February 2012 Blog Posts (11)

The First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia is lucky to have Reverend Addae Ama Kraba as our Community Minister! While Rev. Addae spends most of her time as the Consulting Minister to the Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community Bordentown, she often leads services at First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, and also leads…

If you've looked at today's copy of The Inquirer,  you see that two UU's from First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia are featured:

Christine Carlson is on the first page with a piece about her…

Willie Frances Smith Penn Johnson, 79, expired on December 15 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. She was the daughter of the late George W. and Arletha McArthur Smith and step-daughter of the late Cleveland B. Hairston.

Born in Winston-Salem, NC, Willie Frances was a member of Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church and graduated from Atkins High School in 1950. She…

Be on the lookout for Religious Education's month-long food drive!

Beginning March 18th the children from our RE program will be greeting you each Sunday collecting food for Philabundance. 

Each Sunday will have a special fun theme beginning with PB & J Sunday on March 18th and ending with a traditional Easter EGG CAN Hunt on Sunday April 8th.  What a fun way to…

 We had a great MLK Day Barcoding Event at the Andrew Jackson School Library! 

30 Unitarian Universalists with the help of 16 volunteers from the Federal Reserve Bank worked hard and had fun attaching barcodes and call numbers to 950 books.

Amazingly in two hours all labels were attached and the books were shelved! What is even more exciting is that some volunteers have continued volunteering at Andrew Jackson as new Reading Buddies, Computer Technicians and…

 The books from the Holiday New Book Drive Books were just delivered to the Andrew Jackson School and oh what a hit they are!

Thanks to all who purchased and donated a book for the Andrew Jackson School Library.  The excitement which these new books caused was a thrill to see.

The fifth graders who helped carry the boxes of books up to the library argued about who was going to check out one of the sports books first.  Then a fourth grade class came into the library, spotted the…

Currently the congregational social justice them is "Education and Literacy." The recent Social Justice Theme Brainstorming Session resulted in a lively discussion and lots of ideas for expanding our Congregation’s Social Justice focus. As a result, six Proposal Teams were formed:

The climbing ivy in our church garden will be removed in the next week or two.  You might wonder "Why?"  The short answer is "to protect our local…

Here is a link to a Google document where you can see the schedule for the next couple months for food/meal donations for Becky and her family: http://bit.ly/1stUlovesBecky .

Anytime you'd like to bring in meals or groceries, you can change and add entries on the Google document (even at the last minute) and we'll make arrangements for delivery or pick up. Stay tuned for the childcare schedule!

You can…

Be Love Now!

It’s that time of year again the month of February, the only month out of twelve with focus solely on heart shaped everything from coffee mugs to doughnuts and dog bowls. Whether sharing breakfast, lunch, or…