Danby Church News the

Danby Community Church

Adding to and Building up the Kingdom of God

May 2017

1859 Danby Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850

Worship Services: Sunday – 10am

Music Service, Wed. - 7pm Prayer Hour, Saturday - 8am

Office Hours Tues, Wed, Thurs 10-2pm

607.272.1687

Pastor Ed Enstine 607.592.8276

eenstine@aol.com

www.danbychurch.org office@danbychurch.org https://www.facebook.com/danbychurch

Proverbs 6:20-22 – My son, keep your father’s

commandment, and forsake not your mother’s

teaching.

Bind them on your heart always; tie them around

your neck. When you walk, they will lead you; when

you lie down, they will watch over you;

DANBY COMMUNITY CHURCH Serving GOD & Community

Mar

y C

assa

tt, A

mer

ican

Impr

essi

onis

t, 18

44-1

926

Mother’s Day - May 14, 2017

THE DANBY CHURCH NEWS - MAY 2017

The Song of Songs The Song of Songs is a poem between two lovers. It is also known as the Song of Solomon, Canticles, or the Canticle of Canticles. It was accepted as canonical based on the allegory where sexual desire became God's love for Israel. Christian scholars followed suit, making it an analogy for the love between God and the Church. The Song of Songs is read on the Sabbath during the Passover.

The Season of Spring by Charles E. Jefferson (1860-1937)

Spring is a miracle of beauty. She is associated in all our minds with the beautiful. To be sure, all the seasons of the year are beautiful, but spring has a beauty which is unique. There is a delicacy of tint and a subtlety of shadow and a freshness of loveliness in spring which we find in no other season of the year. There is a certain sparkle and jubilance and rush of life in spring which the other seasons do not know. Where does all this beauty come from? It comes from God, and therefore God must be an artist, God is a lover of the beautiful and the creator of it. Do you ever think of God as an artist? Do you ever pray to Him as to an artist? One of the reasons why we do not love Him more is because we have such narrow notions of Him. Spring is a revelation of God's love. It reminds us of the breadth of His generosity. Jesus, one day, in a discourse to Galilean peasants asked them to note how the sunbeams fell upon the evil and the good, and how the rain descended upon the just and the unjust. These phenomena of the natural world symbolize the breadth of God's eternal mercy. Spring is constantly reminding us that God has a generous heart. He pours out the beauty of spring without stint upon us, and He pours it out upon everyone. When you ride along the roads in spring you pass mansions of the rich, and you also pass little cottages of farmers, and you notice that into the front yard of the humblest cottage, spring has found its way. This beautiful servant of the Most High visits the rich and the poor alike.

Oh! my back! Kathie DeWolfe, Donna Donnelly, Pat Addy-Schaad, and Dick Hautala peel 50 lbs. of potatoes for March’s Chicken & Biscuit Dinner!

Memorial Day Monday May 29, 2017 Our Armed Forces -

They gave their tomorrows for our todays.

Fun Facts about Mother's Day It was declared a national holiday by

President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. There are about 85.4 million moms in

the USA Spending for Mother's Day flowers - an

estimated $2.4 billion in 2016. Overall spending is expected to reach

$21.4 billion this year.

Birthdays 5-3 Joan Lorson 5-20 Susan Cobb 5-24 Bonnie Rathbun 5-25 Abby Massey 5-25 E.J. Miller

Anniversaries 5-4 Joyce & Ritchie Moore 5-8 Ed & Sheila Enstine 5-11 Joseph & Johanna Husband

THE DANBY CHURCH NEWS - MAY 2017

Dan

by C

omm

unity

Chu

rch

May

201

7

THE DANBY CHURCH NEWS - MAY 2017

Give Blood Friday, May 12, 1-6pm

Help out Memorial Day travelers.

Ladies Tea May 6, 4pm – 6pm

Refreshments & Inspirational Program The theme is “Daisies”.

Ladies of all ages welcome!

Above: Brother Daniel Williams, Dear Sir, by your making the folowing (sic) confession acknowledge the past dificulties (sic) to be settled and will hail you as a brother in Christ. 1. That you are Sorry that you caled (sic) me a liar.

Brother Robins Wright, Dear Sir, by your making (the same as the paragraph above.) 1 .that you are Sorry you did not move your fence acording (sic) to the requirement of the law. 2. that you told me that you promised the commissioners that you would move your fence without a notice, but at the Same time did not mean to move it three Rods in the clear.

Dispute resolution was one of the church’s responsibilities in early Danby. Peter Compton was S. Danby’s minister in 1839.

Tex Mex Dinner May 19, 6-8pm

The Mystery in our History Thurs., May 25 at 7:00 pm

We’ll sort through, mark & store photos. Help us preserve our church records!

Pet Got Skunked?

1 qt. hydrogen peroxide ¼ c. baking soda, 1 tsp. Dawn dish detergent.

Let sit on coat for 5 min. Rinse well and condition if desired. From CU

The rinse is: 9 qts. warm water

and 1 qt. vinegar. It all seems

reasonable. Have never had to

mix it up for use.

Sou

th D

anby

Met

hodi

st E

pisc

opal

Chu

rch,

Soc

iety

re

cord

s, 1

837-

1845

. Pho

to b

y R

ollie

Bod

a.