4 FEBRUARY 1, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Ridgewood church needs help funding new heating system
BY RYAN KELLEY
RKELLEY@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
TWITTER @R_KELLEY6
In the midst of winter’s coldest
months, a Ridgewood church that
has served the community for
more than 100 years has a broken heating
system, and it needs help raising
money for a new one.
Covenant Lutheran Church on
the corner of Catalpa Avenue and
60th Lane launched a GoFundMe
campaign on Jan. 26 in an attempt to
spread the word that it has no heat.
According to Reverend Michael Ross,
pastor at the church for the last 33
years, some of the younger parishioners
came to him with the idea of
starting the campaign.
Ross said that the 30-year-old boiler
inside the church died and could not be
repaired, and the chimney must also
be re-lined. The large church seats
200 people in the sanctuary alone and
has two parish halls, Ross said, but the
cold has not stopped the parish from
worshiping.
“For the past two or three weeks,
we’ve worshiped in a parish hall with
coats on because it’s a little bit warmer
in there,” Ross said. “As the pastor, I
can say it’s hard to consecrate with
gloves on.”
The steeple of the Covenant Lutheran Church, which is in need of heating system repairs.
So far the GoFundMe page has raised
$1,745 in four days, but separate contributions
in the form of checks brought
to the church have allowed them to
come very close to their $24,500 goal.
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St. Pancras Pfeiffer Hall
68-20 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale
The contributions have been enough
to get the work started, Ross said, with
the old boiler being removed last week
and the installation of the new one
beginning this week.
Photo via Google Maps
Founded in 1910, the Covenant Lutheran
church supports various community
youth groups, all age groups
of Girl Scouts, three meetings of Alcoholics
Anonymous a week and more.
Spelling their
way to success
Photo courtesy of Christopher Chin-Sinn/Redeemer Lutheran School
The Lutheran Schools Association
Annual Spelling Bee,
held on Jan. 24 at Martin
Luther School in Maspeth, featured
students from Christ Lutheran
School in Rosedale, The Lutheran
School of Flushing and Bayside,
Martin Luther School, Redeemer
Lutheran School in Glendale, and St.
John Evangelical Lutheran School
in Staten Island. Two Redeemer
Lutheran students took home the
top prizes: Samantha Anselmo
of the fifth-grade, who finished
first; and Bezawit Amaha of the
eighth-grade, who fi nished second.
Martin Luther’s Jayden Lugo, a
seventh-grader, fi nished third. All
three will advance to the Daily News
Scripps Spelling Bee in March.
