Family Promise of Berks County’s ‘shelter house’ model has been very effective at helping families in a housing crisis. Families able to maintain some normalcy, learn homeownership skills, and save money. Many are ‘graduating’ and finding permanent housing in fewer than the 90 days allotted for the program. SIGN UP HERE TO VOLUNTEER Our congregation … Continue reading Feeding Families in Family Promise (Jan. 16-26)
Mike M. from the Solar Team presented an update on the project during the Congregational Meeting on Sunday, December 11th. It was generally well received. In keeping with the presentation, we would like to offer follow up detailed presentations and discussions. We created a short online survey to help us find the best dates and we … Continue reading Solar Panel Information Sessions
This is not a joke: mark your calendars now, we have a date for the 2023 Service Auction: April Fool’s Day (Saturday, April 1st, 2023). This year’s theme will be Here Comes the Sun … I think it has something to do with the solar panels we are trying to add to our roof. We are still working out … Continue reading Service Auction 2023 Update
Call or write to President Biden to demand the women in Berks be released, not transferred! We demand that those women currently detained be released and for the center to be repurposed into a space that can provide services to the surrounding community. No transfers to new prisons!Call or send a letter to President Biden … Continue reading Shut Down Berks Update:
Join us on Sunday 1/8 @ 12:00pm for our first Contemplative Companion session for 2023. We will be meeting in person at church following the service, and some time at coffee hour. Participants are asked to bring a brown bag lunch and an object that represents your current spiritual life.
Mike M. from the Solar Team presented an update on the project during the Congregational Meeting on Sunday, December 11th. It was generally well received. In keeping with the presentation, we would like to offer follow up detailed presentations and discussions. Please indicate by means of this poll which dates you are available to participate. The poll will … Continue reading Solar Team Update
The Food Bank team has been handing out gently used jackets and winter coats at our monthly Food Bank days. Our next Food Bank day is on Saturday, Dec. 17th. If you have a jacket, coat or winter gloves at home that you are not using any more, please consider donating them to the Food Bank. … Continue reading Food Bank Coat Drive
Join us on Monday 12/5 @ 7:00pm for our final Contemplative Companion session of 2022. Our time together will be a time of reflection and sharing on “gifts we have received from our ancestors” be they “ancestors” by blood or by chosen connection. Contact Nadine (njw1258@hotmail.com or 484-333-4015) to obtain the link for this zoom gathering.
The LGBT Center of Greater Reading is holding a candlelight vigil to honor and remember the victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs this past weekend. A gunman killed five people and injured 25 others. The vigil begins at 5:45 pm on Tuesday, November 29. Participants will meet in the … Continue reading LBGT Center to Hold Vigil for Colorado Springs Shooting Victims
Do you like to throw parties? Sample food from caterers? Select wines and party decorations? You should volunteer to chair the 2023 Service Auction. Frank Wilder is stepping down from the Service Auction chair and is only interested in being in charge of the service auction tech: donations, the auction catalog, the auction and bid winner … Continue reading Auction Chair Needed
