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Interfaith Advent Olive Oil Sale
Advent is fast approaching and your I-PEAce Team is again hosting a sale of Palestinian olive oil and related goods for the gift-giving season. The sale of these high-quality, fair trade,…
Read MoreChanging the Narrative on LGBTQ+ People and the Church
The More Light Committee is thrilled to announce that our new Pride banner has been hung on the bell tower, where it announces our welcome of LGBTQ+ people into the…
Read MoreNew Messenger Focus and Schedule
In our increasingly digitized world, it can be tough to keep pace with all the ways we communicate! Third Church currently uses: the spoken word on Sunday mornings, printed materials,…
Read MoreHabitat@Third Is Building Josana’s 100th House!
Natasha G. is buying Rochester’s most recent Habitat for Humanity House on Jay Street. She works in manufacturing, and presently lives with her son and daughter in a two-bedroom apartment.…
Read MoreThird Church Choral Scholars 2021-22
Our wonderful Choral Scholars have provided an invaluable contribution to our worship life over many years, but particularly during the past eighteen months of the pandemic, when choral and congregational…
Read MoreA Year of Grace
At the September Session meeting, I will recommend a staff-generated proposal that we adopt “Year of Grace” as our 2021 – 2022 program year theme. “Grace” is one of those…
Read MoreFrom the Anti-Racism Team
A week of Gratitude: Gratitude to Rev. William Wlikinson for reminding us that in 1999 the PC(USA), in its Facing Racism Paper called for each member to be trained in…
Read MoreWant an Easy Way to Help A Family in Need?
Family Promise (formerly RAIHN) is seeking donations of the following tools, to assist a father in the program who is about to begin a new job requiring them. If you…
Read MorePeople’s Emergency Fund Update and Outcomes
Third Church developed a Memorandum of Agreement with Family Promise of Greater Rochester (formerly RAIHN) to administer our People’s Emergency Fund (PEF) in early 2021. PEF now funds a significant…
Read MoreGet to Know our New Pastor, Tedd Pullano!
We are thrilled to welcome the Rev. Tedd Pullano as our new Associate Pastor for Congregational Care and Outreach! Tedd has been a pastor for 15 years, serving at Holley…
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