“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of ‘god, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; (Ephesians 2:19-21) Welcoming all to develop and live as disciples of Jesus Christ. MAIN STREET MESSENGER Jonesville United Methodist Church 963 Main Street Clifton Park, NY 12065 July/ August 2020 STAFF Pastor: Youngjae Jee Office Manager: Ginny Rae Moran Admin. Assistant: Kathy Fedorchak Editor: Ginny Rae Moran Treasurer: Aimee Martin-Vieira Financial Secretary: Mary Beth Dopp Music Director: Timothy Antonacci Organist/pianist: Casey Gray Nursery: Ella Weldy Custodian: Lynda Decker Sun. Custodian: Matthew Hill Church Services Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Nursery available at 10:15 a.m. Summer Schedule through Labor Day One Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School (Sept. – May) 9:30 a.m. Adults 10:30 a.m. Pre-k – H.S. & Nursery Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Telephone (518) 877-7332 Fax (518) 877-6174 Web Site: www.jonesvilleumc.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/jumccp E-Mail Ginny Rae: [email protected]Kathy: [email protected]Pastor: [email protected]All rooms accessible JUMC subscribes to Christian Copyright Licensing INC. (CCLI)
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“So then you are no longer strangers and
aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and
also members of the household of ‘god, built
upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the
cornerstone. In him the whole structure is
joined together and grows into a holy temple in
the Lord; (Ephesians 2:19-21)
Welcoming all to develop and live as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Main Street Messenger July/August 2020 Jonesville United Methodist Church
PASTOR’S PAGE
Dear Friends, Greetings in Christ! There are some new things I have started during COVID-19. The pandemic itself limits our life patterns in so many ways, but because of it, I seek to find something else that I have never done before. One of the things I have done with my kids is the race in the parking lot. We set up a random track and compete with each other. In the most recent race, Christina was the winner, Teresa was second, I was third, and Rebecca gave up in the middle of the race. Breathing heavily, Rebecca said, “I guess I am getting old.” We laughed. Another thing we do is to ride bikes in the parking lot. Sometimes we go to the bike trail or make a round trip in the neighborhood. We also play badminton and basketball. I have never been good at basketball, but now I can make at least 5 baskets out of 10 free throws. My best is 9 out of 10 and the worst is 1 out of 10. Teresa always beats me in competition. Christina usually makes more than 5 out of 10. For Rebecca 2 or 3 is the usual, but she surprised me by making 6 out of 10 one day. The pandemic has turned Jonesville parking lot into a playground for my family.
The pandemic, itself, doesn’t do anything good for the church either. We are limited in our church life tremendously, but it has given us opportunities to seek different ways to serve people. For example, by doing the online service we have come to know that we can reach out to the people in a way we have never done before. Yes, more people are reached and
connected to the worship and the mission and ministry of Jonesville UMC. When one door closes another door opens. God’s grace works mysteriously.
There is also another new ministry we are launching in this time of pandemic. It is called a “shepherd ministry.” I think it is another good example of God’s grace in which we can obtain a stronger connection with one another in a way we have never done before. Some may say, “Why now?” “Why when social distancing is demanded?” I think that is the point of this ministry. When the situation forces us to keep distance from one another, there are increasing needs of connections and cares. The worst time calls us to make the best out of it. The idea of this ministry has been lingering in my mind for a long time, but I think the pandemic situation triggered it into actions more strongly than ever. It is a very simple idea. We group people into various flocks which are led by shepherds. Each shepherd has about 12 sheep in the flock and is called to be God’s love and grace by means of sending cards, making phone calls, texts, and emails, setting up online gatherings, and so on. Each sheep in the flock is invited to participate in the life of the flock. I expect to see different types of flocks which have different characters, different styles of fellowship, different ways of caring and sharing life, and so on, and I also expect to see different developments and evolutions of the flocks in the future. All the diversity, however, shall be united in our mission that we are called to make disciples of Jesus Christ to transform the
world. I hope and pray that through this shepherd ministry all of us are joined together with the cornerstone, Jesus Christ, being built into the body of Christ, the church. God is opening a new door for us. Let us walk together. May you be healthy and filled with love and joy In Christ Jesus!
Youngjae
DS changes effective July 1 as
UNY begins its Regional
Superintendency Plan
· Region 1 consists of the Albany, Adirondack, Northern Flow, and Mohawk Districts.
· Region 2 consists of the Crossroads, Finger Lakes, Genesee Valley, and Niagara Frontier Districts.
· Region 3 consists of the Oneonta, Binghamton, Mountainview, and Cornerstone Districts.
With the new Regions, there will be some changes with District Superintendents (DSes). Every District will have a primary DS appointed to it with a team of three DSes working together in each Region.
