Starting Wednesday, March 4 at 7pm, and every Wednesday evening during Lent — March 4, 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8 — Old First will host a “Prayer Meeting” call. Anyone who gets on the call, can share their prayer concerns and / or pray for themselves or others. In the end...
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Allison K. is gathering the young adults at her home this coming Saturday, Feb. 29. (It’s the 4th generation of people “re-starting” Young Adult programming since Michael arrived a decade ago — that means we continue to be a faith community that is effectively...
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Can you host a dinner? Will you join a dinner? This year, the Elders are leading our Lenten program as they invite the church into a planning process looking to our 300th anniversary in 2027. What does God want for us, from us by then? How could Jesus’ talk with a...
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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...
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What is Christian fasting? It’s in the New Testament, and Catholics eat fish on Fridays in Lent. And these days, dieters even talk about intermittent fasting. At the Worship Standing Leadership Group meeting last Sunday, we were thinking about ideas for Lenten practices. And when we...
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...
Read more Midday Meeting really should have been this week; it’s traditionally on the second Wednesday, which was the 8th. But with the holidays, my vacation and the 1st being a Wednesday, that just snuck up on us too quickly. So we are going to push it back a week and meet in the Social...
Read more For discussion on December 8, not a book, but the introduction to a book. Bob Polk will join us to discuss The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, by W.E.B. Du Bois. Reprint edition with introduction by Elijah Anderson, 1996. The book is widely available in bookstores and libraries...
Read more We will meet on Sunday, November 10 to discuss Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There, by Philip Hallie. In addition to the original hardback, are several paperback...
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Michael often tells the story of the older woman who sat with him in church when he was in high school. Michael’s family had sort of fallen apart when he was a young teenager, and he ended up in church alone. An older woman who he had always known, when she came back to church
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