A salute to our veterans on Veterans Day Sunday. Remembering those who weren’t in church today and also those that will celebrate in heaven. Thank you for your service. Article by Joyce L. Wiedrich 11/20/2025 Thank you, Laurie Prinzivalli for a wonderful Veterans Day service. Laurie reminded the children of what a veteran is, a person that has served our country in one of the United States services, including the Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force, Army, and more recently, the Space Force. Joyce Wiedrich and Dana Schillinger brought the Christian and American flag forward is the rest of the veterans in Church followed them. The music for this Sunday was all patriotic, as was the choir anthem. Laurie discussed about the Christian and the American flags. The American flag is a symbol of freedom. We can go where we want to go. We can live where we want to live. We can dream our dreams and say what we want to say. Veterans gave us freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, the right to vote and freedom of religion. The Christian flag gave us freedom in Christ, freedom from hate, freedom from regret, and freedom from bitterness. The scripture from 2 Timothy 2: 3-4 told us how Paul was a veteran Christian. He passed the torch to Timothy. Laurie reviewed a series of E words. A soldier needs to enlist, a soldier needs to endure and engage. We may not all choose to be in the military, but we can all serve in God‘s army and follow Jesus. Music Sunday is coming up on November 30. Please invite your neighbors and family to join us. Chris Wyant put a bag for collection of plastic caps on the back table. A crazy cap lady from Penn Yan is collecting plastic caps, which can be recycled and used to make benches. Please bring your collections in so they may help make a bench! A correction on the recent BPUMC newsletter. The Christmas Eve service on December 24 will be at 7 PM! Thank you for all that signed up to ring the bells the day before Thanksgiving at Tops market. There are still opportunities to join your fellow church members in this activity, which is one of our missions! Don’t forget to bring your mittens, hat, and scarves for the mitten tree. These will also be distributed at Yates County Christmas. Come join us at service at 9 AM on Sunday!

Christie Mosch lights a candle in honor of those we have lost on All Saint’s Sunday. Article by Joyce L. Wiedrich 11/13/2025 This past Sunday, we had a beautiful service. Pastor Jeannine started out showing the children a tub of raw cookie dough. She asked the kids what was missing and they all said chocolate chips. She had one of the children stir in the chocolate chips telling them we can love better with God with us as the cookies are better with chocolate chips in them! Pastor Jeannine told us to think about those who have made a difference in our life. The service was about love. This is why Jesus came to earth. Love makes us human and gives us faith and hope. She told us to be open to others who love us, especially those who have passed on they have given their all to us. We have a sign up sheets going around for people to help with nursery, Sunday school, and snacks after church. We also have a sign up for helping with ringing the bells in front of Tops supermarket the day before Thanksgiving, starting at 9am. This is one of our missions, and it’s the major fundraiser for Yates County Christmas, which annually, distributes gift cards, clothing, books, games, and other items to children and families who might otherwise not have a Christmas. This project was started many years ago by Floyd Tillman. The children have started practicing as their part of singing in our fifth Sunday celebration, which will be on November 30! They are all really excited about this! We hope many of you and the community will come out for our fifth Sunday all-music service, with our choirs and other musical talents. Thank you, Marilyn Sands and Christie Mosch for tasty treats after church!