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January 2007

Cedar Park Neighbors Newsletter President’s Message

By Carol Walker, CPN President

BEST WISHES FOR HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! Cedar Park Neighbors looks back on 2006 with a feeling of gratitude, hope, and accomplishment.

AND we look forward to 2007 with renewed vigor, purpose and a recommitment to continuing to make a positive difference here in Cedar Park.

We will continue on with the Baltimore Avenue revitalization and the much anticipated opening of Dock Street Brewery and the future home of the new Wine and Spirits Shoppe. Stay tuned for a new and neighborhood friendly business at the corner of 48th and Baltimore Avenue. AND our beautiful, new Cedar Park has everyone talking. And so many other positive things are in the works!

We have three new Board members: Pastor Kristopher Reese, Pastor. Fred Kauffman, and Ms. Peggy Nowak. Pastor Reese is Pastor of CPN thanks Mr. Yaya for his generous Holiday Basket donation!

Greater Enon Baptist Church, 46th & Cedar Avenue, and he is very interested in educational concerns. Pastor Kauffman, Program Coordinator for the Mennonite Central Committee – Philadelphia Programs, is interested in abandoned homes and is currently working with The Beaumont Initiative to develop two properties. Ms. Peggy Nowak, is CPN ‘s Recycling Coordinator and has additional interests in greening and Block concerns. There are presently two Board vacancies and we welcome inquiries of interested residents.

Our plate is full, but there is room for you, we could use your help to actively serve on a committee. There are many issues that we are working on such as: Zoning, Housing Property Task Force, Block Organizing Committee, Block Grants, and let’s not forget Scholarship. We now have a capable, new Scholarship Chair who will be hitting the ground running – Ms. Laura McHugh. We are thrilled to have her aboard. Mr. Darryl Bundrige has stepped down as chair, but he will still be on the Committee and he has done an exemplary job. Many kudos to Darryl.

So I look forward with great optimism to solve the challenges that lay ahead. Cedar Park is strongly committed to this neighborhood and will continue to do all that can be done to make CPN the best neighborhood in the City of Philadelphia. ...And remember

THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOOD GOING ON IN CEDAR PARK!

Upcoming Cedar park Neighbors Meeting Dates Unless otherwise noted, all meetings held at 7:30pm at CPN office – 2nd floor of Calvary Church, 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Enter at the small side door off Baltimore.

January 30

Property/Housing Task Force Meeting

February 1

Mural Design Meeting with Mural Arts re new murals on 4700 Baltimore Ave. (7pm)

February 12

Executive Committee Meeting

February 26

CPN Board Meeting

Next Great City Mayoral Forum

Nominations Committee

This is your chance to address issues to our city’s Mayoral candidates that are important to you!

The CPN Board Nominations Committee is getting underway to identify neighbors willing to serve on the Board of Directors. Nominees must be current CPN members as of April 1, 2007. Commitment involves one, two hour board meeting per month, generally on the 3rd Monday of the month, a summer planning day and willingness to join one committee of the Board. CPN elections take place at the April General Membership meeting. Please contact Carol Walker by phone 267.575.3606 or at walkcar2@aol.com if you are interested in serving the community in this capacity. This is a great way to get to know your neighbors and work for the betterment of the community.

Thursday, February 15 (6-8:30pm) Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th & Ben Franklin Parkway Simulcasts will also be aired at other locations throughout city, locations to be announced.

For more information, contact: Christine Knapp of PennFuture at knapp@pennfuture.org, 215-545-9692 or visit www.pennfuture.org

Bartram’s Garden Upcoming Activities Winter Tree ID Gardener’s Talk and Tour

Saturday, February 10th (10am-Noon)

Baltimore Avenue Mural Meeting

(Inclement Weather Date, February 17th) Bartram’s Garden Coach House Free for members, $5 for non-members Reservations required, call Alison at 215-729-5281x103 by February 6th Head gardener, Todd Greenberg, and arborist Brian Ames introduce the fine points of tree identification during the winter season. Join us for an introductory talk over coffee in the Coach House, and then explore the Garden under the guidance of these tree experts.

Neighbors will have an opportunity to give input on the new murals being planned for the 4700 block of Baltimore Avenue at the Municipal Parking Lot. CPN is hosting a community meeting with the Mural Arts Society on Thursday, February 1 at 6:30 pm at Calvary Center, 48th and Baltimore Ave in the Chapel. The artist selected by Mural Arts will be on hand to discuss design ideas and would like community input. We hope that many neighbors will come and participate.

Recycle Now Leadership Forum Come meet with other Recycle Now Chapters and community leaders from across the city to talk about what’s being done to improve our city’s recycling!

Thursday, February 1 (7pm-9pm) University of Pennsylvania, a site to be announced Please RSVP to Evan Belser, embelser@cleanwater.org, for the exact location, when announced, if you are interested in attending.

Addition to our list of fair donors for 2006...

In our November 2006 Newsletter we failed to mention one very generous donor of raffle prizes for our 2006 CPN Fair. CPN Member John Toler from BOUTIQUE WINE COLLECTION donated six bottles of fine wine for six lucky raffle winners! Thanks, John!

Do Your TAXES For FREE! People’s Emergency Center CDC is partnering with One Economy for the second year to provide a free web based tax service to PEC staff, clients and friends. The site calculates everything for you. All you have to do is provide the information required. If your income is under $40,000 you can also E-file for free. The site also gives you the date your return will be deposit or mailed. You can also stop and return to the site at a later date if you need to gather more information.

Simply visit www.thebeehive.org/peccdc and answer the questions as prompted. After which you will be given a promotion code that you will need to enter in the end to file for free.

You should have the following in front of you when starting your taxes: Photo ID; Social Security numbers for all family members, your W-2 tax form, your tax return from last year, and, if you want to receive direct deposit for your return, please have your bank routing number and account number.

If you do not have one of above items you can still start the process. Just log out and then return to COMPLETETAX.COM when you are ready to resume. If you have any questions, call 215-382-7522 x290.

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2007 CPN Block Improvement Grants Available

by Beth Palubinsky, Member, CPN Block Grants Committee

With spring just 12 weeks away, now’s a great time for you and your neighbors to begin planning a block improvement project. Once again, Cedar Park Neighbors will provide grants up to $500 for improvements to blocks within the Cedar Park neighborhood boundaries, with emphasis on projects aimed at maintaining and renewing street trees, tree lawns and front yards.

The Block Grants Committee provides planning guidance, information and support throughout every project, while neighbors get to beautify their blocks and build a strong sense of community.

“When we did it on our block,” says Sarah Scheckter of the 4700 block of Hazel Avenue, I was excited to see so many people come out and spend hours working. The block has been brightened, not just with the new plants and cleaned-up sidewalks but by the camaraderie that was created that day.” Sarah and her neighbors enlarged tree pits, learned how to plant trees, and filled planters with soil and flowers, like Lydia Fischer’s neighbors on the 4800 blocks of Kingsessing Avenue and Regent Street. “Thanks to Cedar Park’s grant program,” Lydia says, “our blocks got 15 new curbside and yard trees.

Residents on our blocks will have more shade, fresh air, bird songs and green in their lives for years to come.”

And nobody on your block needs to be a gardening expert, says Maureen Tate of the 4800 block of Florence Avenue and a long-time committee member.

“Some of us who’ve done these projects were experienced gardeners, but many neighbors who’ve taken part aren’t ‘green thumbs.’ The Committee will guide you and your neighbors every step of the way, from your first planning meeting to figuring out the budget for the project to determining a watering schedule for your new trees and flowers.”

Applications for projects to be completed this spring are due February 1, with the Committee’s grant decisions announced in March. Between March and roughly May 1, block groups will finalize their plans, guided as much as the block needs by a Committee member who will meet with residents to offer ideas and technical assistance.

If funds permit, the Committee will consider applications for fall projects, with applications due July 1, and grants announced in August.

For an application packet, visit www.cedarparkneighbors.org, scroll down to “Initiatives” and then click on “Block Grants.”

If you want more information, or you’d like some assistance with the application, or you don’t know how to get started, or you’re not sure this is right for your block, contact Lydia Fisher of the Grants Committee at lydia.fisher@trincoll.edu. And remember – green thumbs not required!!

Note: If you are interested but missed the February deadline please be in touch with us to let us know of your interest.

