FAC Christmas Party on Tuesday, December 5th

SAVE THE DATE!! First Alliance is having a Christmas party on Tuesday, December 5th at 6:00 pm and you’re invited! Please sign up (if possible) by Dec 3rd, in the church foyer so we can plan for numbers. Dinner costs $4 (but not required) and will feature ham, scalloped potatoes, vegetables, rolls and a dessert. (If you could help cook or serve please talk to Pastor Dan.) We’ll have some games too, and share the Christmas story in a program running from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm.

Morning Card Games at The Bridge
-Third Wednesday of the Month:
December 13th

Do you enjoy playing card games? Ever heard of “Hand and Foot”? That’s only one of many card games our card guru Vicki Strayer is prepared to teach anyone who wants to drop in to the Bridge Cafe on Wednesday Dec. 13th from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to play that one with your feet…)

All are welcome to join friends or meet new ones at this card playing event. For more information contact Vicki Strayer at 919-523-6218 or email [email protected]

The Bridge Cafe is located at the entrance to First Alliance Church at 4400 Buffaloe Rd, Raleigh, NC

January-February 2024 Book Club:
All in the Day’s Work – Autobiography of Ida Tarbell

You’re invited to join our January-February Bookclub! Meeting at the Bridge Café (4400 Buffaloe Rd, Raleigh) on Tuesday evenings 7-8 pm, January 9th, 16th, 23rd, & 30th, and February 6th and 13th. Get started by reading “All in the Day’s Work” – An Autobiography by Ida M. Tarbell (407 pages) We will discuss one sixth of the book at each of the 6 sessions, so if you prefer to “read along” during January – February, that is fine too. For more information, speak with Marty Poehler 919-606-2169 or email [email protected]. We don’t have book kits, but you can access a free copy online (see details at bottom of this post) or purchase your own copy of the book.

Amazon Review:

In this frank and informative autobiography, the veteran investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell looks back on her nearly fifty-year career. At the age of eighty-two, one of the original muckrakers writes with her characteristic candor about a life spent defying categories and challenging complacency.

Tarbell was the only woman in her class of forty students at Allegheny College, and upon graduation she began an internship at The Chautauquan, which was the start of a lifelong immersion in the world of journalism. She further honed her skills during a three-year stint in Paris, but the breakthrough came in

1894 when she was hired as a full-time writer for McClure’s Magazine.

It was at McClure’s–where, again, she was the only woman on staff–that Tarbell made her name as a determined journalist, one of the fearless brigades of truth-seekers famously chastised by Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the term ‘muckraker’ in order to discredit those who attacked senators in print. Tarbell wrote serialized biographies of Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a landmark series of articles on Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.

In All in the Day’s Work, Tarbell turns her keen eye on herself, recalling the events of her fascinating life with the same honesty, verve, and scrupulous accuracy she brought to her journalistic work, offering insight along the way into the people, places, and issues of her time.

This book is not available in Book Kit form, BUT:

The book is available to:

Download or read online in E form, or download on a Kindle: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63754
Print from the Internet: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63754
Listen to in audio format online:
https://librivox.org/all-in-the-days-work-by-ida-tarbell/
Download in audio format:
https://librivox.org/all-in-the-days-work-by-ida-tarbell/
Buy at Amazon, used, for from $7 upwards .

The Prodigal God

New Workshop for January 2024!

Come join us for a new workshop in January at the Bridge Café (entrance to First Alliance Church) led by Pastor Dan Rothra. Meeting for the four Tuesdays in January from 7-8 pm.

Discover the amazing depths of God’s extravagant love.

In this small group Bible study, pastor and bestselling author Timothy Keller uses one of Jesus’ best-loved parables- the Prodigal Son- to illustrate the depth of God’s love and how his grace extends into some very unexpected places.

Taking you beyond the traditional focus on the wayward younger son, Keller helps you glean insights from each of the characters in Jesus’ parable: the irreligious younger son, the moralistic elder son, and the Father who lavishes his love on both. Inside this guide, you’ll explore questions from group discussion and personal reflection, and exercises that will help you experience the truths of Jesus’ parable in your own life. The gospel is neither religion nor irreligion, but something else entirely. Whether you’re a devout believer or a skeptic, The Prodigal God will challenge you to see Christianity in a whole new way.

For more information contact Pastor Dan Rothra: (919-606-3285) [email protected]

April 2024 – Sign up for reminders for BUFFALOE ROAD PRODUCE NEWS

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