C4 SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2017 THE CITIZEN 00 1 LAKE LIFE House of Concern holding second Canal Crawl The Seneca County House of second annual Canal Crawl Paddling Poverty will take place Saturday, Aug. 19. Participants will paddle kay- aks and canoes along the Cayu- ga-Seneca Canal from Waterloo to Seneca Falls, where a picnic and celebration will take place at the community center. There will also be music and a scaven- ger hunt. Participants, who can paddle as individuals or teams, are asked to raise their entry fees by asking family, friends and co-workers to pledge money.
Prizes will be awarded to those who raise the most. Proceeds support the House of Concern, which serves 456 households (1,207 individuals) in Seneca County monthly. For more information, call (315) 568-2433 or visit houseofcon- cern.org. Annual Auburn church festival seeks vendors Vendors are sought for First Presbyterian ninth an- nual Community Wide Flea Market Festival. The festival will take place from 8:30 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Satur- day, Aug. 5, at the church, 112 South Auburn. Spaces are 12 by 12, and cost $20 to rent. For more information, call (315) 252-3861.
Seneca Falls fellowship hosting vacation Bible school A vacation Bible school, Explo- sion Zone! will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 10, 11 and 12, at Finger Lakes Christian Fellow- ship, 83 Auburn Road, Seneca Falls. Children 5 to 10 can learn about Acts 1:8 through games, songs and other activities. Children 11 to 13 will build rockets while learning how God uses those who love him to spread the gos- pel. Free meals will be served at 5:30 p.m.
each day. For more information, call (315) 568-5691 or visit ngerlake- schristian.org. program to be presented in Auburn Radical Love of a program on Christian enlight- enment and fellowship, will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 74 State Auburn. Lisa Condes, a Christian life coach, theology graduate and speaker, will present the pro- gram.
There will also be a meet- and-greet and refreshments af- terward. Seneca Falls group contributes to hunger program The Arc of Seneca Self Advocacy Group recently donated $300 to the Seneca Falls School Backpack Program. The group raised the money at a chicken barbecue sale at Fuccillo Ford in Seneca Falls in May. The program provides food to more than 165 local students on weekends and breaks, when they have access to the school cafeteria for breakfast and lunch. The Self-Advocacy Group consists of people with intellec- tual other developmen- tal disabilities who advocate for themselves in issues important to them, be they personal or related to public policy.
For more information about the group and its volunteer ef- forts, call (315) 521-5381. Golf tourney, can drive support Cayuga County Habitat A golf tournament to support Cayuga County Habitat for Hu- manity will be held Friday, Aug. 18, at Dutch Hollow Country Club, 1839 Benson Road, Auburn. Beardsley Architects Engi- 13th annual golf tourna- ment will include 18 holes, a cart and a New York strip steak dinner. The registration deadline is Aug.
1. For more information, includ- ing pricing, call (315) 253-7301. Also, Cayuga County Habitat for Humanity will from anyone who turns cans and bot- tles into Northside Food Bev- erage, 233 North Auburn. Mentioning Habitat will direct all proceeds to the agency. For more information, email org.
Sacred Heart Society holding annual Triduum The Sacred Heart an- nual Triduum will be held at 5:30 each evening Wednesday through Friday, June 21 through June 23, at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 299 Clark Auburn. Wednesday and Thursday will be holy hour services with Bene- diction, and Friday Mass will have the Rev. Frank Lioi as celebrant. The events are free and open to the public.
Auburn church announces three- day revival A revival will be held at 7 p.m. each night Wednesday through Friday, June 28 through 30, at First Church of God in Christ, 90 Garrow Auburn. For more information, call the church at (315) 252-4659. Bible school scheduled for Weedsport A Hero Central vacation Bible school will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday, June 26 through 29, at First Bap- tist Church on Liberty Street in Weedsport.
Children will take part in an opening assembly and take part If I say the word Sabbath, what comes to my wife, Jenna, and hear about a small college town in rural Iowa, a efdom of Dutch Reformed theoc- racy, where it is literally a crime to pick a tulip. While in decline in most places around the United States, Sunday blue laws are still very much in ect in Orange City. Jenna could never gure out why so many men were installing oor drains in their garages until one day she re- alized they were all secretly wash- ing their cars on from the Sabbath police who were determined to make them rest even if it killed them! Chances are what Sab- bath is for many of us: restriction and boredom. Does on-the-go life- style really have room for the old American time slowed down enough for church, family barbecues, and baseball in the sun? Who can a ord to give up work, chores and technology for 24 hours? And, for that matter, who wants to? Sabbath means rules and lim- its. It stands in counter-position to the American credo: do what you want, when you want.
Yet, we need a sacred day of rest more than ever. Our schedules are overloaded, our minds are fren- zied with work, our communities and families are disconnected, our phones constantly light up with demands for attention, and even our attempts to relax prove ulti- mately unsatisfying. In response, we keep trying to ll our time with more media, more things to buy, more vaca- tions. And it just keeps getting worse and worse. Because we need of what we already have; we need something di erent.
We need what Jewish author Judith Shulevitz describes as di erent order of To nd that di erent order of time, we have to go back to the very beginning of time, to cre- ation itself. Now you are probably accus- tomed to thinking that you were the goal of creation. But what if I were to tell you that Sabbath, not humanity, is the pinnacle of creation? Look back at each day in the Genesis creation story. Each day brings at least in the eyes of an ancient Hebrew priest a more complex and important creation, progressing from plants to sh to birds to land animals, and then to humans. But God creates something after us.
