Flatbush Reformed Church Saugerties NY

07/07/2024

07/05/2024

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05/12/2024

Happy Mother’s Day from the children of Flatbush Reformed Church!

12/10/2023

Communion on the Second Sunday of Advent

Psalm 72:18
GNT
18 Praise the Lord, the God of Israel!
He alone does these wonderful things

12/03/2023

First Sunday of Advent

Galatians 4:4-7
Good News Translation

4 But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law, 5 to redeem those who were under the Law, so that we might become God's children. 6 To show that you are his children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who cries out, “Father, my Father.” 7 So then, you are no longer a slave but a child. And since you are his child, God will give you all that he has for his children.

11/26/2023

ATTENTION Winter luncheon
Saturday December 9th at 12:30pm. $15 a plate. Reservations required!
Pasta Carbonara, Lemon pepper chicken over spinach. Salad, holiday breads, jello molds and lots of other dessert.
There will be a bake sale and craft sale as well. Reservations are needed by next Monday the 4th— 845-217-9448

11/24/2023

Ministry
The first pastor, and one of its founders, was Rev. Peter Overbaugh. He served our church and Woodstock Reformed Church consecutively for many years. He was pastor of our congregation for 37 years, the longest pastorate in our history, and 25 pastors have served since then. In 2009 we hired our first female pastor, Rev. Jennifer Bendelius.

During our history, five of our members have gone on to serve our Lord in the ministry, the Revs. John A. Davis, Richard p. Milliken, Titus E. Davis, Walter Griffen, and Louis Hieber.
In the 1830’s, the pastor and congregation assisted in the formation of the Plattekill Reformed Church in Mount Marion, a church where Rev. Overbaugh also served as pastor for a time.

The pastor of our church for many years served a chapel built for the employees of the Ulster White Lead Company in Glenerie, and Immanuel Chapel, now St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, in Glasco.

While the stone house adjacent to our property once belonged to us, it served for a few years as the Tri-Parish Retreat, a place where people from inner-city New Jersey could bring a group to experience a weekend of fresh air and country living. The house is now residential.

In 1842, the women of the church organized “The Female Benevolent Association” to look after the interests of the church and to help the poor. The group has undergone many transitions over the years, including Ladies Aid and Missionary Societies, and is the great-grandmother of our present RCWM, or Women’s Guild which is still very active.