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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Misty Sparks, one of our main contact associates at Bethesda’s church shelter program, has asked that we keep our shelter open a few more weeks. As you may know, one of Bethesda’s 3 church shelters — St. Mary’s — has been closed for several months now...
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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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ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ASKED about whether we should continue the shelter when we have permanent, supportive housing… 1Q.How long are we going to work on this question before deciding / voting as a congregation? 1A. The process can take as long as the congregation...
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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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To members of the Old First Family: If you’re reading this, it’s either Friday evening, Saturday morning, or Sunday before worship. Were you aware that Monday – Sunday, 7 days a week from 6:30 pm – 6:30 am, there are 30 gentlemen living in the Social Hall? So while you are...
Read more There are so many facets to church life, so many ways to help and be involved. Every person has something to offer to help support Old First, help it run smoothly, and complete the many small details of the work that must be done each week, month, and year to keep the church going! Are...
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