Middletown Valley Food Bank
Middletown Valley Food Bank (MVFB) has particular needs for toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, toiletries, and any / all food stuffs. Our Outreach Team has extended a challenge to donate 60 food & toiletry items each month in 2026. For the first three weeks of October, we gave 114 items, 49 rolls of toilet paper and 0 rolls of paper towels! We have exceeded our goal every month this year – let’s keep it going! Thank you for offering these gifts of care for our community.
Adult Education Group
This informal group is held at 9:00 AM in the Memorial Hall. It is open to everyone and all are welcome. Come and share a donut and coffee as we discuss books about our faith. The book being discussed next is Formed by Love (Church's Teachings for a Changing World) by Scott Bader-Saye.
Our Next Wednesday Game Night ~ November 18th
Our next Wednesday game night this Fall will be on 11/18 – at 5:30pm in Memorial Hall. Dinner will be provided and bring a game to share.
Dessert & Discussion Series ~ Magnificent Humanity
There will be a mini–Fall Dessert & Discussion Series on two excerpts from Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnificent Humanity” at 5:30pm on two Wednesdays: 10/28 and 11/4.
Daylight Saving Time
Just a reminder for everyone, next Saturday evening, Oct 31st, will be the end of Daylight Saving Time where we roll the clocks back an hour.
Vestry Highlights
Here are two highlights from the October Vestry Meeting:
• Emergency lighting around the campus is being replaced utilizing funds allocated in the annual budget for building maintenance.
• Research and planning to replace the Memorial Hall upper fridge up to $2,100 is on-going.
Parish Visit from Episcopal Relief and Development
Mark your calendars for Sunday, November 15th – The President and CEO of Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD), Dr, Rob Radtke. ERD is a non-profit supported by Transfiguration’s Outreach Committee, and their main mission is: to partners with faith and community leaders to advance lasting change in communities affected by injustice, poverty, disaster and climate change. ERD collaborates with local experts, provides resources and programming that nurture early childhood development, reduce violence against women and girls, strengthen communities’ resilience to climate change and provide support in the wake of disasters (https://www.episcopalrelief.org/).
A Short Biography for Dr. Rob Radtke
Dr. Radtke has served as President & CEO of Episcopal Relief & Development since 2005. Prior to that he served in various senior-level posts at the Asia Society. Rob provides strategic leadership to the agency’s programs in over 40 countries serving more than 4 million people across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, as well as the United States.
Rob was a founding trustee of the Anglican Alliance for Development, Relief & Advocacy. He also served on the board of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2023 the Archbishop of Canterbury awarded him the Cross of St. Augustine for Services to the Anglican Communion.
Rob has a Bachelor’s Degree (AB) from Columbia College of Columbia University and a doctorate (DPhil) from New College of the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2012, Episcopal Divinity School awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree.