Summer Mission Projects (2025)

As we begin our summer worship schedule and temporarily move to the PTS Chapel on April 27, we also look ahead to a season of service. Nassau Church’s summer mission projects offer simple, meaningful ways to make a difference—most requiring just a few hours of your time. Whether you’re able to volunteer in person or support with a donation, each opportunity helps extend care and compassion to our neighbors near and far. Explore the 2025 Summer Mission Projects and find your way to join in.


Hunger Offering

April 27, May 25, June 29, July 27, August 31, during 10:00 am Worship

This offering supports the following mission partners: HomeFront, Presbyterian Hunger Program, Send Hunger Packing Princetons, Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, and Uniting Reformed Church in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Thank you for giving until all are fed.

Use the “Hunger” fund when you give online (“Give Now”) or in the memo line of your check.

Give Now


PTS Coat Drive

May 4 – June 29

Doing some spring cleaning? Help restock the Princeton Theological Seminary Coat Closet, a resource for international students as they prepare for the New Jersey winters. Each year we collect gently worn men’s and women’s winter coats, fleece pullovers and winter accessories. We are also looking for donations of new socks for both men and women, or the cash to purchase them. A Warmer Winter Starts with You.

Drop items in the marked box at the PTS Chapel on Sunday mornings or contact the church office to drop off during the week.

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Loaves & Fishes – May

Friday, May 30 & Saturday, May 31

Loaves and Fishes at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Trenton, needs your help! Join us in the Assembly Room on Friday to help prepare the meal, serve in Trenton on Saturday, make complete bag lunches, or donate individually wrapped brownies. Whether you give food or time, your support makes a difference to those in need. Sharing Nourishment, Extending Dignity

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School Supplies Drive

July 6 – August 17

Providing supplies for success. We are once again joining with Westminster Presbyterian Church (WPC), our partner church in Trenton, to provide backpacks filled with school essentials for local students. Our goals are 150 backpacks and $5,000 for the supplies to fill them. Supplying Confidence, One Student at a Time.

Bring backpacks to the Narthex on Sunday mornings; use the “School Supplies” fund when you give online (“Give Now”) or in the memo line of your check.

Give Now


Loaves & Fishes – August

Friday, August 22 & Saturday, August 23

Join us for our 33rd year of service. Volunteering for Loaves and Fishes, whether it’s donating food, money, or time, is an opportunity to be fed and to join our community of faith in action. Use the “Loaves & Fishes” fund when you give online (“Give Now”) or in the memo line of your check. Use the Sign Up button to donate food or time. More Than a Meal—A Moment of Care

(Sign Ups will open on or about June 29.)

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Adult Education – Special Events

Due to our move to the PTS Chapel during sanctuary construction, Adult Education Sunday morning classes have concluded for the program year. However, we’re excited to offer some special weekday evening events!



Monday, June 16, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Assembly Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church

Nuclear Disarmament: Seeking God’s Peace

Join Ward Hayes Wilson, author of It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons, for a presentation and conversation. A conference at Nassau Presbyterian Church in 1980 shaped Ward’s interest in nuclear disarmament, and his work is engaging him in new ways with the denomination today. Ward is currently partnering with Presbyteries on an overture for consideration at the 227th General Assembly. Light supper provided.

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Tuesday, April 29, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Assembly Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church

Spirituality & Mental Health

The Adult Education Committee invites you to join for a light supper and a conversation with Rev. Miriam Deiphouse-McMillan on her forthcoming book Sacred Balance: How Ancient Practices Can Restore Modern Minds.


Wednesday, May 7, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
The Farminary Project of PTS, 4200 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ

Nassau at the Farminary

Join us for an evening at Princeton Seminary’s Farminary. Nate Stucky, Director of the Farminary will offer a brief tour. We will have a short time of worship followed by dinner.



Holy Week and Easter

Join us for worship services as we mark the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord.


Services

If you do not already receive our “Worship Links” emails on Sunday mornings, please sign up to receive them during Holy Week:

Holy Week & Easter (email list)

Palm Sunday, April 13, 9:15 a.m. (in-person and live-stream) and 11:00 a.m.


Maundy Thursday, April 17, 7:30 p.m. (in-person and live-stream), a service of Tenebrae readings and Communion.


Good Friday, April 18, 12:00 p.m. (in-person and live-stream), a service of readings of The Way of the Cross, music by our youth, and prayer.


Easter Sunday, April 20, 6:00 a.m. (in-person only), a service at Princeton Cemetery. Driving entrance – Greenview Ave.; walking entrance – Witherspoon Street gate.


Easter Sunrise Breakfast
Join for the Paul Robeson Breakfast immediately following the joint Nassau Presbyterian and Witherspoon Street Presbyterian sunrise service in the Princeton Cemetery. The breakfast will be in the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall following the sunrise service on April 20. For details and to RSVP, click the link below.

Breakfast RSVP


Easter Sunday, April 20, 9:00 a.m. (in-person only) and 11:00 a.m. (in-person & live-stream), Festival celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord.


Flowering the Cross

On Easter Sunday transform a symbol of death into a beautiful reminder of God’s love, on the plaza in front of Nassau Church. Flowers will be provided. You are also welcome to bring cut flowers from your own garden to add to the cross.


#MissionMonday – Loaves & Fishes (May 2025)

Friday, May 30 (Princeton) and/or Saturday, May 31 (Trenton)

Loaves and Fishes at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Trenton, needs our help!  Join us in Princeton on Friday to prepare parts of the meal, or serve in Trenton on Saturday, or prepare complete bag lunches or donate individually wrapped brownies. Volunteering for Loaves and Fishes, whether it’s donating food, or your time, is an opportunity to lend a hand to some folks that can use some assistance.  Join our community of faith in action. Read more and sign up online.


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#MissionMonday – ArmInArm

Our Mission Partner ArmInArm serves Mercer County families through food pantries, grocery deliveries, and housing stability services.

One of their three brick-and-mortar pantries is in the basement of NPC. In 2025, ArmInArm expects to provide $1.5 million in direct food aid! With increased need in our community, there is an increased need for volunteers. We invite you to visit their website (link below) to learn about ways you can support this crucial organization, including bagging groceries, making deliveries, and donating items.


Learn More (link)

Hurricane Helene Response

Updated 10/8/2024

As we join in prayer for our neighbors in the southeast who have experienced devastating loss from Hurricane Helene, we are invited to give as we are able to help with immediate response and long-term recovery. Colleagues in Dave Davis’s clergy group are working with their congregations in Asheville and Black Mountain to respond in their communities with food, supplies and other needs. Montreat Conference Center, a place of spiritual formation for many over the years, is also planning for their own recovery and serving as a supply distribution center.

To streamline the donation process for our partners in ministry, please make donations to Nassau Church, using the “Give Now” page on our website (choose the “disaster relief” fund) or by check (designating “Hurricane” in the memo line). We will monitor needs and split gifts between First Presbyterian Church Asheville, Black Mountain Presbyterian Church and Montreat Conference Center.

Handel’s Messiah with Artwork from OMSC

Saturday, April 20, 2024, 4 PM, Sanctuary and Livestream

The Nassau Presbyterian Church Adult Choir and Soloists will be joined by orchestra in this innovative, Eastertide presentation of parts II & III of G.F. Handel’s beloved masterpiece, Messiah. Visual art from the global collection of the Overseas Ministries Study Center of PTS will be projected during the performance. Come hear, and see, Messiah in a new way this April! This event is free to the public and will be livestreamed on this website.

Dan + Claudia Zanes Live in Concert at Nassau Presbyterian Church!

We look forward to welcoming folk musicians Dan + Claudia Zanes back to Nassau Church THIS SATURDAY, January 13 at 5 p.m! This special evening supports Arm in Arm. Admission will be one boxed or canned food item per person. Let’s pack the pews, fill the pantry and raise the roof!
Food items to bring include*:
-Canned low-fructose fruit
-Canned low-sodium vegetable
-Canned tuna, salmon, chicken or chili
-Canned beans or 1 lb. bag dried beans
No glass containers please!
Please be sure to check expiration dates.
*Monetary donations to Arm in Arm will also be accepted.

Partners in Faith: Our Journey Together

Witherspoon Street & Nassau Presbyterian Churches

Sunday, October 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Sanctuary
Reception following, Assembly Room

Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, founded 1840.
Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, founded as The First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, 1766.

Learn more about the shared history of Witherspoon Street and Nassau Presbyterian Churches. The Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton, President of Princeton Theological Seminary, will speak and we will view a brief documentary by Bob Meola.

By telling the stories of our shared history over the last 186 years, this project offers a look at the evolution and practice of the Presbyterian faith, in one of the oldest towns in America, through the multicolored lenses of our congregations.