Sunday Services

    Sunday Services at begin at 10:30am and end around 11:45am. You can join us in person or on Zoom.


    In person,  at 67 South Randolph Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.


    On Zoom, using your computer, tablet or smartphone: https://zoom.us/j/327711271. On your phone, dial in at +1 646 558 8656. If asked, enter Meeting ID: 327 711 271, 

    Upcoming Sunday Services

    • APRIL 28: WILD ON THE INSIDE

      Spiral Web with the Program and Lifespan Faith Development Committees

      April is the time of the year when life is burgeoning all around us. It's a month for exploring and forging connections with our fellow inhabitants of our amazing home.  Maybe we are all just a little bit wild, on the inside..

    • MAY 5, 2024: Spirituality + Science: Partners in Addressing Climate Chaos

      Leonisa Ardizzone

      Technological advancements and political-economic shifts are necessary to meaningfully address climate change. However, there is a difference between addressing climate change and transforming underlying behaviors to allow mass support of these changes, sustain the efforts of those working for change, and remodel global society so that changes are lasting and impactful.

    • MAY 12, 2024: MOTHER'S DAY, MULTIGENERATIONAL

      Reverend Dan will help celebrate Mother's Day!

    • MAY 19, 2024:  MY LIFE AS A PRAYER

      Elizabeth Cunningham

      What is prayer?  Prayer can take many forms: spoken, sung, silent, tactile, embodied, within a religious tradition and outside of one, as part of a group or in solitude.  A Prayer is also one who prays

      How can you create a daily prayer practice or to refresh an existing one? 


      Widely known for The Maeve Chronicles, Elizabeth is the author of five other novels and four collections of poems. My Life as a Prayer, her debut work of nonfiction.  She lives in the Valley of the Mahicantuck on land that was home to the Lenape.

    • MAY 26, 2024

      Our guest speaker Richard Heyl de Ortiz, Executive Director of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Center in Kingston.  Stay tuned for details.

    • PROGRAM COMMITTEE

      The Program Committee is responsible for those Sunday Services  not conducted by our minister, approximately two Sundays a month. Our services can take many forms: guest ministers or speakers, panel discussions, multigenerational, musical, poetical, theatrical, meditative, experiential.  We hope to encrich, enliven and expand perspectives and spirits.

    What to Expect on Sunday Mornings

    During the pandemic, we met exclusively on Zoom. Since we resumed meeting in-person, our services have been hybrid, with some of us in person and some on Zoom. Occasionally, due to weather or other events, we meet just on Zoom, but we try to let people know as soon as possible when that is going to happen.


    Sunday services typically include opening words, welcome & announcements, the chalice lighting, an opening song, "Words For All Ages," the singing of the children to their classes, the sharing of joys & concerns, the passing of the collection plate (accompanied by a hymn), the sermon or activity, an opportunity for congregational reflection, a closing song, and closing words.


    On two Sundays a month, children and youth stay in the sanctuary for the first twenty minutes of the service. "Words for All Ages," usually in the form of a story, often told by the Minister, concludes their time in the sanctuary, and they are then released to go to Sunday School. Once or twice a month, there will be a multi- generational service when the children and youth remain in the room and we all worship together.

     

    From time to time, we actually have an activity and even make things during a service. These services are a real opportunity to engage with the world around us in a tangible way, whether it is making meals for those experiencing food insecurity, connecting with the environment more directly. Such services also serve to forge interpersonal bonds between congregants. Below is a photograph of birds happily feasting on all-natural bird feeders made during our March 17, 2024 service, A Host of Sparrows. 


    Following the worship service is the Fellowship Hour, a social hour during which refreshments, including Fair Trade coffee and tea, are served. On the third Sunday of every month, we also host Third Sunday Lunch. Every other month, this lunch takes place at a local restaurant, while on the other Sundays it's pot-luck or something simple at the Fellowship. 

    Hospitality Hour

    Since 2002, we have been participating in the Interfaith Program of a very special fair trade coffee company called Equal Exchange. It is the only coffee we serve during  hospitality hour following the Sunday service.


    Equal Exchange is a for-profit Fairtrade worker-owned, cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Founded in 1986, it is the oldest and largest Fair Trade coffee company in the United States. Dedicated to concepts of economic justice, the highest paid employee of Equal Exchange may not make more than four times what the lowest paid employee receives.


    Essentially, Equal Exchange brings together the producer and the consumer in an equitable and meaningful way. The middleman (in the case of coffee, called Coyotes), and establishes a more direct connection between the producer and consumer.