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2025 Albright Thanksgiving Dinner Recap

This year’s dinner was a huge success. We served over 250 meals onsite and extra portions were sent to East End Community Ministries.

We want to thank you and share some lovely photos from the Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner. 

A huge thank you to photographer Larry Rippel for stopping by again this year and capturing some photos of the dinner. 

You can see more photos that Larry captured of the dinner here. 

Check out our Instagram page @AlbrightPGH for more photos. 

2025 Dinner Featured On WTAE

WTAE covered the 2025 Thanksgiving Eve dinner. Check out the video here.

Thank you to the volunteers and donors!

Thank you to the 100+ people who donated time and money to make this year’s Thanksgiving Eve Dinner possible. 

First United Methodist Church

A BIG thank you to First United Methodist Church and the generous donation of their beautiful social hall and kitchen facilities. We are grateful for their continued support of the Thanksgiving Eve dinner.

Students of St. Edmunds Academy

Thank you to the students from St. Edmund’s Academy who decorated placemats and posters to help decorate the table and the room for the dinner. 

Supporters 

We are grateful to these businesses for donating both time and food to the 2025 Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner.

  • Giant Eagle
  • Millie’s Ice Cream
  • Crumble Cookies
  • Eat N’Park

We Shop Local! Community Kitchen & Breadworks

While most of the meal is prepared by volunteers, we are proud that we can support these local organizations and businesses to help with the dinner. 

Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

This year, both the turkey and pies were prepared by Community Kitchen. Community Kitchen is a nonprofit organization located in Hazelwood that offers no-cost job training in the culinary industries. Community Kitchen provides catering and prepares many of the grab-and-go items you might pick up in coffee shops around the city.

Breadworks

All of the rolls for this year’s meal were purchased from Breadworks. You can find products from Breadworks at local businesses across Western Pennsylvania or stop by their retail shop (2110 Brighton Rd Pittsburgh, PA 15212).

Volunteer Here: First Food and Friends

Each year, many of you have reached out to ask where you can volunteer on a regular basis. Every Saturday, First United Methodist Church serves a free meal through their First Food and Friends program. 

Follow the First Food and Friends Facebook page for updates. 

Thank You! 2021 Thanksgiving Eve Dinner Photos

The 2021 Albright Thanksgiving Eve Dinner was a huge success. We served over 300 meals, both hot meals in the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church, and packaged to go.

Thank you to all of our supporters who donated – we had over 55 people contribute to our GoFundMe page this year! And a BIG THANK YOU to Community Kitchen Pittsburgh who prepared the holiday feast.

Community Kitchen is a nonprofit organization located in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh that offers no-cost job training in culinary industries. Community Kitchen has a strong catering operation and prepares many of the grab & go items you might pick up in coffee shops around the city.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. 

Thank you again for your generous support.

– The Friends of Albright Team

Status of the Albright Church Building

November 2018

Friends of Albright continues to lead efforts to preserve and repurpose the Albright United Methodist Church building as a center that will serve the larger Pittsburgh community. We are continuing to collaborate with several Pittsburgh organization on advocacy, fundraising and measures both inside and outside of the courts to ensure that the Albright church building endures. More updates to come.

Thank you for standing with us.

Cram Jam: PHLF Tour of 3 Churches on Saturday, April 16

Albright was designed by the architect Chancey W. Hodgden, however many of the other churches in Pittsburgh’s East End were designed by architect Ralph Adams Cram.

This weekend, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Association is hosting Cram Jam,  a Saturday afternoon tour of three of the churches designed by Cram.

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Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation—in conjunction with ELPC, St. Charles Lawanga Parish at Holy Rosary Church, and Calvary Episcopal Church—invites the public to participate in Cram Jam. The free event offers tours of three area churches designed by renowned architect Ralph Adams Cram. Explore and experience their remarkable beauty.

Church docents and PHLF staff will provide information and lead tours at each site. Within breathtaking architectural spaces, participants will see remarkable sculpture, stained glass, and woodwork by exceptional American craftsmen and artists. Please arrive at each church as follows:

  • 1 pm: St. Charles Lawanga Parish at Holy Rosary Church (1926–31), 7114 Kelly Street in Homewood
  • 2 pm: East Liberty Presbyterian Church (1930–35), 116 South Highland Avenue in East Liberty
  • 3:30 pm: Calvary Episcopal Church (1905–07), 315 Shady Avenue in Shadyside. Here, Philip Maye, chair of the Calvary Architectural History Committee, will unveil an interpretive plaque honoring architect Ralph Adams Cram; Al Tannler, PHLF’s historical collections director, will give brief comments about the architect; and Dr. Alan Lewis, organist, will perform the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, by J. S. Bach. A wine-and-cheese reception will follow in the Parish Hall, concluding at 5:30 pm.

Participants must provide their own transportation (car, bus, bike) to each church. Each location is accessible by bus; call the Port Authority at 412.442.2000 for details. Reservations are appreciated by April 14. Contact either PHLF (marylu@phlf.org; 412.471.5808 x527) or Calvary Episcopal Church (lwells@calvarypgh.org; 412.661.0120, x110).

More on the Cram Jam and the work of Ralph Adams Cram:

Photos of Albright

A huge thanks to Pittsburgh photographer Larry Rippel for stopping by and taking some stunning photos of Albright United Methodist Church!

View of the church from the corner of Centre & S. Graham. Photo Credit: Larry Rippel
Stained glass. Photo Credit: Larry Rippel
Photo Credit: Larry Rippel
Corner of the building next to Wendy’s. Photo Credit: Larry Rippel
Door to Church on Centre Ave. Photo Credit: Larry Rippel

Albright Community Block Party – A Huge Success!

On Sunday, July 26 we held a community block party on Graham Street in front of the church. Over a hundred and fifty people stopped by for some fellowship and fun. Pittsburgh Taco Truck and Caustelot Creamery Truck were there to provide lunch and sweet treats! Community members shared ideas on how the Albright Church can also be used as a community space in the neighborhood. Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse kept kids and adults busy making stained glass out of reused materials.  It was great to have representatives from Thrival and SisterFriend on hand to talk about their organizations are serving the Pittsburgh community. Learn more at https://www.paydaynow.net/installment-loans/

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The event was such a success we are already working on another community event for next month.  Be sure to sign up for our email list to learn about future events.

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A huge thank you to the following businesses and organizations who helped to make this a success!

 

 

Success! Volunteers Clean Up Albright Landscaping Before Block Party

Last Saturday, a dedicated crew of Albright Church members and community volunteers spent the day trimming, clipping, carrying and cleaning up the front of the church.  We even had people who were walking by stop and help with the clean up for a few hours.

Lots of neighbors stopped to ask about the church and to lend their support to keeping this building in the neighborhood.  Here are some photos from the clean up:

We trimmed back the landscaping around the Graham St. door
We trimmed back the landscaping around the Graham St. door
Lots of leaves to move out of the entrance way.
Lots of leaves to move out of the entrance way.
Two generations of Albright members helped
Two generations of Albright members helped
Piles of landscaping debris and trash ready to be picked up
Piles of landscaping debris and trash ready to be picked up
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