Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Commitment to Becoming an Anti-Racist Church
Monday, June 29, 2020
This week @ St. Paul's
11:00 am, Virtual Denominational Town Hall
(at this link)
4:00 pm, CSA Pick Up
Thursday:
11:45 am, Ladies Lunch Bunch - social distance style
(on the church lawn)
3:00 pm, Virtual Ladies Summer Book Group (contact Belinda A.)
Saturday: Independence Day
Sunday:
10:00 am, Virtual worship
11:00 am, Virtual youth group
Scripture lessons for July 5
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Happy birthday, John!
Some records say 17 June as his birthday but this was changed to the 28 June when England changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
June 28 @ St. Paul's UMC: Announcements
+Love is Resilient: a Pride Virtual Worship Service. The Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) is hosting a virtual worship service to celebrate the resilience of the global LGBTQ family today at 6:00 pm. Come worship God and celebrate the holiness of queer-trans existence with Reconciling United Methodists around the world. The service will be live-streamed on Facebook and available to view on the RMN homepage at the start of the event today.
+Interested in learning more about the fight for fair elections? Join the General Board of Church & Society on June 30 @ 5:00 pm for the discussion on voting rights. Suppressed: The Fight to Vote: http://ow.ly/R1rp50AhLim. Register for the Zoom Discussion: http://ow.ly/scRE50AhLil
+You are invited to join us each Wednesday morning @ 10:00 am, for a virtual coffee/tea informal gathering via Zoom. Join our Zoom gathering at this link.
+The Council of Bishops, the General Commission on Religion & Race, the General Board of Church & Society, and the United Methodist Women invite you to join a denominational Town Hall conversation at UMC.org/EndRacism where we will take a deep dive into the true (and sometimes suppressed!) history of our nation and church. Wednesday - 11:00 am.
+The Ladies Lunch Bunch will be back on Thursday, on the church lawn, at 11:45 am.
+The Ladies Summer Book Group meets via Zoom each Thursday at 3:00 pm. Contact Belinda A. for login information.
+Bishop Oliveto welcomes you to join her for a Facebook Live gathering each Saturday @ 5:00 pm.
+Please remember to send your gifts and offerings to support the ongoing ministries of St. Paul's UMC to Martha Batch.
+Be sure to view our calendar to see the latest activities being offered through various virtual platforms.
June 28 @ St. Paul's UMC: Prayers
+Marcy R. is on a trip.
+Mary F. is doing well in this time of isolation.
+Blessings on all congregations and pastors during this season of transitions.
+The Cleaveland's celebrate their 49th anniversary this week.
+Happy 317th birthday to John Wesley!
Concerns:
+Those who are dealing with the impact of the pandemic including those facing health concerns, economic anxiety, or other disruptions of life.
+Lifting up in prayers those affected by the pervasive nature of racism in our society.
+Terri H. asks for prayers for sons, Ben and Jack. Both in trying times. Ben is in law enforcement and Jack is working in nursing home with Covid-19 present.
+Louise C.'s sister, Marjorie, has health-related concerns.
+Sally O. is having surgery this week.
+Kami B. is having continued health concerns.
+Linda B. is recovering at home following surgery.
June 28 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship
June 28 —4th Sunday
after Pentecost
Today’s Meditation
Verse: “The wages that sin pays
are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans
6:23
Welcome—Pastor Charles
Call to Worship (Psalm 13:5-6)—Pastor Charles (Leader) and Rebecca Glancy (People) (Congregation is encouraged to read People’s response aloud on mute setting)
Leader: I have trusted in Your faithful love. People: My heart will rejoice in Your salvation. Leader: Yes, I will sing to the Lord... People: because God has been good to me.
