What do you do for your living?
Are you forgiving, giving shelter?
Follow your heart, love will find you
Truth will unbind you
Seek out a song of the soul.
-Song of the Soul
This Saturday, June 4, 11 am, is Bruce Platt's Memorial Service. All are welcome. Our much-loved friend, and husband to our much-loved Linda Jo, served on South's Session and as a deacon, as treasurer, and for decades as the South Church attic sale second-in-command, and picnic master of games. He passed away from COVID-19 complications in April 2020. MORE.
Join Us - All Welcome
This Sunday's schedule
CHOIR REHEARSAL: 8:30 am in the Sanctuary
CHURCH: 10 am in the Sanctuary. The service will include Margery Rossi's commissioning as Minister of South Church.
COFFEE HOUR: Following church in Fellowship Hall. Sign up to host here.
Sunday worship is also streamed on South Church's Facebook page at 10 am. Services are archived in the video section of our Facebook page.

Masks are optional inside South's spaces, except in Sanctuary, where masks are required.  
Giving & Receiving
Your support sustains our worship and service opportunities, music and arts programs, and more.
Upcoming dates to note
  • Sunday, June 12, 10 am: Pride Service with Mother Grace Wilgefortis Ferris, one of less than a dozen transgender Catholic priests worldwide
  • Sunday, June 12, 11 am: a brief Congregational Meeting/Election of new deacons and session members immediately after church
  • Sunday, June 19: Father's Day service
  • Sunday, June 19, 11:30 am: South Church Picnic on the back lawn. Fun, food and an opportunity to visit the new Manse Garden and Kitchen Garden.
FIND THE FULL CALENDAR HERE
Faith, Justice & the Arts
Wear Orange Bridge Lighting, Friday, June 3
Again and again and again. Are you sick of the gun violence that happens EVERY single day? 

Join Moms Demand Action and bring attention to gun violence by gathering at Nyack Memorial Park and watching the TZ/Mario Cuomo Bridge light up orange in commemoration of Wear Orange weekend. We will be hearing from survivors and coming together in memory of all of the victims of gun violence.

Bring a picnic dinner, chairs, a blanket, etc. and wear orange!

Wear Orange Bridge Lighting
Friday, June 3rd, 7pm
Nyack Memorial Park
4 Depew Avenue, Nyack

Shari Maurer and Katherine Schowalter
Local Group Leads
Moms Demand Action Rockland and Westchester
The Donald Gallery
"The Light Is Everything," a mosaic exhibition by Kristin Kelly Javier, is at the Donald Gallery . The Dobbs Ferry artist creates dimensional visions in glass, stone, precious materials, found treasures. Through June 19. MORE
Roots & Wings
A group of Days of Wonder students took a tour of the compost bins behind South Church recently. The visit was a step towards Roots & Wings' goal of encouraging all groups that use South Church's campus to compost their food scraps, rather than add them to the waste stream. MORE
Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry
Do you ever get those free samples of infant formula in the mail and don’t know what to do with them? Please drop them off in the Pantry's donations bin outside of the church office ❤️
Tech internship at South
South Church has an immediate need for a teen intern to assist in the Sunday morning streaming of its church service on Facebook Live, plus YouTube, Facebook and other responsibilities. Training begins mid-June. Payment / $30 per week. Send email indicating interest to Office@Southpres.org
NOTE: Benny Hernandez, the wonderful teen who has been handling tech for South's Sunday services, will be heading to college! Thank you for everything, Benny!
Benediction
Go forth with the compassion of Jesus, the companionship of the Holy Spirit and the creative love and justice of God.
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