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We worship every Sunday at 11:00 am both in person in our beautiful sanctuary and on line via YouTube livestream. We celebrate communion on the third Sunday of the month. Worship is our joyful praise and thanks to God - our celebration of God's Love.
Click here for the Live Stream Link on Sunday mornings or to watch previous services: LINK to Old First Worship Services
Bringing God's love, welcome, justice, in our neighborhood, city and world and working to make the world a better place for all are important to us. We are a founding member of the weekly interfaith food pantry pantry every Saturday and host a free community meal on the 4th Saturday of each month. We work with many local, national, and international groups to promote racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and other human rights, to end gun violence, and to help immigrants.
We believe that learning and growth are important for all ages. We offer regular book studies, Bible studies, theological discussions, and topical classes for adults on issues important in our culture. Small groups meet on Zoom and in members' homes for study and support. We make time and space for children in worship and offer regular, broadly graded children's church school every 1st and 3nd Sundy. We also have excellent childrens' and adults' libraries.
We love to read and support the Little Free Library on Sacramento Street. Bring you books to share with the community.
We are excited to present our new web page! We hope it is easier to navigate, gives more information, and has pictures which reveal some of the spirit of our vital, lively congregation. Feel free to click around and discover all the new things.
We will have some bugs in the first few weeks of going live, so let us know if you see any problems.
Thanks go to Amir Sedghi, Erwin Barron, Chris Burt, and Brad Peterson for all of their work getting this going and maintaining the page!
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The weekly food pantry needs YOU any Saturday morning!
Volunteer at the Food Pantry and make a real difference! The Interfaith Food Pantry feeds 350 people every Saturday morning! We work from 7:30 to 11:30 am at Old First Presbyterian Church. If you have a compassionate heart, strong arms, and you are able to be on your feet all that time, please come. We need 20 people a week.
Pastors Reflect
Each Sunday during the month of October, Maggi and some of our previous pastors will reflect on their relationships with Old First influenced them and their role in our community. On October 6, Erwin Barron will talk about his 20 years with Old First. On October 13, Maggi Henderson will reflect on her time in this amazing church. And on October 20, Keenan Kelsey will discuss her years of growth toward the ministry in our congregation. During the first months of 2025, we will invite other previous pastors to return.
Old First Hymn
In addition, on these Sundays we will introduce a brand new hymn written for our 175th anniversary by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. We sing many of her hymns on contemporary issues during worship over the years. She agreed to write a hymn just about Old First Presbyterian Church, for us! We will learn a new verse of the hymn each Sunday during October!
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As a way to reflect on our long history, a timeline will be displayed on the walls of the sanctuary showing key events in our history. You will help with this by sharing your memories of the past 25 years in the latter part of the timeline. We will focus on our time since 1999, and ask people who have been here to tell us about those times. Each Sunday we will ask you to remember events and stories from your time in the congregation and briefly describe them on large post-it notes. These will be added to the timeline to make our history come alive.
Please start thinking about how Old First Presbyterian Church played important roles in so many areas of our city and culture such as LGBTQ rights, in homeless ministry, in education, in music, in anti-racism work, in feeding the community, and many other areas. And whether you've been here 25 years or a few months, you can think about events in our church life that have been especially meaningful to you over the past 25 years.
On Sunday, October 27, we will have a gala celebration commemorating our 175 years of ministry in San Francisco!
Worship on that Sunday will reflect on how God has been at work with Old First Presbyterian Church and how God will continue to use us.
We will sing the complete new hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette celebrating our church's 175 years!
We will all enjoy a gourmet, catered luncheon, video and personal greetings from previous members, and a champagne/sparkling wine toast to the past and the future.
We ask that guests help defray the costs with a $35 contribution or whatever you can pay.
Please RSVP for this fabulous event by clicking here:
