Our annual Congregational meeting will be after service on 4/14/24. Please stay to hear what was accomplished last year and what we are planning for this year.

After service on Jan 28,2024 we will be having a planning meeting. We will be looking at the coming year and trying to plan events as fundraisers as well as events that will aid us in reaching into our community. All are welcome and all ideas are welcome. 

To our church family, there will be a church work/clean-up day Saturday Sept 16 at our church from 9am to 12 noon. There are several projects and the more hands the less work. These times together are always filled with friendship and laughter.  Please join us for a few hours and then enjoy the rest of your day.



Please join us Saturday Dec 24 at 4pm for song and worship as we celebrate the birth of our savior. All are welcome.

12/11/22    Please stay safe, due to weather please be careful while driving, we will be having service today but your safety is our priority so use best judgement as to joining us or staying home. God bless.

Thank you to everyone who came to our church work day. A lot was accomplished and friendships were strengthened. God bless you for your time and work.

Please remember to move your clocks ahead on hour this Saturday night. See you at Sunday service, 11am.



NYS Gov Hochul has mandated that masks be worn at all indoor public places from Dec 13,2021 to at least Jan 15, 2022, this includes churches.

The 1st Congregational Church will honor this government mandate. All of our members and guest's health is a prime concern.

We continue to worship God and look to him for guidance as covid still is a concern.

We hope to see you at services as we praise and honor our Lord.

Services are each Sunday morning at 11 am and our Christmas celebration will be on Friday Dec 24 at 7 pm.

We will monitor government announcements and keep you posted on any changes. We pray that church services will not be halted by our government as they were last year.

Pastor Jim

I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. This is a time to thank God for the blessings he puts in our lives, for our family and friends and for our church and fellowship. We have all experienced loss in our lives and at this time even though I miss those family and friends that have left this life, I thank our Heavenly Father for the blessing they have been to me and the things they taught me while we were together.

I pray that the peace, love and joy of our Lord and savior is yours.

Pastor Jim

Please join us Sunday Nov 14 as we welcome Jim Atlee as our new organist. We look forward to hearing our organ  sing again and to being blessed by Jim's presence.

I want to personally thank all those who donated their time to work on our church projects during our church family work days. Your time and efforts are a blessing to us all, may you also be blessed by your willingness to give your time and work.

Pastor Jim

Blessed church family and friends,

Starting on Sunday November 7th, 2021 we will be moving our service time to 11am.

This was passed at the recent congregational meeting and is to accommodate our new organist

who will be starting shortly after this change takes place.

May the peace, love and grace of our Lord be with you always,

Pastor Jim

Dear family and friends,

               Our church is continuing to move forward. We have started our fellowship hour with coffee and refreshments on the first Sunday of the month. We have begun our Sunday school classes so our children will know Christ, see God and rely on the Holy Spirit. We are holding a confirmation class so our teens can mature in their faith and become full members in our church and fellowship.

               We are now moving toward the fall and winter seasons. This means the return of flu season, and COVID is still among us.

               We are committed to worshiping together as God directs us to. Through shared fellowship we lift each other up and develop a deeper faith through shared time together.

               We are also committed to keeping each other safe and healthy. To this end we will continue to abide by health department suggestions and directives. Where we desire to see each of you every week we respectfully ask that you monitor your own health and refrain from attending service if you have a fever. For your protection hand sanitizer and masks will continue to be provided for your use if you need them.

               Your walk with God and your life with Christ are my utmost concern. Along with this please know your health is also a deep concern of mine. Please understand none of this is to make anyone uncomfortable or to keep you away. It is a sincere desire to keep us all healthy so we can continue as one family in Christ and one church for God.

I pray the love, peace and blessing of our Almighty God be upon you always,

Pastor Jim 

I want to express my gratitude to everyone who attended and especially to those who worked on and participated in my ordination ceremony. You all have blessed me beyond words.

May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus be with you always,

Pastor Jim

Hello Everyone-

 I hope this brief note finds you healthy and strong and enjoying summer. I'm writing to inform you and keep you up to date with events at First Congregation Church.

If you haven't attended our 10:30am worship in the past 10 months, then you haven't met our wonderful new Pastor and his wife. James (Jim) and Jennifer Macarille joined us in November 2020. At our first meeting we felt very hopeful, gave Jim our informational pamphlets to read and scheduled a next meeting.  It was at the second meeting Jim told us that after reading our pamphlets and praying, he and his wife believe as we believe and want to worship as we worship and wanted to become part of our church family.

