We have been encouraging church members to decorate Advent candle holders for a few weeks now. Everyone has been returning beautifully decorated pieces! Thank you so much to everyone who has been working so diligently on these! As we move closer to the next step of packaging them up in...
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Neighbors in Need Offering Starting this Sunday, October 18, we will collecting for the UCC’s Neighbors in Need offering fund. Neighbors in Need is the UCC’s annual offering to support ministries of justice and compassion throughout the United States, including the Council for...
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Everyone is invited to a big feast this Sunday, Oct. 4, as the whole church — all around the world — celebrates that it’s one meal and one Table that God gathers us around. World Communion Sunday was founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1936, another time when the...
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Michael and Janice have been working hard to get all the wooden blocks cut, sanded, and ready for hand out to our Old First members for decorating! Starting next week, Old Firsters can come by the church office to pick up a wooden block (or 2 or 3) to decorate. Someone will be around...
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For World Communion Sunday, October 6, since we’re worshiping in a virtual world, wouldn’t it be fun to actually have communion with Christians around the world? Michael is planning to find, develop, or create a full World Communion liturgy and then invite Christians from...
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Here is some information you can send the friends you have invited to join us for worship on September 13, 2020 at 11:00am. You can also forward to your guests a copy of Saturday’s “Fear Not” as it usually contains the Order of Service for Sunday. Here is one more request, if you...
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Everything is different this year. Yes, many of us never really got away for a summer break. And many are still working from home. Or having various other COVID-related intrusions in our regular schedules. But still Fall arrives. School starts up, different as it is. And, church gets...
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We’re already thinking about Advent, and how to strengthen everyone’s in-home experience of the 4 weeks before and the 12 days of Christmas. Part of this is providing every family with an Advent Candleholder. The idea is that we will decorate them in the fall (with each...
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A New Ministry to Our Young Children and Their Families Church via your computer can be challenging for us all. How to carve out space in the middle of your home that feels especially holy, set aside, sacred. There you are where you ate breakfast, or watched tv or paid your bills or...
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A Service of Worship for Sunday, August 9, 2020 — Old First Church, Philadelphia, PA...
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