Worship Calendar

February 18: First Sunday of Lent (intergenerational)
    Join us for the start of our Lenten worship season. This year will seek to deepen our spiritual lives with worship services that focus on faith disciplines. Each service will bein with a Taize chant and will include meditative prayer practices. 

February 25: Second Sunday of Lent
We welcome the Rev. Martha M. Cruz as our guest preacher for this second Sunday of Lent. Martha is working toward a Doctor of Ministry in Christian spiritualiy and works for the Pension Boards of the United Church of Christ.

CCH Yoga

A new yoga class is being offered to all adult church members on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00 pm in the Sanctuary. Bonnie and Kristin bring their long-standing love of yoga and their instructor Marie Cruz to the CCH community. Yoga offers many positive benefits to the body, mind and spirit through the practice of meditation and mindfulness. As another busy holiday season approaches, yoga can help us find the balance we all  seek. The class is $20.00 per session. For more details call Bonnie or Kristin at 516.922.9525 or Sue at the Church office.

Joys and Concerns

We are heartbroken by the terrible murders at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We pray for the victim's families as we dedicate ourselves to stopping such senseless violence.

We have several members and friends who have had knee replacements recently. Please pray for the full recovery for Sylvia Kellershon, Krista Gard, Tom Buckley's 96-year-old mother, and Julie D'Ancona.

"Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby," by Candida R Moss and Joel S. Baden,  is the February selection for the Pastor's Book Group. The Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, have been in the news with a legal challenge to the Obamacare required contraception coverage and their building of the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. This book examines their efforts to promote a Bible-based society, and in so doing raises many questions about the role of religion in public life.

The discussion group will meet on Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 PM at Lorraine Trainor's home.

 From the publisher:

How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a “Bible nation”

Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded on a “biblical worldview as a Christian nation.” But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals in other ways. The billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby, a huge nationwide chain of craft stores, the Greens came to national attention in 2014 after successfully suing the federal government over their religious objections to provisions of the Affordable Care Act. What is less widely known is that the Greens are now America’s biggest financial supporters of Christian causes—and they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible’s influence on American society. In Bible Nation, Candida Moss and Joel Baden provide the first in-depth investigative account of the Greens’ sweeping Bible projects and the many questions they raise.

Supplies Needed

Donate Extra Party Supplies: If anyone has extra disposable plates/cups/ utensils/bowls lurking in their home, the church would love to have them for Fellowship Hour.

 Reuse Plastic Bags: Peace and Plenty uses plastic grocery bags to send sandwiches to TriCYA and ManorField.  If anyone has extra, please bring them to the church.