The 2012 Blood Drive is scheduled for Saturday, February 11, 2012.  Please sign up after the 9:30AM worship service.

If you're uncertain about donating, please consider doing it for someone who would like to donate but can't.

If you would like to donate at another time, click the "read more" link to open a new window with the New York Blood Services web site.  Answers to questions about blood donation are there, too.

If you need information about medical eligibility for blood donation, call 1-800-688-0900, and for general information, 1-800-933-2566.  Thank you for caring enough to share your blood with those whose life depends on it.

Thanks to all the volunteers, donors, and especially the blood drive organizers for giving us the opportunity to do good (with cookies and juice).

Please join us for our meeting of education, networking and outreach, starting at 8:30 AM, usually on the third Saturday of the month.  The next meeting will be probably be on January 21.

Topics for this monthly group will include resume writing, networking, interviewing, salary negotiations, personal finance, the emotional strain of unemployment, and more.

Meetings are open to the public, so please extend a personal invitation to anyone you know who would benefit from this ministry, networking and skill-building seminar.  
Spread the word and bring a friend.

Since its first meeting in March 2009 (to December 2009), nine participants have landed jobs and over 50 job seekers have benefitted from the tips, discussions and networking offered at our group meetings and through our LinkedIn.com website (there's a Facebook page, too). 

• Junior and Senior High Youth Groups: next meeting is on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6pm.  Permission slips for the 30-Hour Famine are available. but you may be too late!  Quick!  Email Kate! 
• 30 Hour Famine: begins 10AM January 28, we all gather at church at 5pm, end with a pot luck break-fast at 4pm Sunday January 29.
• Confirmation Class will next meet at the Annual Meeting (along with all members) after worship on Sunday, January 29, 2012, 10:45am ; please fill out and return forms for the March 2-3 retreat at Holmes

The Youth Groups (junior and senior high) have a Facebook group for keeping up to date.  Please request to join "Setauket Presbyterian Youth Groups". 

The Setauket Presbyterian Pre-School is accepting applications for its 3-year-old and 4-year-old classes, both mid-session and for the classes starting in September, 2012. 

If you'd like info on other pre-schools in the area, there was an article on the Three Village Patch web site.  http://threevillage.patch.com/articles/preschool-guide-picking-a-preschool-in-three-village

Our church gardeners plant whatever they wish and donate half of the harvest to Welcome INN.  In 2011, over 560 lbs of produce has been donated (as of 10/16/2011).

All gardeners are welcome to participate with donations from home gardens..

Plant a Row for the Hungry is a national public service program developed in 1995 by the Garden Writers Association.  Participants are asked to plant an extra row to their existing vegetable gardens and donate this surplus.

In 2009,  the Sunday School began our program with one row (14x20) and donated 30lb. 
In 2010, our community garden expanded to nine 9x12 plots and donated 501 lb.

Music is an important part of life.  It can be inspiring, moving, or uplifting.  Here at SPC, music is equally important in worship as a complement to scripture readings, sermons, and prayers.  Henry Giles says, "A song will outlive all sermons in the memory".

The Senior Choir and the Bell Choir invite you to experience the joy and camaraderie of "making music".  If you love to sing, then join the Senior Choir on Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in the Choir Room.  If you can keep a beat and can count, then you may want to try your hand in the Handbell Choir on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the Jr./Sr. High Room.  Both choirs are open to junior and senior high youth and adults alike.

We are not looking for expert musicians, although that would be great, and we are not looking for perfection.  As Johann Sebastian Bach once said, "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."

We hope you'll join us!

Looking to honor or remember a loved one or celebrate a special event?
Donationg the Sunday flowers is a great way to do it!
If you have a milestone you'd like to share with the congregation, call the church office or speak to one of the members of the Flower Committee.

What you can do by pledging:

• Express your gratitude to God.  
• Give glory to God
• Sustain our programs
• Offer a welcoming place
• Help those in need
• Pay our bills

If you have not yet made a pledge, or you need to revise your pledge, there are pledge cards and envelopes on the hall table.  You can place pledges in the offering, or deliver them to the office.

You can use the feedback form to request a pledge form, but please don't make a pledge over the web.

You may send a donation to the church postal address or by arrangement with the Financial Secretary.

Our church is collecting on a regular basis for the Ministries in Coram. 
Canned soups, vegetables, fruits and meats, rice, dried beans, pasta, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, jelly, cereal, lunch box juice packs, baby food, and formula.
Personal items needed include #4 disposable diapers, baby wipes, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, deodorant, baby and childrens' clothes.

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If you forget your password, use the forgot your password feature of the login page. 
If you forget your username, send a note. 

To get started updating the content of this site, click on the login button above.  Tutorial.

(Thanks to some recent feedback, some of this might actually work).

If you find one of the many mistakes on one of these pages, or there's something missing from the web site, please  click on the "read more..." link to submit a correction or addition.

Exploring Membership is a class for people interested in learning about membership in the Setauket Presbyterian Church.

Anyone interested in learning more about church membership is welcome to attend.  You do not need to commit to joining this congregation.  You do not necessarily have to be a new member!
Please call if you are interested in attending or if you have questions about the process.

The next class will probably held in the Spring of 2012.

Letter to the Editor: Use Language to Facilitate Peace and Hope in Today's World
The Three Village Clergy Association affirm the trend for more civil discourse in the public arena.
Click on the link below to read the Letter to the Editor in threevillagepatch.com:

Thanks to each person who takes on the small and big chores around the church, from closet cleanups to fixing the broken plumbing and electrical stuff.

If you are can help with any of the small jobs around the church, please call the House & Grounds Moderator or the church office or stop by during office hours.   Please let us know what you can do!

The House and Grounds committee takes care of the building, churchyard, parking lot, and manse.
Please continue to suggest opportunities and spot problems and let the church know when you fix things.  You can call, email, or use the general purpose web form reachable via the "read more" link below.

It's not often the gravestones get in the news, so take a look at the Village Times-Herald article published August 31, 2011.  The church website does not yet have the information mentioned in the article -- it's being installed on the church computers.

Some of you who took the Defensive Driving Course at this church years ago might be wondering when the next course will be.  Not here!

You can now take the course online.  The online course is just as boring, just as informative and not as much fun as socializing with other drivers and you still have to sit for 6 hours, but you can take it at your convenience and in your pajamas.  Well, some people did take the class at church in their pajamas.

We (the Senior High Youth Group) don't make any money from this, but you can always give us a bigger donation at one of our other fundraising events.  And we hope that this will help someone somewhere avoid a collision. 

You probably got a renewal notice in the mail with this information, but to go to a web site which gives you a discount and a link to the online course, click on the "read more" link below. 

Looking for our Fair Trade Fair?  Here are pointers to some alternative gift sources:

• Church World Service Best Gift Catalog
• Fair Trade Winds
• SERRV fair trade items 

Any others you might recommend?  Send it in using the generic web page.