Building Community
Old First seeks to build a nurturing Christian Community from the diversity of the city:
As an involved urban congregation, many members focus their lives around church programs and member care. The role of caring is a valued congregational strength, as exemplified by our active Board of Deacons and Congregational Care Committee. Elderly, homebound and members with significant needs depend upon Old First for friendship and support.
Christianity is about far more than just an individual's personal relationship with God - it is about our life together as a community of faith. In our mobile urban culture, it can be difficult to find experiences of community. Unfortunately, community does not just happen; it needs to be deliberately built.
What makes people feel part of the Old First community? Simply put, they have many opportunities for interactions at times beyond worship and coffee hour. They work together, they party together, they laugh together, they cry together and they pray together. And during this time of work, play, laughter, tears and prayer, they share their faith journeys and learn a lot about each other: what they have in common, what they love and what bugs them. They develop friendships.
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