Update May 15, 2022
Category: update
Update April 10, 2022
35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
Luke 19:35-40
Speaker for Sunday: Gary Fick, The Blessings
Communion: Larry Cleek
Bible Class: Amy Yaeger
Please Pray For:
• Polly Miner is having some better days but other days she is still in significant pain. Continue to pray for God’s mercy and healing to be upon her.
• Pray for our new director of Hardesty House, Anjanette Brown, as she gets to know the ladies and adjusts to her new position.
• Pray for continued efforts for finding food and housing for over 4 million refugees fleeing Ukraine. Pray for peace talks to bring this war to a quick end.
• We have a newly appointed Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Pray for her to use justice and wisdom in her new role.
Announcements:
There will be a Maundy Thursday Service at CLC from 7:00 – 8:00 pm on Thursday, April 14th. Maundy is the command to love one another and to share in communion. We will read Scriptures and take communion.
An Easter Sunrise Service will be held at the Tower at 6:15 am (6:22 sunrise), weather permitting. Banners will be available by the Cleek’s deck. Pick one up on your way down. There will be prayer and praise to out Glorious Redeemer.
Spring Community Care Day will be on Saturday, April 30th, from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Meet at His Tabernacle Church at 8:00 am. Breakfast is provided. Go to Community Faith Partners website for details and to register.
April 15 – Good Friday “Cross Walk.” Participants are welcome to join in the reading of scripture, or to shoulder the cross at any segment. The event takes place entirely outdoors. Gather in the village green at noon; walk begins and ends at Dryden United Methodist Church.
Easter Celebration for the whole family at Asbury Church, Lansing Campus on Wednesday, April 13th, and at the Dryden Campus on Tuesday, April 12th, from 7-8pm. See bulletin board for registration details.
CLC Quilting & Knitting Group creates quilts and knitted afghans as comfort blankets for those in the hospital and nursing homes. The group meets twice a month. Enquire if interested to Karen Cushman, 607.592.1061 or Meg Plumeau, 607.351.4877
Weekend Backpack Program: April, YooHoo – Providing items for the Weekend Backpack Program is a concrete way to invest in your community. All items are distributed to students at the Dryden Elementary School. Items can be put in the labeled basket by the administrative desk.
Prayer: Sundays 9:00 am: Prayer for the morning service meets in the Prayer Tower; Fridays 7:00-8:30 pm: CLC Prayer – In-person or via Zoom (Zoom link reusable each week, sent via email weekly); First Saturday monthly 7:00-8:00 pm: CFP Prayer – dial (205) 825.9187 to join
Zoom:
Join us at 10:00 am Sunday morning for worship via Zoom. Link and song sheets are emailed each week.
Tips for a successful meeting:
– Log in to Zoom before the meeting starts. (The link is reusable each Sunday.)
– Mute your microphone.
– Familiarize yourself with the chat function for communication with the Zoom moderator
Do you have a picture, or written word that you would like to share with everyone? Please send it to office@covenantlove.net and we will feature it in the Update.
If you have an announcement for the Update please submit it by Thursday at 10:00 am to office@covenantlove.net.
Update: April 3, 2022
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
Speaker for Sunday: Nelson Mead, The Life of Joseph
Communion: Charlie Becker
Bible Class: Erica Stupke
Please Pray For:
- Continue to pray for BJ and Sara Louise Newcomer (BJ is Sharon Cleek’s nephew) who continue to recover from their many injuries but still have a long road ahead of them. Pray for complete and total healing.
- Polly Miner is having some better days but other days she is still in significant pain. Continue to pray for God’s mercy and healing to be upon her.
- Praise Report for Kathleen Harmon. She is finally home after 8 weeks! Praise the Lord! She still needs prayer for healing in her legs.
- Pray for our new director of Hardesty House, Anjanette Brown, as she gets to know the ladies and adjusts to her new position.
- Pray for continued efforts for finding food and housing for over 4 million refugees fleeing Ukraine. Pray for peace talks to bring this war to a quick end.
