The document is a newsletter from two Methodist churches, Conklin Forks and Hawleyton, announcing upcoming December events. It lists the churches' Sunday worship schedules, an upcoming UMW Christmas party, a Christmas cantata performance, a Sing Around the Christmas Tree event, and a Christmas Eve candlelight service. It also provides the pastor's thoughts on preparing hearts for Advent and Christmas and promoting a sermon series and parishioner open house in January.
The document is a newsletter from two Methodist churches, Conklin Forks and Hawleyton, announcing upcoming December events. It lists the churches' Sunday worship schedules, an upcoming UMW Christmas party, a Christmas cantata performance, a Sing Around the Christmas Tree event, and a Christmas Eve candlelight service. It also provides the pastor's thoughts on preparing hearts for Advent and Christmas and promoting a sermon series and parishioner open house in January.
The document is a newsletter from two Methodist churches, Conklin Forks and Hawleyton, announcing upcoming December events. It lists the churches' Sunday worship schedules, an upcoming UMW Christmas party, a Christmas cantata performance, a Sing Around the Christmas Tree event, and a Christmas Eve candlelight service. It also provides the pastor's thoughts on preparing hearts for Advent and Christmas and promoting a sermon series and parishioner open house in January.
The document is a newsletter from two Methodist churches, Conklin Forks and Hawleyton, announcing upcoming December events. It lists the churches' Sunday worship schedules, an upcoming UMW Christmas party, a Christmas cantata performance, a Sing Around the Christmas Tree event, and a Christmas Eve candlelight service. It also provides the pastor's thoughts on preparing hearts for Advent and Christmas and promoting a sermon series and parishioner open house in January.
901 Hawleyton Rd., Binghamton, NY 13903 Rev. Mary Jean Simonin, Pastor • 607-669-4373 • msimonin@stny.rr.com December 2023 Attention Women of Hawleyton & Conklin Forks! Issue #278 Come to UMW’s Christmas Party on Wednesday, Sunday Worship Dec. 13th at 6:30 pm at the Hattala’s. Please park in the Hawleyton lot, where you will be greeted by a Conklin Forks handsome chauffeur! There will be plenty of food United Methodist Church and fellowship for all. Feel free to bring a snack to 9:00 AM share. There will also be a $10 gift exchange for 4420 Brady Hill Rd. those interested. See you there! Binghamton, NY 607-773-0360 Christmas Cantata Hawleyton There will be a Christmas Cantata Dec. 17th at the Hawleyton Church United Methodist Church 10:30 AM at 7 pm. Come hear the Christmas story through scripture readings, carols sung by the congregation and music presented by the choir. We 901 Hawleyton Rd. welcome anyone from both churches who is interested in singing in the Binghamton, NY choir or doing readings. Contact Mary Gilda if interested. 607-669-4520
Mission Statement Sing Around the Christmas Tree
To Know, Love, Live, Serve & Everyone is invited to Sing Around the Christmas Share Christ! Tree on Saturday, December 23rd at 6:30 pm at the ball diamond. We hope to see you there!
