Order of Service, July 5, 2020
A Service of Worship and Communion for Sunday, July 5, 2020 — Old First Church, Philadelphia, PA...
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Order of Service for Sunday, June 28, 2020
A Service of Worship for Sunday, June 28, 2020 — Old First Church, Philadelphia, PA...
Read more Order of Service, Sunday, June 21, 2020
A Service of Worship for Sunday, June 21, 2020 — Old First Church, Philadelphia, PA...
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Order of Service, Sunday, June 14, 2020
A Service of Worship for Sunday, June 14, 2020 — Old First Church, Philadelphia, PA...
Read more Trinity Sunday, Order of Service, 06.07.2020
A Service of Worship for Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020 — Old First Church, Philadelphia, PA...
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Order of Service for Ascension Sunday, May 24, 2020
Order of Service for Ascension Sunday, May 24, 2020, Old First UCC / Philadelphia _____________________________________________________________________________ Rev. Michael Caine; pastor; Holly Phares, director of music; William Lowden, organist ...
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Understanding the Room We Are Worshiping In: Old First E-pistle 05.08.20
Remember when we struggled along without a working sound system before the Capital Campaign got us the new one? It was not ideal, but usually, I would notice when my voice or someone else’s was not being amplified. I figured that the regulars in our community understood “we’re waiting...
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Preparing Communion for Sunday: Old First E-pistle 05.01.20
Folks, this Sunday, May 3, is the first Sunday of the month, communion Sunday. For church on Sunday, we will have more of a Communion liturgy than Michael often relies on — it seems right when each is partaking of the signs of Christ’s body and blood diasporadically at home, but we...
Read more Apologizing to the People Left in the “Main Room” for Prayer!
Our experiment with separating folks into smaller prayer rooms last Sunday in worship worked overall. We ended up with 4 smaller prayer rooms. And one way or another, they all shared prayers. I think by the end, all 4 even remembered to say the Prayer of our Savior together before they...
Read more Earth Day Sunday, April 19 with Old First UCC: Old First E-pistle 04.17.20
Earth Day Sunday, April, 19, 2020 with Old First Reformed UCC, Philadelphia Wednesday, April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Just weeks after the first Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency was created as Americans were concerned about the pollution fouling our air...
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