Main Street Messenger July/August 2020 Jonesville United Methodist Church
ALBANY DISTRICT NEWS
Dear Friends of Albany District,
I want to share my thanks and blessings with you as my service as your District Superintendent comes to its conclusion.
You have so blessed me, dear siblings in Christ, helping me grow in faith, leadership, and service; finding new gifts and strengths I didn’t know I had; and grace-fully helping me grow in my weaknesses and shortcomings.
I am most humbled and powerfully affected by the power I have experienced in our appointment system, which many think is archaic these days. I have been blessed to work with almost all the District’s churches and clergy in appointing the clergy now serving. To experience the unique giftedness of laity and congregations coming together with the unique giftedness of clergy – serving each other, growing in faith, and serving your communities and our world – brings out profound gratitude in me.
I thank God for each of you, my friends. Even when our work has been deeply challenging, I truly experienced God’s presence among us. When we were not sure exactly what the future would hold in our shared work, our openness to the Holy Spirit’s guidance brought us to new understanding and new forms of ministry.
While we will not be able to have the time of goodbye and blessing I had hoped, including worship, fun, and mutual blessings, I expect we’ll find a time with DSs Debbie Earthrowl and Abel Roy to arrange for me
to return at some point for a celebration.
I cannot offer enough thanks to two key leaders: District Administrative Assistant Maxine Getty – “Sarge” – you have been my right hand and partner in the ministry of administration. I cannot imagine the job without your historical understanding, your attention to detail, your willingness to push when it’s time to push, your encouragement to “breathe” now and then, and your grace under fire. Bless you. District Lay Leader Ellen Mall-John, from your “interviewing” me before saying yes, your mix of vision and practical step-by-step leadership to accomplish ministry, your advocacy for laity in leadership in all our work, and your constant sense of God’s call to everyone to grow in faith, discipleship, and service – you have inspired and empowered me in our work. Bless you.
God has so blessed me through the 7+ years we have shared. May God bless you and keep you in your next faithful steps, my friends. Thank you for your prayers for me and my family as we take our next faithful steps. –Rich Weihing
All Laity are Invited to attend the Advanced Lay Servant
Course: Lay Servants as Christian Transformational Leaders
What is a vital church, and what is a Christian transformational leader? Co-author Rev. Marc Brown will facilitate the Advanced Lay Servant Course,
Lay Servants as Christian Transformational Leaders to help us understand, learn, and define the three disciplines of Christian transformational leadership and the four qualities of Christian transformational leaders. This weekend class begins on Friday, November 13, 2020 and concludes on Sunday, November 15, 2020 at Calvary UMC, 15 Ridge Rd, Latham 12110. All laity are invited to attend. You do not need to be a lay servant to share in this weekend! Rev. Brown has served as a pastor of small, midsize, and large churches, as well as serving as the District Superintendent for the Richmond District of the Virginia Conference. In addition, he has served as the Director of Connectional Ministries for the Virginia Conference, and he is currently appointed as pastor of Fort Hill United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, VA. Rev. Brown is a graduate of Radford College and Wesley Theological Seminary. The registration fee of $75.00 includes Friday night dinner, Saturday lunch, and Saturday dinner. Please purchase and read Lay Servants as Christian Transformational Leaders by Marc Brown, Kathy Merry, & John Briggs. ISBN 9780881778816 For a registration form, contact Nancy Goddard @[email protected].
Main Street Messenger July/August 2020 Jonesville United Methodist Church
ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting cancelled The Albany District UMW Mission Team have voted to cancel the UMW Fall Gathering & Annual Meeting due to the Covid-19. This event was planned for Saturday, October 10, 2020. There will be future updates and it is hoped that in 2021, the District UMW will be cleared to hold interchurch events.
RISSE adapts to the
new “normal” Each summer in the past, Refugee and Immigrant Support Services (RISSE) held English classes for adults and a summer enrichment/school readiness program for children. This year, adult classes and the enrichment program for kids are on-line. However, it is estimated that almost 85% of clients are unemployed, so RISSE starts a home delivery food program for children on July 6th and will continue until August 14th. RISSE will deliver (with no contact) breakfast and a hot meal to the door for all children in the family. Meals will be Monday-Friday. Pre-registration is currently capped at 130 children. Volunteers to help pack food and/or deliver are welcome. (Be advised that our facilities are not air conditioned.) To sign up as a helper, contact Ann at [email protected] RISSE assists about 200 families a year with one or more of its services. Over the lifetime
of RISSE, thousands of people have established new lives in the Capital District where they have become employees, taxpayers, active participants in their children’s education, good neighbors, and good citizens. Thank you for your support. For more information on our summer programs, call Rifat Filkins (518) 505-1737 or email to [email protected],
METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP CALENDAR
Senior High MYF
Sunday, July 12th 1:00-3:30pm Summer Social Distancing Party at Walt's House
Middle School MYF Sunday, July 26th 1:00-3:30pm Summer Social Distancing Pool Party at Pelc's House
Go fund me for Angela Russo Dylan Schmaling’s good friend Angela Russo is fighting chronic Lyme Disease and is really having a very hard time with a lot of very challenging symptoms. She starts IV treatment later this month but everything is very costly and they are having difficulties affording proper treatment right now. Please pray and if you are interested, donate to help her out. Below is the link to her Go Fund Me site. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-angela-conquer-lyme-disease?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR35EDlQepOSswEVFXcLr6fMNKM7Sx9eNplkLBlCFsb0fxqnHvWryi2kkwI
July “Mission of the Month” Habitat for Humanity of
Schenectady
Can you comprehend what it is like to not have your own home? Most cannot. The mission of Habitat is to provide a way.
