January 2009

January Worship Schedule

All Worship Services are Sunday nights @ 6pm.
FREE PARKING is available along the south side of Pine Street! b/t Broad and 13th St. Pick up a parking permit from the church and throw on dashboard!!--or download it from the BSM website by clicking here!! Please come and be encouraged, challenged, inspired, comforted!!!! We also eat dinner together following each service...which is fun.

Sunday, January 4th - Motley Order Choir
Music offered by Motley Order Choir
Meditation offered by Bill Golderer

Sunday, January 11th
Meditation offered by Bill Golderer
Music Offered by Ross Bellenoit and Friends

Sunday, January 18th - Motley Order Choir
Music offered by the Motley Order Choir
Meditation offered by Erika Funk
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:11-20
Theme: Inescapable Mutuality

Sunday, January 25th - Nate & Co.
Meditation offered by Rev. Golderer
Text:  Mark 1:14-20
Theme:  Fishing for People

BSM had a nice story in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Did you see it?
Please share with a friend.
Talented reporter/writer A.D. Amorosi stumbled upon BSM when our doors were open for one of Arts Marshall Liam's Famous Hardcore metal shows.  A.D. was intrigued that we would have that kind of thing in a church. So he hung around a bit and this is what he observed.  Please share with others you know...we are always looking to make new friends.  We posted the article on our website...you can download or read it here.  http://www.broadstreetministry.org/programs/haveaseat.php

BSM is a site for ONE BOOK PHILADELPHIA
The Soloist: Book Group at BSM
Wednesdays: January 21st, February 4th, 11th, Dinner 6pm, Discussion 7
Broad Street Ministry
315 South Broad Street 215-735-4847

Join the Center for Subversive Theology and the One Book Program at BSM as they host an open discussion of The Soloist. The Soloist is a story of the struggle for dignity and hope through art in the face of homelessness. The group will meet three times to discuss, dream, and imagine in light of this book and our own experiences of art and poverty.   Join our diverse and hospitable community as we think through art, homelessness, and hope in the narrative of The Soloist.

“Bread and Roses” Beauty in The Urban Environment
One Film/ Broad Street Ministry Film Series

Films we will screen @ BSM

• Bomb It
• Cats of  Mirikitani
• Basquia

Wednesdays February 25th, March 4-11, dinner 6pm, film 7pm
Broad Street Ministry
315 South Broad Street 215-735-4847

Join One Film and BSM as they explore the ways art comes alive in the city. Whether it functions as expression, protest, testimony, or escape, art explodes in urban environments to release the potential of those on the fringes of our culture and world. Come for dinner and stay for the screening and discussion led by our own Arts Marshal, Liam O’Donnell.

BROAD STREET MINISTRY HAS A COUNSELING CENTER!
(Did you know that?)
BSM desires flourishing for every human being.  Body, Soul, Mind and Spirit.  That is why we worked hard to generate resources for a Counseling Center to take shape here.  We have come along way--beginning with finding the center's first Director--EDD CONBOY.  We asked one of our stellar seminarians-Miriam Tyler Todd--to interview him.  If you have questions about his work or the work of the center, call the office 215.735.4847 or email him at econboy@councilforrelationships.org.

Who is Edd Conboy and what is he doing at Broad Street Ministry?  The basic bio would tell you that Edd is a thoroughly trained professional counselor who studied at Loyola College and San Francisco State University where he received a Masters in Family Counseling, and then another year at The California School of Professional Psychology in Berkeley, where he did some advanced studies in Family Therapy and Systems Theory.

Click here to view the entire bio and interview.

BSM is Proud to RE-OPEN!! 315 South
We NEED Your Help! 7 nights a week!! (or one?)
A creative, hospitable response to homelessness…

Philadelphia is experiencing an alarming upturn in homelessness among men, women and children again this year. Shelters are running beyond capacity and many of the most vulnerable of our city will not brave the existing shelter system out of fear or due to mental illness. Broad Street Ministry, together with the Bethesda Project and the City of Philadelphia are responding to the needs of our most vulnerable neighbors by providing a warm, safe place for center city's most vulnerable adults who are homeless. 

Believing that going beyond the offer of shelter is what is required of us, we are responding to our homeless neighbors by creating a special kind of environment that emphasizes friendship, caring, and healing in a safe place. Not a shelter, 315 South identified 50+ of the city's most vulnerable homeless people who will not enter the existing shelter system and invited them into a special hospitality center 7 nights a-week from 10pm to 6am. Kind of an 'exclusive club for the most excluded.' This experiment will run through March 31st of 2009. Wanna help? We sure could use it!! Contact Community Impact Coordinator Kirsten King @ Kirsten81@gmail.com or at 215.735.4847.