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05-31-20 Update

Next week we will be transitioning to in-person services. We will have online prayer at 9 AM and our Celebration Service in the Sanctuary at 11 am. Livestreaming will be available. Check back later this week for full details and our full reopening plan.

Below is our Sunday Playlist that includes the worship set and the sermon.

05-24-20 Update

Below is our Sunday playlist that includes the worship set and the sermon.

05-17-20 Update

Below is our Sunday playlist that includes the worship set and the sermon.

Don’t forget to jump over to our CLC Kids page and get the new family devotions!

05-10-20 Update

Happy Mother’s Day! Below is our Mother’s day playlist that includes the worship set and the sermon.

05-03 Update

Grab our worship Set.

Then grab our online message for the morning.

04-28-20 Update

But until that day, we are excited to announce that this Sunday, May 3rd, we are having our first ‘Drive In Church’!  Our hugs may still be distant, but at least we can see some precious faces. 

Also beginning May 3rd, we are changing our online prayer meeting to 9:00 am at https://clcburg.church/prayer. Pastor Joe’s message and the worship set will still be available online Sunday morning at https://clcburg.church/update if you are unable to attend the Drive-In Service.

Here is some important information about our Drive-In Church.

• Please go to the bathroom before you arrive

• The service will be in the back of the church.

• We will start at 11:00, so you will want to come early for parking. 

• There will be parking attendants to help you know where to park.  

• Please stay in your vehicle at all times.

• Tune into 1620 AM on your radio.

• Honk to say Amen!

• The live worship and sermon will last about an hour.

• Kids’ activities will be available in a sealed plastic bag. Please bring something with a hard surface for the children to color and write on.  (clip board, hardback book …)

• Bring your BGMC Buddy Barrel offering! 

• You can deposit your tithe/offering in containers as you exit.

• Invite your friends and neighbors!

Please be praying for this new venture!  We need wisdom, creativity and mostly His anointing.  We are looking forward to seeing you!

04-26-20 Update

First spend some time preparing with our worship set.

Then check out Pastor Joe’s message from 1 Peter.

If you have kids, don’t forget to get this week’s calendar of activities that Pastor Liz has provided. Click here to get the latest.

04-24-20 Update

04-19-20 - Update

Start off with our worship set.

Then enjoy Pastor Joe’s message from 1 Peter. His 6th in the series.

Click here to get the YouVersion Bible App sermon notes for today.

Don’t forget that if you have kids, Pastor Liz has a new series of devotions and weekly calendars for your family. Click here to grab your resources for this week.

04-18-20 - Update

Hey CLC we are looking forward to a great day in the Lord tomorrow! We will start with our online prayer service at 10:15 am, with the link going live at 10 am. In this time of social distancing, it has been great to see each other, talk and pray. This week we are focusing on physical healing and will have Evangelist Dale Everett with us to pray for specific needs. Come early so you don’t miss out. As always you can join us by using our updates page or our online prayer page. After we are done we will have our worship set posted and Pastor Joe’s next message from his series on 1 Peter.

Pastor Joe wanted to share a special video with you on The Hebrides Revival, you can find it HERE. Share it with others and use it to prepare your hearts for tomorrow.

Pastor Liz has a new set of family devotions that will roll out tomorrow as well. They include a weekly calendar with daily activities and a four week devotion booklet. 
There is a blood drive coming up May 1st that Pastor Joe is encouraging as many as possible to sign up for. You can see his message HERE.

04-12-20 - Update: Happy Easter!

Start with our worship set that includes a special song by our choir. This is followed by our live worship set.

Then settle back for an Easter Message from Pastor Joe. Stay till the end for a special video surprise!

04-07-20 Update

And the winner is……. Laura Williams and her kids for being the most creative during the Stay at Home Order. Pastor Joe and Pastor Karl delivered the prize in appropriate fashion. Click here for the video.

We have our CLC Kid’s Facebook Live Event this Thursday at 2 PM. Arrive a little early so you don’t miss anything! https://www.facebook.com/clckidsmin/ We will have live drawings for our Easter Prize Baskets that will be delivered this Saturday.

Easter is right around the corner! Join us for our online prayer service as we come together as the body of Christ. Last week we had over 100 people join through 48 connections. 

We want to see what everyone is doing for Easter this year! Please take pictures of your Easter celebration, send  or text them to kenc@clcburg.church 717-496-7986 and Ken will share a CLC Easter Celebration Collage with us early next week!

As in years past, we will be collecting a special Easter offering in the coming weeks. This year’s Easter offering will go towards our Benevolence Fund to be used to help our church members and community members with financial needs that come up during this time. Help us show the love of Christ to our church family and community!!

Starting next week we will be adding a midweek prayer service to our schedule. Wednesday nights we will be joining together online at 6:30 PM.

04-05-20 Update

First check out this week’s worship set.

Then Check out Pastor Joe’s message for this morning.

Pastor Liz is providing weekly devotions for your family to share. You can find them by CLICKING HERE. Please share these with anyone you know with kids who might need more resources for keeping kids busy while they are home. Also, don't forget to post on the Praise Report and Ways to Help pages by clicking on these links. 