The most recent newsletter from Habitat provides insight in the numerous ways that it is making this happen. (See the JUMC Outreach portion of our website.) Like JUMC, the COVID-19 pandemic has made Habitat’s efforts more complicated and its needs even greater. While the needs increased, the opportunity for Habitat to give was also there. (Among other efforts, they were able to provide 2000 N95 masks to Ellis Hospital from their supply!) Read about “Women Build” in this latest newsletter and see Channel 13’s coverage of their effort. See Habitat’s efforts building two houses on Lenox Rd. These efforts have been complimented with efforts to make existing homes handicapped accessible. See the description of Habitat’s “Ramp Up” effort and how it changed people’s lives.
The closure of the “Restore” program due to COVID-19 reduced one source of Habitat’s funding and has made their current needs even greater. Consider a gift to Habitat this month…. Money, Time, Talent. Please mail checks payable to Jonesville UMC with “July mission” on the memo line or donate on the church website. -JUMC Outreach
Main Street Messenger July/August 2020 Jonesville United Methodist Church
EXCERPTS from the UMW PRAYER CALENDAR
More excerpts from the UMW Prayer Calendar : It’s good to hear that mission witness and work continue to be in effect spreading God’s love in many different ways. Here are some messages from those serving both overseas and in the USA. You will notice in the contributions, many images of the “light of God”. This was the theme of the 2020 Prayer Calendar which explores the experiences of God’s light shining on and through us. Here is a message for each week in July and August. “God’s light has shined by allowing fellows to be the face of hope to those who thought there wasn’t any. The light shines by recognizing that people from all over the world have so many different stories, gifts and talents they offer. We can shine a light on issues by empathizing with someone who has a different story. Understand that we all have different obstacles we face. And to shine the light of hope in the darkest of times.” Angela Reed , Global Mission Fellows US-2 from Maryland serving in Tacoma, Washington. Scott’s Run Settlement House Food Pantry shines the light of giving to dispel the darkness of anxiety that threatens families who struggle to make ends meet. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” (Matthew 25-35; NRSV) Shay Pettito, Executive Director, Scott’s Run Settlement House, Osage, W. Virginia.
“People who are different somehow than ourselves can make us uneasy. As a parent of two people with autism, I have seen this at work. People avoiding them, getting aggravated at sounds my son makes. I have seen God in my children many times and I have seen God work through my children. When people spend enough time with them and form a relationship, they too witness this. It is our relationships and community with others that we can see the God in all.” Jamie LeJeune, Order of Deaconess and Home Missioner, The Studio at Court Street, Hattiesburg, Miss. “In an online world where the news may scare us, it is important to know who we are. When you comment on a news story, think about who will read it. If it doesn’t give life, let it go.” John Jessup Peterson, Order of Deaconess and Home Missioner, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, Georgia. “For me, God’s light shines each time I look into the face of one of our program participants, who realizes the dream of being the first college graduate in the family. Their joyous expression is truly God’s shining light.” Erie Stuckett, Order of Deaconess and Home Missioner, I Challenge You, Inc., Greenville, Miss. “Disappointment and economic challenges seemed to conspire to steal the hope and joy of Christians. So an unexpected gift took me by surprise. I asked students to organize an evening of fellowship. We formed a cell-phone-lit path to the cross on the
hill overlooking Africa University. As we delighted in the enchantment of music and sharing, the moon rose to fill our mini-auditorium with gentle light. It seemed to say, “Fear not, I come to bring my light and joy.” Larry Keis, Global Missionary from Iowa serving in Africa at Africa University, Zimbabwe. “After more than sixty years of tension and confrontation between North and South Korea, the recent peace summits between the two nations and the United States, as well as the ongoing surveying effort to reconstruct the railway line leading to North Korea by South Korea are clear manifestations of how the light of God is shining on the Korean Peninsula. We must continue to engage communities through volunteerism, to shine the light of God on issues that are causing anxiety and hardship in our environment. We must also uphold our spiritual practices so that the light of God will keep shining through our work.” Edison De-Conti Toe, Global Mission Fellows International from Liberia serving in South Korea. “When my friends and I gather around the table for our weekly Love Feast in the Skilled and Assisted Living resident dining room, we know we are going to experience the light and love of the Spirit! We live up to our name: Learn, Laugh and Love! God provides a joyful opportunity for us to be ourselves!” Ruth Haney Williamson, Order of Deaconess and Home Missioner, Rockingham County/Stokesdale Church, Madison, N.C.
