Each year Earth Care congregations are asked to participate in a recertification process. The process depends on how long a congregation has been certified.

FPCY was certified as an Earth Care Congregation by PC(USA) in 2015, so this year marked our sixth recertification. We have moved from a lengthy spread sheet to a simple narrative of what we’ve accomplished during the past year. Here’s an extract from our narrative report:

During this second year of the COVID pandemic, we continued with as many outside activities as possible. This included:

An outdoor Earth Day service
Continued participation in The Garden of Hope, an interfaith partnership growing food for neighborhood food pantries, including our own
An outdoor labyrinth walk hosted for the community
A series of hikes, coordinated by our church and posted on Facebook as Pilgrims of the Hudson Valley
We began the walks in May 2021 and during 2021 hosted a walk once a month from May 2021 until December 2021

We have been re-certified for another year, thanks to the efforts of this caring congregation.

Interested in helping us celebrate Earth Day? Please let Connie Knapp (connie.knapp@icloud.com) know how you’d like to be involved. We’ll be planning a worship service and showing a film. Got other good ideas? We’d love to hear them.