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March for Life Photos
Here is a link to a bunch of photos on CECHome’s Flickr account. We will be posting a lot more photos in the next couple of days when we launch Intercessor’s own Flickr account. Click on the photo of Bishop Craig and Fr. Terry Gensemer below to see the rest of the photos.
CEC for Life
The Charismatic Episcopal Church was founded in the midst of the pro-life work of saving and defending life. On this Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of Our Lord the Giver of Life, also known as Sanctity of Life Sunday.
Please consider joining CEC for Life and supporting the work of defending the preborn children, as well as all those threatened by the culture of death, including the sick, elderly, and handicapped. Forms for membership are available in the bulletins and the lobby, but sign-up and support can also be accomplished online at the following link below for both churches and individual memberships
Click on image on the left to take you to the membership and support page of CEC for Life website. Your help is needed to sustain and grow the work in defense of LIFE.
Please also pray for Fr. Terry Gensemer, the leader of CEC for life, Jacob Jones, and Alan Melanson, who help to organize and lead the work of CEC for Life, Priests for Life and Fr. Frank Pavone, Silent no More and Rachel’s Vineyards ministries, and the Long Island Coalition for Life, who organizes much of the pro-life efforts on Long Island.
March for Life 2010
Come and join your CEC Church family this year for the 2010 March for Life, Friday January 22. in Washington, D.C., walk for life, stand and pray for our nation! You’ll be inspired by the thousands from all around the country, young and old, that march and pray together for life!
We also need to know total number of people, ASAP, who are looking for bus transportation.
Please contact church office at 516-599-3780, and leave information.
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Christmas IDA Offering
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The ICCEC is growing around the world. Every week we hear from someone or some group who are interested in entering our communion. The International Development Agency is the agency responsible for dealing with these issues. In Africa the ICCEC is growing rapidly, and the growth is of Churches already in our communion, as well as new congregations who are coming into our communion. There are tremendous needs.
At Christmas, each congregation in the ICCEC is asked to take up a special Christmas offering to be given to the IDA. The above video is a glimpse into our work in East Africa and Estonia. You will see a people who have few, if any, earthly goods and they are filled with the joy of the Lord. They have not asked for help. They have asked to be our brothers and sisters. When I am able to go visit them, or my representatives are able to visit, it brings our brothers and sisters great encouragement and credibility. Not unlike when our own Bishops come to our parishes.
The IDA is also committed to helping the developing churches connect with available resources to help with schools, wells, famine relief, and education for children. Again the needs in some places are almost overwhelming. Yet, again our brothers and sisters with such minimal resources are effectively reaching out with the Gospel both in words and deeds.
A special envelope will be provided for the Christmas IDA offering
May all of us around the world experience the blessings of Advent and Christmas.
Under His mercy,
The Most Rev. Craig W. Bates,
Patriarch
Upcoming Youth Retreat
Please keep our young men and women in prayer as they ready to gather together at the Marist Retreat center in New York, November 13-15th. May they know their identity in the Lord who loves them and grow in their faith alongside one another.
Father to Bishop Greg
Fr. Greg Ortiz, rector of Christ the King in New Paltz, NY will be consecrated to the office of Auxiliary Bishop of the Northeast Diocese of the Charismatic Episcopal Church, on Friday October 16th at 7pm
Fr. Greg will take on some of the administrative and traveling responsibilities of Archbishop Craig W. Bates around the diocese, who had become Patriarch of the ICCEC last summer.
Please keep Fr. Greg and his family in your prayers as he prepares for the call to serve and labor in the Church as an auxiliary bishop and an assistant to Archbishop Craig Bates.
Christ the King is located at:
2 Eugene L. Brown Drive in New Paltz.
2.8 miles South of the intersection of Rt 299 and Rt 32
Discipleship Classes
BETA and GAMMA
Discipleship Classes begin September 22nd.
BETA
This class is a great followup to ALPHA and a great class on its own, for those who want to learn more about the Church: its history, its purpose, it’s reasons for doing what it does – what is believes, what it teaches, how it worships, and how it is governed, and also how Intercessor and our communion, the ICCEC, fits into Church history. For those interested in “official” membership at the Cathedral Church of the Intercessor, BETA is a required course, and is also run three times a year.
GAMMA
For those wanting to know where and how they fit into the Body of Christ, this class offers the opportunity to explore individual callings and giftings, and how to find your place and purpose among fellow believers while learning to grow into a deeper walk with God. It touches on your individual personality and natural giftings as well as explores and teaches on the different spiritual giftings one may receive when baptized with the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. This class is also offered three times a year.
Sign up with the green envelope.
Acts 2:42 Vision
At the Cathedral Church of the Intercessor, we are filled with a vision and a mighty mission. We’re devoted to serving our Lord and one another, and reaching out with the good news of Jesus Christ to a lost and broken world. We are compelled by Christ’s love to do so!
Our Vision
- to be a Church empowered by Christ to forge a future for future generations and change the world with the Gospel
Our Mission
Based on Acts 2:42-47, we seek to live out the call upon us in the following ways:
- a Church centered in Apostolic Teaching and Fellowship, Sacramental Worship and Prayer
- a Church that is a House of Prayer
- a Church where the gifts of the Spirit are a normative part of the walk of faith
- a Church committed to ministering to the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of her members
- a Church whose heart is for those addicted or affected by drug/alcohol addiction
- a Church reaching the least, the lost, and the lonely with the Gospel
- a Church grounded in Godly relationships in families, households, and neighborhoods through Households of Prayer.
- a Church actively engaged sharing the love of Christ among each other and in our communities knowing it is the Lord who adds to our numbers
ICCEC Foundation Day
What is it? Foundation Day is a day to commemorate our founding, and build a foundation for the next generation.
Purpose: Designed to help churches grow by providing grants, interest-free loans and low-interest loans, to ICCEC churches that are buying or expanding on a church building.
Details of funds collected and distributed can be found at http://www.iccecfoundationday.org/
Summer Missions Trip to Brazil
We are excited to announce that this July 14-27, members from Grounded & Settled will be going to Recife, Brazil, to participate with our Brazilian brothers and sisters in evangelism and ministry.
The main outreach we join takes place at an annual Winter Festival (remember Brazil is in the Southern Hemisphere) in the city of Garanhuns, about 200 miles inland from Recife. The team will also have opportunities to minister to the least, lost and lonely of Recife by helping with a feeding program, holding VBS program for children, and doing some light construction work.
Below is video outlining what we will be doing in Recife, as well as the young adults speaking their hearts of why they want to go on this trip.
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