Fishkill United Methodist Church

10/20/2026

*Posting on behalf of Mutual Aid Beacon*

⭐️ Wednesday, October 21 from 8:15AM - 9:30AM
⭐️ Located at Memorial Park on Robert Cahill Drive in Beacon, NY, 12508
⭐️ Enter the park near Ron’s Ice Cream and drive around until you are behind the school. You will be in a line of cars driving through the distribution.
⭐️ Mutual Aid Beacon runs a drive thru free food distribution on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month at Memorial Park in Beacon. First Wednesday is for seniors age 60+ (or with a senior in the household), third Wednesday is open to all.
⭐️Please note: This is NOT a Fareground event. We are helping to spread the word about Mutual Aid Beacon’s event.



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10/18/2026

Our Crop walk-ers 2026 Lynette Burneson, Beth Mostransky

Still time to donate: https://events.crophungerwalk.org/chw/team/fishkill-united-methodist-churh

10/18/2026

10/18/2026

Last weekend, Hurricane Isaias made landfall as a powerful Category 2 storm, leaving a trail of destruction across the Southeast.

Hundreds of thousands of people across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina have been impacted by this storm, experiencing home and property damage, extended power outages, and disruptions to key community infrastructure and daily life.

Before landfall, United Methodists in the Alabama-West Florida Conference prepared to provide immediate relief, and they are now quickly providing aid to those in need through the distribution of food, water, and UMCOR relief supplies, debris removal, roof tarping, and more. A solidarity grant from UMCOR is bolstering this work, ensuring relief is offered to as many people as possible.

As long-term needs across the region become clear, UMCOR will remain in close communication with United Methodist leaders in the affected annual conferences, ready to walk the road to recovery alongside those in need.

Looking for a way to help?
🛐 Join us in prayer, especially for those who lost loved ones, homes, and livelihoods.
👐 Give to support our U.S. relief and recovery efforts: https://bit.ly/umcorusdr.
🦺 Explore Early Response Team (ERT) volunteer opportunities with your United Methodist annual conference.
📲 Share this post to encourage others to pray and give.



Photo: Foley United Methodist Church in Foley, Alabama, collected UMCOR cleaning kits last week before Isaias struck, which will be distributed to those in need across the state!

10/18/2026

November 6, 2026 will be the bagged leaf pickup in the Village of Fishkill. Please place all bags by the curb. 🍁

10/18/2026

LAITY SUNDAY & the crop walk is today!
Cheer on Jane Rausch and Beth Mostransky and anyone else walking today to end hunger! ❤️🐾🦶🏾🦶🏽🦶🏼🦶🏿

10/17/2026

If you've lost someone this year please send us a picture and a couple of sentences about them or what they meant to you. Send to the volunteer that will be creating the presentation for November 1st.
Email : [email protected]

What is The United Methodist Church's view of Halloween?

In The UMC, the focus is really on All Saints Day, November 1. "Halloween" refers to the evening of Saints--the evening before All Saints Day. This celebration in the church accents our understanding of holiness in this life and our hope for resurrection in the age to come.

For United Methodists, this is not a time of fright and darkness, but is rather a chance to reflect on beautiful lives of faith we've witnessed. As such, many local churches offer safe alternatives to traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating. Others focus more on giving than receiving. Collecting for UNICEF or giving Fair Trade chocolate are ideas for using the occasion to "treat" or give to others.

Click the link in the comments to get a more detailed look at the history of Halloween and our United Methodist responses to it.