Prayer for a New Heart—Rebecca Glancy (Congregation is encouraged to read aloud on mute setting)
Thou who art over us, Thou who are one of us, Thou art: Give me a pure heart, that I may see thee; A humble heart, that I may hear Thee; a heart of love, that I may serve Thee; a heart of faith, that I may abide with Thee. – Dag Hammarskjöld
Community prayer
requests, concerns, and celebrations—Pastor Charles
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer—Pastor Charles (Congregation is encouraged to pray The Lord’s Prayer aloud on mute setting)
Epistle Lesson: I Samuel 3:1-9—Rebecca Glancy
Musical Offering: “I Sing Because I’m Happy” (Chancel Choir – November 10, 2019)
Gospel Lesson: Acts 16:4-10—Pastor Charles
Sermon: “The Call”
—Pastor Charles
Words for the Journey—Pastor Charles
Saturday, June 27, 2020
MSC releases anti-racism resources for personal and local church engagement
I confess that I often stop in my tracks when I feel overwhelmed
when something feels too big to engage in. I, like Moses, curious about that
burning but not consumed bush, often hear God’s calling yet find excuses to
push it away. I confess that I hide behind the veil of feeling unequipped and
inadequate. I am reminded that God has been calling and will continue to call;
perhaps I just need to say “yes” and trust that God will be there on the
journey.
Many
among us have engaged in antiracism work, but as I look forward, this is an
opportunity for us as the Mountain Sky Conference of the UMC to say a
collective “yes” because we believe in living into Beloved Community. When any
part of our community is hurting, we have work to do. How can we look away? This
will require us to learn from one another, share and listen deeply, dive into
educational opportunities, open to, and participate in change. We might fall
and trip along the way but let’s help each other get back up and keep at it as
I believe in transformation.
Courtney VonLindern and I have curated a list of resources in hopes of providing ways for each of us to engage. There are many wonderful lists and resources out there, many of which influenced the document we are sharing with you. What we provided here is not complete, but it was created with our Conference in mind. The resources here can be used for personal engagement, but there are resources here specifically for church leaders to engage with congregations too. There are short videos and books that will require us to reread and rewatch to fully appreciate. Some are popular resources, others are ones we have found personally meaningful, and there are materials from our wider UMC connection. Please start by looking through this list and identify something that you will engage with. Once you are done, I encourage you to revisit and engage with more. It also might be meaningful to connect with others to join in this work together. In addition, I invite you to visit Discipleship Ministries for additional resources and worship ideas.
(Access the antiracism resource list HERE)
Friday, June 26, 2020
Denominational Town Hall
Wednesday, July 1 - 11:00 am
The Council of Bishops, the General Commission on Religion and Race, the General Board of Church and Society and United Methodist Women invite you to join a Town Hall conversation here at UMC.org/EndRacism where we will take a deep dive into the true (and sometimes suppressed!) history of our nation and church.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote: http://ow.ly/R1rp50AhLim
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Dismantling Racism: A Service of Lament
United Methodists from around the world will gather to lament for the racism in our midst. We will also reflect on Psalm 22, have a time of communion and hear God’s call to join in the work of dismantling racism and pressing on to freedom for all.
Together, we must pray, connect, show up and act.
“Dismantling Racism: Pressing on to Freedom” is a multi-level initiative throughout the church to implement a sustained and coordinated effort to dismantle racism and promote collective action to work toward racial justice.
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Monday, June 22, 2020
This week @ St. Paul's
Wednesday:
11:00 am, Dismantling Racism: A service of lament (at this link)
11:30 am, Church Vitality (at this link)
4:00 pm, CSA Food Pick Up
Thursday:
3:00 pm, Ladies Summer Book Group (at this link)
Saturday:
5:00 pm, Bishop Oliveto on Facebook
Sunday:
10:00 am, Virtual worship
11:00 am, Virtual youth group
The scripture lessons for June 28
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Father’s Day has Methodist ties
Sonora Smart Dodd (second from right)
Editor's Note: This story was originally published in 2010, the year often referenced as the centennial of the first celebration of Father's Day. Information regarding the centennial has been updated to reflect this.
To all you dads out there: While you're relaxing in your recliner and watching sports on June 21, and your kids are on their best behavior to honor Father's Day, don't forget to thank a United Methodist.
That's right. Not one, but two United Methodist churches with the same name, oddly enough, can lay claim to originating the celebration of all things paternal.
