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From Our Pastor’s Desk:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you…Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” (John 14:27, New Revised Standard Version).
It’s with a multitude of emotions that it’s now time for me, as your Pastor, to say good-bye to each of you, and to and our covenant of ministry within the local churches of Honeoye Falls and Ionia. Even though I will have a tear in my eye, there's also peace and joy in my heart because I know that God's going to continue to utilize each of us for the transformation of God's Kingdom! Although our journey together in the local church will be finished, I'm excited to see how God will continue to use you, individually and as a community of faithful brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ, in the future.
“I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the LORD; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11, Common English Bible)
As I leave you, I ask that you remember to love the people around you, and to continue to strive for unity. Likewise, stay close to God and be ever sensitive to the nudging and nurturing of the Holy Spirit. I ask that you continue to pray daily for each other, Bishop Mark Webb and the cabinet of the Upper New York Annual Conference, and for Pastor Chris (Honeoye Falls), and for Pastor Robin (Ionia) that I know God's preparing right now to become your Pastor.
Finally, remember dear church family that I love each of you in Christ, and even though my earthly address is changing, I’ll be sharing communion with you each and every time we come to the Lord's Table within our ministry settings.
My continued prayer for each of us as Easter people and as 21st century disciples of our Risen Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, is that we're each able to receive God's gifts of peace, hope, joy, and love in our own lives, and that we're also able to share these same gifts with all those we come in contact with. Go with God my dear friends.
Blessings & Shalom, Pastor Mary
Sunday Worship Schedule 9:00 AM Sunday Worship 10:00 AM “Coffee Time”
Rev. Mary Rublee Phone: 497-7041
Our Church Joys!
Our Community! Our Fellowship! Our Church Family! Our Missions Donations! We raised $ 1,150 at our Rummage Sale! Thank you to the Miller family for rearranging the tables after our rummage sale
Mackenzie Kenyon, Bloomfield High School Christina Lindstrom, Bloomfield High School
Nate Talley, Bloomfield High School Sophie Tiffany, Bloomfield High School
Michael Cuciti, Nazareth College, Doctor, Physical Therapy, grandson of Sue Garling
Tessa Milton, Ithaca College: Magna cum Laude with a BS in Occupational Therapy
Pentecost Sunday is June 9
th.
Faith Connections – Summer 2019 Ionia United Methodist Church
2120 Elton Rd., Ionia, NY 14475 585-657-6984 www.ioniaumc.org
Congratulations to our
2019 Graduates!
Ron Bennett Betty Chapple Doris Daniels Mary & Jim Dunne Mel Inglesby Shirley Kelly Helen Mc Combs Ron Milton Elaine Parrish Leona Parrish MaryAnn & Cliff Pimm Cathy Weld Our home-bound Those battling disease Our military men and women in all places
“Prayer at Noon” each day, wherever you are, for those
on our prayer list, our nation, the world …
Sunday, June 9th “Church in A Diner” Pot-Luck Brunch
Note the change in date!
Bring a dish to pass. Table service & beverages will be provided.
Ad Board Meeting: Tuesday, June 11th, 7pm
Officers & chairmen need to attend
to everyone who stepped up and help sort donated items and who worked at our rummage sale! It was another successful sale!
Church Emails:
If you would like to receive church news & newsletter by email or need to update your email, please call 657-7722 or email [email protected]
Sundays, 10:20 AM Ray Vander
Laan’s “Faith Lessons” DVD series will continue through June.
Sat., June 15: A “Farewell Gathering”
Honeoye Falls UMC & Ionia UMC want to honor our Pastor Mary & Darrell at 4pm, followed by a supper at 5pm! This event will be held at Ionia UMC. Come to thank Pastor Mary & Darrell for all that they have done for our church & wish them well in their new assignment!
Ministry Directory Ad. Board Chairman: Bambi Talley
Ad. Board Secretary Mary Twardokus 657-7722
Financial Sec.: Norene Adams 624-5463
Food Pantry: MaryAnn & Cliff Pimm 369-5917
Missions: Carol Hinds 657-7310 & Pete Baldwin
831-0429
Newsletter Editor: Mary Twardokus 657-7722
Staff/Pastor Relations: Judy Baldwin 738-7552
Treasurer: Sue Vary 315-939-4406
Trustees Chairman: Don Frelier 657-4504
Sanctuary Chair: Jennifer Layton 455-7602
Used printer ink cartridges can be redeemed for coupons for our church’s supplies at Staples. For the past 8 years, we have paid for all our office supplies with the coupons receive from these cartridges! Leave the ink cartridges in the box in Fellowship Hall. Thank you!
Want an extra newsletter? They are in the
church’s Narthex & Fellowship Hall each month.
Welcome to Our New Pastor
on July 1st: Rev. Dr. Robin Blair!
Rev Blair will be serving the Ionia UMC & the East Bloomfield UMC. She comes to us from the Forest Home Chapel & Harmony UMC. We will have a reception to welcome her on Sunday, July 14th after worship!
Happy Summer Birthdays!
Happy June Birthday!!
2 James Garling Robert Parrish 3 Carlie Layton 4 Cindi Thomas 5 Elizabeth Bennett Sharon Gilbride 6 Jeff O’Brien
Ciera Sullivan 7 Leona Parrish
Bill Weld 9 Sarah O’Brien 10 David Fraser 12 Lori Stein 13 Jonathan Erb
Meredith Green 19 Hailey Willis 20 Sherri Baylor
John Bennett 23 Donald Dunlap 24 Morgan Knapp 26 Celina Stonewell 27 Lola Harloff
John Rapp 29 Sandra Parrish
Happy July Birthday!!
3 Samantha Madafferi 7 Richard Twardokus 9 Robert Bastian
Joshua Dunne Hannah Wagorn
10 Shaune Sullivan 12 Neil Washburn 15 Debbie O’Brien 16 Richard Belding
Casey Sullivan 17 Linda Miller
Chance Sullivan 18 Anne Stone
Adam Talley 19 Wendy Bastian 21 Taylor Willis 23 Thomas Thompson 28 Patti Willis 30 Tessa Milton 31 Elaine Parrish
Happy August Birthday!!
4 Kay Bennett 5 Nicholas Albert
Wayne Parrish MaryAnn Pimm
8 Julie Giessler 11 Tim O’Brien 13 Adam Brien
Katie Cantie Jonny Willis
14 Chris Cantie 16 Carrie Willis 18 Jackie Bennett 25 Jimmy Stahl 26 Andy Stahl 27 Abbey Miller
Ed Strapp, Jr Cooper Thompson
28 Jason Bastian Madison Brien
James Sullivan 29 Michelle McMillan
Thomas Thompson, Jr Gage Wagorn
30 Bernice Talley 31 Jeffery Frelier
Stephanie Fryer Cale Gillan
Saturday, Sept. 21st We are looking forward to our 22
nd Annual Ionia Fall
Festival – the tractor parade, food, games, raffles, displays, demonstrations, & lots of fun activities. The Sheriff’s K-9 unit will be returning this year! We will have a Vintage Clothing Display & a couple other new displays! Think about decorating your yard for fall the week before the festival & show our community spirit! Have extra glassware? Donate for our “Coin Toss!
Holiday Fair Craft Show Sat., Nov. 17 9am – 3 pm
Bloomfield High School (note our new location!) 135 booths are available
Applications will be on our website in early July.
