ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL Church
Allison leading the benediction at SUNY Ulster‘s commencement
Pentecost at St. Andrew's
Building Renovation News
Share your ideas for public space in New Paltz
Hello and welcome!
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, located at 163 Main Street in the Village of New Paltz, has the opportnity to renovate its buildings and property. The Building Committee is exploring ways to redesign the space to better serve both our congregation and the broader community.
To inform our work, we are reaching out to individuals and organizations to share where they see needs for space. We are exploring space for one-off activities, part-time, and/or full-time use of spaces suitable for bringing people together.
Please take the survey (click below) to help the Building Committee.
Sincerely,
Reverend Allison, Tyler, MaryAnn + Noa
Work for Justice
Action Items
Actions we can take to incarnate God's love and care:
The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations
Ulster Immigrant Defense Network
Act now to relieve suffering in Gaza/ Support World Central Kitchen's daily offering of meals.
CROP WALK
See www.crophungerwalk.org to learn about “ending hunger one step at a time.” Donate see a link for a Dutchess County Crop Walk.
#OneSingleAct – An online campaign through the Episcopal Diocese of New York which invites every person to do a single act of care, courage, or connection, share it online, and invite one other person to do the same. Instructions are on the diocese website: https://dioceseny.org/news/onesingleact/
Climate Week Prayer Vigils – September 19 & 26, 12-12:30pm, U.N. Headquarters
Let's open and close U.N. Climate Week with prayers and blessings for our leaders, that a sense of compassion and truth will prevail. Join us for a short but sweet interfaith prayer service, with faith leaders from across NYC
Prayer is a really important action, and there is a lively fairly consistent online community of informal 30 minute Morning Prayer led by Bishop Heyd and lay and clergy leaders every weekday morning at 8:00 a.m.Try it out!! Visit the diocese website for the Zoom link.
As we watch the situation in Gaza and Israel, and pray, here's one way to join an interfaith appeal for peace https://mothers-call.org/
And please suggest action steps of your own, with your name so others can ask about your work and/or we can learn more about each others' concerns.
The United Thank Offering (UTO) is a ministry of The Episcopal Church for the mission of the whole church. Through UTO, individuals are invited to embrace and deepen a personal daily spiritual discipline of gratitude. UTO encourages people to notice the good things that happen each day, give thanks to God for those blessings and make an offering for each blessing using a UTO Blue Box. UTO is entrusted to receive the offerings, and to distribute 100% of what is collected to support innovative mission and ministry throughout The Episcopal Church and Provinces of the Anglican Communion.
As the Federal Shutdown drags on, SNAP will not be provided in November. More than 307,000 neighbors in the Regional Food Bank’s 23 county service area at risk of a delay, reduction, or even shutdown of benefits.
The Charitable Food System will do everything it can to feed our neighbors in need, but we cannot fill the essential role of SNAP.
SNAP provides 12 meals for every one distributed through the charitable food system. To make up for a shutdown of benefits, the Regional Food Bank and its network of partners would need to distribute an additional 36 million pounds of food in the month of November. For perspective, the Food Bank distributed a total of 54 million pounds of food in all of 2024. As much as Food Banks, pantries, and our supporters are committed to doing everything we can to address food insecurity in our communities, we are not designed to sustain the scope of services SNAP provides.
As the shutdown continues, there is one immediate step that would provide timely and direct protection for SNAP participants: the Federal Government must immediately release the SNAP contingency fund to states release the contingency fund and transfer additional funds to fully cover November benefits.
Please join us in sending this urgent message to your Federal elected officials: Ask Federal Electeds: Fund SNAP Now!
Send an urgent message to federal electeds
The Town of New Paltz Office of Community Wellness has sent a list of free local food support resources:
“Here is a preliminary list of different local food support resources available in New Paltz. The Office for Community Wellness (OCW) is working on identifying and coordinating additional resources through our network of community partner organizations. We will share more information as it becomes available. If you are interested in getting involved and volunteering some of your time, please contact Phoenix at the Office for Community Wellness at (845) 275-5413, or via email (pkawamoto@townofnewpaltz.org).”
The complete list is in the Parish Email newsletter.
Action for this week
For the next 12 weeks, starting November 11, Phoenix Kawamoto, Community Education Coordinator from the Town Office of Community Wellness, is organizing community dinners to help stretch food budgets and build community. The first four will be at Redeemer; we think the next four will be at the Community Center, and location of the last four is yet to be decided.
We are reaching out to any community organizations, so please share with whatever town/village groups you participate in.
Here's what each dinner needs:
4:30-6 pm Kitchen prep (heating food, make salad, get coffee on, etc.) 2-3 folks
4:30 - 6pm 2-3 people to setup the room and tables for the foods:
5:45-7:30 4 people to serve food: one person for each item (chili, cheese & onions, cornbread, and salad.
6:30-8pm Clean-up: 5-6 people for kitchen & dining room area.
TO VOLUNTEER:
Here's a link to the sign up form: https://form.jotform.com/253084413323045
BULLETIN FOR SUNDAY
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
Tri-Church Sunday School
The Tri-Church Sunday School (St. Andrew's Episcopal, New Paltz United Methodist, and Redeemer, New Paltz) meets the first and third Sundays of each month in the Community Room at Redeemer, New Paltz starting at 10:45am with icebreakers, snacks and music, followed by the Sunday School Lesson, and wrapping up by 12pm. Redeemer Lutheran Church is located at 90 Rt. 32 South, New Paltz.
Wonderful leadership for Tri-Church Sunday School includes Alex Brown as teacher. Alex has been teaching 7th grade in Montgomery for nearly twenty years. Rich Carroll and Janet Frommer will be taking turns leading music and teaching the children various church camp songs. Rich is a principal at Arlington High School and will also be taking turns leading icebreakers and get-to-know-you games. Janet Frommer is the church organist at St. Andrews in New Paltz and teaches piano locally and for Dutchess Community College.
PARISH HALL AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL
Parish Hall available for weekly, monthly or occasional rental to non-profit organizations and individuals. Approximate space 30 x 22 feet plus kitchen. Call 845-255-5098 or email standrewnp@hvi.net for details.
Our Community
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is called to love God and to love one another through worship, fellowship, education and outreach; and looks for opportunities to collaborate and serve throughout our community and the world. A “three-legged stool” is often used to describe the threefold sources of authority in Anglicanism - scripture, tradition and reason. We pray, we listen to each other and God, we ask all sorts of questions and don't necessarily agree on the answers, but in the process each member and the congregation as a whole expands its perspective about how God is inviting us to love and serve and strive for more healing, justice, and joy.
Our Clergy
The Rev. Allison Moore, Ph.D. started ministry with St. Andrew’s in February, 2020. She brings experience from many years of parish ministry in the metropolitan New York City area, directing an HIV/AIDS support program, work with survivors of domestic violence and their children, and a decade of teaching philosophy, world religions, theology and ethics at Simmons College, Bergen Community College, and St. Peter’s University in Jersey City. She loves the synergy of parish ministry and college chaplaincy and social service ministry and social justice advocacy--multiple ways to serve God and grow in faith! She has two young adult children. Kayaking, yoga, and playing with various forms of art keep her (relatively) sane. Learn more...