Announcements:
Living Pearl Children’s Home is a place to meet children’s physical needs of food and shelter and to show them God’s love and compassion. Living Pearl Orphanage is still in need and you can still give at https://myglobal.org/make-a-donation
Good Friday, April 15 – The churches of Dryden and the surrounding area will carry a cross through the village on our Good Friday “Cross Walk.” As we read the scriptures depicting the events leading to Calvary, we will offer a silent but public witness to the community of the salvation Christ brings. Participants are welcome to join in the reading of scripture, or to shoulder the cross at any segment. The event takes place entirely outdoors. Gather in the village green at noon; our walk begins and ends in front of the Dryden United Methodist Church. All are welcome.
Easter Celebration for the whole family at Asbury Church, Lansing Campus on Wednesday, April 13th, and at the Dryden Campus on Tuesday, April 12th, from 7-8pm. See bulletin board for registration details.
| PRAYER MEETINGS Sundays 9:00 am: Prayer for the morning service meets in the Prayer Tower Fridays 7:00-8:30 pm: CLC Prayer – In-person or via Zoom (Zoom link reusable each week, sent via email weekly) First Saturday monthly 7:00-8:00 pm: CFP Prayer – dial (205) 825.9187 to join |
Weekend Backpack Program
April – YooHoo
Providing items for the Weekend Backpack Program is a concrete way to invest in your community. All items are distributed to students at the Dryden Elementary School. Items can be put in the labeled basket by the administrative desk.
Zoom:
Join us at 10:00 am Sunday morning for worship via Zoom. Link and song sheets are emailed each week.
Tips for a successful meeting:
– Log in to Zoom before the meeting starts. (The link is reusable each Sunday.)
– Mute your microphone.
– Familiarize yourself with the chat function for communication with the Zoom moderator.
If you have an announcement for the Update please submit it by Thursday at 10:00 am to office@covenantlove.net.
Update: March 27, 2022
19 But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Genesis 50:19-20
Speaker for Sunday: Nelson Mead, The Life of Joseph
Communion: Larry Cleek, The Power of Forgiveness
Bible Class: Betsy Lampman
Please Pray For:
- Continue to pray for Bob and Pam Rozzoni as they prepare to come home.
- Continue to pray for both Kathleen and Polly who are still battling complications from their surgeries. Polly’s sciatic pain is actually worse and another MRI will be done soon. Pray for peace and total healing.
- BJ and Sara Louise Newcomer (Sharon Cleek’s nephew) were in a terrible car accident. Both are in the hospital with serious complications. Pray for their healing.
- Pray for Joe Fick and his family that Joe would be sensitive to the Spirit’s direction as he coaches and trains staff and that they would experience God’s transformative care and holistic provision. That Ezekiel would fully embrace being the older sibling and that Margo’s skin would be less sensitive. And for health, strength, and peace as Sara and Joe return from their respective leaves and seek to balance work and family life.
- Please keep Bella Phelps in your prayers as she continues her work in Portugal.
- Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated to be the next Supreme Court justice. Please keep the nomination process in your prayers.
- The war in Ukraine has forced over 2 million people to flee to neighboring countries in a crisis that’s intensifying daily, with casualties and displacement growing. The U.N. estimates the wave of refugees could reach 4 million. Most have fled to Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, where they have been widely welcomed by governments and local communities. Continue to pray into these people’s lives as they deal with trauma, livelihood, and ongoing uncertainty.
Announcements:
The far table in the sanctuary has some Lost and Found items on it. Please see if you know who may own these items.
Please return your baby bottle as soon as you can.
Living Pearl Children’s Home is a place to meet children’s physical needs of food and shelter and to show them God’s love and compassion. Living Pearl Orphanage is still in need and you can still give at https://myglobal.org/make-a-donation
Ray Crognale is leading Prayer for Revival Regionally on March 29th at 7:00 pm at Vineyard Church of Ithaca. Hope some of you can make it.
Good Friday, April 15 – The churches of Dryden and the surrounding area will carry a cross through the village on our Good Friday “Cross Walk.” As we read the scriptures depicting the events leading to Calvary, we will offer a silent but public witness to the community of the salvation Christ brings. Participants are welcome to join in the reading of scripture, or to shoulder the cross at any segment. The event takes place entirely outdoors. Gather in the village green at noon; our walk begins and ends in front of the Dryden United Methodist Church. All are welcome.
