Posted on 26 Sep 2011
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Where do you fit at FPCG?
Many schools now teach students the value of giving back by requiring them to spend so many hours in community service.
What a wonderful concept! It teaches not simply the importance of giving or sharing of oneself but also of volunteering. Unfortunately too many young people and adults are focused on satisfying their own needs. They guard their time and their resources for things that will bring them pleasure or satisfaction.
Imagine what our communities would be like if more people were willing to give of themselves, sharing their skills and gifts.
Even more, imagine what our church would be like if more of our members, like YOU, would give of yourselves, sharing your skills and gifts.
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Posted on 19 Sep 2011
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Longtime Members Share Memories
When three of the First Presbyterian women at Rydal Park gather in the same room reminiscing about their church, a wealth of memories fill that room.
The trio, Winnie Fahs (1950), Polly Montaigne (1949) and Lisa Panetta (1973), have a combined membership of 161 years!
Winnie, who had been very active in the Girls’ Service organization in Harrisburg where she lived, moved to Germantown in 1944, visited many churches in the area but found First Church to be the best. Polly moved from New Jersey to finish college at Penn, came here for worship and “found it very satisfying.” Lisa, the daughter of the pastor of the Italian Presbyterian Church in Germantown, grew up on Price Street in the manse of that church. Her father was one of nine sons, three of whom became Presbyterian ministers.
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Posted on 12 Sep 2011
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Freedom School 2011
In a summer seemingly dominated by a roller-coasting stock market, urban flash mobs, military helicopter crashes and excessive heat waves, one true oasis sheltered fifty children for six weeks in the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School held at First Church for the second year.
With a mission “to ensure every child a Healthy Start, Safe Start, Fair Start, and Moral Start in life,” the Freedom School “depends upon the help of caring families and communities” working with carefully chosen teachers, trained college students who are called Servant Leaders.
Among the leaders was First Church’s Valient Solomon, a second-semester sophomore at Virginia Union University in Richmond. Note: this was intended to be a straight-forward news article about the school, but after several at-tempts to shape the article into an objective, balanced piece, personal feelings kept intruding, so this is an observation from a life-long educator who visited the school once a week during the session.
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Posted on 06 Sep 2011
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See You At Church This Sunday!
Members and friends of First Church are invited and encouraged to attend this annual event!
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH
At 11:00am in Vernon Park, following worship service
The weather looks like it is going to be good and if previous years are any indication, a good time will be had by all!
Please bring a side dish or a dessert to add to the food provided.
For more information, call Madeline Valentine!
Click here to see photos from previous picnics
Posted on 05 Sep 2011
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We invite you to participate in Germantown Clergy Initiative’s (GCI) Germantown High School Annual First Day of School Prayer Vigil
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
7:00 – 8:00 A.M.
On the lawn of Germantown High School (GERMANTOWN AVE. AND HIGH STREET)
Join us as we pray together for:
- Students, parents, teachers and administrators.
- Peace and safety
- The District and SRC
- Funding
- The programs of GCI and other community partners
- Greater church and community involvement
Please contact Reverend Kevin Porter for more information at 215- 518-1675
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