04-04-20 - update

04-02-20 - Update

With Governor Wolf’s Stay At Home Order in place for the state of Pennsylvania, there will be no regular gatherings at CLC until further notice. But the CLC staff are available to talk with you, pray with you, help in whatever ways we can! Please don’t hesitate to reach out! 

joep@clcburg.church

office@clcburg.church

karls@clcburg.church

liza@clcburg.church

janec@clcburg.church

kenc@clcburg.church

717-267-1280

Thank you for your faithful giving! Many of you have dropped off donations or given online, lots for the first time! And we have raised over $1200 to bless our healthcare workers! We will also be able to bless some of our first responders as well! 

Don’t forget about our Facebook contest -comment on our Facebook post about what creative things you are doing to pass the time!  Feel free to nominate someone else as well!

This Sunday we will have our third Online Prayer Meeting at 10:15 AM. If you haven’t joined us yet, start this week! It is a great opportunity to come together as the Body of Christ and change the world in which we live by prayer. Follow the link or go to clcburg.church and scroll down and click on the white box that says COVID-19 updates. The link will go live at 10 AM Sunday! A few kids are going to share when we finish praying so you will want to stay on until the end!

Families with kids - we will be having a Facebook Live Event on our CL Kids Facebook page for you on Thursday, April 9 at 2 pm. Four awesome Kids Easter baskets and one totally amazing Family Basket will be given away! You won’t want to miss it!

Easter Sunday is coming! We are working on making Easter Sunday extra special - stay tuned for details!

3-29-20 Update

Enjoy this worship set.

Check out today’s announcements.

Then listen to Pastor Joe’s 3rd message on 1 Peter. You can find the sermon notes in the YouVersion Bible app or click here.

Also, don't forget to post on the Praise Report and Ways to Help pages by clicking on these links.

3-24-20 - Update

We miss you!  It has only been a few days, but it seems like forever!!  The Christian Life staff are praying for wisdom and creativity.  We have been asking the Lord to show us effective ways to minister to you and our community.

Thank you to those of you that joined us last Sunday.  We loved seeing your faces at the prayer time. We will follow a similar format for our Sunday Celebration Service this coming week, but with God’s help and direction, we will improve the presentation as much as we can.  We are going to have the virtual prayer time again at 10:15 AM.  We are preparing a prayer list and people to pray over each topic in advance this time.  Anyone may pray on the current topic after the designated prayer warrior finishes their prayer!  Please join us.  Above all else, we need to pray together and for each other.

Following our prayer time, Pastor Jane will have a worship set for you to worship with, and Pastor Joe will have a prerecorded message that will be available as well. 

We will not be having any face to face services Sunday, March 29 or Wednesday, March 25 or April 1.

Additionally, Carrie Gordon is planning a food outreach at the Warm Spring Estates and Woodburn Estates trailer parks on Warm Spring Road.  If you would like to help pass out food or are in need of a food basket, please contact the church.

We would also like to reach out to some of our health care workers on the front lines. We want to bring them meals from local restaurants.  If you would like to help bless our health care workers, please visit our website and click on the Donate Now button and select the health care workers option or drop off a donation to the church office. 

Thank you for being the body of Christ at this time!!  We love how so many of you are finding ways to reach out and encourage others during this challenging time.  Please let us know how we can minister to you. Also, don't forget to post on the Praise Report and Ways to Help pages by clicking on these links. 

We love you,

Pastor Joe and the Christian Life Staff

Exciting Opportunity

You are invited to a prayer gathering via ZOOM from 12:00-1:00 on Wednesday March 25th.  Below is the official invitation to the prayer gathering - please click on the blue link to join the meeting.  Please note that you will have to download and install software if you do not already have a Zoom account, so start joining early so you don’t miss anything.

Doug Lehman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Prayer for our Neighbors, City, Nation and World

Time: Mar 25, 2020 12:00 PM EST

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/161030792?pwd=N2FKODJmemMydktvaS94bERHSDhJQT09

Meeting ID: 161 030 792

Password: 843089

03-23-20 Update

We would like to start keeping track of any praise reports of what God is doing in your life at this time. You can CLICK HERE to share one and read others to be encouraged in the Lord.

Stay tuned for details about this Sunday!

3-22-20 Update

Above is the playlist Pastor Jane has put together for this morning. There are four songs and they should play one after the other. Then grab the sermon notes HERE and watch Pastor Joe’s Message below.

3-21-20 Update

Just a reminder that even though there are no face to face activities at Christian Life tomorrow, we are looking forward to a great day in the Lord!

First we will have an Online Prayer Meeting at 10:15 AM. We are looking forward to seeing everybody and praying together as a body. This is our first attempt so please be patient as we work out all the details. We encourage you to find out more information by CLICKING HERE.

After that we encourage you to come back to this page and spend some time worshiping along with the playlist that Pastor Jane has put together and watch Pastor Joe’s second message in the 1 Peter series. Don’t forget that you can get sermon notes and other information in the YouVersion Bible app. (All of these will go live at 10:15 AM.)