UMC Camp Volunteers Needed in spring, summer & fall: a week, a day,
or a few hours, our sites could use your help. volunteering opportunities for gardening, use a hammer or saw, counselor, dean, or chaplain or help out where needed. Iinterested in helping out? contact the camp: Aldersgate in Brantingham, NY 315-348-8833; Asbury in Silver Lake, NY 585-237-5262; Casowasco in Moravia, NY 315-364-8756
In Our Area:
Thurs., May 30- Sat., June 1- Heavenly Treasures Rummage Sale- at East Bloomfield UMC
Thurs., May 30 – Sat., June 1 Rummage Sale at Honeoye Falls Presbyterian Church
Sat, June 9, July 14, 3-4 pm Open Meal, at St. Catherine’s, Mendon. free & for anyone in the community for good food & fellowship
Weds., June 19, Sept.18, Oct.16, 3-7pm Country & Blue Grass Jam – free, at E. Bloomfield UMC great music & food - lots of musicians, awesome music, excellent food & tons of fellowship! Meal - $7, children 5-12: $5, under 5 free. Email [email protected] for more info
Powerful Tools for Caregivers, Wednesdays, July 24- Aug. 28; 5-7:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church of Honeoye Falls. 6-week program by Lifespan of Rochester focuses on the needs of family caregivers, developing a variety of self-care tools. Free for family caregivers of a loved one with a chronic illness. Pre-registration required 287-6398
last Sunday of the month, June 30, 4-5 pm Free Community Meal, Honeoye Falls 1
st Presbyterian
Church (Main St. by the gazebo)
2nd
Monday of every month,7pm Pub Theology at CB Craft Brewers, Honeoye Falls “Beers, Conversations, & God”
1st Weds of every month. 5-7pm: Spaghetti Dinners,
at Honeoye United Church of Christ, $6
Every Weds: Hands of Hope Kitchen free noon meal, at the East Bloomfield Firehouse. All are welcome. Volunteers are needed. Every Weds 9:30am – 12:30pm & 5– 8pm Free Community Clothes Closet, Victor UMC Donations accepted – place in the white box near the entrance to the Clothes Closet.
2nd
Weds., of every month, 5-7pm: Spaghetti Dinner at Livonia UMC, 21 Summers St., gluten free available adults $7, children 10 & under $3
3rd
Thurs., June 20, - Free Community Lunch E. Bloomfield UMC. Doors open at 11:30am, lunch served 12-1. All are welcome. Free will offering
2nd
Saturday of each month 8-10AM: Breakfast , United Church of Pittsford. Proceeds to a local charity each month. $5 per person Oct. - June
2nd
, 3rd
, 4th Saturdays of every month: Free
Community Dinner at 1st Presbyterian Church, 70 E
Main, Victor. Everyone is welcome!
On Fathers’ Day: Sonora Dodd &Fathers’ Day
The first known Father’s Day service occurred in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908, thanks to the efforts of Grace Golden Clayton. The service was to honor all fathers, especially those hundreds who were killed during a devastating mine explosion in Monongah (just a few miles from Fairmont) the previous year. However, the observance did not become an annual event, & it was not promoted—very few outside the local area knew about it.
In 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, also was inspired to create a holiday honoring fathers. William Jackson Smart, her father, was a farmer & Civil War veteran that raised Sonora & her five younger brothers by himself after his wife, Ellen, died giving birth to their youngest child in 1898. While attending a Mother’s Day church service in 1909, Sonora, then 27, came up with the idea.
Within a few months, Sonora had convinced the Spokane Ministerial Association & the YMCA to set aside a Sunday in June to celebrate fathers. She proposed June 5, her father’s birthday, but the ministers chose the third Sunday in June so that they would have more time after Mother’s Day to prepare their sermons. So it was that on June 19, 1910, Sonora delivered presents to handicapped fathers, boys from the YMCA decorated their lapels with fresh-cut roses (red for living fathers, white for the deceased), &the city’s ministers devoted their homilies to fatherhood.
The widely publicized events in Spokane struck a chord that reached all the way to Washington, D.C., & Sonora’s celebration started its path to becoming a national holiday.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed a resolution in favor of Father’s Day “to establish more intimate relations between fathers & their children & to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.” In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order that the holiday be celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Under President Richard Nixon, in 1972, Congress passed an act officially making Father’s Day a national holiday. (Six years later, Sonora died at age 96.)
“Being a good dad is all about moments–moments to teach, moments to treasure. It's about the hard moments when we think we haven't gotten through to our kids, and the wonderful moments when we realize we have.” Jim Daly
Our church continues to share God’s love with others in many ways – through volunteers & monetary donations. For more information about our mission projects & how you can help, contact Carol Hinds 657-7310 or Pete Baldwin 831-0429
We are donating to the HEIFER project’s “Women’s Empowerment Fund” - thanks to the 1,702 cans & bottles that were collected in the crate in our yard!
Below are 2 mission trips that may be of interest: 1) September 21
st : Walt Mathias & Leon
Perkins (Rush UMC) will lead a FEMA sponsored rebuild team for 2 weeks to St Croix to work on homes damaged by a hurricane in 2017. If you are interested in participating, contact Pete.
