Here are some of the activities and causes we support.
- Trumansburg Food Pantry. FPCU shares in the bi-weekly staffing to help feed those who need it in our community.
- CROP Hunger Walk: This nationwide effort to feed the hungry is well supported each year, raising nearly $10,000 in its 32nd year.
- A new task force led by our interim minister is planning to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, involving community stakeholders such as youth and local officials.
- We support local youth in need through the Trumansburg and South Seneca School Nurses’ Discretionary Funds.
- Ulysses Presbyterian Women hold rummage sales that provide clothing and household goods to the public at very low prices.
- Mission Knitters have made and given hundreds of knitted prayer shawls to those in our prayers or celebrating a special event.
- Donations and support are given to the Christmas Bureau, Hospicare, the public library, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, the Heifer Project, Church World Service, and the Presbyterian Camp Whitman on Seneca Lake.
- We have responded in times of crises to natural disasters.
- Church members led four groups of high school students to help at the Casa Shalom orphanage in Guatemala.
- We helped build three houses with Habitat for Humanity.
- Our church is active with the Trumansburg Area Churches to sponsor summer church services, Easter sunrise service, and an annual Christmas concert.