Richard and Anna Welch have seen a lot in their ministry. This book, Broken and Poured Out written by Anna, is a collection of some of the stories from the last 12 years of their life overseas pursuing Jesus. It is raw and real and beautiful. If you read it, hopefully you’ll get a glimpse of some of their journey and perhaps find encouragement as you continue on your own. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V89KCQC?mc_cid=9ac6fa8ea2&mc_eid=cecfad09e7
CLCS Virtual Open House will be held on Monday, March 28th from 6pm to 9pm. If you are interested in participating in this virtual tour, please contact the school at office@clcschool.org or call 607.347.4413.
| PRAYER MEETINGS Sundays 9:00 am: Prayer for the morning service meets in the Prayer Tower Fridays 7:00-8:30 pm: CLC Prayer – In-person or via Zoom (Zoom link reusable each week, sent via email weekly) First Saturday monthly 7:00-8:00 pm: CFP Prayer – dial (205) 825.9187 to join |
| Weekend Backpack Program: March – canned veggies Providing items for the Weekend Backpack Program is a concrete way to invest in your community. All items are distributed to students at the Dryden Elementary School. Items can be put in the labeled basket by the administrative desk. |
Zoom:
Join us at 10:00 am Sunday morning for worship via Zoom. Link and song sheets are emailed each week.
https://zoom.us/j/96747035219?pwd=Zk92UUFhbmRDTEg3R0ROclFXb1pwQT09
Tips for a successful meeting:
– Log in to Zoom before the meeting starts. (The link is reusable each Sunday.)
– Mute your microphone.
– Familiarize yourself with the chat function for communication with the Zoom moderator.
Update: March 6, 2022
‘Then Noah and his family left the ark and he built an altar to the Lord.
He took clean animals and birds and offered burnt offerings to the Lord.
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, and said in his heart,
“I will never again curse the ground because of man even though the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. I have established my covenant with you and every living creature for all future generations:
I have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. I will remember my everlasting covenant between me and you and every living creature.”’
Excerpts from Genesis 8 and 9
Today’s speaker: Larry Cleek
Please pray for:
–Bob and Pam Rozzoni as they travel to Italy (March 16th to the 31st) to minister to and encourage the churches in the Veneto area (the area of Venice and north through the Alps to the Austrian border). These churches have been in the good fight…
–Kathleen Harmon continues to battle complications from her surgery. Pray for God’s grace and joy to surround her and encourage her in this long haul and for total healing.
–IPC clients who come in with heartbreaking stories: drug addiction, separation, no support system to name a few. Pray for God’s love to break through these situations and for the staff ministering to these clients.
–Praise Report from Barb Murphy: Her brother, Gordon, who recently had brain surgery in Rochester can now receive radiation and chemo treatments locally at CMC. Continue to pray for his salvation and total healing.
–Prayer for Ukraine:
Father, we come to you in humility and boldness. You said we could come to your throne of grace and ask for mercy. We are asking you for mercy to be given to the people of Ukraine. We ask for you to use the evil that is taking place, and bring any possible good from it, just as you did with the prodigal in Scripture. (Prayer from IFA March 4th)
Please return your baby bottle as soon as you can.
Please join us for prayer at 9am on Sunday mornings in the Prayer Tower.
Update: February 20, 2022
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. In that day you will say; ‘Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.'” (Isaiah 12:2-6)
Today’s speaker: Steve Swartz
PLEASE PRAY FOR:
Gary and Mae Ellen Fick who are experiencing medical issues. Pray for Gary as he undergoes treatment for prostate cancer. Mae Ellen is dealing with joint pain.
Praise the Lord! Polly Miner’s surgery on Friday went very well and she should be feeling better soon.
May God bless all the teachers, staff and students on winter break this coming week.
God to heal the wounds of our divided nation.
Christians in prison. Pray for God’s protection over them, for their health and nutrition, and that they will have opportunities to witness for Christ to guards and fellow prisoners.
PRAISE REPORT: After much prayer, letters, and publicity, five Pakistani Christians were recently released from prison after being scheduled to be executed.
If you can help with the Afghan resettlement program, please contact John or Betsy Lampman.
The CLC Thursday Night Prayer Meeting is being moved to Fridays starting March 4th at 7pm.
Annual Business Meeting: February 22 at 7pm.