ELPC – Room 234
Help for Caregivers
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesAre you helping an older loved one with tasks like grocery shopping, managing medications, bathing/dressing or getting around? If so, you are a family caregiver! Care coaches from the United Way’s Caregivers First Initiative will offer a guide to finding community resources, getting started with problem-solving, and managing the stress of trying to help a […]
Solarize Allegheny
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesJoin us for a solar seminar at ELPC and help build a bridge to the new energy future. Be a part of the climate solution—Go Solar! This event is sponsored by Solarize Allegheny (advocates for solar) and by 350 Pittsburgh (climate action group). For more info or to register, please visit www.solarizeallegheny.org, or call Sharon Pillar […]
Business Meeting for LGBTQ Ministry
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesAll are invited to this periodic business meeting of the LGBTQ Ministry members. During this one-hour meeting we will discuss important ministry issues and plan the upcoming schedule. Please contact Wil Forrest to attend.
Summer Film Series: Making a Killing
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesELPC's Mission Board invites you to attend the 2016 Summer Film Series. This week, our film will be Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA (103 minutes), hosted by the Neighbors Committee. Every day, more than 80 Americans are shot and killed. This film documents how gun manufacturers are profiting from the violence sweeping […]
Summer Film Series: The Imitation Game
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesELPC's Mission Board invites you to attend the 2016 Summer Film Series. This week, our film will be The Imitation Game (114 minutes), hosted by the Justice Committee. This Academy Award–nominated movie is based on the true story of mathematician, cryptanalyst, nerd, and social misfit Alan Turing and how he led a team of geniuses to […]
Summer Film Series: The Canary Effect
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesELPC's Mission Board invites you to attend the 2016 Summer Film Series. This week, our film will be The Canary Effect (65 minutes), hosted by the Justice Committee. An acclaimed documentary, The Canary Effect, is a 2010 work directed by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, which seeks to expose the often misunderstood and frequently overlooked […]
Summer Film Series: Just Eat It
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesELPC's Mission Board invites you to attend the 2016 Summer Film Series. This week, our film will be Just Eat It. A Food Waste Story (75 minutes), hosted by the Neighbors Committee. We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we be throwing […]
Conversation on Mental Illness Stigma
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesPlease join us to hear readings by those with mental illness to counteract the dangerous and shameful stigma surrounding mental illness. The goal is to help make a statement that there is no shame in their experiences, and that people who suffer from mental illness can also survive and prosper, emotionally and professionally. Light refreshments […]
End of Life Issues
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesA spiritual event? A medical event? Or, increasingly, is it a legal event? Many of us in our lifetime become the family member or friend with the responsibility to handle the affairs of a person who dies. Join us as Carolyn Russ, attorney at law, shares what tools are available, your rights and expectations as […]
Intergenerational Movie Event
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesJoin us as we screen Tuck Everlasting and discuss how this blockbuster film offers us wisdom about our faith, led by the Rev. Dr. Darrell Knopp. Christian Education will provide hot dogs and drinks, but please bring snacks to share.
Maintaining a Healthy Brain
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesJoin us for a discussion after Sanctuary worship in Room 234. We will learn how making minor changes to our daily routines—adding meaningful movement activities—can contribute to brain health and make a positive difference. Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH, will share information on the benefits of movement to maintaining brain health; and Jim Eng, PT, DPT, […]
Patients’ Rights and Responsibilities
ELPC - Room 234 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesBeing in the hospital, either as a patient or a family member, can be very stressful. Not only are we not at our best, but we typically get information and advice from a wide variety of physicians, nurses, therapists, and other clinical staff that can be confusing. While health care professionals are knowledgeable and have […]