Tabernacle United Church - Philadelphia Progressive Presbyterian UCC
Tom Long will preach from Luke 5:1-11. We will pray, share, and make a joyful noise to the Lord. Please join us from 10:00 am to 11:30 am on Zoom. If you don’t already have the link please send us an email before 9 am Sunday. Worship will be followed by a brief congregational meeting to elect a new class of council members for 2021.
Join us at 10:00 am for online praise, prayer, contemplation, and community. Ana DelCorazon will preach from Matthew 3:13-17 and Galatians 5:13, 22-23. Please email us before 9:00 am on Sunday if you need the Zoom link. Peace be with you.
After a week in which Philadelphia has been at the center of national turmoil and angst we invite you to gather with us on Zoom from 10:00 to 11:30 AM for communal spiritual grounding, prayer, and singing. Pastor Katie will preach from Amos 5:18-24 and Matthew 25:31-46. All are welcome. Please contact the church office by email before 9 AM Sunday if you don’t already have the Zoom link.
This Sunday at 10:00 am we will gather spiritually for worship. Pastor Katie will preach from Hebrews 11:29-12:2, Joy Ike will sing, Communion will be shared, and we will join in a Ritual of Remembrance. We invite you to prepare an alter in your home with candles, leaves, or other symbols of life and beauty and names and pictures of saints and loved ones who have gone before you, and then join with us on Zoom. Please contact the church office before 9:00 am Sunday for the link.
Pastor Katie will be preaching on Learning Jesus: The Practice of Disruptive Prayer from Romans 12:1-2, 11-12 and Luke 11:1-13. You are always welcome just as you are on Zoom from 10:00 to 11:30 am for the preaching, the singing, the sharing, and the prayers. Please contact us via email or Facebook for the link.
Joanna Bowen will be preaching from Romans 12. Please join us on Zoom from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. for prayer, praise, and sharing. Contact us before 9 on Sunday if you need the link.
The Philadelphia Inquirer published an article on October 9 about Sanctuary and the Thompsons move from FUMCOG to Tabernacle. https://www.inquirer.com/news/church-sanctuary-fatigue-fumcog-advocate-immigrant-trump-immigration-20201009.html
Please join us Sunday morning from 10:00 to 11:30. Pastor Katie will be preaching on discipleship from Romans 12:1-2, 9-16a and Philippians 2:1-13. If you don’t already have the Zoom link you can contact the church office by email (the envelope icon at the bottom of this page) before 9 on Sunday.
Please join us for Worship on Zoom at 10 AM this Sunday. Our texts for the day will be Romans 12:1-21 and Luke 4:14-21. Pastor Katie will preach. We will also be welcoming new members and celebrating the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. If you are not already on the distribution list for the Zoom links, please contact the church office using the email or Facebook icons at the bottom of the page.
Today Tabernacle United Church welcomed the Thompsons to a new Sanctuary location. Clergy from surrounding congregations as well as from Carmela’s Sanctuary church, Germantown Mennonite Church, came out to say that they are dedicated to surrounding the family with care until the day the Thompsons are free.
“We have been living in Sanctuary for more than two years. Two years is way too long. Too many Black and Brown folks that look like me are not free to walk in a neighborhood, talk, walk on the street or just march freely. The injustice is even happening while we are asleep in our own beds. One might say once you’re in bed, you’re safe. But that’s not true for Black families. The time for justice and freedom is now.”
– Oneita Thompson
“If the laws were just, they wouldn’t be here. If the laws were anti-racist, they wouldn’t be here. If the laws were humane and treated Black and Brown people equal to White people they wouldn’t be here. But the reality is they are here because our racist and violent immigration laws have forced them here. Anti-blackness is in our immigration system just as it runs through the fabric of this country and its policies. We are here today to say no. We are here to challenge these laws. We are here to stand with the Thompsons and fight alongside them.”
– Pastor Katie Aikens, Pastor of Tabernacle United Church
