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 2024.

  • 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 July 14th.


  • 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. 

  • cantatas

    2024's Easter cantata, NO STONE COULD HOLD HIM,  was presented Saturday, March 30 (the day before Easter) It was also offered 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.”

    The 2024 Show is planned for Saturday, August 31 (Labor Day Weekend).

       Call Tom Fiore, (845) 687-9061 if you would like to be an exhibitor or a supporter!


  • medical debt campaign

    Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt) is a national non-profit organization that works with hospital and health systems, insurance companies, and state and local governments to buy up personal medical debt on the secondary market, just the way debt collection agencies do, and then forgive it.  About 1 in every 5 Americans lives under the weight of outstanding medical bills--some owing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but most between $500 and $5,000.  For people struggling to survive, a thousand dollars might as well be a million.    Every dollar given to Undue Medical Debt can erase up to $100 of someone's burden.  Since it started in 2016, the organization has relieved more than $11.8 billion (that's right!) and helped over 7.45 million Americans.


    RVUMC and the other churches of The Hudson Valley Co-operative Parish have committed to raising money for Undue Medical Debt over this summer.  Each congregation chooses its own way of raising money;  We chose a silent art auction. 

    Our Silent Art Auction will take place on Saturday, August 24, 2024. The Art will be of Lana Gurney and other local artists.  Lana was part of RVUMC's community and after her death last year, her estate gave us many of her paintings.  You can get an advance look at the auction items here or whenever our sanctuary is open.  Here is the flyer all about the silent auction.


    To learn more about Undue Medical Debt, visit their website:

    https://unduemedicaldebt.org/

    To visit the RVUMC campaign page directly, click here:

    https://ripmedicaldebt.org/campaign/rvmethodist-49586/

    See you on August 24!  More details to follow.




  • garden tea & plant sale

    For 2024's May 11 Plant Sale, RVUMC had houseplants, annuals and perennials for sale and cookies and tea "to go", from 10 to 2. THANK YOU to everyone who pitched in!

    Thank you to everyone who helped, contributed, and came out to make 2023's 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 last year; we hope for a repeat!

  • 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."