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This church, afraid of possibly closing in 2016, is thriving in 2019 due to prayer , grace, and hard work. This brand new sign is a sign of growth!

Be more open to people doing things differently than you expect. What’s so bad about plane bulletins?

Welcome to your new church to serve, all you pastors beginning today! What is stored inside this new relationship of Pastor and church? Treasure! ...”for we hold the treasure of God’s good news in temporary, hand-made containers to prove that the power belongs to God and not to us.” Trust God, Church! Trust God, Pastors!

Don’t worry too much about your first Service in your new church.

This month some of our churches say goodbye to their current pastor and prepare to welcome their next pastor. Pray with me for Newark First, North Rose, Penn Yan, Moravia, Ledyard, Chapin, Harmony, Forest Home Chapel, Dundee, Weedsport, Reynoldsville, Varna, Port Gibson and all those pastors moving!

“This is love:it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacrifice that deals with our sin. “ -1 John 4:10-

Our fun- loving, mission loving Bishop and friends.

Enjoying our worship center at Annual Conference in Syracuse ny.

Let us pray this prayer from the prayer wall at General Conference in February, as we enter our Upper NY Annual Conference June 5.

We in the Fingerlakes District appreciate all of our conference sessions committee and staff!

Gorgeous scenes of Seneca

We in the Fingerlakes love and appreciate these four men and seven women servants! See them soon at conference session and thank them!

To the 20% of the people doing 80% of the work in Christian Ministry:

If you have an empty nest today...know you fed them well.

Lord, have mercy. And people, stop killing others!

DS Jeff McDowell is happy to be preaching at the Geneva First UMC tomorrow 8:15 and 10:30 and serving communion with Pastor Emily Huyge. If you don’t have a church, come check out a very outward-focused church reaching the world with Christ’s love!

We had a great Clergy Day on the fingerlakes with Rev. Dr. Robin Blair, pastor and Rev Dr. Melanie May, professor of theology at CRCD Seminary presenting: “sexism in the church? See it stop it”. A visit to the Women’s Rights Historic Park started the day. Over 35 clergy and candidates attended and learned.

Snow geese on Seneca lake this evening. They were not all flying in the same direction, but they all seemed happy to be together.