Events In & Around
The Mountain View District
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Local Churches & Pastors to Pray for This Week
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Hornell UMC & Pastor Lenny Fuller
Horseheads UMC & Pastor Rhonda Kouterick
Italy Valley UMC & Pastor Don Guiles
Jasper UMC & Pastor Brian Diffenbacher
Kanona UMC & Pastor Ruth Reppert
2/18/2020
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Are You Looking for Ways To Fast During Lent?
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Here are a couple of ideas I found and wanted to share with everyone. Maybe you will want to think about doing one of these Fasting ideas this Lenten Season.
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Do You Want to Fast this Lent?
- Fast from hurting words and say kind words
- Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude
- Fast from anger and be filled with patience
- Fast from pessimism and be filled with hope
- Fast from worries and have trust in God
- Fast from complaints and contemplate simplicity
- Fast from pressures and be playful
- Fast from bitterness and fill your hearts with joy
- Fast from selfishness and be compassionate to others
- Fast from grudges and be reconciled
- Fast from words and be silent so you can listen
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Lighten Up for Lent 2020: A 6-Week Challenge
- Do you have too much clutter in your house?
- Are your closets jammed with unused clothing?
- Do you have computer monitors you have been meaning to get rid of, but never do?
- Are your days filled with mindless activity, yet little gets accomplished?
As we prepare to celebrate Easter, we need to prepare our minds and hearts as well. Through prayer and reflection, we clear our minds to focus on the meaning of the Ressurrection. To help clear our minds, it is often beneficial to clear our surroundings.
"Lighten Up for Lent" calls on you to declutter your home in the spirit of service to others.
Starting on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26th , and continuing through Lent, you are challenged to remove at least one item from your home each day. Some items would be thrown away or recycled; other items would be donated or sold. If you sell an item, please consider donating the proceeds to the charity or good cause of your choice.
As you free your home from clutter, focus on how you spend your time each day as well. Is there a way to organize your time to spend more of it on family and friends? Could your time be better spent volunteering for community service? Try to strip the unessential uses of your time in order to spend more time on what you consider truly important.
Hopefully at the end of the six weeks, you will feel a sense of accomplishment that your donations have been put to good use AND Hopefully you will not only be rid of unused items in your home, but be rid of clutter in your mind as well, for an open uncluttered mind is more open to the message of Easter.
2/24/2020
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Financial Reports & EZRA
ARE NOW OVER DUE
To complete your 2019 church statistics.
Click here
to not only access Ezra, but also, user guides available.
The other reports that are OVERDUE are:
- Report of the Trustees
- Report of Finance Committee
- Year End Financial Report (your format)
- Church Budget (your format).
2/18/2020
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Important Dates to NOTE
Local Church Audit:
The 2019 annual audit of your church financial records are due to the District Superintendents on
Sunday, March 15, 2020
, no later.
12/16/19
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Events In & Around the Mountain View District- Feb. 24- Mar. 2
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Choir Director Position Opening
WHERE: New Beginnings UMC
300 East Miller St.
Elmira, NY 14904
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Feb. 28, 2020
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Spaghetti Dinner
WHEN:
Saturday: February 29th, 2020
WHERE: Oakwood UMC
212 Oakwood Ave.
Elmira Heights, NY
TIME: 4:30pm-6:30pm
MENU: Spaghetti, Salad, Bread, Dessert and Beverage.
COST: Donation
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Equalization Members to Annual Conference 2020
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Each year additional voting members to Annual Conference are needed to balance the votes between non-clergy and clergy, in other words, make the number of non-clergy votes equal to the number of clergy votes. To achieve this, each District in the UNY Conference is allowed to select a predetermined number of extra non-clergy to vote on behalf of the District. If you would like to serve in this capacity, please fill out the application and return it to Mountain View District. The District Superintendent and District Lay Leader will review the applications and invite some to serve. All applicants will be notified following this process. For those invited to serve as equalization members, they may register upon receiving notification they are invited to serve.
Click here
for application
(date on application has been extended from Feb. 27th to Mar.11th)
Youth to serve as Equalization Members
please see the information for them. There is a new process for them to register.
Click here
for the information
2/24/2020
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Winter 2020 issue of the Advocate now available
The Upper New York
Advocate,
a
popular quarterly publication of the Upper New York Conference, will only be printed for certain issues and all other issues will be published digitally but not printed.