Main Street Messenger July/August 2020 Jonesville United Methodist Church
MISCELLANEOUS
Hope everyone is doing well up there and that you are all staying well. We’re settling in and really enjoying being with grandchildren and such. The past few months have affected our getting involved in finding a church. We’ve gone to several but haven’t narrowed it down yet. Jonesville is hard to replace! At any rate during this time we’ve been going to Jonesville “on Sunday morning” with live streaming at Jonesville and feel we are at Jonesville still. Thank you for helping us to start our week in worship. We love hearing Casey sing!! Everyone has done a great job in putting the worship service together. -Judie and Bob Scranton Thank you very much for all the kind cards and wishes I received after my father's passing. It is so very comforting to know that I have so many people who care. And a special thanks to Bill for mowing my lawn while I was away. Such a blessing. My love to you all. –Holly Greene Thank you to our church family for all the cards and all the meals and visits to Gary while we have been ill. Your prayers and kindness have been very much appreciated. –Carol & Gary DiLallo
Dear church family, I was pleased to see the College of Bishops letter in the midweek messenger. I think we are called as a faith community to educate ourselves and take a stand. I think though, that the terms racism and white supremacy need context. I have recently been doing a lot of reading and watching various media and those terms now don't slap me in the face anymore...but they would have made me very defensive, and thus close-minded even 3 weeks ago. My prior understanding was that "these terms did not apply to me because they only refer to hateful, individual acts of violence or prejudice", which I did not condone or accept as who I was. I now understand them from a system perspective that has created and perpetuated inequality and racism (which is not the same as prejudice) and that allows me to own my own part in this and be able to talk about it, rather than deny it. Perhaps I can offer a list my niece gave me to educate myself--see below. All of this will make many of us white, educated people living in a predominantly white community VERY uncomfortable, likely defensive or feeling guilty, maybe feeling helpless as to what to do about it all. We need to do this work of learning the history, learning the language, learning the “business” behind some inequalities. We need to uncover and examine what “whiteness” and white privilege is so we can understand what is not obvious to us. This is hard work. This is
challenging. But it is time to dig into this together, talk about these issues that are perhaps uncomfortable and unsaid. Let’s talk from an informed position…not feeling guilty, or defensive, or in denial, or taking sides… just, in love, let’s start the conversation. Perhaps, as a church body, we can stumble through it together and take that first step towards meaningful change…awareness and acknowledgement. -Gerry Pfeiffer
Suggestions for increasing awareness: (Netflix has a collection of pertinent shows/movies: type “black lives matter” in the search box) TV shows:
When they see us
(if you watch the Oprah selection in Netflix it has an interview preceding a presentation of all four episodes).
Movies: 13th I am not your negro Let it fall
Books WHITE FRAGILITY I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Gerry Pfeiffer will be leading our worship service on August 16
th
while Pastor Youngjae has some vacation time.
Main Street Messenger July/August 2020 Jonesville United Methodist Church
MISCELLANEOUS
Congratulations
College Graduates Samantha Bohling SUNY Brockport Bryan Brown University of Rochester Christine Kevan SUNY Morrisville Sara Leonowitz University of Delaware Majored in Art Conservation. She is presently working on FDR’s private collection in Boston. Sarrah Parker Roberts Wesleyan College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Graphic Design. She is currently working at Pearce Church on campus as she looks for a job in her field. Matt Skinner
SUNY Oneonta with degrees in Communications and Theater. Currently working on employment opportunities. Megan Swett
SUNY New Paltz with a degree in Anthropology and a minor in Biology and Evolutionary Studies. She is currently working at Herzog's True Value in Kingston loving mixing paint. Stop in and say hello. Annelies Vanderveen
SUNY Albany
High School Kara Carangelo Dania Dal Pos Rebecca Landry graduated from Burnt Hills High School and will attend Colgate University to study Molecular Biology. Ryan Skinner graduated from Shenendehowa High School and is headed to SUNY Oswego to study Business. Alyssa Swett Eli Theurer
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