Christmas Eve Service
A Candlelight Christmas Eve service will be held on Sunday, December 24th at 7 pm at Hawleyton Church. Come and invite family and friends to what is always a beautiful and inspirational service as we rejoice in the birth of Christ! PASTOR PONDERINGS “A voice of one calling in the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord: make straight in the desert a highway for our God (Isaiah 40:3).” Greetings friends! It is hard to believe that the season of Advent is upon us. We will celebrate Christmas in a few short weeks. 2023 is almost over. How are you preparing for Advent and Christmas? Here at the two churches, we prepare the building by putting up the nativity set and decorating a tree. It always looks so pretty and festive. We also prepare by lighting the Advent wreath. The choirs are meeting and preparing to sing some glorious music in celebration of our Lord’s birth. At our homes we are preparing special baking projects, setting up our own nativity sets, decorating the tree, buying, and wrapping presents and many other fun activities. These activities are all fine and fun but the preparation is so much more. How are you preparing your heart and mind to experience Jesus perhaps in a new way? Do you have a special Advent devotional? Do you read the Scriptures more? Perhaps you have a family Advent wreath? It is a busy time but it is also an important time. It is a time to think about Jesus’ first coming. As we prepare to celebrate his coming, we also need to think about why he came and what he came to do. As I have said many times, you cannot have Christmas without Easter and you cannot have Easter without Christmas. Not only do we need to prepare for the different seasons in the Christian year but we also need to prepare our hearts and minds for weekly worship. It is wonderful to see and talk to our friends and family at church but we need some time to listen to God as we prepare to learn more about him. Perhaps this happens through praise music, Scripture reading or prayers. It is an individual and important time. As we enter into the season of Advent and then Christmas, I want to encourage all of us to set aside some time to truly prepare our hearts and minds to experience Jesus perhaps in a new way. Have a blessed Advent and Merry Christmas! Pastor Mary Jean
SERMON SERIES OPEN HOUSE
For the month of December through Epiphany Once again Pastor Mary Jean is inviting everyone I will be looking at the history behind some of to an Open House at the parsonage. This will take our beloved carols of this time period. My main place on Sunday January 7 from 4-? Please feel th
source of information will come from author free to stop in for fun, food, and fellowship. There Ace Collins. I hope you will find this uplifting will be coffee this year as well as tea and soda. and interesting.
Joan Burdick Cookie Main
Russ Cole Todd Marbaker Dean DuBois Paul McDuffy Chuck Gabriel Sue Swartwood Anna Gorman Hannah Victor Gray Heath Jagger Zopp Norman Johnson John Zurenda John Kosic Unspoken Requests We Are So Thankful for our Church Family!!!! Jared and I are so grateful for the outpouring of love and generosity for our Thank you to our Church Family who mission trip to Guinea Bissau West Africa. have been praying, sending cards, We thank the UMM, UMW, the church phones calls, visiting, or helping out council, Conklin Forks, all the individual with a meal or treat. We very much and anonymous donations. We will take a appreciate your thoughts and concerns part of all of you to share Christ’s love to during our time of need. another part of the world. Jesus says to Blessings to All. go into all the world to spread his love Love, and Word. We will be able to take you Joan and Richard Burdick with us as we go on January 4th. Thank you so very much for being the hands and feet of Jesus. -Ray Haskell
Linda and Todd Marbaker would like to
thank everyone that took the time to send Todd a card of prayer & encouragement. They were very appreciated. Todd was surprised that so many of you are thinking of him and praying for him. I am so glad to belong to a church family that cares so much! Thank you all for caring and praying for both of us!
In God’s love, Linda and Todd Thank you from the Hawleyton Kids’ Sunday School program for helping collect shoeboxes for Operation Thank you to all at Conklin Forks who Christmas Child. They were very participated in our Shoebox and supply appreciative of your support in their collection for Redbird Missions! We mission that they believe in and feel collected 68 shoeboxes full of blessings for strongly about sending the adults and children at Redbird. In addition shoeboxes to other children around the to the shoeboxes we received school world. We were able to send 77 supplies, several pillows, blankets, many shoeboxes filled with toys, school sheets and sets of towels! Your generosity supplies, personal care items, shoes will be shared with those in great need and and more. Thanks to your generosity, God will bless you in return. A special the children had a great time putting thank you to Jerry Russell and Bob Palmer them all together. Thank you to for delivering our collection to the Amanda, Brooklyn, Charles, Declan, warehouse at Endwell UMC for Emagene, Henry and Makayla for your transportation to Beverly, Kentucky just in hard work! time for Christmas! Thank you!! Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2
Seekers Church Council Rehearsal 6:30 pm (Hattala’s) 11 am (CF) Willing UMW Workers Breakfast Set Up 17 (H) Choir 18 19 20 21 22 23 (CF) Pancake Breakfast 7pm (H) Cantata No Pie Happy Hour 24 25 26 27 10 am (CF) Soul 28 29 30 Seekers
7pm (H) Christmas
Eve Service 31
December Anniversaries December Birthdays
1- Stephen Haskell 13 - Melinda Kilmer
24 - Tony & Darah Torres Kathy Hattala Christopher Byce 30 - Rick & Renee' Henson 5- Jean Williams 17 - Cheryl Hoggard Courtney Pease 23 - Bill Reynolds III Kimberly Reynolds 25 - JESUS Richard Burdick 26 - Connie Finney 8- Deborah Gill 28 - Chris Griggs Aron Whiteman 29 - Ryan Manning 10 - Cody Smith 30 - Scott Hotchkiss 11 - Michael Grames, Jr. 31 - Nancy Byce 12 - Jason Opela Becky Smith
We Need Your Help!
