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April/May
2008
Worship
Service Schedule!
All Worship Services are Sunday nights @ 6pm
All services are at 6pm!
FREE PARKING 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!!
Sunday April 20th
Text: Ezekiel 22:23-31
Theme: Standing in the Gap
Meditation offered by Rhonda Rhone
BSM Choir leading music
Sunday April 27th
Text: John 14:15-21
Theme: No Longer Orphans
Meditation offered by Bill Golderer
Nate Gonzalez & Julianna Woodard leading music
Sunday May 4th
Text: Acts 1:1-11
Theme: Ascended into Heaven?
Meditation offered by Bill Golderer
BSM Choir leading music
Sunday May 11th (Pentecost Sunday!)
Text: Acts 2:1-21
Theme: The Holy Spirit
Meditation offered by Erika Funk
Sunday May 18th
BROAD STREET MINISTRY 3RD BIRTHDAY PARTY
BSM turns ‘3’ this Sunday and we will CELEBRATE with special music, movement and a few other surprises. Come and share in our joy and excitement! It will be a GREAT night
Text: Ephesians 2:14-22
Theme: No Longer Strangers
Meditation offered by Bill Golderer
Music—Choir and LOTS OF SURPRISES
CANDIDATES RALLY ON MONDAY! April 21st
Please Come and BRING YOUR BLINDFOLDS!
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Convening Minister Bill Golderer to speak!
Monday, April 21, at 12:00PM outside the National Constitution Center (525 Arch Street)
Homeless Advocates Demand That Candidates Open Their Eyes
Monday Rally To Cite Growing Numbers of Homeless — City, State, Federal Partnership Needed to Address Urgent and Chronic Social Problem
[PHILADELPHIA - April 18, 2008] The numbers of homeless persons in Philadelphia and other American cities is growing, but the presidential candidates are barely paying attention to the crisis. That will be the message of at a press conference and rally to be held next Monday, April 21, by Project H.O.M.E., Bethesda Project, Horizon House, Homeless Advocacy Project and allied organizations.
The rally will take place on on the Arch Street side. Homeless persons and advocates will speak about the increasing numbers of persons on the streets at a time when poverty is growing and resources for housing and services are stretched thin. Speakers will be joined by dozens of blindfolded marchers demanding the government stop turning a blind eye to homelessness. At the conclusion of the rally, blindfolds will be delivered to the offices of all presidential candidates, urging them to open their eyes, take a stand, and acknowledge that homelessness is not a seasonal or out-of-sight, out-of-mind problem.
Event speakers will include:
• Current and formerly homeless persons;
• Sister Mary Scullion, Executive Director of Project H.O.M.E;
• Reverend Bill Golderer, Broad Street Ministry (which hosts an overnight drop-in center for chronically homeless persons); and
• A representative of Vote for Homes!,a coalition of 60 organizations working to register, educate, and mobilize homeless, ex-offender, and low-income Philadelphians.
Concerned About Domestic Violence?
Special Community Forum (free)
Wednesday April 30th @ 7pm (in the middle of NO BARRIERS See Below)
An Evening with NY Times Best Selling author Janine Latus
From a Starred REVIEW: FROM PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY: "At age 37, Janine Latus's younger sister, Amy, was strangled to death by her live-in boyfriend, bundled in a plastic tarp and buried beside a remote country road. It was a wretched end to a too-short life, one frequently marked by disappointment, sadness and struggle. In the hands of a less gifted writer, Amy's story might stand only as an encomium or a cautionary tale: a glimpse into the life of one abused woman, representative of thousands like it. But Latus weaves a double strand."
Next No Barriers Dinner
Wednesday April 30th From 6pm-8pm!
The World's Most DangerousDinner Party Strikes Again! We hope you will come out and share in this dynamic dining experience. Please invite your friends, people you meet during the day/week. We were at about 200+ last month and that was WITHOUT cake. Let's do more this month shall we?! More people, more diversity, more cake! Students in school and students of life—come one and all!
Get INVOLVED!
Breaking Bread—EVERY THURSDAY
11:30am to 1:30pm
> A new initiative BREAKING BREAD!
> Volunteers Needed!!!
> A New Initiative that Connects Our Homeless Neighbors to Life-Enhancing Services
Breaking Bread is a new weekly program designed to meet some of the most relevant needs of the homeless population in Philadelphia. A nutritious meal is prepared and served family style, and services will be offered on site that range from access to mental health workers to barbers to legal aid; this program reaches out to those who are often over looked and aims to provide them with necessities that are both tangible & relevant.
This program succeeds on our availability to connect to services and service providers that can help our homeless neighbors take a step forward. If you have access to service providers in the areas of heathcare, nutrition, mental health, legal aid, job placement, etc. We would love the connection.
If you would like to get involved with this initiative, please contact Wendy Gaynor at wlgaynor@gmail.com |
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