The Bridge Café on Buffaloe Road at First Alliance Church:
Café – Community – Development
What’s on this week at The Bridge Café Raleigh:
***Click a link below for a further description of an event.***
January 21, Tuesday
8:30am – 11:30am The Bridge Café open Tuesday – Friday
6:00pm – 6:45pm Come to the Table – Soup or Entree Salad Meal -TUESDAY MEALS WILL START BACK UP FEBRUARY 4TH
Wednesday, January 22 The Wright Brothers -book club in February – books available January 22
Thursday, January 23
9:30am-10:30am Community Breakfast – -NO BREAKFAST TODAY-BRIDGE CAFE CLOSED THAT DAY DUE TO COLD WEATHER
Tuesday, February 4
6:00pm-6:45pm Come to the Table – Soup or Entree Salad Meal -TUESDAY EVENING MEALS RESUME
7:00pm – 8:00pm The Wright Brothers – February Book Club book – all welcome!
7:00pm – 8:00pm Make the Most of Your Money – Workshop – first meeting
Wednesday, February 5
10:00am – 11:00am Make the Most of Your Money – Workshop – repeat of first meeting
Friday, February 7 Open Mic -Talent Night at the Bridge All welcome!
6:30pm Doors Open
7:00pm – 8:00pm Program
Saturday, February 8
1:00pm – 3:00 pm Story Weavers Writing Club – Open to All!! Starting Saturdays on February 8th
Sunday, February 9
9:00am – 10:00am Make the Most of Your Money – Workshop – repeat of first meeting
The Bridge Café
FALL & WINTER HOURS:
Tuesdays-Fridays 8:30 – 11:30 AM
The Bridge Café (at entrance to First Alliance Church) has great bottomless coffee and home-baked treats.
BEGINNING AGAIN IN FEB. 4: Programs include: TUESDAYS 6-6:30 PM – “Come to the Table” Soup or Salad Entree Supper ($4 suggested donation – not required) – followed by 7pm-8pm Workshops . (See listing above under, “What’s on this week at The Bridge Café Raleigh.”)
All are welcome!
Community Breakfast at The Bridge Café! Thursday Mornings at 9:30 –
NO BREAKFAST JAN. 23-BRIDGE CAFE CLOSED THAT DAY DUE TO COLD WEATHER
Join us every Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the Bridge Café for a Community Breakfast for only $4 per person. Enjoy home-cooked hot and cold treats, freshly roasted coffee and a chance to meet your neighbors on Buffaloe Road. Free Wifi. All ages welcome!
We’re located in the entrance to First Alliance Church at 4400 Buffaloe Road, Raleigh, NC.
Making the Most of Your Money -Workshop starts February 4th at 7 PM
Join us at the Bridge Café for a 3-set series of 4-week sessions entitled “Making the Most of Your Money: an integrated life approach to financial planning.” The workshop is free and is repeated 3 different times during the week to fit your (ever changing?!!) schedule.
The hour-long sessions start Tuesday February 4th at 7 pm and are repeated the following Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. at the Bridge Café– plus on Sunday at 9:00 a.m. (next door in the Education Building of First Alliance Church).
Together we will dive deep into what money means to you; experiment with a style of budgeting that works for you, and reflect on how your Faith factors into your family’s financial life.
Workshops are led by Dan Rothra and will extend through April 29th. If you can’t make all of the weeks’ discussion, that’s fine – but the more you engage the more you may find your own financial freedom taking shape.
For more information contact Dan Rothra: 919-606-3285
Open Mic – Love is in the Air Theme – February 7th – The Bridge Café – All Welcome!
Do you have a 10 minute talent to share at our next Open Mic Extravaganza on Friday February 7th at the Bridge Café ? Our theme is LOVE and can be any family friendly act from singing, reading poetry or prose, telling a story, playing an instrument or anything else.
Doors open at 6:30 pm for dessert and coffee; program begins at 7:00 pm. Bring your talent and also your friends and family for a fun night out.
Sign up with Dan Rothra 919-606-3285 if you’d like to perform — or if you just want to show up on the night we may still have room for you on the line-up. See you there!
Story Weavers Writing Club – Open to All!! Starting Saturdays on February 8th
NEW! The Story Weavers Writing Club will have its first meeting on Saturday Feb. 8th at the Bridge Café – from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. All are welcome! We want to encourage each other in whatever form of writing we each are excited about: children’s books, novels, articles, poetry, blogs, and more. This will be a fun, relaxed gathering that plans to meet every Saturday. For more information, contact Martha Poehler 919-931-4228 marthapoehler22@gmail.com
Come to the Table Meal – TUESDAY MEALS AT 6:00 PM –
TUESDAY MEALS WILL START BACK UP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH
Come to our popular Tuesday evening “Come to the Table” dinners (6 pm)! Enjoy a home-cooked entree, salad and dessert for $4 and meet your neighbors. Why not bring a friend? We’re serving up great meals every Tuesday.
If you’d like to help cook or serve for these events, there’s a sign up sheet in the entrance to the Bridge Café – or speak with Pastor Dan.
Following the meal are free workshops (7-8 pm). They include book clubs, Bible studies, and craft get-togethers. No experience necessary for any of these workshops – all are invited!
February Book Club -The Wright Brothers–Books Available January 22
Our first Book Club meeting for 2025 is on Tuesday February 4th at 7 pm in the First Alliance Church library on 4400 Buffaloe Road – next door to the Bridge Café. We’ll get together from 7-8 pm all four Tuesdays in February to discuss “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough. All are welcome!
You can borrow a book to read by contacting Marty Poehler; they are available from January 22nd. (919-606-2169) (320 pages)
Why not come early at 6 pm for our “Come to the Table” Community dinner? A home-cooked meal for $4 (suggested donation) and opportunity to meet your neighbors on Buffaloe Road.
Here’s a summary of February’s good read:
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.
In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times)
Community Center
Kids Clothes (infant to pre-K) – Inside The Bridge Café.
Food Pantry (at Bridge Café at First Alliance Church –
parking lot.)
Supportive environment.
Opportunities to participate.
Book reading groups.
Music jam sessions.
Collaborative ventures.
Food Pantry in the parking lot of the Bridge Café
Did you know about the Community Food Pantry at 4400 Buffaloe Road? (in parking lot of First Alliance Church). It was started by neighborhood residents Allison & Brandon DeLucca with the help of Dan Rothra, Kent Hoffman and Nora Hoffman (all in the photo) as a service to our neighborhood.
The Pantry is open 24/7 with the motto “Take What You Need – Leave What You Can.” It operates solely on the generosity of the Buffaloe Road community and First Alliance Church.
If you wish to donate non-perishable food or small toiletry items, you can leave them inside the pantry cupboard or deliver to the Bridge Café (entrance to First Alliance Church) Tuesday-Friday (8:30 – 11:30 a.m.) or Sunday (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
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The Bridge Café on Buffaloe at First Alliance Church:
Café – Community – Development
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday through Friday mornings 8:30am to 11:30am
EVENING TUESDAY EVENTS BEGIN AGAIN, FEBRUARY 4TH
+Special events at 6:00 PM Tuesday evenings :
Come to Table soup meals for $4 donation – open to all BEGINNING AGAIN FEB 4, 2025
Workshops at 7:00 PM- listed above – open to all BEGINNING AGAIN FEB 4, 2025