2) Puerto Rico UMCOR Volunteers Still Needed for Summer, Fall, and beyond
By the close of 2018, United Methodist volunteers had sent 108 teams with 1,151 individuals to support the recovery effort in Puerto Rico. There are still an estimated 35,000 roofs with blue tarps on the island. 1,500 of those are currently in the case management system of the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico (MCPR) awaiting volunteers like you. Interested? Contact [email protected]
The Food Cupboard outreach program
Able to help out? Aware of an emergency need? Call Mary Ann & Cliff Pimm, 905-5299 or 369-5917.
Benincasa, the hospice in Mendon, is in need of
Volunteers! Call 624-8070
Hands of Hope Kitchen
Provides a free noon meal every Wednesday at the East Bloomfield Firehouse on Main St. - “Neighbors Feeding Neighbors” They need volunteers to prepare the meal – call749-2694 or email [email protected]
Our Veterans’ Dinner Mission
On the 2nd
Monday of each month, our church prepares & delivers a dinner to the Veterans’ Club house on Foster St., Canandaigua. Please sign up to prepare or deliver the dinner to Canandaigua. Call Dorothy Strapp 657-7598 to help! Let’s continue this worthwhile mission to our veterans!
Victor UMC Clothes Closet is open
Wed., 9:30am – 12:30pm & 5 – 8 pm. The Victor UMC is operating a “Clothes Closet” to shop for free clothing, etc. in conjunction with the Victor-Farmington Food Cupboard! Donation items are needed: Place them in a bag & put them in the white box near the entrance to the Clothes Closet.106 E. Main St., Victor.
Other ministries for clothes donations: Asbury Storehouse, 1050 East Ave., 473-0950 : clothing, kitchenware, and linens, children's books, games, & toys, money
Open Door Mission, 156 N. Plymouth Ave 454-6696: clothing, food, hygiene supplies, money
F.I.S.H. (Friends in Service Here) Transportation (an ongoing community service,
serving Mendon, Honeoye Falls, West & North Bloomfield, Ionia & Lima) provides transportation for those who do not have anyone to take them to the doctor, dentist, pharmacy, etc. Clients call a day before they need a ride. Dispatchers get the information from the client & then connect the driver with the client. There is a need for drivers & dispatchers! They provide volunteers training & liability insurance. Call Marjorie Vogt 624-8388
Habitat for Humanity Donations are needed for their “Restore” store. Walk-in donations are welcome Tues. – Sat. 8am-4pm. They accept new & slightly used building materials, furniture, antiques & misc. household items at 3040 Co. Rd #10, Canandaigua 396-3040, www.hfhoc.org
Lions’ Club Old Eyeglasses recycling: at CNB Bank, Wegmans, Walmart & more
Drop off your clean “NY State deposit” Pop Cans & Bottles for our Missions into the crate behind the
church. The redemption money will be used for our church’s missions! In March we redeemed 1,704 cans and received $102.24 for a mission’s project!
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society” Billy Graham
Ionia United Methodist Church PO Box 8 2120 Elton Rd. Ionia, NY 14475
June Church Calendar
5th – 8th: Annual Conference 4th : Trustees’ meeting
9th: Church in A Diner” & Brunch 12th : Dinner for Veterans 11th : Ad Board meeting
15th: Farewell Dinner, Pastor Mary 20th : Strawberry Social
July Church Calendar
7th: Welcome Rev. Dr. Robin Blair 8th: Dinner for Veterans 18th: Raspberry Social
August Church Calendar 12th: Dinner for Veterans
Sunday Worship Schedule 9:00 AM Sunday Worship
10:00 AM “Coffee Time”
Strawberry Social – June 20 4:30 – 7:00 PM, at our church
Hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, salads & lots of delicious strawberry desserts! Items are
priced a la carte.
Raspberry Social – July 18 4:30 – 7:00 PM, at the church
Hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, lots of salads & delicious raspberry & fruit desserts!
Items are priced a la carte
Fall Festival – Sept. 21 on the church grounds
Tractor parade, pancake breakfast, BBQ, games, displays, demonstrations, & more!
Holiday Fair Craft Show: Nov. 23 9:00AM – 3:00 PM
Bloomfield High School (note our new location!) Applications available after July 1st on our
church website: www.ioniaumc.org
