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Warm weather means more people eating in the park. We can use more sandwiches, fruit, cold water and volunteers. We leave St. Philip’s parking lot as the bell chimes seven on Thursday evening. We start serving at 18th & Vine at eight. Come join us. It’s . . . → Read More: It is Our Busy Season! With the law of entropy and our fallen nature, I don’t know if I can say that it is just as hard to break a good habit as it is to break a bad habit, but I think a habit is a habit. It’s a good thing to habitually do good things. Many things we do . . . → Read More: A Good Habit is Hard to Break On Pentecost, The King’s Jubilee sponsored coffee hour at St. Philip Antiochian Orthodox Church, Souderton, PA. I want to thank everyone who pitched in to make this happen. Just like on any given Thursday evening, I do not have a real good handle on who did what, but there was plenty of good food to go . . . → Read More: Meal on the Street Coffee Hour We had an orderly line for the first time in years on June 7th. A couple of the guys were so embarrassed by the behavior of the crowd recently that they proposed a different way to handle the line. They organized the guys in a line on the sidewalk ten feet away from where we serve, . . . → Read More: An Orderly Line When I say my hard drive crashed, I mean it literally. My foot caught the cord and the external drive slammed on the floor. I tried to save a file on it and it went “ding ding ding”. You never want to hear that sound from a hard drive. This was the drive with all of the . . . → Read More: Hard Drive Crash A couple of Temple University grads in the OCF came up with the idea of Underwear Sunday. They sent out emails to all of the members of the OCF and of the Philadelphia Clergy Brotherhood to solicit new men’s underwear for us to give out in July. I think the goal is to have them all . . . → Read More: Underwear Sunday Last Thursday there was a group from a protestant church in Michigan, who were working with a Philadelphia ministry, hanging out where we serve. I introduced myself and talked with them for a bit, answering their questions about homeless ministries in Philadelphia. After they left, Alexei and Larry asked me if I ever broached the subject . . . → Read More: Orthodox Evangelism |
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