Events at RVUMC

Here are some of the things beyond worship that we do at RVUMC. Some are fund-raisers; all are FUN and open to all in the community. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from doing all of them in 2020; we resumed some, with COVID constraints, in 2021. Stay tuned as we adjust to changing conditions and do even more in 2023!

  • SECOND SUNDAY SUPPERS

    On the second Sunday of each month, at 2:00 PM, RVUMC  serves dinner free to anyone who wants to come. Next one is April 14th.


    Though we have in the past taken summers "off", in 2023 we had our July and August SSSs--at Marbletown Park, picnic-style!  Members of the church offer a potluck meal. Dining is family-style. Somehow, it all works out.

  • Souper bowl chili sale

    On "Super Bowl" Sunday RVUMC has sold "to go" chili donated by our own cooks and local restaurants. There's  something for everyone--mild, medium, hot; meatless, vegan.

    All proceeds go to youth missions, locally, regionally, and internationally. For 2024 this was on Sunday Feb. 11 (AFTER the 2 pm supper!)

  • cookie sales

    Several times a year, our gifted bakers express their creativity by bringing their favorite treats to RVUMC for our internationally beloved cookies-by-the-pound sales. 


    Our pre-Christmas 2023 sale featured "Cookies and Beyond", and was  Saturday, December 16th, from 10 to 2. Cookies were $12 a pound and there were also other festive items including fresh-cut holly branches, hand-finished wood items, idiosyncratic ornaments, and a variety of wreathes. We still have some District cookbooks, and a selection of fair trade items from Equal Exchange (teas, coffees, chocolate, spices; olive oil has sold out).


    For Christmas 2022, we returned to our "you point, we pack" selections by-the-pound. Sale was planned for ONE DAY ONLY: Friday Dec. 16  3-7...though we also opened Saturday from 9-11, as Friday's weather was repulsive.


    We did not have a pre-Easter sale in 2023; we directed our energies to the cantata the day before Easter, and baked for the Garden Tea & Plant Sale in early May.


  • cantatas

    2024's Easter cantata, NO STONE COULD HOLD HIM,  will be presented Saturday, March 30 (the day before Easter) It was also presented at the Reformed Church of the Comforter in Kingston Sunday afternoon the 24th.


    At Easter and Christmas, the choir and community members have shared great joy in presenting a cantata. Since indoor choirs are known to create "super-spreader" conditions for the pandemic COVID-19 virus, we pressed the metaphorical Pause button in '20 & '21. We resumed, with "Lead Me Back to Bethlehem", including instrumentalists, in 2022.  We hope you were there!  Easter 2023's was "Come, Touch the Robe" on Saturday April 8, the day before Easter.

    Christmas 2023--"Night of the Father's Love"--was presented Saturday December 23rd, Saturday, at 2 pm. Thank you to everyone who attended, or participated in any way!



  • CAR SHOW

    Due to the rainy weather forecast on June 16 and 17, our 2023 Show was postponed to Saturday, September 2, 9 to 3. It was terrific--so good we're considering having it that weekend in the future on purpose! A gigantic THANK YOU to everyone who helped, worked, organized, sponsored, donated, entered, or attended There were 46 vehicles ranging from the 1920s to a 2023 all-electric Nissan. There wasn’t a “one piece at a time” ’49-’73 Cadillac as in the Johnny Cash song, but there WAS a ’41-’66 “Studestang.”

       Call Tom Fiore, (845) 687-9061 if you have questions for future shows!




  • garden tea & plant sale

    Rain or shine, on a Saturday in early May, this event has featured hot tea, freshly baked scones, a variety of tea cookies and sandwiches, houseplants, annuals and perennials for sale and a children's craft table. Thank you to everyone who helped, contributed, and came out to make 2023's May 6th a delightful event for all. Even though it's a "Rain OR Shine" event, it's a lot nicer when the day is Shine-y. The weather was perfect this year.

  • sauerbraten dinner

    This is some serious cooking. Do not try this at home! RVUMC has gotten "rave reviews" whenever we've had this dinner, in October or early November...when there's not a pandemic. In 2021, we eased back into this event with a limited number of pre-reserved, take-out only dinners. We were SOLD OUT.  In 2022 we did the same.

    2023:  Saturday, November 4, 4:30-7 Dine In OR Take Out

    Full details here; once again, we sold out!

  • vacation bible school (vbs)

    RVUMC joins with several other local congregations most summers for a week of intense immersion in Biblical stories and characters. Music, food, games, and crafts of all sorts make for a week children find "awesome" and adults find "exhilirausting."