In a time of escalated tensions arising from fear, illness, division, grief, greed and unbridled abuses of power, Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball and her colleagues on the College of Bishops of the Northeastern Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church have issued a statement of vision recommitment and hope. See the video below or read a transcript of their statement. 

The resident bishops of the Northeastern Jurisdiction include LaTrelle Easterling, Baltimore-Washington & Peninsula-Delaware; Sandra Steiner Ball, West Virginia and Susquehanna; Thomas J. Bickerton, New York; Sudarshana Devadhar, New England; Cynthia Moore-Koikoi, Western Pennsylvania and Susquehanna; John R. Schol, Greater New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania; Mark Webb, Upper New York.