Maybe it’s tipping our hats to our Catholic Siblings, but next Friday, Aug. 14, for the Midday Meeting, we’re playing Bingo. On Zoom. In the same OldFirstGatheringSpace where we meet for church. All are welcome to join us. You can invite friends too (Bingo is about as non-religious or...
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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 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 Midday Meeting is our monthly fellowship group for people who are free during the day. It is open to anyone who wants to participate, and it’s a great way to get to know others from church and what is important to and going on in their lives. We are a welcoming and friendly group. Our...
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The Midday Meeting group will take a break during the summer months. The next Midday Meeting gathering will be in September.
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On Wed., April 10, Old Firster Dr. Grant Frame will show us the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where he works. Grant is an associate professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Penn; his field of study is Babylonian Cuneiform...
Read more This coming Midday Meeting — Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 1 pm in the Social Hall — Michael will report on his trip to Guyana, the country itself, its multi-ethnic and multi-religious population, its history and current realities as well as the CANAAC Meeting and its outcomes. Oh...
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The Rev. Maryliz C. had been a member at Old First for 29 years when in winter of 2013, she and Warren L. decided that as they aged, the trip to Old First from Moorestown, NJ was getting to hard. The decided they’d better find a church closer to home. They settled in the local...
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Continuing our look at other faiths and meeting with people of other faith, Mythou and Adi Katrak will be with us on April 11. Adi and Mythou are part of a religion that is 600 years older than Christianity: its name is Zoroastrianism. The wise men from the East may have been part...
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This Midday Meeting will be an art show about representations of the Annunciation. I became interested in this subject when I once spent several months in Florence, Italy, where Annunciation art abounds. I realized that in my Protestant upbringing I had never seen pictures of Gabriel...
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