CCH Congregator Weekly March 9, 2018

Church School Beginner Class on March 4

Church School Primary Class

 Worship Calendar

March 11: Girl Scout Sunday
    All Girl Scouts are invited to wear their uniforms and assist with our worship service. We will also have a special church school class for the scouts to work on their "My Faith, My Promise" pin.

March 18: Ordination of Deacons/Installation of Officers
    All of our church officers and committee members who were elected at the annual meeting will be installed in their offices during this service. And our two new Deacons will be ordained.

March 25: Palm Sunday
     Easter egg hunt to follow worship.

March 29: Maundy Thursday (7:30 PM)

April 1: Easter
     6:30 AM  Sunrise Service at Fleet's Cove Beach
     10:00 AM  Easter Worship in Sanctuary

Bring Your Soles to Church

The CCH Outreach Miniistry is conducting our annual shoe drive March 1-31,2018.  Used and new shoes of any kind (yes, high heals, boots and single shoes) can be dropped off at the church until Palm Sunday. Please tie together pairs of shoes.

 

The World Bank estimates that approximately 400 million children worldwide – more than the entire U.S. population – live in pronounced poverty. Millions of these children will grow up never having had a pair of shoes, resulting in significant challenges for their health and wellbeing. Lacking proper footwear, countless children will not be able or permitted to attend school. And tens of millions of these poverty-stricken, barefoot boys and girls will be infected with soil-transmitted parasitic diseases like hookworm, causing lasting suffering and lifelong debilitation.

 

The shoes collected will be delivered to Soles4Souls, an international anti-poverty organization that distributes new and used shoes. A microenterprise program provides used shoes for repair to create jobs in poor countries. The organization has distributed more than 25 million shoes in well over 100 countries, over 2.7 million in 2017.

Pastor's Book Group
 

The April selection for the Pastor's Book Group is a novel that explores contemporary concerns about immigration as well as the inequality of wealth in our nation. “Behold the Dreamers,” by Imbolo Mbue is an Oprah book club selection that follows a recent Cameroonian immigrant who begins work as a chauffeur for a Lehman Brothers executive just before the crash of 2007. Because our normal book discussion date would fall on Holy Week we are skipping March and will hold the discussion group on Wednesday, April 25, at Eileen and Bruce Rosenzweig’s home.

From the Publisher: This critically acclaimed first novel follows Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.

 However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.

A 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.