Do you know why we're here?

St. Paul's UMC: "Our mission is to openly share creative opportunities to grow in Christ's love through worship, fellowship, service, and learning."

The Mountain Sky Conference: "The Mountain Sky Conference of The United Methodist Church will live in God's grace and abundance as we lead a re-energized peaceful and compassionate movement to claim the life-changing love of Jesus Christ for ALL people."

Western Jurisdiction of The UMC: A home for all God’s people, gathered around a table of reconciliation and transformation: the Western Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church is multicultural and inclusive, engaged in the life of its communities, with confident, effective lay and clergy leadership who, in diverse ministry settings, form disciples who live out the Good News of Jesus as global citizens."

The United Methodist Church: "The mission of the Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world."

This week @ St. Paul's

Monday:
9:00 am, Yoga with Rebecca

Tuesday:
7:00 pm, Insight Meditation

Wednesday:
3:00 pm, STEMrev @ Columbine Elementary
7:30 pm, Choir

Thursday:

11:00 am, Ladies' Lunch Bunch @ Oregano's (Baseline Drive)
4:00 pm, Mary Sandoe House meeting
6:00 pm, Colorado Mountain Club

Saturday: 

7:30 am, Men's breakfast @ Le Peep's (Boulder)
11:30 am, Valentines Tea @ First UMC - Lafayette

Sunday:  
8:30 am, Hand bell practice
8:45 am, Church school
10:15 am, Worship 
11:30 am, Fellowship

12:30 pm, Beautiful Boulder Korean Church

Scripture lessons for February 9

The scripture lesson for this coming Sunday is Matthew 5:13-20. Our preacher will be the Rev. Dan Daniels.

Groundhog Day @ St. Paul's

Groundhog Day dawns on the Flatirons

Jessica and Peter share their gift

Pastor Charles shares the Word

A lovely time together

We're here again: Groundhog Day! According to Punxsutawney Phil we are due for an early spring! Flatiron Freddy, however, said we're in for six more weeks of winter, starting tomorrow!

This morning the choir shared "In Time of Holy Communion" for our anthem. Pastor Charles' sermon came from Matthew 5:1-12. In the sermon, a reading from Nadia Bolz-Weber was shared. This is a modern telling of the Beatitudes. We were especially blessed this morning with the amazing musical offerings on violin by Jessica Oddie and Peter Clark. Jessica has been rehearsing at St. Paul's over the past few weeks and leaves Boulder this week for New Zealand where she will assume the duties of the Assistant Concertmaster for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Auckland. Their offerings (available on our YouTube channel) were: Prelude: "Allegro spiritoso" (Franz Joseph Haydn); Communion: “Gavotte Grazioso - Andante” from Sonata in E minor for Two Violins  (Jean-Marie LeClair) & “Largo" from Solo Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major (Johann Sebastian Bach); Offertory: “Allegro Assai” from Solo Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major (Johann Sebastian Bach); Postlude: “Sekstur from Vendsyssel - The Peat Dance” (Danish String Quartet); “Allegro ma poco” from Sonata in E minor for Two Violins (Jean-Marie Leclair).

Thanks this morning to: Belinda Alkula (Video), Angela Baker (Communion/Liturgist), Martha Batch, Sandra Jordan, Molly Nunnery (Counters), Jerry Beaber, Austin Cooper (Ushers), Jessica Bishop (Nursery), Peter Clark (Piano/violin), Wally Cleaveland (Alpha&Omega/saxophone), Tim Cook (Church school/trombone), Lorie Courier (Accompanist/flute), Ben Glancy & Josie Glancy (Microphone wranglers), Scott Glancy (Youth class), Dennis & Marcia Hult (Fellowship), Jessica Oddie (Violin), Ron Revier (Choir), Gary & Brenda Smith (Fellowship), and Christopher Wahl (Alpha&Omega accompanist/sound board).

Blessed are the weird people

Blessed are the weird people

poets, misfits, writers, mystics heretics, painters, troubadours—
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Blessed are those who embrace the intensity of life’s pain and pleasure for they shall be rewarded with uncommon ecstasy.

Blessed are you who see beauty in ugliness,
for you shall transform our vision of how the world might be.

Blessed are the bold and whimsical,
for their imagination shatters ancient boundaries of fear for us all.

Blessed are you who are mocked for unbridled expression
of love in all its forms,
because your kind of crazy is exactly that freedom
for which the world is unconsciously begging.

Blessed are those who have endured breaking by life,
for they are the resplendent cracks through which the light shines.
Salaam. Shalom. Peace. 

Jacob Nordby

UMW District training

An attentive group

Belinda addresses the gathering

Resources for spiritual growth

Belinda leads the spiritual growth leader training

The Peaks/Pikes Peak UMW District leadership training took place today at Broomfield UMC. Belinda took part as the Conference Spiritual Growth Coordinator.

Groundhog Day is tomorrow!

Come to St. Paul's UMC tomorrow morning (10:15 am) to find out if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow or not!

"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck 
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood."