Presbyterian Counseling Center
Friendship Day is a warm and friendly place, a day of recreational activity for older adults.
We meet each Thursday in First Presbyterian's Mullin Life Center. Activities include exercise at 9:30 a.m., a time for guest speakers and/or devotion at 10 a.m. and lunch at 11:30 a.m.
Games and activities include bridge, bingo, art, crafts, trips, the monthly birthday table, a book lending library and magazine exchange, etc.
Friendship Day membership is comprised of about 120 active members from 39 churches with about 50 at each meeting. Friendship Day is open to anyone interested in joining in weekly fellowship. It's not restricted to any one church membership.
To learn more contact Russell Sherrill, 478-4706 or rsherrill@fpcgreensboro.org. For directions to the church, click here.
On Oct. 5, 1972, 25 men and women, age 55 and older, gathered in the Garden Room of First Presbyterian Church.
They formed a Friendship Day Group and invited members of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church across the street to come.
Friendship Day became a joint program for the two churches, but the group decided to open Friendship Day to people who were not members of the two churches.
And so, in those few months, Friendship Day had its beginning in helping older adults have creative activities and informative programs combined with a lot of good old-fashioned fellowship.
So began what has proved to be a “Ministry relevant for our times.”
