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November 2009 |
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Welcome to Broad Street Ministry's online newsletter, BROADcast!
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Broad Street Ministry Worship Schedule EVERY Sunday @ 6p.m. followed by a delicious free dinner! 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--this is where you can meet and greet those around you. Sunday, November 1st Meditation offered by: Erika Funk Text: Isaiah 25:6-10. Theme: When the Saints go Marching in Music offered by: Motley Order Choir Sunday, November 8th Meditation offered by: Bill Golderer Text: Mark 12:38-44 Theme: Two Bits Music offered by: Julianne Woodard Sunday, November 15th Meditation offered by: Bill Golderer Text: Mark 13:1-8 Theme: War? Rumors of War? Has Jesus Lost It? Music offered by: Motley Order Choir Sunday, November 22nd Meditation offered by: Bill Golderer Text: John 18:33-37 Theme: Looking Music offered by: Nate Gonzalez and Friends Sunday, November 29th Meditation offered by: Liam O'Donnell Text: Jeremiah 33:10-18 Theme: Promises Kept Pew Removal: A New Vision
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the end of October the last of the pews were removed from the sanctuary and sunday school room to make room for exciting new ways to use the space. Soon this safe, hospitable place will be opened to the community several days a week. More information to come...
Sitting room: Chairs for Sanctuary NEEDED!
Bring in one or bring in 20! Just bring 'em in!! The more diverse the better. Like BSM.
Old, discarded, unused, unwanted Purpose, fresh, welcoming, original Metal chairs are not part of the vision for our sanctuary. They speak of agencies, formality and uniformity. That's not Broad Street Ministry. So we need to replace all our metal chairs with wooden ones and add a few more to seat the growing number of people worshipping in the sanctuary. We're asking everyone to bring in a wooden chair, new or old, and place it in the sanctuary next time you are here. Each chair will add a fresh new place of welcome to the community. All we ask is that they be sturdy. The Rhythms of Transformation: A Benefit Concert and Art Exhibit
THIS Saturday, November 7th, 6:30 p.m.
Come on out to this multi-talented event as we raise awareness about homelessness and envision a future without it.
You'll enjoy music from- Phillybloco (22-piece Brazilian ensemble), ONE (Indian fusion with sitar, sarod, tabla), Emmanuel Havens (Rock), and The Factorye
as well as a myriad of beautiful pieces in the Art Exhibit from friends of the streets & galleries-- drawing the same string of change among us all.
Proceeds will go to BSM's Breaking Bread Program and Project H.O.M.E.'s The Women's Respite. Advance Tickets available at www.projecthome.org.
Cost: your listening, redistribution of wealth: more if you can, less if you must ($15 suggested donation). Sponsored by Project H.O.M.E. & Broad Street Ministry. Breaking Bread: Back in Business!
Our weekly lunch program reopened with a bang on October 15th, after a hiatus in which Breaking Bread's vision was re-imagined to include several simple but significant changes. In addition to revamping its administration, Breaking Bread is now able to offer even more services than before.
Breaking Bread continues to offer:
Come check it out,
EVERY Thursday from 11:30a.m.-1p.m. (11 o'clock meditation) !
questions? want to volunteer? contact us at info@broadstreetministry.org SAVE THE DATE:
DECEMBER 12th, 2009!
Mark your calendars to attend BSM's first ever spectacular
CHRISTMAS CONCERT presented by the Motley Order Choir, along with special friends!
More information coming soon...
Did you know that BSM has a BLOG?
Well, we do--www.broadstreetministry.blogspot.com, unofficially dubbed our "Scribblings
in the Sand".
Becca Blake is our blog moderator and coordinates its content, ranging from prayers and snippets of liturgy offered in worship, reflections submitted by members of the community, and the "Psalms of the Street"--the
raw and sacred prayers offered up each week in worship.
Check in on us often and read, reflect, and pray with us.
An Excerpt from
Coming Home, Coming Here,
by Edd Conboy, head of BSM's Counseling Center:
How do we show hospitality to military veterans?
Much has changed since the days when the Viet Nam era “shopping cart soldiers” patrolled our streets and camped on our sidewalks in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The military learned some hard lessons about the impact
of the draft on society in a war of choice. The medical community learned harder lessons about the impact of trauma on the human psyche. Even the Veterans Administration – usually slow to change and slower yet to learn – began to see disturbing patterns
and irrefutable similarities as soldiers returned from Bosnia and The Gulf War.
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No parades greet them. None of us are waving flags welcoming them to our fair city. Now and again we may walk by one of these shrines to our failings as a society, drop a few coins in the paper cup situated like
some sacred vessel on a concrete altar, and continue on our way. Most of the time, though, we look away, or even worse, pretend we are not looking away because we act as if is nothing to look away from. These homeless veterans become invisible, and so in
that moment do we.
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So what can we do? First of all perhaps we can see them. We can speak to them. We can tell them that on Wednesday evenings and Thursday afternoons there is a hot meal and welcoming people waiting to greet them
here at BSM. We can tell them that there are warm clothes, some skilled folks who can listen, and other vital services available to them. We can tell them that there is hope. And in this city so named, we can tell them that there are people who will hold
them in high regard, perhaps even love them.
To read this article in its entirety, check it out on the blog by clicking
here.
and, last but not least:
GO
PHILLIES!
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