Piggy Bank Bazaar Historical Moment

(From the Feb. 2008 Newsletter - Thanks Kermit!) "Before I hop off looking for someplace warm, Mrs. Ray (my nice human friend who actually has newspaper clippings about Piggy Bank Bazaar from 30 years ago!!) has suggested that we share some historical facts about the Bazaar, in keeping with the church’s anniversary celebration. In 1977, we invited young humans to the Bazaar, featuring gifts priced no higher than $1.50. By 1982, the maximum price was $2.00, and this will be the 19th year that gifts will be sold for up to $3.00."

January 27, 2008 Historic Moment

Did you know....The name New Hackensack is derived from Hackensack, New Jersey from which many of our earliest settlers came. Among the first were the VanBunschotens, the Snadikers and the Vanderbilts. The original hamlet of New Hacksack contained a school located next to the church and one store which included the post office and was owned by F.E. Hopson. There was also a grist mill, a saw mill, a hotel, a blacksmith shop and a wagon shop.

January 27, 2008 Remembrance

The hymn board, 1950. Expectant eyes will turn to this remembrance, and sacred hymns will verify its bidding. Gracious in form, commanding silently, it sends our worship on the wings of song to the gates of paradise! So let all gifts of living memory outreach the boundaries of space and time. Donor: Miss Florence Delaplaine Rikert in devoted remembrance of her mother, Mrs. Georgia Case Rikert (1860 - 1946), widow of Professor Emory Rikert. (This Remembrance Book is displayed in the case under the clock in the Gathering Area.)

January 20, 2008 Historic Moment

Did you know....The land occupied by the original New Hackensack Reformed Church (on our current Route 376 adjacent to the cemetery) was a small part of the great tract of land sold by the Wappingers Indians in 1683 under what became known as the Rombout Patent. It included 85,000 acres that were subdivided and changed hands several times during the remainder of the 1700's and the first half of the 1800's.

January 20, 2008 Remembrance

Chapel Chimes - 1950....Our Sunday worshipers are summoned by the silvery sweetness of the chapel chimes. It mingles with the voices of the children on their way to Sunday School. The passerby becomes less casual, as the olden hymns revive long-buried thoughts. And memory uplifts his soul to the God he has half forgotten. Like lilting prayers the chapel chimes ring on, answered at last with measured certainty by the deep tones of the consecrated bell high in the tower of the house of God. Donors of the Chapel Chimes: The Youth Fellowsip, The Sunday School, Carles S. Cooper and Mrs. W. D. Bailey. (This Remembrance Book is displayed in the case under the clock in the Gathering Area.)

January 13, 2008 Historic Moment

Did you know....On March 27, 1808 (more than a half century before Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation), that our church married two slaves, named simply "Judith, a slave of Peter Waldron, and William, a slave of Cornelius R. VanWyck."

January 13, 2008 Remembrance

Two walnut offering plates were presented to the church in the fall of 1937 by Mrs. Edgar Jones in memory of her husband, Edgar M. Jones, who died on June 26, 1934. (This Remembrance Book is displayed in the case under the clock in the Gathering Area..)

January 6, 2008 Historic Moment

Our church was founded in 1758 and it is likely that a large part of the service was in Dutch, but as time progressed, more and more people spoke only English. Because of this, in 1796, the church's leaders determined that "the Reverend Van Vranken was to preach 1/5 in Dutch and 4/5 in English."

January 6, 2008 Remembrance

Within this book we write of those whose tangible remembrances enhance the beauty and gird the strength of this beloved church. While the volume opens at mid-century, we hope our scribe will be empowered to reserve it in a section for the listing of the past remembrances both great and small. Donors: E. D. Clifton, Mrs Oakley Myers, Mabel Myers and an anonymous friend. (This Remembrance Book is displayed in the case under the clock in the Gathering Area..)