For over 30 years, the FPCY Food Pantry has been serving the less fortunate of our community. And as with many things, it started small. As a matter of fact, it was a closet. The Deacons had been...
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Shaina in Peru – A Crisis of Faith
In a new post, Shaina Miller asks for our prayers for her as she gets honest with herself about her struggles with her calling to the Young Adult Volunteer program, and how she makes a breakthrough in...
ACME is helping the FPCY food pantry — please support this effort!
Bags of food that you can purchase at the local ACME will go to our food pantry as well as Yorktown Community Help. While the bag only costs you $10, the value of the food is approximately $15. Our food...
Christmas Joy Offering – Standing with One Another
No one should have to choose between food and medicine, but Sharon was approaching that. Battling advanced thyroid cancer since 2001, Sharon was facing the growing number of additional prescriptions and...
Toys for Tots 2015 a Big Success!
Volunteers Sophia Primiana, Amy Primiani, Marty Scatola, Christine Edelman, and Drew Edelman The Deacons, acting as partner with USMC Reserve Yorktown Area Chapter, held their Toys for Tots distribution ...
Christmas Joy Offering – Nurturing Seeds of Faith
When Siya Gu came to the United States from her hometown in China in 2013, she never imagined that her journey and the education she received would impact her life in so many ways. “When I first came...
YAV Emily: How we each serve
In a recent post, Emily, who is serving in Asheville, NC, writes on what she has learned about “charitable work,” and how service that is more “behind the scenes” than, for example,...
Christmas Joy Offering – The Healing Spirit
Rev. Thomas “Tom” Gard and his wife Laurel believe the Board of Pensions is a godsend. This recently retired teaching elder, from Fergus Falls, Minnesota, is referring to the Shared Grant contributed...
A Message of Gratitude from one of our Young Adult Volunteers
In a recent post, Shaina Miller in Peru, one of the Young Adult Volunteers we commissioned, gets honest about how hard her experience is at times. Anyways, life is difficult for me here. I’m a nature...
The Mission Commission asks, “How can we help the Syrian refugees?”
Many of you have stopped members of the Mission Commission and asked that very question. We’ve been touched by the plight of these people. Grayde Parsons, Stated Clerk, PC(USA), has asked us to “Choose...