Posted on 01 Aug 2011
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Do you love to sing? There are multiple opportunities for you to share your love for music at FPCG this summer!
Join our newly forming GOSPEL CHOIR!
Rehearsals are on Sundays at 11:30 in the Music Room
For more information, and to get involved, contact Donna Payne 215-450-7963 or Joanne Elliott 215-725-0420
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Be a Part of the SUMMER CHOIR!
During the summer months the professional section leaders will be off and the Chancel Choir will be an all volunteer choir.
Rehearsals will be held Sunday mornings beginning at 8:30am and ending around 9:30am. Come when you can! We will be singing music that is a bit easier than our usual fare with the hope of engaging more volunteers from the congregation.
Give David Daugherty a call at 215-843-8811, ext 21 for more information.
Posted on 11 Jul 2011 . 12 comments
At their annual meeting on June 11, the Board of Directors of Creative Germantown Initiative (CGI) elected new executive officers. Brian Harris, immediate past vice president, was elected president. Ted Walkenhorst, immediate past president, was elected to vice president. Peter Smith was reelected treasurer. Each position carries a term of two years. The board is excited about these changes and looks forward to the continued dedicated service of these individuals and to the growth of the organization which helps carry out the mission of First Church.
The board wishes to express its deepest thanks to Ted Walkenhorst for his service over the last 3 years. He has been committed to the organization and has guided its direction with passion. Birthing a nonprofit is always a challenge and becomes a labor of love. Ted loves this organization; his past leadership combined with his willingness to continue to serve should be an example to all people of Christ-like passion and service.
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Posted on 04 Apr 2011
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Dear Friends,
We are in the midst of the holiest season of our Christian faith as we have been walking our Lenten journey, soon to enter Holy Week, following our Lord to the cross and then to the empty tomb as we rejoice and praise God for Christ’s glorious resurrection.
It is important for us during these days of Lent to take time to:
+ reflect on our lifestyles
+ reflect on our priorities
+ reflect on our faith in Jesus Christ
+ and reflect on how we are living out our faith.
Can someone tell that you are a Christian from the way you live your life? Some people find it helpful to give something up for Lent. I’m not sure if they do it as a discipline or as an excuse to temporarily suspend a bad habit or for both reasons. I am not someone who follows this practice as I don’t find it helpful in bringing me closer to God. However, the positive aspect I find when people give something up for the Lenten season is that they realize that Lent is a time to live life differently.
A more meaningful Lenten practice that I recommend is to carve out some time during the day when you can spend time with a Bible in your hand and maybe even a devotional.
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Posted on 14 Mar 2011
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Revealing Deeper Layers of Meaning in our Building
If you go to the Richard Smith Memorial Gateway in Fairmount Park, you will find two curving, neobaroque arches adorned with thirteen individual portrait sculptures, two eagles astride globes, and architectural reliefs of eight allegorical figures.
James Hamilton Windrim (1840-1919) is the subject of one of the busts; he faces forward and looks off to the left. Windrim was the architect for this church. He also designed Philadelphia’s Masonic Temple, the Girard Building at 12th and Market Streets and several of the buildings on the campus of Girard College; he had been a member of the first graduating class of the college.
Windrim’s design for First Presbyterian was Gothic Revival of a length of 137 feet and an extreme width of 88 feet. The apex of the roof rises 66 feet from the ground, and the spire is 150 feet. Alterations to the building over the years, however, have changed the dimensions of the structure but not the intent of it as a house of God and a place to worship God “in the beauty of holiness.”
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Posted on 06 Dec 2010 . 11 comments
Do you know this long-time FPCG member?
When Jim Kelly (Dr. James H. Kelly) and his wife joined First Presbyterian, he was a Methodist and she a Baptist, but they both agreed that this integrated church offered a Christian message to which they both could relate. The congregation was highly regarded in the community, and the Kelly’s quickly were made to feel welcome.
Jim notes that they were the second African American couple to unite with the church but that they never “thought that much about it.” The year was 1973.
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