Ben Sightings on Baltimore By Maureen Tate, CPN Vice-President You may have noticed a new resident on Baltimore Avenue. Passersby were mystified through December and January by a new addition to the Avenue. A life size Ben Franklin was on display in the window of 4928 Baltimore Avenue and was part of a larger community art project “Show Me The Benjamins”, a collaboration of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), providing funds for commercial corridor improvement projects including Baltimore Avenue, with the Mural Arts Society. The objective of the project was to connect Franklin and his 300th-301st birthday to neighborhoods.

The result of the collaboration was the creation of 10 fiberglass statues of Ben Franklin hand painted by great local artists. The “Bens,” crafted in resin by The Theme Factory and painted by local artists in their studios and in studio space generously donated by the Norris Square Presbyterian Church, were placed near several partner organizations, Created over the last nine months, the ten “Benjamins” were all painted by distinguished local artists. Our very own Baltimore day-glo Ben is entitled “Benjamin Franklin– The Optimist” and was created by artist Alan Bell.

All Bens were part of an auction on January 17th in honor of Ben Franklin’s birthday. Proceeds go to LISC’s Commercial Corridor Project which funds 8 corridors around the city with money for facades, streetscape and events. Now that Ben has vacated the premises, Cedar Park Neighbors will move into the space with its window display now in the final design stage.

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It takes a Village to Raise a Park!

By Monica Allison, Park Improvement Committee

What do Jannie Blackwell, James Roebuck, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, University City District, Citizens Bank, Community Design Collaborative, Phila. Department of Recreation, City Capitol Programs Office, UC Green and Cross Baltimore Tree Tenders have in common? They were all involved with Cedar Park Neighbors in the renovations of Cedar Park.

On Saturday, November 18, 2006, we rededicated our name sake park with a parade and ribbon cutting ceremony. Our parade consisted of approximately 40 friends and neighbors, led by bagpiper Anita Chiodo, a resident of Cedar Park and human puppets provided by Spiral Q Puppet Theatre.

Thank you Matty Hart and Michelle Posadas of Spiral Q who are also residents of Cedar Park.

After our parade, we honored all those who have been involved in this project with a certificate of appreciation and Thanksgiving cookies. A special plaque and recognition was given to Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, an avid supporter of our community parks who secured the bulk of funds needed for the project. Following the ribbon cutting ceremony, we shared in reminiscence of the metamorphosis of our park. It’s amazing what can be done when a group of diverse people and organizations band together to bring about change in a community.

The park has been reopened about six weeks now. There is a new assortment of positive use for the park, especially

with the strange warm weather we’ve been having. On any given day or night, you can walk leisurely through the park, sit on the new benches with refreshments from Satellite Coffee House, enjoy the flow of the new pathways or just bask in the glow of the new lights. We invite you to begin to envision the endless possibilities for community building activities that will present themselves in 2007. We especially look forward to expanding our gardens in the east end of the Park around the Memorial and invite you to join our core of gardeners. If you would like to garden with us in Cedar Park please contact Maureen Tate 215.726.8664; tatemch@aolcom.

DeSales Bandstand Night!

Saturday, February 10, 2007 8pm-Midnight Great balls of fire! Only a month to go until “De Sales Night”, the annual dinner dance of St. Francis De Sales Parish, which will take place on Saturday, February 10, 8pm-Midnight in the School Hall. This is a longstanding parish and community social event. Next year De Sales Night will celebrate its 100 year anniversary!

Unforgettable... and usually a sell out event, so get your tickets early. Tickets are on sale now and are a great deal at $40/person which includes a full buffet dinner provided by our very own home grown Abbraccio Restaurant, open bar, dancing with our favorite De Sales Night Band “Second Vision”, and a dessert buffet.

The setting is always a treat and this year we will travel back in time for a visit to “De Sales Bandstand” for a bee bop, doo wop shoo bop good time. Be prepared for some intense memory flashbacks and a little shake, rattle and roll. We may even pull off a line dance or two.

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Tickets MUST be purchased in advance and are available by contacting the Rectory, Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm.

Phone or email inquiries to: Maureen Tate 215)726-8664; tatemch@aol.com.

Tables for eight or ten can be reserved with full payment.

Oh what a night! ght away Come twist the ni

and stave off th e winter blues!

