Purchase a $2.50 reusable Fight Hunger Bag at the Hannaford store located at 162 Route 22, Pawling NY in May and the FPCY Food Pantry will receive a $1 donation! The First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown...
Green Team
Be Green! Support Local Farms
One way to practice stewardship of the earth is to support farms either by shopping directly at the farm or through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs. A CSA program invites members of the...
Let Us Be Stewards of God’s Earth — April 28, 2019
Scripture reading: Psalm 8, Revelation 21:1-2a Sermon by Connie Knapp: Let Us Be Stewards of God’s Earth Click here to read the worship bulletin. To download the audio of the sermon, click here...
The New York Plastic Bag Ban
New York’s ban, which begins next March, will forbid stores to provide customers with single-use plastic bags, which are non-biodegradable and have been blamed for everything from causing...
Can You Help with a Garden for our Food Pantry Clients?
We are letting you know about a local project raising food this Spring and Summer for food pantries. Some Yorktown and Peekskill houses of worship, including our own, are working a large FREE garden space...
Help Fund Mission Trips with Your Cans and Bottles
We have an easy way for you to help support our mission trips – bring in your bottles and cans that have a deposit and let the Mission Trip Team collect your refund! There is a specially marked container...
Earth Day Service April 28
Earth Day falls on Easter Sunday this year. Join us as we celebrate Earth Day on the following Sunday, April 28. Our theme will be Stewards of the Earth as we celebrate all of the ways we care for the...
Household Recycling This Saturday in Yorktown
Saturday, April 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at FDR State Park In addition to properly labelled household chemicals and other special wastes found in a typical household, residents can bring documents for...
Green Lawn Care from Your Green Team
This information is excerpted from the Cornell Cooperative Extension fact sheet “Lawn Care without Pesticides.” Can home lawns be maintained without pesticides? Yes, they can, and they may...
De-Greening the Sanctuary
On December 1 we “Greened” the Sanctuary with wreaths, roping, and our Christmas Tree. It will soon come time to “De-green” our space. In the past these materials have simply been discarded in...