We are always collecting items for our two churches, but the ones below do not cost a thing! Please send your items to Chelsea at the Charge Office: hawleytoncharge@gmail.com or mail them in to the office. We are looking for: • Your birthdays and anniversaries • Recipes for future Newsletter Publications • Pictures of different events happening in the Charge and Community • Your favorite hymns (for Sundays when there is no special music planned) • Your favorite Praise Songs for Hawleyton Praise Band (they can be songs we have not sung before) A Message from the Charge Office Chelsea’s Open Office Hours are on Thursdays from 5:30-7:30 pm. Please feel free to call or stop by! If she will not be in on a Thursday evening, there will be an announcement in the bulletin ahead of time.
The Bulletin deadline is Thursdays at 5pm. The monthly Newsletter deadline is the last Monday of the month (unless otherwise noted).
Chelsea will be out of the office from December 22nd 2023– January 8th 2024. Any items for bulletins for the dates of 12/17, 12/24, 12/31 & 1/7, as well as January Newsletter items are due no later than Thursday, December 14th at 5pm. Please call or email with any questions. Thank you!!
SPPRC Committee Members Important Announcement about Sunday Announcements
Sally Williams & Jerry Russell co-chairs, Linda Marbaker, Attention Conklin Forks and Hawleyton Congregations: Connie Hart, Judy Zurenda, Betsy Beginning Sunday, January 14th, we are trying something Reynolds-Snigar. new. We are going to be removing the announcement If anyone has questions/ portion of the Sunday Worship service, in an effort to keep our comments about any of our paid focus on Worship throughout our time together. Please have staff please contact a member of any announcements in to Chelsea for the bulletins by the SPPRC Committee. Thursdays at 5pm. Thank you for trying this out with us, we look forward to your feedback. - The Joint Worship Committee of Conklin Forks Card Mailboxes and Hawleyton The CF and Hawleyton mailboxes CF Bottle & Can Collection will be in their Narthexes if you'd CF folks can again bring soda cans/bottles for collection to the church. Any cans/plastic should be removed from the bags you like to "deliver" your Christmas bring them in and placed in the large trash can at the end door of the education building (inside). Glass bottles should be placed in cards to your church family. the box on the floor. Glass and plastic must be separated! PLEASE ONLY CLEAN, DRY, AND UNCRUSHED Attention Conklin Forks Singers! cans/bottles should be brought for collection. Regular recycle items should go in your receptacles at home. Money collected Who wants to sing?? The CF Choir needs will go toward Disaffiliation expenses. Thank you! you! We've picked our songs– rehearsals Will be 12/6, 12/13, 12/20 and we'll sing on CHOW Collection for December Sunday morning, 12/24! Please join us! Make sure to check out the back page for our Reverse Advent Calendar for CHOW! You can drop off any items to either church to be donated. Dinner Diners will be going to Donolis in Thank you! Apalachin on December 20th at 6pm. If you are interested in attending, please let Pastor Nurture and Promotion Meeting Mary Jean know by Dec. 14th so that There will be a Nurture and Promotion Meeting on Monday, reservations can be made. All are welcome. January 8th at 6:30pm at Hawleyton. Please attend so that we can plan some fun activities for the upcoming months.
Christmas Card “Newsletter”
If you are interested in participating in the “Newsletter”, please send what you would like shared as a note and (if desired) a picture of you/your family. Please note that the picture provided will be distributed to the Charge email list, so the image must be able to be published. If you do not send a picture, we will add a Christmas Card image to your note. For anyone that wants to be included, please mail hawleytoncharge@gmail.com, call or mail it to the Charge office. Please submit your “cards” no later than Friday, December 8th. Thank you for participating in this fun opportunity!