In 1909 in Spokane, Wash., Sonora Smart Dodd listened to a Mother's Day sermon at Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Dodd's own mother had died 11 years earlier, and her father had raised their six children alone. Dodd felt moved to honor her father, and fathers everywhere, with a special day as well.
She proposed her idea to local religious leaders, and gained wide acceptance. June 19, 1910, was designated as the first Father's Day, and sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city.
When newspapers across the country carried the story about Spokane's observance, the popularity of Father's Day spread. Several presidents declared it a holiday, and in 1972, Richard Nixon established it as the third Sunday in June.
Dodd's pivotal role in the creation of a national Father's Day celebration was recognized in 1943 with a luncheon in her honor in New York City. Central Methodist Episcopal is now known as Central United Methodist, and holds a Father's Day service every year.
Read more at this link.
June 21 @ St. Paul's UMC: Announcements
+You are invited to join us each Wednesday morning @ 10:00 am, for a virtual coffee/tea informal gathering via Zoom. Join our Zoom gathering at this link.
+Virtual Trustees meeting, Tuesday @ 7:00 pm.
+Bishop Oliveto welcomes you to join her for a Facebook Live gathering each Saturday @ 5:00 pm.
+Please remember to send your gifts and offerings to support the ongoing ministries of St. Paul's UMC to Martha Batch.
+Be sure to view our calendar to see the latest activities being offered through various virtual platforms.
June 21 @ St. Paul's UMC: Prayers
+Claudia reports that Pastor Charles & Belinda will be with us for another year.
+The Cooper's celebrate their 65th anniversary this week.
+The Cook's and the Vander Vorste's also celebrate June anniversaries.
+Amy A. said Rhianna is doing better with good health news.
+Jesse A. has moved into his very first apartment!
+Angela's son, Charles & his wife are expecting their first child in December.
+Katherine R. said finishing touches are being done to a new gazebo (designed by Jim V.).
+Abby L. said she has moved and looks forward to returning to Boulder.
+Abby L. thanks everyone for the prayers for her new niece, Lillie, who is doing better.
+Skippy R. said that Linda B. had good results from a recent surgery.
+Dennis & Marcia H. are happy to be back home at Frasier Meadows.
+Joan C. reports that Tonya is out of the hospital.
Concerns:
+Those who are dealing with the impact of the pandemic including those facing health concerns, economic anxiety, or other disruptions of life.
+Lifting up in prayers those affected by the pervasive nature of racism in our society.
+Abby L. asks for prayers for her niece, Ellie, who has health concerns.
June 21 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship
June 21 —3rd Sunday after Pentecost/Father’s Day
Today’s Meditation Verse: “In the same way, you should also consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.” -- Romans 6:11
Welcome—Pastor Charles
Call to Worship—Pastor Charles (Leader) and Rebecca Glancy (People)
Congregation is encouraged to read People’s response aloud on mute setting
Leader: Our relationships with our fathers are complicated.
People: For some of us, our father's love is like God's love -- too deep, too long, too wide,
too strong to measure. Leader: Some of our dads are here; some were never here.
People: For some of us, God’s love fills in the empty spaces our fathers left behind.
Leader: All of us are shaped by the relationship or lack of relationship with our fathers.
People: On this day when we remember what it means to have a father or be a father, we recognize the importance of fathers in our communities. We pledge as a congregation to love and nurture the fathers among us so that they will manifest God in all that they do.
Giving Thanks for Fathers Near and Far—Rebecca Glancy
Congregation is encouraged to read aloud on mute setting
We thank You for fathers near fathers with strong arms and fathers with feeble knees present at table and at bathtub and at bedtime for prayers. Thank You, God, for fathers near. We thank You, O God, for fathers far away, fathers who ache for their families, fathers absent because of war, or disease, or despair, fathers who are present and absent at the same time. Thank You, God, for fathers far away.
We thank You, O God, for caring communities where mothers fill in for fathers and fathers fill in for mothers And grandparents put on the apron and the towel. Where aunts and uncles, and those who are absolutely no kin at all make our communities a home fit for habitation. Amen.
