Current Events
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Fall Festival
Arcade UCC would like to send out a huge thank you to the community for supporting their annual Fall Festival last Saturday, October 11! We appreciate you coming out to support this church fundraiser and for joining us in this fun-filled day of basket raffles, great food, homemade quilt raffle, sales of baked goods, live music and much more! We greatly appreciate your support! We had 200 baskets to celebrate our 20th year of Fall Fest!! And it was our best yet! We couldn’t have done it without such tremendous support from the community! We would like to thank our local businesses who donated gift certificates and items for the basket raffle. Your generosity was overwhelming! We have an amazing community, for sure!
Thank you to:
Arcade & Attica Railroad
The Color Barre
Main St. Grille
Main Street Winery
Studio 259
In Charge Electric of Holland
Save A Lot
Krolicks BBQ
Spray Away Car Wash
Arcade Junction
Heppner’s Liquor
Bearded Bison
Joseph’s Mercantile
Zimmer’s
Tim Horton’s of Arcade
Pierce Milling
Buffalo Bisons
Buffalo Bandits
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester
Vidler’s
Marco’s
Dee Hamilton of CSI Tax
McDonald’s of Arcade
Janie Cooley
Salon Bel Ame’
Pizzaz Hair Salon
Maid of the Mist
Bits and Pieces Glassworks of Holland
Coffeehouse 49
Fiesta Bamba of Arcade
Crabb Oil
Farmhouse Cafe
Junk & Disorderly
Tops of Arcade
Arcade Center Farms
Hen Hawk Acres
Food King Chinese Restaurant
Theater of Youth
The Historical Society of Arcade
4th Annual School Supply Giveaway
For the fourth year in a row, Arcade UCC provided a free school supply giveaway for Pioneer Middle and High School students. While the elementary schools within the district provide the needed supplies for their students, families of middle and high school students are given the opportunity on a first-come, first-serve basis to gather their school supplies at Arcade UCC.
The Arcade Salvation Army generously supplied the backpacks for this giveaway again this year and members of the church spent a few hours filling those backpacks with the school supplies provided by the church and generous donations. A special thank you to Judy Haberer for coordinating this donation from the local Salvation Army and delivering the backpacks to us each year! In all, 165 backpacks were filled and handed out to families in the Pioneer community!
All backpacks were given out well before the end of the time allotted for the giveaway!
This outreach program has had great success over the past four years and is met with sincere appreciation from area families. We thank all of our volunteers who helped to make this happen! Our community is so grateful!!
Vacation Bible School
June 2025
This year's VBS theme was community. The kids spent the first day celebrating Hometown Superheroes! They had an amazing visit from the Arcade Police Department and the Arcade Volunteer Fire Department. Day two included a trip to the Arcade Free Library for stories, crafts and lots of great books! The final day was a fun culmination of bounce houses and water games! What a way to kick-off the summer!
Josh Bower
Pastor
Greetings! My name is Josh Bower and I have served as the Pastor of Arcade United Church of Christ since 2020. In that short period of time – much of which was impacted by a global pandemic – it has been incredible to see the amazing work that God has been doing in our midst and within our greater Pioneer community. It is a joy to be able to grow and serve with the great people of Arcade UCC. My wife Nicole and I live in a home we built from the ground up in my hometown of Ellicottville, which is a good middle ground between Arcade and Little Valley, where Nicole works as a Registered Nurse for Hospice. We have two dogs named George and Ginny.
I am currently completing my Master of Divinity degree through Chicago Theological Seminary and completed my undergraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh – Bradford. In my free time I enjoy cooking, barbequing meat, hiking, skiing, and gardening. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about our faith community!
585-492-4530