Since becoming our Minister, Jim and Jennifer have moved strongly, solidly and quickly to become firmly rooted in the Congregational beliefs and worship as well as being beloved new members of our church family and they in turn, truly love us. At the outset Jim expressed a strong interest in becoming an Ordained Congregational Minister. He has fulfilled all the requirements to be our Ordained Congregational Minister set down from the NACCC.

It is with gratitude to God and Jim and with pleasure and happiness that the Board of Deacons announce that Rev. James Macarille will officially become our Ordained Congregational Minister on Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 10:30am.  The ceremony of Ordination will take place during our worship service. The Board of Deacons stands with Jim and again gratefully and warmly welcomes Jim and Jennifer to our loving church family. We hope you will make a point to attend this very special church service and also welcome Jim and Jennifer. There will be a time to gather socially following worship to meet and speak with Jim and Jennifer.

Sunday School will officially reopen on September 19, 2021 at 9:30 am with worship and praise at 10:30am.  We are happy to announce that Family Worship will reopen at 9:30am. We will begin with Family Worship in the Christian Education Room and then break into age appropriate classes. All families and friends are welcome and encouraged to come for Family Worship and stay for worship and praise and prayer at 10:30am. 

COVID / Masks / Clean Hands / Social Distancing... for now it is your personal choice, to wear a mask or not to wear a mask. Everyone is shown respect and kindness of what you decide is best for you and your family. We strongly urge 3-6 feet Social Distancing and hand washing. 

If you want to discuss this or have any questions at all, please contact me by email or phone (845) 532-2301. I hope you will plan to join us every Sunday for worship (especially Sunday, September 12, 2021.)

Please share this email with family and friends as we work together to rebuild and reopen. 

With love for each of you and warmest regards - 

Heidi Turk 

While we are grateful the worst of the recent hurricane has passed by us we are praying for our neighbors in Mass, Conn and RI as they deal with the aftermath of much more severe weather. We also pray for those in Tenn as they recover from devastating flooding. Lord God, please let all these see your strength as their strength, give them peace and future, comfort and care as they work to recover, bless the loved ones of those lost in these events. We ask that you save the lost, send your Holy Spirit to open them to the truth of Christ especially during these times. Amen.



Friends and family,

Due to the prediction of severe weather from hurricane Henri we will be canceling services for Sunday Aug 22,2021. Your safety is our concern. We are praying for your safety, comfort and protection. God bless.

We are planning to start our Sunday school on Sept 19, 2021 at 930a. Please stay and worship with us after class at our 1030a service.

Our Bible class is now on hiatus for the summer. If there is interest, we will begin again in September.

God bless you, enjoy your summer.



There is a Deacon's meeting Wed June 9th, Bible class will resume on Wed June 16 at 7, we will continue our study of Sampson.



There will be no Bible class on Wed May 12 and Wed May 19, please join us again Wed May 26 at 7p as we start to look at Sampson.



Hello and God bless,

We are approaching the anniversary of our Lord Christ Jesus crucifixion and resurrection. These events are the basis of our faith. By our belief and trust in these events God the Father gives to us his grace and mercy. We are redeemed, glorified and the inheritors of heaven.

               We extend our personal invitation to you to join us for a service this Thursday evening at 7pm, it will be a modified version of our regular service. This is the night of the Last Supper. Jesus gave this celebration as a way to remember him and his sacrifice yet so much more happened that night, each event with its own meaning in our lives. Join us as we look at that night and its role in Jesus Passion.

               We also want to invite you to celebrate the power of God in Jesus resurrection on Easter Sunday. Service will return to our normal celebration and regular time of 10:30am.

               The events of that Sunday morning 2000 years ago have a profound effect on our life here and on our position for eternity. Jesus is the first to be raised and we as believers will follow, “For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” (1 Co 15:52).

               Please join us on Thursday and Sunday, we believe we all will gain some new insight to the events that transpired all for our benefit. We believe we will all be uplifted. We believe we will all feel the love of God the Father. We believe we will all feel closer to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

               Paul’s prayer in 2 Thessalonians is our prayer to you, “Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.” (2 The 3:16)

Pastor Jim & 1 Congregational Church leadership team and church council

***Remember to change your clocks this weekend: Saturday March 13, 2021, Spring ahead.***

Feb 7, 2021    We will be having services today. Due to possibility of some snow please use your best judgement, your safety is important to us.

God bless.