FPCP Capital Campaign: What's Cooking in Our Kitchen?
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Capital Campaign: Our Achievements To Date
FPCP successfully completed the first two phases of our Capital Campaign, raising all of the funds required to make critical repairs to the historic building that serves our hard-working, community-serving, mission-oriented congregation! We achieved our Phase 1 goals that helped preserve the integrity of the building. Phase 2 accomplished some much-needed updating including interior and exterior painting, a new roof, new windows and a general "facelift" for classrooms that are home to our Sunday School and the Community Nursery, as well as for the meetings and activities of many other community groups. In early 2018, FPCP community members voted on the most important project on our "to-do" list. In April 2018, our Cap Campaign Committee announced that a major rehab for our kitchen was the winner by far, mostly because of its importance to our community. That's why Phase III of our Capital Campaign is called: What's Cooking In Our Kitchen? A Critical Project with Community Impact
Our church kitchen is really a COMMUNITY KITCHEN. It is used nearly every day of the week, year-round, to support food preparation activities for important mission and outreach programs including: the Philipstown Food Pantry; the Community Nursery School; PAPA (Peekskill Area Pastors' Association) soup-kitchen meals; and our Midnight Run mission to the hungry and homeless. Our kitchen is also used regularly by local community groups including Girl Scout troops, support groups, artists, and community activists. As a congregation, we use our kitchen every week for coffee hours after the Sunday service; for potlucks and other festive meals; and for celebrations of weddings, baptisms, memorial services, concerts, and so many other beautiful milestones in the life of friends and neighbors in our congregation and community. The Work to be Done Our Cap Campaign Committee hired an experienced architect who provided cost estimates for three different improvement plans, at increasing levels of investment: $39,000, $50,000, and $85,000. The committee chose the plan with the $50,000 price tag. This plan includes the following improvements to our community kitchen:
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Going Forward: You Can Help!
We plan to start our kitchen renovation in June 2019, which is really just a few short months away. That's why we have launched our "What's Cooking in the FPCP Kitchen" fund-raising campaign to support essential improvements to our COMMUNITY kitchen! Here's how you can help:
1) We welcome ALL donations! No gift is too small! Making a gift to the Kitchen Capital Campaign is easy:
* To donate online by credit card or PayPal: Just click on the gold "Donate" button at the top of this page!
* To donate by check: Kindly make your check payable to "First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown." Note in the memo line: "Kitchen Campaign." Mail your check to: FPCP Kitchen Campaign, 10 Academy Street, Cold Spring, NY 10516.
* To make a cash donation: You can put your cash gift in an envelope marked "Kitchen Campaign" and drop it in the collection plate at any of our 10:30 am Sunday worship services. Or: We'll be glad to make a convenient cash donation arrangement! Just contact the church office at (845) 265-3220 or 1presbyterian@gmail.com.
2) Help us get the word out about our "What's Cooking in the FPCP Kitchen" Campaign!
* Tell your friends and neighbors how they can help! Many will be glad to contribute to a project that serves so many charitable and community organizations, like the Food Pantry and local Girl Scout troops.
* Follow us on Facebook! You will get updates on "What's Cooking" campaign events in your Facebook feed. Next year, we'll post progress on kitchen renovations! It's easy: Just click here to "like" our Facebook page.
* Share info about this campaign on Facebook or Twitter! Please tell your social media contacts about the good work done in our community kitchen, and include this link to this web page, so your friends and followers can learn more, and consider making a gift: https://www.presbychurchcoldspring.org/capital-campaign.html.
3) Buy a Candle for Our Birthday Cake! In November and December 2018, our historic congregation celebrates its 190th Anniversary. In honor of the occasion, we are hosting a "Buy a Candle for Our Birthday Cake" campaign to celebrate this milestone birthday, and to benefit our kitchen campaign. Each candle on our cake will bear the name of the generous donor who supports the good works done in our community kitchen! Starting on Nov. 1, you can buy a candle by contacting the church office at (845) 265-3220 or 1presbyterian@gmail.com!
Thank you for supporting improvements to FPCP's COMMUNITY KITCHEN!
We plan to start our kitchen renovation in June 2019, which is really just a few short months away. That's why we have launched our "What's Cooking in the FPCP Kitchen" fund-raising campaign to support essential improvements to our COMMUNITY kitchen! Here's how you can help:
1) We welcome ALL donations! No gift is too small! Making a gift to the Kitchen Capital Campaign is easy:
* To donate online by credit card or PayPal: Just click on the gold "Donate" button at the top of this page!
* To donate by check: Kindly make your check payable to "First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown." Note in the memo line: "Kitchen Campaign." Mail your check to: FPCP Kitchen Campaign, 10 Academy Street, Cold Spring, NY 10516.
* To make a cash donation: You can put your cash gift in an envelope marked "Kitchen Campaign" and drop it in the collection plate at any of our 10:30 am Sunday worship services. Or: We'll be glad to make a convenient cash donation arrangement! Just contact the church office at (845) 265-3220 or 1presbyterian@gmail.com.
2) Help us get the word out about our "What's Cooking in the FPCP Kitchen" Campaign!
* Tell your friends and neighbors how they can help! Many will be glad to contribute to a project that serves so many charitable and community organizations, like the Food Pantry and local Girl Scout troops.
* Follow us on Facebook! You will get updates on "What's Cooking" campaign events in your Facebook feed. Next year, we'll post progress on kitchen renovations! It's easy: Just click here to "like" our Facebook page.
* Share info about this campaign on Facebook or Twitter! Please tell your social media contacts about the good work done in our community kitchen, and include this link to this web page, so your friends and followers can learn more, and consider making a gift: https://www.presbychurchcoldspring.org/capital-campaign.html.
3) Buy a Candle for Our Birthday Cake! In November and December 2018, our historic congregation celebrates its 190th Anniversary. In honor of the occasion, we are hosting a "Buy a Candle for Our Birthday Cake" campaign to celebrate this milestone birthday, and to benefit our kitchen campaign. Each candle on our cake will bear the name of the generous donor who supports the good works done in our community kitchen! Starting on Nov. 1, you can buy a candle by contacting the church office at (845) 265-3220 or 1presbyterian@gmail.com!
Thank you for supporting improvements to FPCP's COMMUNITY KITCHEN!