God creates Sabbath. But this time, God cre- ating objects or living things or even time; God was creating the reason for time, the reason for life itself. It was what God had been working toward since the very rst spark. This is why the seventh day is the only day God blesses. Because Sabbath is life as it was intended.
It is the goal of life that it be lived, that it be shared, that it be returned to God, relished and loved in every detail. One day each week, we are given a gift a bus pass, if you will, back to Eden, back to cre- ation. What talking about is more than a break, more than a ix binge. It is renewal. It is a sacred and di erent way of living outside of time.
It is an invitation to feel joy and awe. It is the di erence between life and distraction. On Sabbath, in the mindful presence of God, the whole world becomes church: Westminster, the woods, the soup kitchen, the family dining table, a good book, a museum, an opera maybe not the mall. Jenna and I are trying this out. We want to know if a way to hold onto this gift despite all the modern pressures of life.
decided to share a Sabbath at least two days each month. If an activity brings us closer to God, to each other, to the community, or to the earth, we can do it on the Sabbath. If it if about accomplish- ment or work or mindless enter- tainment or ting others, then not Sabbath. What falls under that rubric will look di erently for each per- son. For some people, gardening is a chore, in which case it would not be done on the Sabbath.
But for others, the act of digging their ngers into the soil and growing life evokes intimacy with God and creation, in which case it would be perfect for the Sabbath. So, go ahead, take your bus ticket. It will take you to a place of unhurried time, shared with family, friends, and God. The Rev. Patrick David Heery is the pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Auburn, and the former editor of the Presbyterian Church denominational magazine, Presbyterians Today.
A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Heery lives in Auburn with his wife, Jenna, and their two dogs, spending much of their free time hiking the countryside. Sabbath, our weekly bus ticket to paradise WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH THE REV. PATRICK DAVID HEERY THANK YOU Habitat thanks community for help Cayuga County Habitat for Humanity, a local a liate of the international, ecumen- ical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating sub- standard housing worldwide and to making adequate, a ordable shelter a matter of conscience and action, wishes to thank local businesses, individuals and foun- dations which ered support to the a liate during FY with donations of and discounts on construction materials and other goods, professional exper- tise and assistance, funding and grants, and appreciated guidance. They are: ACE Hardware, Ska- neateles; LeMoyne College Hab- itat for Humanity Club; Cayuga Community College volunteer groups; Tom Schneider Con- struction; A Tec Electric; Build- ers Choice Lumber; Callahan Masonry; Carbonaro Law ce; Erie Materials; HEP Supply; Bi- anco Plumbing; Area East Ap- praisals; Kitchen Express; Plumbing and Heating; Tile and Carpet Town; Bartolotta Furni- ture; Bartolotta Finish Carpen- try and Construction; Watkins Surveying; Heating and Contracting; Ted Beardsley Architects Engineers; Florist; Cuddy Ward CPA; Mike Patty Luksa; The Home Depot; St. James Episcopal Church, Ska- neateles; St.
Peter John Church, Auburn; All Storage; Bob Pearce Floor nishing; Flaherty Ma- sonry; Jacobs Press; Lennox Tree Service; Northside Beverage; Sar- nicola Masonry; Waterman Fam- ily; Saxton Family; Bu alo Wild Wings; The Auburn Elks Club; Stanley Metcalf Foundation; The D.E. French Foundation; The Cayuga Foundation; CNY Com- munity Foundation; The Froelich Family Foundation; The Emerson Foundation; The Allyn Founda- tion; Federal Insulation Group; Guild; Cayuga County Sherri Department; and Au- burn Prison City Ramblers. Auburn Community Hospital and sta provided excellent care The family of Bonnie Sullivan would like to express our most heartfelt thank you to the ICU sta at Auburn Community Hos- pital, cally nurses Carl and Ally and Dr. Serfer. We also want to express our deepest gratitude to Dr.
Dave Okolica for providing our mother with the utmost care, compassion and dignity that she deserved. Additionally, we would like to recognize the men and women of the Scipio Volunteer Fire Dept. for their unwavering support during this di cult time. SCAT Van grateful for Union Springs Lions Club Every year seems to get better! Once again what a wonderful job the Union Springs Lions Club did on the annual Chicken BBQ for the SCAT Van held Saturday, June 3rd. Each year these dedicated volun- teer members purchase, prepare and cook the chicken, potatoes and baked beans, all proceeds to the SCAT Van Service.
On behalf of the SCAT Van Board of Directors I would like to say thank you to Warren Albrecht, Rhonda Dixon, John Thomas, Johan Lehtonen, Bob Diab, Gary Prince, Clair Morse, BJ Bellon, Deb Lewis, Eric Rosenkrans, Ken Post and Chris Zipple. Also, thank you to the board members, Sandi Kreplin, Dick Miller, Lorie Fischer, JR Colella, our dispatchers Mela- nie Bassett, Kathy Shutter and our American Legion Ladies Auxiliary special friend, Eline Whitehead who helped with the serving and cleaning up. Lastly a special thank you to all who came out to support us, I am so proud to be part of this community! Sue Van Epps is executive director of the SCAT Van. All thank you let- ters are reprinted as submitted. PROVIDED Cayuga County Habitat for current project at 6 Adams Auburn.
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