January 29 @ St. Paul's UMC: Announcements

+Virtual Winter Mission u Adult Study will meet on Sunday afternoons in February. This study is for adult women and men. We will meet on February 5, 12, 19, and 26 from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. This study will provide a deeper understanding of Jesus’s teachings in Luke 13 about what it means to be in community. The study book is   Who Can We Be Together? A Biblical Exploration of Luke 13 by Candace Simpson.   Online registration is open now (Note: We are in the Peaks Pikes Peak District). Questions? Contact Belinda Alkula. 

+Ladies Lunch Bunch will meet Thursday, February 2, at 11:45 a.m., at Gondolier Italian Eatery (4800 Baseline Road, Boulder). Please R.S.V.P. before   February 1 to Marcia Hult.

+Love is in the air! Claudia Mills will be leading a six-week Zoom course on love from a Christian perspective, focusing on C. S. S. Lewis’s classic text The Four Loves. There, Lewis explores four kinds of love—affection, friendship, erotic love, and love of God—drawing on sources from both scripture and secular literature. The course will meet Thursday evenings from 7:00-8:15 from February 16 (Valentine’s Day week!) to March 23. To join, contact Claudia.

+Memorial gifts in honor of Bob Muckle (elder) can be made to St. Paul’s by check or using the Breeze online giving system. Please indicate that this is a memorial gift in the memo line or using the dropdown menu. 

+This Lenten season, you’re invited on an 8-week journey through the wilderness of gender with NextGen & Inclusiveness Ministries! Beginning February 20th, we’ll be reading “How to Understand Your Gender: A practical guide for exploring who you are” by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker alongside the devotional series “Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for genderqueer and transgender people” by Suzanne DeWitt Hall.  This study will last for 8-weeks from February 20th-April 10th. Participants will begin the reading material the week of February 20th, while Zoom sessions will take place on Mondays from February 27th - April 10th @ 6:00pm - 7:30pm. You can register for this study at this link. 

+The Mountain Sky Annual Conference is realigning the districts and we want to hear from you! The MSC is currently divided into seven geographical districts and is preparing to reduce to six districts beginning July 1, 2023. The MSC Redistricting Team is exploring different possibilities for this realignment and discussing everything from geographic to affinity districts. The team would like to hear from clergy and laity across our conference about the role and purpose of a district. We will not be discussing possible realignment yet, instead, we want to hear about the role of the district in the life of our local churches and ministry settings. 

There will be five listening sessions on zoom - you are welcome to join one or multiple conversations. Please register to receive the zoom information. 

Listening Session #1: January 31, 4:00-5:30pm

Listening Session #2: February 2, 6:30-8:00pm 

Listening Session #3: February 4, 10:00-11:30am  

Listening Session #4: February 7, 1:00-2:30pm   

Listening Session #5: February 12, 1:00-2:30pm