The
latest issue of the
Advocate
is our first fully digital issue. The winter 2020 issue of the
Advocate
focuses on reaching people in new places and looks at various ministries that reach out to area homeless, children, and other individuals outside the church walls.
Click here
to read the latest copy of the
Advocate.
We have sent promotional postcards with links and QR codes to the
Advocate
to local congregations. For more postcards, email
news@unyumc.org
.
2/24/2020
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Swiss Steak Dinner at the Westside UMC
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WHEN:
Saturday: March 14th, 2020
WHERE: Westside UMC
Corner of W. Church St. & Foster Ave.
Elmira, NY
TIME: 4:30pm-til gone
COST: Adults-$10 Seniors-$9 Children $5
Eat in or Take out- For delivery call 607-733-7033 by 3pm
2/24/2020
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UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS
IN & AROUND the DISTRICT
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Safe Sanctuary and Train the Trainer Training's
at Horseheads UMC
WHEN:
Saturday: March 14th, 2020
WHERE: Horseheads UMC
1034 West Broad St.
Horseheads, NY
Safe Sanctuary-TIME: 9:00am-12:00pm
Train the Trainer-TIME: 1:00-3:00pm
2/18/2020
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CHICKEN & BISCUITS DINNER
WHEN:
Saturday: March 14th, 2020
WHERE: Mitchellsville UMC
8421 County Route 13
Bath, NY
TIME: 4:00pm-6:00pm
MENU: Chicken & Biscuits, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Green Beans, Coleslaw, Assorted Desserts and Drinks
COST: 12~Adult $9 5-11~$4 4 and under FREE
AND..........BAKE SALE!!!!!!!
2/18/2020
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Outward 2020- Registration is Open!
Destination God Our Journey
WHEN: Fri-Sun, March 13-15, 2020
WHERE: Holiday Inn in Liverpool NY
COST: $70 per person (youth or adult)
This covers the registration and includes a YSF T-shirt.
It does not include meals.
There are many options available locally.
Hotel Room: $115 per room per night (max. 5 people per room)
QUESTIONS: Contact Judy Hipes at 607-624-2145 or
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Mountain View District UMW
A DAY APART
Engage~ Enlighten~ Empower
WHEN:
Saturday: March 14th, 2020
WHERE: Big Flats UMC
109 Hillview Dr.
Big Flats, NY 14814
TIME: 9:30am-2:30pm
WHAT TO BRING:
- A bag lunch
- A symbol of who or what lights your way
- Invite a guest from a local helping agency with which you are involved
1/28/2020
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Upper New York Conferences Upcoming Mission U for 2020
Greetings,
Our Mission u Team is excited about the upcoming Mission u event this summer from
Thursday, July 16 through Saturday, July 18, 2020
which will be held in Rochester, NY at Covenant United Methodist Church. This is a change from our past location down at the Asbury Camp and Retreat Center. While much will be the same, there are also some differences. This year we will have programming for children and youth, so I hope you will consider bringing your kids and grandkids along. Obviously housing will be at various nearby hotels or other locations. We will be making recommendations for those of you who cannot commute. Scholarships are available for first time attendees, so encourage your friends to try us out. Please mark your calendars and save these dates. We hope you will take advantage of this incredible opportunity for connection, fellowship, and growth in your faith. Watch for further details as we co-ordinate with our counterparts at the Silver Bay site in the Upper New York Conference. Please note: Mission u is for everyone - male and female, pastor or laity - not just UMW members.
Ellen Klock, Dean
Connie Chantry, Assistant Dean
Save the Dates:
2020 UNY UMW Mission u - Silver Bay,
September 11 - 13, 2020
We are looking forward to another inspiring and fun-filled Mission u event this year at Silver Bay YMCA of the Adirondacks Conference and Family Retreat Center on beautiful Lake George in Silver Bay, NY. Our Dean, Ilah Sisson Walser, and Assistant Dean, Brooke Conklin, are working with the Upper New York United Methodist Women Executive Team to plan the event and will send more details as soon as they are available. For now, please save the dates and plan to come to this year’s event on Friday, September 11 through Sunday, September 13, 2029. See you there!
Spiritual Growth Study - Leader: Marty Fischer
Finding Peace in an Anxious World
Youth Study: Managing Anxiety (Leader: Michael Terrell)
Children’s Study: Managing Your Emotion (Leader: Tammy Verity)
Issue Study - Leaders: Leeda Marsh & Valerie Clark
Pushout: The Criminalization of Girls in Schools
2/3/2020
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This is the Resource that Nancy recommended
to you at the Fall Pastors Meetings
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How to use VitalSigns
We introduced you to VitalSigns, a platform that can help your church to track key indicators and uncover important insights.
