Hello! Devan here- the church administrator. As January approaches, it is time to begin thinking about the Annual Reports, which we will share at the Annual Meeting on January 31, 2021. I have sent out this week an email to leadership folks who I need a report from (this includes the...
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A New Ministry to Our Young Children and Their Families Church via your computer can be challenging for us all. How to carve out space in the middle of your home that feels especially holy, set aside, sacred. There you are where you ate breakfast, or watched tv or paid your bills or...
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The Scorn of Those Who Are at Ease Written by: George Hoffman Originally Posted June 10, 2020 on https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/the-scorn-of-those-who-are-at-ease/ I’ve been spending a lot of time with psalm 123 lately. The church I attend had a session on the...
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A group of approximately 12 Old First affiliated folks joined on Saturday for a three-hour Zoom meeting on what it means to be a welcoming, inclusive, supportive, and engaging congregation (W.I.S.E.) as it pertains to those with mental health disorders. This meeting couldn’t have been...
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Beloved, Tomorrow is Ascension. We’ll celebrate it together on Sunday, but that doesn’t keep us from doing something to celebrate it tomorrow… It’s supposed to be a beautiful day. If you are looking for something to do with your kids (or even if you are childless!), you might fly...
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Michael checked the Pennsylvania NE Conference Minister, and the Regional Training for the WISE Congregations that was supposed to be on Saturday, May 16 has been rescheduled, but NOT UNTIL NEXT YEAR. So, he suggests we get started on our own! We can do this! Michael has reached out to...
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Next Sunday, February 26 after worship, the Rev. Geoffrey Black (the UCC’s former General Minister and President) will be with us to present “The Monumental African American – A Presentation on Monuments Commemorating African Americans in American History.” After...
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The Book Group on Race and Racism: We will meet on March 8 to discuss Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, by Nicolas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn. The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors issue a plea–deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans–to address the...
Read more The Book Group on Race and Racism: We will meet on February 9 to discuss The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein. Don’t be discouraged by the size of the book. One-fourth of it is Notes, Bibliography, and Index; but don’t...
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One of the mothers of one of our pre-schoolers, who has herself been a pre-school Sunday School teacher in the church she grew up in, said to me last Spring: “With all these little kids around, we should have something more than just nursery for them. We should have a pre-K Sunday...
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