URGENT: Relief Kits Needed!

Due to the elevated need for relief supplies after the impacts of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot is depleted of relief kits. UMCOR reports that approximately 5,000 kits have been distributed to affected annual conferences, and we need your help to restock their supply.

We encourage you to gather your Sunday school classes, local church congregations, and other community groups and create relief kits for those impacted by recent U.S. disasters. Thank you to those who have created kits already!

Get involved at this link.

Today in Methodist History

On 14 October 1735, John and Charles Wesley set sail for the colony of Georgia on the Symonds along with several other English passengers and a group of Moravian missionaries. It must have been a grueling journey!

As they passed the Isle of Wight John Wesley wrote:

Here the ragged rocks, with the waves dashing and foaming at the foot of them, and the white side of the island rising to such a height, perpendicular from the beach, gave a strong idea of "Him that spanneth the heavens, and holdeth the waters in the hollow of His hand!"

This week @ St. Paul's UMC

 Monday: Indigenous Peoples Day

9:00 AM, Office Hours

Tuesday: 

9:00 AM, Office Hours 

Wednesday:

9:00 AM, Office Hours

10:00 AM, Circuit Meeting (Pastor)

10:00 AM, Zoom Fellowship

7:30 PM, Choir Practice

    

Thursday:

9:00 AM, Office Hours

Friday:
10:00 AM, Sew What @ Joan Coopers

Saturday:   

6:00 AM, BBKC Prayer Time

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost 

8:00 AM, Bell practice

8:45 AM, Study class

10:15 AM, Worship 

11:15 AM, Fellowship

12:30 AM, BBKC  

Scripture lessons for October 20

We continue to journey through the month of October with scripture lessons from 

Mark 10:35-45 and Job 38:1-7, 34-41.

Prayer for Indigenous Peoples Day

Oh, Great Spirit,

Whose voice I hear in the winds

and whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me! I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes

ever hold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand

the things you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden

in every leaf and rock.

Help me remain calm and strong in the

face of all that comes towards me.

Help me find compassion without

empathy overwhelming me.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,

but to fight my greatest enemy: myself.

Make me always ready to come to you

with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,

my spirit may come to you without shame.

- Translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887

October 13 @ St. Paul's UMC: Prayers

Joys: 

+Fun church family breakfast yesterday at Home Cookin’ Café in Louisville. We are thankful for the 12 who participated.

+Wonderful hybrid annual gathering of the Mountain Sky Conference United Women in Faith this weekend! Belinda participated virtually. The memorial service honored Ann Abbott and Donna Wasson, two lovely women in faith associated with our church. 

+Claudia is thankful for the work being done by Alyah.

+Joey shared that Abby is thankful for her St. Paul's family.

+Martha is thankful that Abby and Steve are able to be in Frisco, TX at Chuck Swindoll's church.

+Pastor Charles lifts up the US Navy on its 249th birthday. 

+We celebrate that our blog recorded its 4,000th post last Friday.

+We give thanks for this week's birthday: Debbie Berlin. 

+We give thanks for those participating today: Belinda Alkula (video), Tim Cook (class), Kyle Dacon (piano), Rebecca Glancy (liturgist), Sandra Jordan (flowers), Etta Levitt (Zoom usher), Kathy Lloyd (Zoom host), Suzanne Polacek (bells), Ron Revier (choir), Bren Smith (flowers), and Jim & Joey Vander Vorste (fellowship).

Concerns: 

+We lift up in our prayers those recovering from Hurricane Milton in Florida and the continuing recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene throughout the southeast.

+Rebecca asks for prayers for those working for the relief of those impacted by the recent hurricanes including her dad and sister.  

+Scott lifts up Kami and her children as they deal with life issues.

+We continue to pray for those in the midst of conflict in Ukraine & Russia, Gaza & Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, Iran, and wherever else God's people might be in distress.

October 13 @ St. Paul's UMC: Announcements

+Please submit your Church Conference narrative reports and forms to Pastor Charles by November 15.

+Visit Frazier Meadows clothing closet, a slightly used clothing boutique, on October 21 from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM. It is located on the garden level of South-Central Peaks building. On Monday, October 14, there will be a luncheon and fashion show. Contact Marcia Hult for details. Proceeds support Frazier Meadows    Community Life activities.

+Bishop Kristin Stoneking's installation service in Colorado will be next    Sunday @ 3:00 PM at First UMC, Colorado Springs, 420 N. Nevada Ave. Watch the Installation live by clicking on fumc-cs.org. 

+Sew What will meet on Friday, October 18, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Joan Cooper’s home. Sew What is for those who love to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, and/or enjoy visiting with one another. Please R.S.V.P. to Joan by October 15 (303-499-8591). Joan will provide lunch. (Folks with special diets might want to take preferred food/drinks.)

+Hi, the Mountain View UMC unit of United Women in Faith is holding a packing party for Christmas shoeboxes for Native American elders on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 10:00 a.m., in Barker Hall. We invite your unit to join us for fun and service to seniors who may not receive another present for Christmas. We will plan to deliver the completed shoeboxes to One Nation Walking Together in Colorado Springs; this Native American-staffed nonprofit will deliver the shoeboxes to four reservations in South Dakota before the holidays. What do we need for the project?   Shoeboxes! And anything that will fit in a shoebox: small cans of protein (tuna, chicken, Vienna sausages, nuts), granola bars, hard candies, hats, scarves, gloves, socks, bandanas, small fleece blankets, calendars, notepads, pencils, pens, paper-back books, reading glasses, dishcloths and towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, travel-size shampoos, conditioner, soaps, swabs, cotton puffs, playing cards, etc. We also need wrapping paper, tape, curling ribbon, and scissors so we can wrap the shoe-boxes and have them ready for distribution. We will mark each box with a M or W to designate whether men or women should receive the shoebox.