Cedar Park Neighbors Membership Application/Renewal YES, I want to make Cedar Park a better place. My annual Cedar Park Neighbors membership dues are enclosed. ❒ New Member ❒ Renewal ❒ $7 Individual ❒ $10Household (2 persons or more) ❒ $20Business ❒ $5 Senior/Student/Unemployed ❒ $30Sponsor Enclosed is my additional contribution of $________________________

Cedar Park Neighbors welcomes your participation.

Please check your areas of interest and return the form to CPN, Calvary Community Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave, Phila, PA 19143 ❒ Block Organizing ❒ Cedar Park Fair ❒ Community Development ❒ Education ❒ Fundraising ❒ Greening Activities ❒ Holiday Baskets ❒ Membership Committee

❒ Neighborhood Clean-up Committee ❒ Neighborhood Safety ❒ Newsletter (writing, publishing, delivery) ❒ Recycling Project ❒ Scholarship Fund Committee ❒ Website ❒ Zoning Committee

Name

Address

Phone

Email

❒ YES! I would like a free CPN T-shirt with my renewal of $30 or more. Adult Size: ❒ M ❒ L ❒ XL

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Holiday Baskets

By Victoria Iannotta, CPN Board and Holiday Baskets Co-Chair

With the help of over $1,200 in donations from our community, the Cedar Park Neighbors’ Holiday Basket Committee provided food baskets to 85 neighborhood families this holiday season. In addition to financial offerings, many neighborhood volunteers generously gave of their time on December 16 to help package the food.

Each year, Cedar Park Neighbors conducts outreach to neighborhood churches and non profit organizations for help in identifying families that would benefit from a food basket. On distribution day, prepared baskets are picked up by representatives of those organizations and delivered to the families. This year, participants included: Saint Francis de Sales Church; Hickman Temple; Calvary United Methodist Church; Southwest Community Enrichment Center; Philadelphia Beauty Showcase Museum; and Greater Enon Baptist Church.

The Holiday Basket committee would like to express sincere thanks to donors, volunteers and all who assisted for their tremendous support.

It reflects the spirit of a great neighborhood!

Special thanks and great appreciation go to Yaya, a local businessman who donated ALL of the fruit and vegetables that were given to the families! This supreme act of generosity is a moving example of the true meaning of the Christmas season. Yaya and his delicious produce can be found daily in his truck on 44th Street, between Sansom and Walnut.

Note: The CPN Board wishes to acknowledge Holiday Basket Co-Chairs Joanne Pham and Victoria Iannotta for their great team work in making this years project such a success.

Upcoming Events at the Philadelphia Folklore Project Ongoing Exhibition If These Walls Could Talk: William & Miriam Crawford’s Dining Room Bill and Miriam Crawford’s actual dining room are four walls collaged with 40 years of social change memorabilia. The walls chronicle four decades of a family’s political life, recording the Crawfords’ involvement in the Communist party, the civil rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements, the “Stop Rizzo” campaign, and Bill’s own campaign for city controller.

Each piece has a story.

February 3 (10am-Noon) What You Got to Say? Make & Take Workshop with Eric Joselyn Back by popular demand! Another make-andtake workshop for activists and organizations.

View examples of artistic/political tools on display in the current PFP exhibition,”What you got to say.” Then make art and artifacts to help take your message of positive change out to your community. LIMITED SPACE. Reservations only.

February 9 (5:30pm-7:30pm) Closing Celebration: What You Got to Say? This exhibition of political art and artifacts by Eric Joselyn features political tools for social movements that fight for a more just society.

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[All events held at 735 S. 50th Street unless otherwise noted]

February 10 (10am-Noon) Folk Arts Grants Workshop: Basic Elements Focus on basic elements of applications, and get hands-on practice. Learn how to explain what you do.

March 2 (5:30- 7:30pm) Opening Celebration: We Try to Be Strong Since arriving in Philadelphia in 1979, Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun has distinguished herself as a teacher, organizer, and advocate for Hmong peoples’ cultural heritage.

Needlework (paj ntaub, story cloths, traditional clothes and artifacts) made by Pang and other women, connected through kinship and care, will be exhibited. Stitched over more than 28 years, the items on display offer a sampling of Hmong women’s artistry, and the place and utility of folk culture, in the face of war, displacement, resettlement, and home-making here.

