We received a generous donation of gloves from Joann Fabrics via our knitters’ relationship with Project Linus, for whom they knit and crochet many blankets every year. The knitters would love to...
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Mental Health Awareness Day — November 15
On Sunday, November 15th, the 10am service will be conducted by our Mental Health Initiative team which is co-sponsored by the Deacons and the Mission Commission. This team was formed in response to our...
Coat Drive for Children and Adolescents During November
FPCY will once again be giving the gift of warmth for the holidays by sponsoring a coat drive for children and adolescents in need. We will be collecting gifts of new winter coats (children’s...
Hunger Action — Peace and Justice Sunday November 8
You can learn more about what it means to be a Hunger Action Congregation, and the process to become a Certified Hunger Action Congregation (which we are engaged in), on the PCUSA website. Join our service...
Thanksgiving Offering to Support Noontime Meal
The Thanksgiving Offering will support our Noontime Meal program, which serves lunch once each month to about 3 dozen needy clients in Peekskill. Historically, members of our congregation had prepared...
Food Pantry Requests for Thanksgiving
We know that many of you have enjoyed bringing in purchased (or those free supermarket) turkeys to distribute to our Food Pantry clients in the past. For several reasons, we can not accommodate that this...
From the Mission Commission
Noon Time Meal Clients are doing fine, and enjoying the meal we have prepared and delivered to them but numbers seem to keep rising. They would appreciate juice once in awhile so if you would like to...
From our Mental Health Initiative (MHI) Team
Ten years ago the Presbyterian Church (USA) started an initiative called “Comfort My People” to encourage congregations to talk more openly about mental health. The Deacons and Mission Commission in...
Building God’s House of Peace: Malawi Matters
Let’s stop for a moment to think about that which perhaps we cannot see. Let’s look beyond the walls of our church, beyond the boundaries of our community—even beyond the borders of our nation....
Peace and Global Witness Offering: Building God’s Household of Peace in the Midst of War
During this Season of Peace, we are reminded that peacemaking is active not passive, doing not waiting. Jaff Bamenjo (BA-MEN-JO), the coordinator of the Network for the Fight Against Hunger in Cameroon...