Old First consciously works towards racial equality by educating ourselves and by advocating for those who face discrimination based on the color of their skin. Once a month, a small group of parishioners join together to discuss their book of the month. The topic of the book is always...
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“Love First” is Old First. And love is exactly what I felt three years ago when I started my journey as Outreach Coordinator for the church. Today, love is what I feel having met numerous people within the church and the extended church community. It has been my honor and pleasure to...
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Do you have 90 minutes a month to spend in conversation with other church members about the Wellspring Outreach Ministries? We meet on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm. That leaves you plenty of time to get through traffic, grab a quick snack, and get to Old City. When asked, many...
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Why Hire an Interim Outreach Coordinator? You may have heard or read in the Elders’ highlights from their last meeting that our present Outreach Director, Alesha Thomas, will be leaving effective August 31, 2019. Members of the Administrative SLG saw this as an opportunity for Old...
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At the end of June, there will be a culinary and nutrition training hosted by the Health Promotion Council, the American Heart Association, and Get Healthy Philly. The upcoming training will focus on creating healthier takes on summer classics. The training will include a short...
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Old First, I know it’s the summer, and everyone is off to vacation, but we are still operating our Saturday morning breakfast program. This program does not stop and operates every single Saturday morning from 7:00 am to 10:30 am rain or shine, sleet or snow. Because it is an...
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Our first official urban service camp group of the summer will be coming this weekend! St. Paul’s UCC will be joining us Friday, May 31st – Sunday, June 2nd as they take part in service/volunteer work throughout the city of Philadelphia, including serving dinner at Chosen...
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE: CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING No experience required! We need help in the Saturday Morning Breakfast and Clothing Cupboard over the next few months when some of our usual volunteers are on vacation, visiting families, etc. A trained Host will give you options on ways you can...
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Old First- We’ve made HUGE progress on our clothing shed, thanks to one of our recent service camps, Marlborough UCC. This service camp, along with Janice, constructed shelving units, and organized, sorted, re-arranged and labeled all of the clothing and toiletries in the shed. Today...
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Getting the shelves for the shed has become something like waiting for Jesus to come back. We have been talking about it for years, but one might wonder if it was ever going to happen. But, it did! The Service Camp from Marlborough Congregational in Connecticut put them together and...
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