Copyright © 2010-2011 Old First Reformed United Church of Christ · Powered by WordPress
Old First Reformed 
United Church of Christ
151 N. 4th Street (at Race Street), Philadelphia, PA 19106 · (215) 922-4566
-
Upcoming Adult Forum: Jesus — 20 Centuries Later, led by the Rev. Carl Kleis
Posted March 14, 2012 by Guest. Filed under Adult Forum, Christian Education, Featured.
Jesus- Twenty Centuries Later. Much thinking, writing, and tradition have accumulated in around the person of Jesus in the twenty centuries since he walked the earth. After all this time, what can we know about real Jesus? This will be a series DVD guided discussions to help us explore that question. We will focus on [...]
-
Early Churches in the Middle East: Adult Forum, Sun., Feb 26
Posted February 21, 2012 by Suzanne Cole. Filed under Adult Forum, Christian Education, Featured.
The ancient Church of the East once stretched from Turkey, through Persia and Afghanistan, to India and China, with branches in Yemen and South Arabia. In 1000 AD, 40% of all the Christians of the world belonged to this church. Why don’t we know about this? Why has this been called the lost history of [...]
-
Babylonian Exile: History vs. Bible, Adult Forum, 02.12.
Posted February 8, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Adult Forum, Events, Featured.
Grant Frame, Old First member and Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and Associate Curator of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will lead the group in an illustrated examination of the historical facts surrounding the Babylonian Exile. This Adult Forum will compare what is [...]
-
Feb 5th Sunday Schedule
Posted January 31, 2012 by Billi. Filed under Adult Forum, Christian Education, Featured, News, Sunday School, Worship.
This Sunday things will be a little different than our normal routine. Many of the women of Old First will be at an off-site, overnight retreat. And we’re keeping the shelter open all day in the Social hall so the men can enjoy a full day of Super Bowl Sunday excitement. So we’ll begin with [...]
-
Adult Forum, 01.29 — Your Chance to Say What Changes You’d Like in the Sanctuary
Posted January 26, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Adult Forum, Events, News, Worship.
The Adult Forum will meet this, as almost every, Sunday, in the Social Hall, at 10 a.m. After a few weeks of Wanda, as Team Leader of the Worship SLG, leading the discussion about sacred space, how it’s arranged, and what that allows us to do in our space and what it says about our [...]
-
Adult Forum Jan. 22: Why Our Partner Congregation, Lutherkirche, Is Decorated As It Is
Posted January 18, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Adult Forum, Events, Featured.
Luther Church in Bielefeld, Germany, is pretty dark when you first go inside. Lutherkirche is our German partner congregation’s church building, and inside it doesn’t look anything like the churches we’re used to. It does not even look like the way you might imagine a German church to look. The wall behind the chancel (at [...]
-
A Worship Space Odyssey! Adult Forum, Jan. 15
Posted January 11, 2012 by Guest. Filed under Adult Forum, Christian Education, Worship.
By Wanda In our first discussion, last Sunday, we explored the connection between our ideas and experiences about God and how we plan and use our worship space at Old First. We discussed three themes about worship space that occur in the story of God’s people. Tent ~ God’s people worshiped in a tent/tabernacle in [...]
-
Worship SLG Opens Discussion on How Sanctuary Is Organized! Adult Forum, Jan. 8 & 15
Posted January 4, 2012 by Guest. Filed under Adult Forum, Events, Featured, News, Worship.
Throughout the fall the Worship SLG spent time thinking and discussing how the furnishings and architecture of our sanctuary embody our convictions and values about worship. We’ve learned that our sanctuary has looked about the same since the 1967 when it was renovated to appear as it had in the late 1800’s. We’ve been thinking [...]
-
Advent & A New Church Year Start this Sunday, 11.27
Posted November 24, 2011 by Michael Caine. Filed under Adult Forum, Events, Worship.
Yes, it almost always seems too close on the heels of Thanksgiving. But this week begins Advent, the four Sundays in preparation for Christmas. It’s also the beginning of a new liturgical church year (yes, in this regard, the church always gets a head start on the world). We will light the first candle of [...]
-
Adult Forum (11.27; 12.4/11/18): Advent Bible Study
Posted November 23, 2011 by Guest. Filed under Adult Forum, Christian Education, Events, Featured, News.
Advent. For some it may be the time between Black Friday and the days after Christmas, when gifts are purchased and when unwanted gifts can be traded in for what was really desired. But for Christians Advent touches a different sort of desire, the yearning deep within us for the world to change, for hope [...]