Click here
to watch a video that shows you just how easy this program is to use.
Track data, gain insight, and help your church with VitalSigns
The VitalSigns dashboard is a tool that allows churches to track church growth indicators, such as weekly worship attendance, professions of faith, small group participation, missional participation, and financial giving. It is a deeper level of insight, support, and accountability that tracks and trends vital information in an easy-to-understand dashboard.
The General Council on Finance and Administration pays for this software through General Church apportionment's - which the Upper New York Conference paid in full in 2016. The UNY Conference began using VitalSigns about 18 months ago, and so far, 38 UNY churches have signed up.
Click here
to learn how VitalSigns can help your church.
For more information about the VitalSigns tool, free to all United Methodist
churches, contact Aaron Bouwens, Upper New York Conference Director of Vital Congregations at
AaronBouwens@unyumc.org
9/23/19
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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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Upper NY Local Pastors Licensing School for 2020
WHEN:
April 19th 25th, 2020
WHERE: Casowasco Camp & Retreat
Moravia, NY
ARRIVAL TIME: Welcoming begins at 4:15pm on the 19th, dinner will be served at 5:30pm.
1/6/2020
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Early Response Team Members Urgently Needed
A plea from Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Mike Block:
We have all heard of various natural disasters which have occurred across the country such as floods, tornados, and other severe storms. What we often don't hear about is how survivors struggle to recover during the following days, weeks and often months after the disaster. We don't think of people who have no power, no heat, no water, even though it is during winter months. We don't think of those who can't live in their home due to mold, or because the house is off its foundation. Instead we watch the news, see the destruction, and then sit down to eat dinner or go about our business the next day.
To bring this closer to home, in our own Conference, in the Utica area, there was a massive flood event on Halloween which damaged some 800+ homes. People are still suffering, cleaning, repairing, replacing furnaces a full 2 months later. Most of us didn't hear about this flood, or have already forgotten about it.
But we can still help. Our Conference has a program to send people almost immediately into disaster areas to quickly, effectively, and appropriately provide a caring, Christian presence to assist survivors in recovery. It is called ERT. It stands for Early Response Team. Early Responders are trained by UMCOR during an 8 hour session with all the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How answers to the typical questions willing volunteers are apt to ask when they feel called to provide help. What do we do? We listen to survivors, we hold trembling hands, we hand out bottles of water, and listen some more. We give hugs, we assure that people care, and then we wash walls, remove wet carpet, wet wallboard, shovel mud, carry out ruined appliances, cover holes in roofs, and make homes secure again. But we don't do repairs. That happens later with rebuilding teams who are often the very same people on the Early Response Team.
So where can you receive more information and training to become an Early Responder? Attend Basic Early Response training event.
Saturday, February 29
at N. Chatham UMC, N. Chatham, NY near Albany. For registration information
click here
The Conference Disaster Response Team,
Mike Block, Conference Disaster Response Coordinator
Donna & Roger Cullen, UMVIM Co-Chairs
Carl Shepard, ERT Trainer
MaryBeth Ingalls, UNY UMC Volunteer Coordinator, ERT Trainer (in training)
Brian Greenwald, ERT Trainer
1/6/2020
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Regional Superintendency Plan
Jan. 18th Bishop Webb shared with the UNY Conference the Cabinet's plan for Regional Superintendency
beginning July 1, 2020.
What does this mean? How will it work? Find more info here!
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Change in Insurance Carrier
starting January 1, 2020
The UNY Board of Trustees sent a letter to all churches in the UNY Conference to inform them of the plan to change the Conference's insurance carrier from Church Mutual to Brotherhood Mutual Insurance
Company.
Click here
to read the letter.
12/2/19
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Check out this website. ResourceUMC is a new, comprehensive website that empowers you to search for and quickly find resources and tools from across the connection.
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The Bridge is now available
The latest issue of the Bridge is now available for download. It is available in both color and black & white formats.
Click here to select the version you prefer and make copies as necessary.
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Rev. Nancy Adams
District Superintendent
Patti Gridley
District Administrative Assistant
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Mountain View District Office
PO Box 706
Bath, NY 14810
(Our Location Address) 35 Wilkes Ave., Suite 101
Bath, NY 14810
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