA+ cultural community since 1985. The name …
Summer Slowing
I received a card from an ELPC member, during my rotator cuff recovery and in it they shared the wisdom of Thomas Merton with me: “There are times we simply …
Mission Board Message Board | July 2025
“As you did it unto the least of these, you did it unto me.”—Matthew 25:40 As a Matthew 25 church, ELPC is committed to following the call of Christ to …
ELPC is Seeking a New Associate Pastor for Care & Connection
The process has started to seek a new Associate Pastor for ELPC who will oversee connection and care, and be the liaison for the Board of Deacons and for the …
Safety & Security Advisory Committee
For years now, ELPC leadership has been working on and revising our Emergency Response Plan with local first responders to evolve and address our changing environment and times in which …
Lending Support to South Sudan
Having earned its independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan is the youngest country in the world. It has been torn by civil war for nearly all of its brief …
Embodying the Spirit Retreat Reflection
Over the first weekend of May, about 20 ELPC members and friends met an hour north of Pittsburgh at a quiet, woodsy place called the Villa Maria Education and Spirituality …
Support the Pentecost Offering on Pentecost Sunday
The Pentecost Offering, one of our denomination’s four, churchwide Special Offerings, supports ministries with children, youth, and young adults in our community, across the nation, and around our world. As …
Alternative Transportation Challenge Recap
The Environmental Team of the Justice Committee would like to thank all who participated in the Alternative Transportation Challenge on Sunday, May 18, to lower our transportation carbon footprint—by biking, …