For updates on what is happening with youth, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/CLYouthChambersburg/ .

Pastor Liz is providing weekly devotions for your family to share. You can find them by CLICKING HERE. Please share these with anyone you know with kids who might need more resources for keeping kids busy while they are home.
We also hope that you will check out our new Serve Ideas Page. What better time than now for the body of Christ to make an impact in our community. On this page you can find ideas and post ideas about how to help out those in need.

As long as we are able, we hope to have some staff at the church office from 8:30 am - 4 pm Monday through Thursday. Feel free to call or even stop by should the need arise. We are here for you!

Update 3-19-20

Don’t forget you can access our daily devotions at https://clcburg.church/clc-daily.

If you are looking to support an organization that is helping to spread the Gospel and helping with the Coronavirus, we recommend Convoy of Hope. Click Here to give to them directly.

Looking for a way to serve our community during this time of need? Click Here to see an idea from Pastor Joe.

Update - March 18, 2020

Our daily devotions began today. You can access them daily at this link: https://clcburg.church/clc-daily The will come out each day at 7 AM. We encourage you to read through these as a family and to comment on them to interact with the body.

Please continue to share these updates with as many people as you can.

Pastor Joe also invites you to visit http://thereturnwebsite.org/ and watch the video. We will be making plans to participate in this event.

We are looking forward to our live prayer meeting on Sunday. More on that coming soon.

Update - March 17, 2020

The church staff and board have been carefully monitoring the recent news releases, orders, and recommendations from the various government agencies. As always, we are trusting in God and His Power during this time. As the Bible says:

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)

Current Plan

Christian Life and all of its ministries will not be meeting in person for the remainder of March. This includes Sundays and Wednesdays. During this time, Pastor Joe, CL Kids and CL Youth will be posting messages and helpful content online for you and your family.

In this challenging time it is very important that we stay connected to God and God’s people.

On Sunday mornings, we will post Pastor Joe’s message and have a virtual prayer time together at 10:15 AM. More information on that will be coming in the upcoming days.

During the week we will be posting and sending out a daily devotion that you and your family can use to stay connected with God and His Peace. Click here for the devotions page.

Due to the fluid nature of this situation, we are going to revisit our plans on a regular basis. We will provide you with updates on our website and via email and social media as needed.

Please help us to share this information with others, particularly with those who do not have email or might not be comfortable with getting information online.

Update - March 14, 2020

With all the recent events and updates occurring in the news and the fear and panic gripping the nation, we continue to carefully monitor information from the Federal, Pennsylvania and Franklin County  governments.

We are holding to this truth - Psalm 46:1 “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” God is in control!

In times of crisis and difficulty, the world has looked to the church to help provide leadership and a comforting voice. We do not walk or live by fear, but put our full trust and hope in God. 

We are also committed to making thoughtful, wise decisions and keeping you informed. The big question on everyone’s mind is if we plan to hold our on-site services this Sunday, as well as the status of upcoming mid-week activities.

Current Plan

We will be holding services as usual on Sunday, but with the following modifications. Our Hospitality Team will continue to be as friendly as ever, but we will greet attendees with a wave and warm hello rather than a hand shake.

There will be CL Kids, CL Youth and Life Groups (at the leaders’ discretion.)

We will not be having our spaghetti dinner after the service this week. It will be postponed to a later date. 

Please be reminded if you do have any cold or flu-like symptoms, please stay home. Click here to submit a prayer request so the prayer team can pray for God’s healing. 

As always, we will be streaming live at 9:00 AM with Pre-Service Prayer and 10:15 AM with our Celebration Service on Sunday. Please let your family, friends, coworkers and neighbors know and perhaps consider inviting them to watch with you if you join us from home. We need each other now more than ever and want to provide people with a message of hope.

• You can join us online at our YouTube channel by clicking here. You can share this link with your family and friends. http://bit.ly/clcburglive

• You will be able to interact with other online viewers, as well as with members of our Prayer Team. And we are exploring additional ways for us to engage together online throughout the week.

Regarding other campus activities, we have made the decision to cancel all on-site activities on Wednesday March 18 & 25. 

Due to the fluid nature of this situation, we are going to revisit our plans on a regular basis. We will provide you with updates on our website and via email and social media as needed. 

Please help us to share this information with others, particularly with those who do not have email or might not be comfortable with getting information online.

HELPING OTHERS

Please consider helping to meet the needs of others during this time. A few ideas include checking on elderly neighbors, picking up food and supplies for those with limited mobility, or even watching your friends’ children who might be home from school. 

GIVING 

Please remember the importance of financial giving. Our ministries are still happening, and we are continuing to help meet needs within our church family. We have several easy ways to give: you can give online (this may be a good time for you to set up recurring giving), mail, by text, or stop by the church office during the week (Monday-Thursday 8:30 AM-4:00 PM). 

Finally, please continue to join us in prayer for our world, government officials, healthcare providers, our community and all those who are affected by this situation. 

Blessings, 

Pastor Joe and Debbie Pickens