May and June 2025 Specific Calendar Events:

* Thursday, May 1: National Day of Prayer; this year's theme is “Pour Out to the God of Hope and Be Filled”

* Sunday, May 4 (after the worship service): Church council meeting

* Monday, May 5 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Tuesday, May 6: National Nurses Day

* Tuesday, May 6: National Teacher Appreciation Day

* Sunday, May 11: Mother's Day

= Thursday, May 15 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks.

Amazon synopsis: Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew—and where to find him. Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He’s been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, exciting—and possibly leaving in just a few weeks.

Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forest—a creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfather—he becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers. As these characters’ fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle . . . but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever.

* Saturday, May 17: Armed Forces Day

* Sunday, May 18 (11:00 a.m.): Chicken BBQ at Runnings in Canandaigua. Remember - our worship service will start at 9:00 a.m. on this day

* Sunday, May 25 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Sunday, May 25 (after the worship service): Fellowship potluck and games

* Monday, May 26: Memorial Day

* Thursday, May 29: Ascension Day

* Sunday, June 1 (after the worship service): Church council meeting

* Monday, June 2 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Friday, June 6: D-Day remembrance

* Sunday, June 8: Pentecost - Commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and followers of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem; the beginning of the Church. Don’t forget to wear RED this day

* Saturday, June 14: Flag Day

* Sunday, June 15: Trinity Sunday; celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

* Sunday, June 15: Father's Day

* Thursday, June 19 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton.

Amazon synopsis: Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst.

When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before. As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature.

Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.

* Friday, June 20: June Solstice; summer starts!

* Sunday, June 29 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s