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Graduation Sunday Celebration June 29, 2025
In June, we will be honoring and celebrating all those who are graduating this year whether it is from high school, college, graduate school or those who are receiving a special certification in a trade or receiving their doctorate. Please let us know if you are graduating or the names of those graduating and share with us a blurb about you/them (where they are graduating from, what degree or certification they are receiving, and what their future plans are). Also, feel free to share a photo of them with us. We will put the blurb and photo of them in the next newsletter. Please have all of that information to us no later than May 20th so we can get it in the next newsletter. We will celebrate each graduate during our worship service on Sunday, June 29th, which will be followed by a special fellowship time for them.
Sunday Worship begins at 10:30 a.m. Masks are optional within the church building. If desired, you may attend in the privacy of your car parked in our parking lot, tune your radio to 1590 AM.
If you would like to receive a box of weekly giving envelopes, please call the office at 518-767-2243. Using these envelopes allows our treasurer to be able to credit your donations at the end of the year for tax purposes.
Online offerings may be made on-line via Tithe.ly and the Give button below. These donations will be deposited directly into the church bank account. You have the option to give to either the General or Renovation Fund. Both Tithe.ly and the church will record your donations.
Tithe.ly deducts a small fee per credit card transaction (2.65% plus $0.30). You have the option to cover these fees, if you wish. You may also choose to have Tithe.ly automatically donate for you weekly or monthly.
As always, thank you for your generosity.
Thank you for your continuing support of the Stained-Glass Window Restoration Project! The crew from Chapman will be onsite in early May to install the two recently refurbished Fellowship Hall windows. The goal is to have a financial plan in place so that three more windows in the Fellowship Hall can be restored 2025. If that occurs, that will mean that half of Phase 2 of the Stained-Glass Window Restoration project was completed. Achieving this goal in 2025 would be a wonderful accomplishment — and one that looks promising as donations continue to be received!
The bottle and can drive is
starting 2025 off to a big start. I just received $202 from our cans and
bottles. What a good start to reaching our next goal, which is $2000!
Thank you all for making this fundraiser so successful. Thank you! Arlene
Fundraising ideas:
Please share ideas with a consistory member!
The retaining wall project has been completed! A big THANK YOU goes out to Mike Pelton and Pelton Construction for not only finishing this project in a timely fashion, but overall, for doing a magnificent job that FRCB can be proud of, and for making the investment!!
If you are considering any sort of excavation work, have a water or sewer project in mind, need to fix a drainage issue or thinking about a hardscape project such as decorative retaining wall or patio, give Mike at Pelton Construction a call at 518-828-4712 and give him an opportunity to look at your project.
