Cambridge United Community Center

Right here in Cambridge we have a bed building event planned on Saturday morning September 19 to make 20 beds!! Meet us in the Cambridge United Presbyterian Church parking lot at 9 am!! We'll be done by 1 pm! See you there!

In cooperation with the Sleep in Heavenly Peace org in Mechanicville, we invite you to come and help us!! We are hosting a second annual Bed Building Day Sept 19 with James Welch and his Sleep in Heavenly Peace organization to make at least 20 beds/10 bunks for the children in our region. As of now, we have about 190 children waiting for beds within the greater Mechanicville area where the organization is based. So on this day, September 19th, Saturday morning, we need two ...things!!! 1 - is $3500 for all the materials and bedding for 20 beds - $1500 of which we have already raised!!! Please send a contribution if you are able to Sleep in Heavenly Peace. By Check - please mail it with CAMBRIDGE BUILD in the check note to Sleep in Heavenly Peace at PO Box 664 - 18 So. Main Street Mechanicville, NY 12118 By online donation at https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx 2. - We need your help on Sept 19 at 9 am to about 1 pm to build the beds!! You can come for an hour, two or three hours to help, sand, drill holes, screw headboard and footboard parts together, stain and seal by dipping the parts, and brand the beds with SHP. It's easy, we show you just what is needed, no special skills required! Here is the Sign Up Genius link, People can sign up for as many slots as they would like. The second link is for the SHP indemnification form, Please make sure you sign in for Sept 19, 2020 and use NY- Mechanicville Chapter when signing up. For a build, we need both of these forms completed. Filling this out early will help speed up the sign in process the morning we get going!! Thank you!! Sign up to help us! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0A4CAEAE2BA3F49-cambridge SHP Indemnification form! https://shpbeds.allegiancetech.com/cgi-b/qwebcorporate.dll Help the Kids to have a bed!

Blessed in the sight of the Lord is the death of one of His saints. We give thanks for the life of Lucile Playfair who died this morning at SWVMC. Lucile served as organist and music director for many years. She will be missed.

A truckload of milk can not be reach its destination and needs to be distributed. So from 10:00 to 11:00 on Sunday at the Shushan Firehouse come get milk free of charge first come first served. JUST PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING WHILE GETTING MILK Please share!

Get outside and enjoy the Sun!

Cambridge Preparative Meeting was held yesterday morning. Please use the www.WashingtonCountyNY.gov/coronavirus website for information about the virus If you have symptoms, please call your Doctor before going anywhere to see them. ... If you need assistance with something other than health related issues, please call the Good Neighbors at Brieman at 518-677-3863 extension 2 and leave us a message.

For ALL Health information from NYS and Washington County Health services see www.washingtoncountyny.gov/coronavirus For logistical assistance from our Good Neighbors in the Cambridge area call the Community Center at 518.677.3863 ext 2 for Good Neighbors!

Deliveries of beds happen every month! Write us to sign up to volunteer to help deliver them! All people involved in this organization are volunteers! All 100% of your donations go to making this activity happen!!

The NY-Mechanicville Chapter of Sleep In Heavenly Peace (SHP) celebrated their 200th bed delivery on November 30th. The Chapter a little more than a year old has delivered beds to children in, Mechanicville, Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Wilton, Hoosick Falls, Schaghticoke, Cambridge, Valley Falls and many other towns. The Chapter has recently expanded a satellite team covering the Cambridge, Salem, Argyle and many other eastern Washington/Rensselaer County communities. November... brought a record number of deliveries getting 56 kids off the floor. The Chapter attributes its success to the generosity and donations of local communities, churches, businesses and hundreds of volunteers. But more than anything this wouldn't have been possible without the dedication and devotion of the NY-Mechanicville Chapters core team who logged countless hours organizing, soliciting donations, continuous social media coverage, set up and tear down on build days, assisting and coordinating monthly deliveries and being champions for our cause ensuring that NO KID SLEEPS ON THE FLOOR IN OUR TOWN!!! SHP is a 100% volunteer and donation driven organization donating and delivering beds to children between the ages of 3 and 17 years who are currently sleeping on the floor, air mattress or a pile of clothes. The organization doesn't discriminate any circumstances that precipitate these conditions and there is no income requirement. Chapter leaders have found they are able to help more families retain or recover custody of their children by working with local children and family services agencies. Please visit shpbeds.org then click on the request a bed tab for your own family or on behalf of another. In the coming year the organization is in need of corporate sponsorships, build day sponsors, bedding donations/bedding drives and volunteers. If you would like to help please contact James Welch, [email protected], Facebook- Sleep in Heavenly Peace @ NY, Mechanicville. Communications or monetary donations may be mailed to P.O. Box 664 18 South Main St Mechanicville NY 12118.

