Recent News
Z-Notes 3/11/21
Greetings, Third Church Friends! You’ve heard a lot about Lent of Liberation and our efforts to work our way through the study during this Lenten season. I will admit to…
Anti-Racism Team: Listen, Learn, then Act
Listen: This Sunday, March 14, our 9:30 Sunday Seminar video and discussion with Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist. Join by Google Meet or by phone…
Z-Notes 3/4/21
Greetings, Third Church Friends! March roared in like a lion. In spite of the windy coldness, we allow optimistic thoughts to wonder across our minds—like we are approaching the end…
Anti-Racism Update 3/4/21
Read Acts 10:9-23 and consider how the idea of abundance is used 9-16 and in 17-23. Where do you see evidence of abundance at Third Church? Listen to Greater Rochester…
Anti-Racism Team Update 2/25/21
Opportunities to Listen and Learn this week: Did you know that Memorial AME Zion Church on Clarissa Street was founded the same year as our church? Read the words of…
Z-Notes 2/25/21
Greetings, Third Church Friends! I have very happy, un-Lent-like news to share today: I have finished my orientation sessions with the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC). They have selected their leaders…
Pastoral Transition Update, March 2021
Conley Zomermaand, Interim Pastor/Head of Staff It may seem like a rather small advance from Step 5 to Step 6, but it is really a huge leap for Third Church…
Anti-Racism Team Update
Facts: In 2017, 25,000 children in Rochester lived in poverty. 25,000 children would completely fill Frontier Field twice. Rochester’s children’s poverty rate hovers around 50%; the national poverty rate is…
Z-Notes 2/18/2021
Greetings, Third Church Friends! We have now officially entered the season of Lent. Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday this year looked and felt nothing like normal; but Lent has arrived…
From the Anti-Racism Team: RocACTS Welcomes Third Church
In September, Third Presbyterian Church joined a multi-racial collaboration of 21 communities of faith working toward justice: Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society, or RocACTS. Led by board president Dr.Gayle…