By Safijah Fosua. Used by permission. Posted on The UMCs General Board of Discipleship website.
Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations—Pastor Charles
Pastoral Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer—Pastor Charles
Congregation is encouraged to pray The Lord’s Prayer aloud on mute setting
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 8:1-8—Rebecca Glancy
Musical Offering: “Morning Has Broken” (Rebecca Glancy and Christopher Wahl)
Second Lesson: Psalm 119:105-112—Pastor Charles
Sermon: “I don’t read the cookbook anymore” —Pastor Charles
Words for the Journey—Pastor Charles
Reminder: Gifts and tithes can be sent directly to Martha B., contributions to the PATH Fund can be marked “PATH Fund” in the memo line.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
AC 2020 wraps up!
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Pastor Charles was reappointed by Bishop Oliveto to a second year as pastor of St. Paul's UMC in Boulder.
The ministries of fourteen clergy (a combined 385 years of ministry), whose retirements were accepted Friday evening by the clergy session of the Annual Conference, were celebrated on Saturday. Dr. Scott Schiesswohl was among this group of retirees.
The clergy session of the Annual Conference also approved eleven for commissioning as provisional members. Eight others were approved for ordination and full membership in the Annual Conference (ordination and commissioning service will take place at a still to-be-determined date).
Please remember in your prayers the following congregations whose closures were affirmed on Saturday: Edgewater UMC (Edgewater, CO), Rush Community UMC (Rush, CO),
John Collins UMC (Denver, CO), and Harlowton Federated Church (Harlowton, MT).
Please remember in your prayers Culbertson UMC (Culbertson, MT) and Geraldine UMC (Geraldine, MT) whose disaffiliation petitions from The UMC were affirmed by Annual Conference action on Saturday. Also on Saturday, Sargent Community Church (Sargent, CO) ended its affiliations with the Mosca (CO) United Methodist Church and the Mountain Sky Conference.
For more information on what was discussed at Annual Conference, please visit this link.
World Refugee Day & UMCOR
This day, every action counts in the effort to create a more just, inclusive, and welcoming world for everyone.
Read more at this link.
A poem on the first day of summer
O Thou who passest thro’ our vallies in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer,
Oft pitched’st here thy golden tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy, thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard
Thy voice, when noon upon his fervid car
Rode o’er the deep of heaven; beside our springs
Sit down, and in our mossy vallies, on
Some bank beside a river clear, throw thy
Silk draperies off, and rush into the stream:
Our vallies love the Summer in his pride.
Our bards are fam’d who strike the silver wire:
Our youth are bolder than the southern swains:
Our maidens fairer in the sprightly dance:
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
- William Blake (1757-1827)
Friday, June 19, 2020
UMW at work & play
Friday morning the Conference UMW had a virtual breakfast with more than 70 attending. Belinda led the opening devotions (she's the Conference UMW Spiritual Growth coordinator).
We were on Zoom and could see everyone with some good discussions! We were told the next time we will have donuts with our coffee. The Conference UMW president for the coming year is Linda Cockett. Belinda ended the gathering with a demonstration of Laughter Yoga!
2020 Annual Conference is Online!
The 2020 Annual Conference Session will be held online June 19 and 20. The theme for this year's session is Repairers of the Breach based on Isaiah 58:9-12, "...you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in."
The limited digital format will be held over Zoom Webinar. Find more details about the 2020 Session at this link.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Racism as sin
Learn more at this link.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Summer Book Group resumes this Thursday!
Contact Belinda A. for Zoom login information.
Monday, June 15, 2020
This week @ St. Paul's UMC
4:00 pm, CSA Food Pick Up
Thursday:
Noon, Covid-19 Pre-Existing Disparities Exposed webinar
3:00 pm, Ladies Summer Book Group (at this link)
Friday:
8:00 am, Conference UMW virtual breakfast
1:00 pm, Virtual Mountain Sky Annual Conference (resource link)
Saturday:
10:00 am, Virtual Mountain Sky Annual Conference (resource link)
Sunday: Father's Day
10:00 am, Virtual worship
11:00 am, Virtual youth group
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