Hudson Valley Cooperative Parish

Churches of the Hudson Valley Cooperative Parish

Town of Esopus UMC

Worship: Sundays 10:45am
In person, Zoom, Facebook Live
Pastor Gail Erdie, Rev George Hart
151 West Main Street, Port Ewen, NY 12466
(845) 338-0356
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First UMC of Highland

Worship: Sundays 10am
In person, Zoom
Pastor Gail Erdie, Rev George Hart
57 Vineyard Ave., Highland, NY 12528
(845) 691-2284
Facebook

Clinton Avenue UMC, Kingston

Worship: Sundays 11am
In person, Facebook Live
Rev Joy MacVane
122 Clinton Ave, Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 331-7188
Website
Facebook

Saint James UMC, Kingston

Worship: Sundays 10am
In person, Zoom, Facebook Live
Rev Timothy Riss
35 Pearl Street, Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 331-3030
Website
Facebook
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Lloyd UMC

Worship: Sundays 9am
In person, Zoom
Pastor Gail Erdie, Rev George Hart
476 New Paltz Road, Highland, NY 12528
845-255-8058
Facebook

Milton-Marlboro UMC

Worship: Sundays 10am
In person
Rev Robert Milsom
112 Church Street, Milton, NY 12547
(845) 795-2302
Facebook

Memorial UMC, Modena

Worship: Sundays 11:15am
In person
Rev Limina Grace Harmon
1928 US – 44, Modena, NY 12548
(845) 883-7142
Facebook

New Paltz UMC

Worship: Sundays 9:45am
In person, Zoom, Facebook Live
Rev Limina Grace Harmon
1 Grove Street, New Paltz, NY 12561
(845) 255-5210
Website
Facebook

Plutarch UMC

Worship: Sundays 7pm
In person
Rev George Hart
10 Black Creek Road, Highland, NY 12528
(845) 255-5334

Centerville UMC, Saugerties

Worship: Sundays 9am
In person
Rev Junghyun Yoon
Centerville Church Road, Saugerties, NY 12477
(845) 505-7874

Saugerties UMC

Worship: Sundays 10:30am
In person, Facebook Live
Rev Junghyun Yoon
67 Washington Ave. Saugerties, NY 12477
(845) 246-7802
Website
Facebook

Rondout UMC, Stone Ridge

Worship: Sundays 10am
In person, pre-recorded Facebook
Rev Caroline Berninger
25 Schoonmaker Lane, Stone Ridge, NY 12484
(845) 687-9090
Website
Facebook

Parish Events

Pastors of the Hudson Valley Cooperative Parish

Rev Limina Grace Harmon

Parish Coordinator
Serving:
New Paltz UMC
Memorial UMC, Modena

Pastor Gail Erdie

Serving:
Lloyd UMC
Town of Esopus UMC
First UMC of Highland

Rev Caroline Berninger

Serving:
Rondout Valley UMC,
Stone Ridge

Rev George A. Hart

Serving:
Plutarch UMC
First UMC of Highland

Rev Robert Milsom

Serving:
Milton-Marlboro UMC

Rev Timothy Riss

Serving:
Saint James UMC, Kingston

Rev Junghyun Yoon

Serving:
Saugerties UMC
Centerville UMC, Saugerties

Rev Joy MacVane

Serving:
Clinton Avenue UMC,
Kingston

What is a Cooperative Parish?

Local churches, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, may enhance their witness to one another and to the world by showing forth the love of Jesus Christ through forms of mutual cooperation.

Paragraph 206 of the 2016 Book of Discipline

A cooperative ministry is when groups of people representing two or more churches share their ministries to meet the needs of the community.

A cooperative parish is an ongoing structured way to employ cooperative ministries between churches within a defined region.

The cooperative parish will have a Parish Council with clergy and laity from each church in the cooperative parish to discuss, plan and make decisions regarding mission and
ministry through the cooperative parish. There are several forms of cooperative parishes. We are engaged in a Multiple Charge Parish where every church in the Cooperative Parish maintains their local church identity and participates in the Cooperative Parish Council for shared mission and ministry. In a Multiple Charge Parish, clergy are appointed to the Cooperative Parish and assigned to a local church(es) and their communities.

The Cooperative Parish provides the opportunity for all churches
to engage in ministry together that which they cannot do alone.

Many churches do not have the people or resources to organize a church missions event, confirmation retreat or regular outreach activities on their own. However, these mission and ministry opportunities are possible in a cooperative parish. Cooperative Parishes also offer the laity to have access to different and new ministry opportunities, experience the gifts and leadership of other clergy and laity across the parish, and use their gifts and calling in new contexts and settings across the parish. Through cooperative Parishes, the laity can be empowered and equipped to live into their unique ministries.


Cooperative Parishes are a Wesleyan model of our connection to expand our church’s ministry to the communities, using our churches and our parish ministries as the center of transformative possibility to all the people in the parish.