Posted on 26 Jul 2010
You have hopefully had a chance to say hello to our summer seminarian intern, Benjamin White.
Benjamin White is a 3rd year seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary. He lives in West Philadelphia with his wife of 5 years, Gwyneth. He is a graduate of Eastern University where he studied Spanish. He is passionate about Jesus and the city and is excited to share his gifts in the mission of FPCG.
This summer he will be working with Christian Heyer-Rivera to develop “The Basement” drop in center and he will be teaching Bible Study to the Freedom School students, along with other duties including participation in our celebration of worship on Sundays.
He looks forward to meeting you all and working with our community!
Posted on 28 Jun 2010
Do you know that FPCG sends out a monthly electronic newsletter that highlights various programs and events at the church?
If your email is not already part of list, we invite you to sign up!
You can fill out the “Newsletter Sign Up” box to the left (under the Facebook Group icon).
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Posted on 21 Jun 2010
Want to find out what is happening around church? Check out the bulletin boards!
The Communications Committee has been working to make certain the various bulletin boards around the church are maintained and up to date.
Please make it a practice to view the boards where you will find much current information about the church, minutes of committees, news of members, on-going events, photos, and more.
Thank you to Dick Liberty, who has been responsible for injecting new life into these boards. He also prepared the member photo wreath on the bulletin board between the Finney and Jennings rooms - check it out if you haven’t seen it already. If you have any suggestions for improvements or inclusions for the bulletin boards please talk to Dick Liberty.
Posted on 03 May 2010
Thanks to the generosity and hard work of churches from across the Presbytery of Philadelphia we were able to deliver over 1,000 hygiene kits and a couple of boxes of baby kits to the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, MD. These kits are now on their way to Haiti.
Many congregations have shipped kits to either New Windsor or to the PDA (Presbyterian Disaster Assistance) depot in Arkansas in response to the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Others took advantage of a combined delivery opportunity by bringing their boxes, bags, and stacks of kits to the Presbytery meeting in March.
Thanks First Pres for being a part of this important ministry. Thanks to your generosity we were able to donate four cartons of kits.
Posted on 27 Apr 2010
If you missed the April Bread and Cup, you missed a lot!
It was our second Karaoke Night with Irene Overton’s daughter Lydia as our disc jockey. Four year old Josh Overton charmed the crowd with his rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean Jade Bass, Marlene Young, and Gloria Patterson formed their own “girl group” to sing 60’s Motown hits, with sexton Harry Watkins joining them singing Marvin Gaye’s vocals.
Gloria also won our first ever culinary contest when the audience voted her pound cake most worthy of the $25 gift certificate to the Flower Café. Our thanks go to Bea Gardner, Susan Mills Farrington, and Richard Brooks for their delicious entries.
Don’t miss this Sunday’s Bread and Cup featuring Paulette Lawson as our headliner. Open mic starts at 7:00pm.
This is Ms. Lawson’s first time at our multicultural inter-generational celebration of the arts. She is a vocalist whose repertoire consists of contemporary Christian standards.
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