March 3 (10am-Noon) Artist Salon: Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun, Vera Nakonechny & Christina Johnson Women working in traditional arts for social change especially invited! Talk about traditional crafts and heritage arts, and how women have used these forms to build community, freedom, and self-sufficiency. Also: learn about funding opportunities for women and trans artists working for social change. FREE

March 10 Work Samples & Documenting Your Work Many grant programs require work samples: a few minutes of carefully selected video, audio, photos of your work. How do you do a good job of selecting evidences that represent you and your work? Morning session (10 AM - Noon): bring your samples (video, audio, photos) for review and critique.

Noon -1 PM: Brown bag discussion about your documentation needs. (Bring your lunch!) 1 PM - 3 PM: How-To & Next Steps: (Co-presented with Scribe Video Center).

The Philadelphia Folklore Project galleries showcase local folk and traditional art, and are open October–June on 1st Saturdays from 10 AM to 1 PM and other times appointment. FREE. The Philadelphia Folklore Project is a 19 year-old independent public folklife agency working to sustain cultural and artistic practices rooted in the histories, traditions, and everyday lives of the people of the Philadelphia region.We collaborate with artists, cultural workers and communities to increase respect for, understanding of and access to local grassroots arts and humanities.

735 S. 50th Street, Philadelphia PA 19143 215-726-1106 | www.folkloreproject.org

In Memory of Joann Black By Josh Schneider, CPN Board and Neighbor On December 18th, 2006, Cedar Park lost a cherished neighbor, Joann Patterson Black, of 4807 Kingsessing Avenue. Joann and her husband, Dan, have long been counted as dear friends by people throughout our neighborhood. On the 4800 block of Kingsessing, Joann served as a block captain and representative for both Cedar Park Neighbors and Squirrel Hill Community Association.

She also served as our block’s personal town watch, always keeping an eye out for criminal activity and making sure neighbors kept vigilant. Always happy to chat or lend an ear, Joann was a great neighbor, and will be sadly missed.

Dan is relying on the support of family, friends, and neighbors to help him in this difficult time.

Joann was born on June 1st, 1937, in Salem, New Jersey, the daughter of Norris V. Patterson and Rae Patterson.

She graduated from Woodstown High School in 1958.

After graduation, Joann attended the Graduate Hospital for Nursing. She later went to Saint Joseph’s College to study for a teaching degree. She worked in high schools in the School District of Philadelphia until her retirement.

In 1960, while attending nursing school, Joann met Daniel T. Black. They wed in July, 1960. Dan also worked for the Philadelphia Public Schools, and both of them had deep convictions about helping children. Unfortunately, they were unable to have children of their own.

Together, Joann and Dan acquired a number of properties that they managed as rental apartment buildings. After their official retirements from the school system, both of them continued to work every day to keep up with the maintenance of their properties.

Joann could be found most days sweeping sidewalks, picking up trash, and planting flowers in garden beds around their houses.

She was a great lover of plants and a maven of farmers’ markets from Cedar Park to southern New Jersey, where she traveled regularly to visit with her family.

Joann leaves to mourn her husband, Daniel; sisters Geraldine Perry of California, Kay Brown and Beth Brown of Carney’s Point, NJ, and Barbara Robertson of Penns Grove, NJ; brothers Walter, Randall, and Richard of Penns Grove, and Preston of Paulsboro, NJ; and a host of nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her siblings Wayne Patterson and Mina Lee.

Update on West Philadelphia High School By Dorothy Welch Berlind As most of you know, planning for a new building for West has been going on for the past three years and I have represented Cedar Park Neighbors in this. The Philadelphia Student Union, Concordia, the Philadelphia Education Fund, parents, students, faith communities, and community groups agreed on a plan for the new school and presented it to the School District a year ago. The process was then delayed as the powers that be differed about the site of the new school, but finally last fall it was announced that the school would be built at 48th and Spruce Streets where the football field is located. And then we were horrified to learn that West’s new building was unfunded in the District’s 2007 capital budget.

Philadelphia Student Union led our group in taking action— meeting with District officials, press coverage, and on January 9th a meeting with Paul Vallas. Vallas told us that a new building for West was a promise that he intends to keep given that the School Reform Commission will support him in that. He indicated that eminent domain proceedings will begin regarding the Croyden, and that there is every reason to believe that those proceedings may bring early results. And he explained that there are various creative ways to fund the new building. New school construction is typically funded through bonds, but all of the District’s bond funds are committed. Instead, West will be created through a lease purchase agreement where a private

contractor will build the school and the district will make payments on it as homeowners do in a mortgage arrangement.