Offered by Good Neighbors/Buenos Vecinos in December. Save the date for a pot luck supper and a movie for children and adults alike! Get out and mingle with old and new friends! Since we can't share the movie title with you because of our copyright license rules, you can check out the movie clue!! Hence, Mystery Movie Night!

This was a 20 bed build in Clifton Park. It was fast and easy. Lots of great Volunteers!! We have one scheduled for September in Cambridge!!!

Thanks to all of you who turned out on Oct 3 to build these beds we are now delivering.... it is a Joy to see the newly made bed with grinning children hopping right in!! We have delivered 13 beds to the Cambridge, Salem, Eagle Bridge area since mid October! Please spread the word to sign up for a bed or bunk on the Sleep in Heavenly Peace website https://www.shpbeds.org/request-free-twin-bed More deliveries to come in December!!

So fun to see the excitement!!

Such fun, Good Neighbors' Open House. Great conversations, good food, clothes and to give away. Open til 4:00. Come on over.

Some of this bedding is going on our delivery November 2nd!!

We delivered 6 beds, made into 3 bunks on Oct 19, and now we are planning our delivery on Nov 2. So continue to sign up on the Sleep in Heavenly Peace website https://www.shpbeds.org/ to receive a single bed or bunk bed for those in our three town school districts 3-17yrs old sleeping on the couch or floor! Cambridge, Salem, Greenwich. We all need a good night's sleep. We are planning to have another Bed Building morning in the spring. Ask how you can help!!

So pleased to host the Better Angels monthly meetings led by Lance Wang and Linda Kabrisky Salzer. Better Angels is a national citizens’ movement to bring conservatives and liberals together to know each other beyond stereotypes, form community alliances, and reduce the vitriol of our civic culture.

Sanding, marking holes, drilling and on to assembly!

the cutting station for all the lumber delivered from Wiley Brothers.

Wonderful poem!!

The chapters of Sleep in Heavenly Peace in New York are still busy building beds!!

the truck from Sleep in Heavenly Peace Mechanicville arrives and setup for the assembly line begins!

Here we are last Saturday, delivering beds!!

the last few steps for the beds!! Then off to Mechanicville to be prepped for our first delivery on October 19th!!

Thanks to more than 40 people who came out to work, our 20 bed goal has been met 3 hours early!the bed parts have been loaded and we’ll make deliveries in a cou...ple of weeks. If you would like to be part of delivering and setting up beds in the greater Cambridge area PM us with contact info and we’ll create a list. See more

The Community Center is hosting a bunk build at the Brieman Parking Lot. Come on over and give a skilled or unskilled hand. Work for all ages! We’ll be at it til 4:00!

It may be raining now, but Saturday is forecast to be sunny and cool. Come to the Sleep in Heavenly Peace and Cambridge United Presbyterian Church sponsored Building of the Beds for 20 children! It will make you feel great! To register for a bed go to https://www.shpbeds.org/request-free-twin-bunk-bed .

