Northern Flow/Mohawk Weekly Newsletter January 18, 2024

Northern Flow/Mohawk

Weekly Newsletter

January 18, 2024

2024 District Days with Bishop Hector

Save the date for 2024 District Days

In the new year, Bishop Héctor will be visiting local churches in all 12 districts from February to April. District Days are a way for the bishop to meet with laity and clergy across Upper New York. Clergy meetings are scheduled for each visit from 1-3 p.m. and another meeting will be held for laity (and clergy who couldn't attend earlier gathering) from 7-8:30 p.m. All United Methodists of Upper New York are invited and encouraged to attend a gathering closest to you.

Schedule and Locations

Northern Flow dCOM Teaching Day Offered

The Northern Flow District Committee on Ordained Ministry (dCOM) will be providing a teaching day for our Licensed Local Pastors and Certified Lay Ministers as part of their yearly interview credentialling process. We thought the information would be helpful to all our clergy and worship leaders from the district – so please consider this your invite:

What: 2024 dCOM Teaching Day

Where: DeKalb Junction United Methodist Church

4302 Route 11

DeKalb Junction, NY 13630

When: Saturday, February 17, 2024

(Snow date: February 24, 2024)

Tentative Schedule

9:30AM - 10:00AM Arrival and Refreshment

10:00AM - 10:30AM Worship

10:30AM - 11:15AM Presentation: “Spiritual Disciplines”

11:15AM - 12:00PM Presentation: “Time Off”

(days off, vacation, Sabbath, etc.)

12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch

Reservations for the lunch (which is free) need to be sent to Barbara Greene (bgreene12873@yahoo.com) by February 10. If you have special dietary restrictions, please bring your own lunch.

1:00PM - 2:30PM Presentation: “Time Management/Boundaries”

2:30PM - 3:00PM Wrap-up

Theme: “Thrive in a More Healthy Way”/”The 3 R’s: Revive, Rely and Renew”

The teaching day is free and we hope you will consider joining us.

Grace and peace,

Rev. Leon VanWie, dCOM Chairperson

Northern Flow District Committee on Ordained Ministry

The following Lay Servant Course is being offered to anyone in our District. If you would like to register or would like more information please feel free to contact me at tammymcadam@unyumc.org

This class is being offered online via Zoom and offered in person as well.

Basic Lay Servant Course

This course will begin on February 12th on Monday evenings beginning at 6:30 p.m. and will last 2 hours each week. It will last for 5 weeks. You must attend every class in order to receive credit.

It is being offered in person at the Brownville UMC as well as via zoom.

The class will be led by Pastor Joe Auslander. If you would like to register or need more information please email tammymcadam@unyumc.org

When registering please let me know if you are going to be in person or via Zoom.

You will need to purchase the Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course. Here are a couple of links to order the book from:

Upper Room

Amazon

Please register by February 5th

AC States Now Open for Local Churches

Local Churches will need to create all new Usernames and Passwords upon initial entry into the platform.

>>> Please remember that you cannot use the same email address twice for 2 different churches/Users. This can be solved by adding additional digits at the end of your email address for the 2^nd church like your GCFA #

Ex: Email Address/Username: AwesomeGod@gmail.com541236 <<<<

Stats will be open on January 2^nd.

They will close on February 15^th.

Here we go Again!!

Phishing emails going around again

Emails are being sent out again claiming to be from DS Rev. Weeden. Rev. Weeden will never send an email asking for any sort of money, gift cards, etc. from you.

If you receive an email like this please block and delete.

The only email address you would get anything from for Rev. Weeden is mikeweeden@unyumc.org

This is a scam so please be aware they are going around again.

Contacting Northern Flow/Mohawk District Office

If you are trying to reach the district office please use the following information:

Email tammymcadam@unyumc.org

DS Rev. Weeden mikeweeden@unyumc.org

Phone 315-535-5149

Fax 315-535-5151

Mailing Address PO Box 208 Gouverneur NY 13642

Office Hours Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

We are completely working from home and this is the best contact information to be able to reach us.

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