Welcome to Our New Director of Music
Please welcome our new music director, Matthew Ho, to CLC! We are excited to have him lead our musical ministry and look forward to the music he will bring to our services.
Project Prom
Project Prom will be held in April. You can drop off gently used Prom attire at the John J. Flanagan Center 423 Park Ave Huntington - youth bureau entrance. 9-5 until April 16. Call Michelle Wright 631-351-3173.
Egg Stuffing Party
We will meet in the upstairs classroom on Saturday, April 26th, at 12:00 p.m. (time changed from 12:30 p.m.) to stuff eggs and hide them for our egg hunt, weather permitting. See Pastor Sarah if you can help out!
Egg Hunt
Our egg hunt will take place on Sunday, April 27, at 12:45 pm (rain or shine)! All children up to 5th grade are invited to participate. Older kids are needed to help stuff and hide the eggs the day before and to assist in collecting any unfound eggs on the day of the event. See Pastor Sarah to help out!
Evening at the Oasis
On Saturday, April 26th, 2025 Mystique and Christ Lutheran Church present “An Evening at the Oasis” bellydance charity showcase! Featuring bellydance talents including: Mystique, The Desert Wind, the Orion SG Collective and many more. Join us for great entertainment, light refreshments and raffles! Start time - 7:00pm.
Ticket price - $25.00 pre-sale until April 12th or $30.00 at the door. Last day to order online tickets is April 24th. Order tickets here.
Spring Clothing Drive
Mark your calendars for the Spring clothing drive, May 4-18th. More info to come.
Vegetable Garden
Calling all gardeners! Mark your Calendars. Calling all gardeners! Mark your Calendars - Saturday, May 17, at 9:00am we will be the planting the vegetable garden. Families, preschool families and any gardeners are needed to plant vegetables. These vegetables will be harvested during the summer and fall and sent to the Ecumenical Food Pantry in Northport. Many people are struggling with food insecurity. These fresh grown vegetables help nutritionally for about 160 families in the Northport area. Please help. Look for the sign up sheet in another week. Questions??? Please contact Deacon Sharon if you have questions @ 487-9710
Spring Blood Drive
CLC will be hosting it's Spring blood drive on Sunday, May 18th from 8:30am to 1:00pm in the Fellowship Hall. Each person's donation can save up to 3 lives! If you would like to donate please sign up on one of the sign up sheets posted in the hallway or fellowship hall bulletin boards. ( Ages 16 to 75 eligible to donate.) You may contact Debbie Cliffe at (631) 366-1641 with any questions or to schedule your donation for that day. You can also click on the flyer to the left and scan the QR code to schedule. Walk ins are welcome. Please come if you are able or help to encourage those that can, to donate. Thank you!
Service Auction
June 14, 2025 Mark your calendars. Last year's winning bid certificates expire June 2025. For more info contact Gail Parisi 807-2955.
Sugar Kelp Project
We have something new for the Tyson Galloway Celebration Garden. We have been chosen as one of four master gardens in Huntington Township, for the “Sugar Kelp Project”. This is part of the Rotary Environmental Action Coalition of Huntington or REACH. The REACH rotary club is dedicated to service projects based on environmental sustainability with a primary focus on improving water quality, restoring habitats and supporting aquaculture by reintroducing keystone indigenous species to local embankments. This group works with the DEC, Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Programs, and local towns. REACH is currently permitted by the DEC and The Cornell Cooperative Marine program to cultivate Sugar Kelp. This indigenous macro algae helps extract carbon dioxide and nitrogen from our waters and acts as a bio stimulant for lawns and gardens through fertilizing with the kelp. At CLC we have 3 test beds that have been treated with sugar kelp granules. We will track growth of plants and vegetable size comparing it with our control beds. We hope to stimulate root growth and drought resistance in our selected plants. This is exciting work for CLC. I am excited to see how we do.
Oyster Reefs Project
The “Oyster Reefs Project” is another marine project promoted by REACH. This project is about building oyster reefs to improve water quality, and restore habitat and to support aquaculture and our heritage maritime industry. These oysters are not for consumption but are raised for reef restoration. One oyster filters about 50 gallons of water per day. This allows millions of gallons of water to be filtered each day. The restoration of oyster habitat will provide the reefs with food and shelter to many species of fish and will help kickstart the natural food chain. Our man-made oyster reefs serve as spawning grounds introducing millions of oyster larvae and promoting wild reef set formations throughout our water bodies. In the first 2 seasons on the docks The Oyster Reef Project produces over 450,000 oysters and deployed them into our bays. There are currently four reefs, two in Huntington Bay, one in Centerport Bay, and one in Northport Bay.