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    • Are You Getting Your Postcards Signed?

      Posted May 3, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, Featured, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      What postcards? The postcards that were in our bulletins last Sunday, the ones that Mike Wass and Sterling Schwiebert were passing out. What postcards? POWER is sponsoring a postcard campaign prior to June meetings at which we hope to turn out every City Councilman and Councilwoman. Old First is working with Mother Bethel AME and [...]

    • Town Hall Meeting on Philadelphia School District Reorganization, Sun. 04.29 @ 7 p.m.

      Posted April 28, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      Our sister congregation, Mother Bethel AME has a POWER Local Organizing Committee that is concerned about education in our city. (Old First’s Local Organizing Committee, or LOC, decided at its meeting this past week that our local efforts should revolve around education.) Mother Bethel’s LOC is calling Philadelphians to Have More Say/Involvement in Schools Reorganization, [...]

    • POWER Campaign to Impress Center City Council: the 1st Step on the Airport Expansion MUST be a Jobs Agreement

      Posted April 12, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, Featured, P.O.W.E.R..

      Working on the 10,000 jobs campaign, POWER congregations across the City are looking towards a series of mid-June actions: City Council needs to make sure a jobs agreement is its first commitment in the airport expansion project. Since City Council is organized geographically, these actions are being organized by regional clusters of POWER congregations. Old [...]

    • Upcoming POWER Center City Cluster Meeting, 04.11.12

      Posted April 4, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, P.O.W.E.R..

      St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 303 Pine Street, will host the upcoming Center City Cluster Meeting… Wednesday, April 11 at 6:30 p.m. The main agenda item will be to update people on the Jobs Campaign. In particular, the next item is to how to garner commitments from the City Council members “not to approve either the [...]

    • POWER Leaders’ Meeting, This Sunday, 03.18, at 3:30 p.m.

      Posted March 16, 2012 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      POWER (Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild) will be holding a leaders’ gathering this coming Sunday, O3.18, at 3:!5 at Rodelph Shalom (at North Broad Street and Green Street; near the Spring Garden station on the Broad Street line or parking available off of Ridge Ave./Greene Street.) All are welcome to attend. It’s particularly [...]

    • POWER’s Main Push: JOBS (so Philadelphians Can Take Care of their Families and Business!)

      Posted February 9, 2012 by Guest. Filed under Featured, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      Currently, the main focus of POWER’s efforts is job creation— we would like to connect 10,000 unemployed Philadelphians to good jobs within the next 5 years. POWER congregations and their leaders are currently engaged with public officials and regional stakeholders to develop a coordinated approach that creates true “pathways to employment” for all city residents, [...]

    • P.O.W.E.R. Comes of Age

      Posted February 2, 2012 by Guest. Filed under Featured, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      P.O.W.E.R. – Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild has graduated to its next organizational stage. Since the conversations which engendered this city-wide faith-based community organization began almost three years ago, the governing leadership has been predominantly clergy. When a Sponsoring Committee was formed in January 2010, it was made up of interested ministers and [...]

    • POWER, Next Steps, Meeting after Church on 10.30

      Posted October 20, 2011 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, Featured, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      There will be a meeting immediately after worship on Sunday, 10.30 about P.O.W.E.R. (Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild). Mayor Nutter, other city officials and leaders in this city heard us at the Founding Convention – Philadelphia Needs to become a City That Works (with Jobs) For Everyone. POWER is beginning its first big [...]

    • P.O.W.E.R. Regional Gathering, 10/17 to Push our Agenda and Action Ahead

      Posted October 11, 2011 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, Featured, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      POWER Leaders & Allies: Tuesday night, Oct. 11, is the first in a series of regional gatherings of POWER congregations and their allies. The Center City Regional Gathering that Old First should send leaders to will be: Center City POWER congregations Gathering Monday, 10/17 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mother Bethel AME Church — 419 S. 6th [...]

    • Old First Votes to Join P.O.W.E.R

      Posted September 20, 2011 by Michael Caine. Filed under Events, Featured, News, P.O.W.E.R..

      At a congregational meeting on Sunday, Sept. 18, Old First voted to become a founding member of the new interfaith, city-wide community organization, P.O.W.E.R. (Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild). P.O.W.E.R.’s Founding Convention will be Sunday, Sept. 25 at 5:30 p.m. at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church at 750 S. Broad Street. Old First [...]

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