He further suggested that our group work with the District to implement the educational plan for the new school now, while the kids are still in the current location, so that when they move to the new building they will be already engaged in the new curriculum. Most importantly, we came away from this meeting believing that Mr. Vallas understands how very crucial this project is to our community and that he is committed to it.

Our people spoke to the School Reform Commission the next day at their regular meeting and we summarized for them our meeting with Mr. Vallas; in his response Mr. Vallas confirmed the promises that he made to us. Commissioner Sandra Dungee Glenn who lives in Cedar Park promised that she would lobby her fellow commissioners to push the project through. We left the meeting with the understanding that the new building for West should be completed by 2009, and that ground would be broken next fall.

We are hopeful! We intend to continue to advocate for the new West and need your continued support. I am convinced that without the organized support that the planning group has given, the whole project would have been tabled, delayed or worse. We can make a difference, and we have!

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c/o Calvary Community Center 4740 Baltimore Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143

CPN Board of Directors CPN Mission Statement: Cedar Park Neighbors is an association of diverse households and businesses based in the Cedar Park neighborhood of West Philadelphia, PA. The purpose of the association shall be to foster collaboration among all persons living and working in the Cedar Park neighborhood, to promote community development, to provide a forum for communication and community education, to respond to neighborhood concerns and to advocate for and promote the general welfare of the Cedar Park community.

Newsletter Editors Maureen Tate & Judy Lamirand Newsletter Design Leigh Maida To Contact Cedar Park Neighbors or submit Newsletter items: contact@cedarparkneighbors.org www.cedarparkneighbors.org | 267-531-4147

Membership Notice

President Carol Walker Vice-President Maureen Tate Monicarenee Allison Secretary Dorothy Welch Berlind Treasurer Karen Allen Board of Directors Emily Devaney Sean Dorn Bruce Hanson Victoria Iannotta Pastor Fred Kauffman Jim Kurtz Wayne Marquardt Peg Nowak Joanne Pham Rev. Kristopher Reese Shirley Rheinhart Josh Schneider Renee Warnick Richard Warner

Great Things are Happening at Greater Enon Baptist Church

By Jim Kurtz, Membership Chair

As our membership rolls grow it has been increasingly more tedious to coordinate distribution of the newsletter.

More than 20 persons are involved in the production and distribution of our newsletter! CPN recently applied for and was awarded non-profit bulk mail status from the United States Postal Service. You are receiving this issue by mail at the cost of about 15 cents per mailing. If all goes well we will continue to distribute our newsletter in this manner.

On another note we continue to look for ways to expand our membership.

If you have neighbors/friends who are not CPN members...let us know (contact@cedarparkneighbors.org) by sending us contact information and we will award them with a one-year complimentary mailing of our occasional newsletters.

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Under the pastorate of Rev. Kristopher S. Reese, the newly installed pastor of Greater Enon Baptist Church at 4633 Cedar Avenue, a new movement has begun. Greater Enon is in the process of creating new programs not only for its members but for the community as well. Rev. Reese who is the senior pastor of Greater Enon has one goal in mind and that is Reaching, Building, and Involving (R.B.I.) the community which is the church theme.

In order to reach, build, and involve the community there must be programs in place for the community and Rev. Reese has started work on his Community Development Corporation (CDC) to make this happen. Greater Enon has begun the process of having affordable daycare for the community, after school programs, an alcohol anonymous program, narcotic program, performing arts program and teen counseling/group program. Rev. Reese’s passion is to create a safe haven for teens and help encourage them as they travel through life.

Sister Kim Nelson, who is a member and neighbor of Greater Enon will oversee the teen counseling/group program. Our target population will be teens at risk (truant, criminal activity, family instability/living in foster care, nondiagnosable behavior problem attributed to environmental factors). There will be one-to-one counseling for teens and other programs.

These are just a few great things going on at Greater Enon Baptist Church and we are looking for greater things as we partner with Cedar Park Neighbors!

To find out more about program offerings at Greater Enon Baptist, please call the church at (215)729-1922.