Charlton Freehold Presbyterian Church

Charlton Freehold Presbyterian Church
768 Charlton Road
Charlton, NY 12019
ph: (518) 399-4831
charltonpc@aol.com

Charlton freehold History

During the 1770’s, a group of settlers of Scotch and Irish descent, left the village of Freehold, New Jersey to establish New Freehold (now Charlton, New York). Our church was founded in January 1786 by approximately twenty members of the Old Tennant Church from New Jersey. The present Greek revival structure was erected in 1853, and an academy added in 1859. The academy was used as a school until 1912. It burned in 1945 but was rebuilt and currently houses classrooms, offices, and a fellowship hall. We celebrated our bicentennial in 1986. We are proud of our educational and spiritual offering to the community, and invite you to join us in worship.

Our Faith

Charlton Freehold is a member of the Albany Presbytery. The Presbytery of Albany is a covenant community of congregations and ministers of Word and Sacrament who seek to be faithful children of God and disciples of Jesus Christ within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

God has called the Presbytery of Albany to accomplish, in the name of Jesus Christ, those tasks that are best accomplished by this corporate expression of the church.

Therefore, we commit ourselves to:

give glory to God through worship, prayer, and intentional spiritual fellowship;
learn from, and rejoice in, our diversity;
strengthen one another for ministry through appropriate training and leadership development;
provide resources for the varied ministries within the presbytery community;
develop opportunities for corporately sharing the gospel and witnessing to God’s love in the world;
carry out the functions required by our membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.);
evaluate the work of the presbytery regularly and make those changes necessary to fulfill our mission more adequately; and
become a sign of God’s new creation in Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit.

To find out more about the Presbytery of Albany:

http://www.albanypresbytery.org/

Our Pastor

Tom Davis is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ. He was trained for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he studied under the renowned Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Seminary in New York City. Reverend Davis gained a doctorate from Duke University writing his dissertation on Adlai Stevenson.

He was a credentialed New York State Alcoholism Counselor and chaired the NYS Accreditation Board for Alcoholism Counselors, 1979-1984. He is currently chaplain emeritus at Skidmore College, where he taught religion for 30 years.

Reverend Davis is the chair of the Clergy Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and writes for its journal, Clergy Voices. His book, Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances was published by Rutgers University Press in February 2005.