 Welcome to the Home Page of the
New York State Association of Fire Chaplains, Inc.
The mission of the New York State Association
of Fire Chaplains, Inc. is to unite all Chaplains of the State of New York in
order to promote a deeper and wider knowledge of one another in the true
ecumenical and interfaith spirit; and to establish statewide procedures of
standardization in serving our fellow firefighters, Emergency Medical Services
(EMS), and God, our supreme Chief.
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The Annual Business Meeting was held April
18, 2021 at 6:30 PM. The following
officers were elected:
1st Deputy Chief Chaplain Thomas With 1 Year (2022)
2nd
Deputy Chief Chaplain Richard
Bolster 1 Year (2022)
North
Central Regional Director Pastor Thomas
Flander 3 Year (2024)
East Regional
Director Kevin Bowman 3 Year (2024)
South
Regional Director Joseph McCarthy 3
Year (2024)
Rev.
Clarice Murphy was appointed NYS Director at Large for our association and will
fill the one year unexpired term, until elections in 2022.
We
also approved Honorary Membership for our Founding and Charter Member –
Chaplain Fr. Eugene Weis. Fr. Gene is,
to our knowledge, the only living Chaplain that attended both the Founding
Conference and the Chartering Conference.
Notes and cards can be sent to:
Chaplain
Fr. Eugene Weis
Sisters of St Joseph Motherhouse
150 French Road
Rochester, NY 14618
Annual Training Conference in
Watertown, NY – August 15-18, 2021
(Plans
are being made for live streaming of the training, Memorial Service, and other
special events during the training, for those unable to be in Watertown.)
The officers of our association:
Leon I. VanWie, Chief Chaplain
PO Box 777
111 Franklin Street
Brownville, NY 13615-0777
(315) 771-9142 cell (Voice and Text)
LeonVanWie@gmail.com
Thomas F. With, 1st Deputy Chief Chaplain 34 Woodside Avenue Colonie, NY 12205 (518) 438-7486
Richard G. Bolster, 2nd Deputy Chief Chaplain
46 Shova Road Malone, NY 12953 (518) 569-3124 cell (Voice and Text)
Barrie Lyn
Foster, Executive Secretary 741 Clark Street Road Cayuga, NY 13034-2113 (315) 730-4415 (Voice and Text) David A. Quinn, Treasurer 126 County Rt 26A Stuyvesant, NY 12173 (518) 281-0949 (Cell)
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