Next Steps September 25, 2019 Sleep in Heavenly Peace - Building Beds for Kids The Cambridge Community Center and United Cambridge Presbyterian Church, in coordination with the Sleep In Heavenly Peace (SHP) organization’s coordinator Jim Welch from the Mechanicville SHP Chapter invite you and the members of your church or organization and the employees of your businesses to the "Build of Beds" on Saturday October 5th from 9 am to 4 pm. ... This national organization’s mission is to be sure No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town. We at the Cambridge Community Center have pledged to build 20 twin beds or 10 bunks. We have already found 5 children in need. Please help us to find more! We are continuing to gather money to pay for the materials. Each bunk with 2 wooden beds, mattresses, pillows, sheets, and comforters costs $350. To reach our goal of $3500, please donate to the Cambridge United Presbyterian Church (tax deductible) at 81 East Main St Cambridge, NY 12816 and note Sleep in Heavenly Peace on your check. We are already halfway to our goal!! With these funds Jim arranges with Wiley Lumber who brings the wood to the Brieman building at 81 East Main St. Cambridge. We will be building the beds on the lawn; let’s hope for great weather! The SHP Mechanicville chapter has found other great sources who are working with them to get pillows, mattress, sheets and blankets. These vendors are helping with special pricing to this generous organization! Then, We, You, Your Friends, Our Friends, all come to help build the beds with instruction from Jim’s group (Children under 12 are too young to build but everyone else can!) The SHP team of Mechanicville will be on hand to teach us the steps and tasks to build these beds. We are hoping for a nice day and will build the beds outdoors by the Brieman Community Center building. Dress in clothes that don’t mind a little sawdust! Please let us know if you know anyone under 18 that needs a bed and we’ll get them on the list on the https://www.shpbeds.org/request-free-twin-bunk-bed website. Our group will also participate in the deliveries of the beds on another day. We’ll keep you posted. Call the Church 518-677-3863 or email [email protected] for more info. Until then, we are, In this together, Kate Kotfila Nancy Brown Pastor Admin of Good Neighbors

Here is a clip from the Returning the Favor show about Sleep in Heavenly Peace and their wonderful work. We are holding a Build of 10 Bunk Beds on Oct 5th and are collecting donations to cover the material costs of the beds.

GOOD NEIGHBORS COMMITTEE planning meeting next Monday, September 30 at 6:30pm We'll be working on our big Sleep in Heavenly Peace Bed Build scheduled for October 5 as well as other programs in the planning stages. Please RSVP to [email protected].

Gloria Dawley is hosting a course of "Natural Solutions for Wellness" in the Brieman Building at 6pm in Friday September 27. For more info, give her a call at 518-677-1232.

What an honor to be part of Francis Harris’ Eagle Scout Board of Review. Fran’s project was to build (in the hottest day possible)the pergola that graces Brieman Activities Building. Congratulations to Fran, his parents, Clint and Marie Walizer, and Troop 2020.

Hope you can make it to the meeting tonight at 7pm! James Welch from the Mechanicville chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace will share how the Cambridge community can make this important project happen here. No experience is necessary to help make sure no child has to sleep on the floor. TONIGHT Friday, September 13 at 7pm in the Brieman Building

An estimated 2.2 million children in the United States sleep on the floor every night. A bed is a basic need for the proper physical, mental and emotional support that a child needs. All children deserve a safe, comfortable place to lay their heads. On October 5 we are partnering with Sleep in Heavenly Peace to solve this problem for some area kids in need. We're having a planning meeting this Friday, September 13 at 7pm in the Brieman Building to get the project rolling. ... ***NO EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED!*** You can learn everything you need to participate in the build on the day AND we need volunteers before the October 5 build too, so there are plenty of opportunities to be involved! Please join us on Friday, September 13 at 7pm in the Brieman Building to learn more about this exciting volunteer experience. WHO CAN VOLUNTEER: Build days are meant for communities to come together to serve. Because of this we encourage kids, adults, families, co-workers, neighborhoods, community groups, churches, organizations, businesses, schools etc to sponsor or participate in a build day. We do ask that participants are over 12 years of age and that minors are accompanied by a legal guardian.

We have an exciting new project coming up and would love to see you at the informational meeting! Please join us on Friday, September 13 at 7:00pm downstairs in the Brieman Building to find out how a little bit of your time can make a HUGE difference for a child in our area!

Thanks to Troop 2020’s team work on Francis Harris’ Eagle Scout Project, Brieman has a lovely Pergola picnic table and Benches. A bit more work to do but it’s looking great!

CUCC has hosted some great activities through the month of June. If your organization could use space for events contact Star Emerson at 518,677-3863

With help from lots of friends, Good Neighbors' Fiesta was a grand success. Thanks to the American Legion for hosting us, the Boy Scouts for providing awesome children's games, and AHI for providing information about healthy living and insurance opportunities. Donated clothes and toys found new homes. We ate and played, ran around in the rain and found out how hard it is to get to the candy in a pinata!

The goal of being a uniting force in our community was enacted this weekend as the Community Center hosted Better Angels. We hope this is just the beginning of conversations and insight. Thanks especially Linda Kabrisky Salzer for shepherding this dream into reality.

CUCC was honored to host an informational meeting of Better Angels. A national initiative to help Red and Blue talk and listen to each other, the next step will be a workshop weekend in which half a dozen people from each side will work through a process to help them understand each other. Look for more details soon.

A great celebration after one year of great work. Thanks to so many who have helped us get started. We have served people in our community through friendships, translation, transportation, tutoring, a dental clinic - so many good things. We're off to a great start

80 pairs of brand new children’s shoes just arrived thanks to Father Peter’s Got Sole Program. Brieman Building 12-5 today, 10-4 tomorrow

We think we’re about ready here at Brieman. Good Neighbors Day begins 12-5 Friday and 10-4 Saturday includes free dental screening for folks without dental insu...rance, (follow up appointments next Saturday) warm clothes, sheets, blankets and great children’s books. Come enjoy a quiet moment with refreshments and neighbors. See more

Good Neighbors organizing meeting Sunday, March 18 4:00pm at Brieman Good Neighbors is an initiative coordinated by CUPC to offer welcome and practical hospitality to the farm laborers in our area who are working far from home. We have learned that transportation, translation and gathering together are areas of concern. Come join us for conversation and planning about how to be good neighbors to these soon-to-be-friends.

Proud of our student leaders and administration!

Thank you to Pastor Kate Kotifila for hosting a well-attended interfaith discussion this evening at the Cambridge United Community Center. It is only through d...ialogue such as this that we build rapport and tear down misunderstanding - misunderstanding only feeds ignorance and creates fear. Dialogue, on the other hand, promotes understanding and helps discover common ground and common humanity. Now if we could only do this with those of different political stripes... Pictured: Brother Stavros (Monks of New Skeet), Humera Khan (Islamic Center of the Capital District), Lance Allen Wang (Congregation Beth El), and Pastor Kate Kotifila (Cambridge United Presbyterian) See more

Religions in the News Forum Tuesday, October 24, 7:00pm Lower Brieman Building How are we to understand the role of faith in the global political and cultural upheavals of the day?... What assumptions prevent us from living beyond cycles of misunderstanding? Do traditional religious expressions have a place in a 21st Century world? Come join in a lively conversation with four Americans shaped by very different ethnic and religious traditions as they discuss their spiritual journeys, perspectives, and how they wrestle with the issues of the day.

Do you have questions about what you need to retire? How much money is recommended, what resources are available, how do you manage the next 10-15-20 years to set yourself up for a comfortable retirement? Come down to the Brieman Building at the CUCC on Tuesday night (9/26) and get more information from a professional financial planner!

Check out this gathering of health and human service organizations. September 13, 9-1. The resources available in our community are significant. It's just folks don't know about them. If you'd like to go contact the CUCC and we can carpool.

The CUCC had a busy summer with science classes and lectures, laser tag and ice cream socials. We are currently designing the Fall programs and events. Let us know if you have a skill you would like to share or any ideas for programming. If you would like to volunteer, please contact us. Thank you to all of our summer helpers!

The last ice cream social of the summer! Come on by for some free ice cream and lawn games!