This week @ St. Paul's UMC

 

 Monday:  

9:00 AM, Office Hours

Tuesday: 

9:00 AM, Office Hours

Wednesday:

9:00 AM, Wednesday Weeders 

10:00 AM, Zoom Fellowship

Thursday:  

9:00 AM, Office Hours 

11:45 AM, Ladies Lunch Bunch

Saturday:   

6:00 AM, BBKC Prayer Time

8:00 AM, Breakfast Fellowship @ Le Peep (Boulder)

8:30 AM-Noon, Celebration for Bishop Oliveto 

@ St. Andrew UMC (Highlands Ranch)

9:00 AM, Yoga class  

9:00 AM, Mission u @ FUMC - Salt Lake City

Third Sunday after Pentecost 

8:45 AM, Adult class

10:15 AM, Worship 

11:15 AM, Fellowship 

12:30 PM, BBKC 

Scripture lessons for June 9

The days just flow past and at St. Paul's UMC, we are blessed to share our days with one another. Next Sunday we will read from Mark 3:20-35 and 2 Corinthians 4:13-21.

June 2 @ St. Paul's UMC: Prayers

Joys: 

+Dennis & Marcia are blessed to celebrate their 65th anniversary (yesterday).

+Angela gives thanks for George and his faith journey.

+Scott shared the blessing that missionary Ken Koome will be at St. Paul's tomorrow (and that Rebecca will be offering a meal afterwards).

+Joan gives thanks that her neighbor, Mike, is home from his lengthy hospital stay.

+Belinda is thankful for the opportunity to worship with Pastor Charles last Sunday at Erie UMC (and for the potluck that followed worship!).

+We are thankful for this week's birthdays: Diana Meade and Jessica Sawyer. 

+We give thanks for those participating in today's worship service: Belinda Alkula (videographer), Sandy Bainbridge (greeter), Angela Baker (communion), Lylah Bishop (acolyte), Louise Cook (piano), Tim Cook (class), Ben Glancy (liturgist), Dennis & Marcia Hult (fellowship/flowers), Etta Levitt (Zoom usher), and Kathy Lloyd (Zoom host).

Concerns: 

+We lift up in prayer Tim C. following his accident last week.

+Prayers for those impacted by the recent severe weather events across this country.

+Amy asks for prayers for Tori as she spends several weeks learning in Japan.

+Diane lifts up her niece who is moving this week from Las Vegas to California.

+Belinda asks for prayers as she travels to Utah this week for Mission u.

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

June 2 @ St. Paul's UMC: Announcements

+Join us Tomorrow at 4:00 PM to hear Ken Koome, United Methodist missionary from East Angola, speak at St. Paul’s. The talk will be followed by a light dinner provided by Rebecca Glancy. This special presentation is part of St. Paul’s speaker series co-sponsored by the Mission and Learning Teams.

+Women’s Summer Book Group - It’s time to start planning for the 2024 session of this wonderful group. We meet weekly to discuss a good book, discover new ideas, and share what’s going on in our lives. We’ve met via Zoom since the pandemic, although it’s certainly open for discussion. The past few years we’ve met Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:30. We try to find a book that is interesting, humorous, inspirational, spiritual, and available. Suggestions are welcomed and encouraged. If you haven’t participated before, please consider joining us. We’ll have a meeting to get organized, decide on a meeting time, review book selections, and select our book in early June. Watch for an announcement! Contact Judy Waller or Belinda Alkula for more information.

+Ladies Lunch Bunch will meet this Thursday @ 11:45 AM at Murphy's Tap House in Louisville (585 McCaslin Blvd.). Please RSVP by Tuesday to Michele Matthews.

+The June Breakfast Fellowship will take place on Saturday, June 8 @ 8:00 AM at Le Peep (2525 Arapahoe in Boulder). No reservations needed, just come and share the fellowship!

+The United Methodist Association of Retired Clergy (UMARC) invites all who can join for a live event honoring an icon of inclusiveness, Bishop Karen Oliveto, Saturday June 8th at 8:30 AM - Noon at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch. Registration is desired. Please find more details here.

+The memorial service for the Rev. Julian Rush will be Saturday June 29 at First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce Street in Boulder, at 11:00 a.m. We remember with joy his great legacy to church and society. He pioneered inclusiveness in United Methodism and saved countless lives with his untiring service with the Colorado AIDS Project. His music will live forever, as will his blessed memory.

June 2 @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

Welcome to St. Paul's UMC!

Flowers from Dennis & Marcia Hult's 65th anniversary

Fellowship fun!!

Let's celebrate!

Second Sunday after Pentecost 

(link to today's service)

Today’s Meditation Verse: “While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell on everyone who heard the word.” —Acts 10:44

Welcome...Pastor Charles

Prelude...Louise Cook / “The Heart of God” by Janet Rand

*Call to Worship (Psalm 139:1-4)...Ben Glancy

Leader: LORD, you have examined me. You know me. People: You know when I sit down and when I stand up. Even from far away, You comprehend my plans. Leader: You study my traveling and resting. You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways. People: There isn’t a word on my tongue, LORD, that You don’t already know completely.

*Hymn...“This Little Light of Mine” (UMH #585)

Litany for an Ordinary Congregation...Ben Glancy

L: Holy God, we come together to worship, a people who would like to think that we love You with all our hearts and souls, with all our might, P: but there are so many other things in our lives that clamor for our attention that we often relegate You to Sundays and Wednesdays—and times when we want you to rescue us. 

L: Most of us really do want You to be the one in whom we live and move and have our being. We really do want to hear Your voice above all of the other voices in our lives. P: But we get bogged down in the daily routine. We forget who we are. We forget who You are. We forget what the church is supposed to be.

L: So here we are, standing before You today, with our human foibles and our short attention spans, asking that You would make yourself known to us, that you would help us to recognize the presence of the Holy, that You would continue to challenge us, inspire us, and make us into the people You want us to be. P: Amen.

—written by Katie Cook, posted on Simple Living Works

Epistle Lesson: 2 Corinthians 4:5-12...Ben Glancy

*Hymn...“Be Thou My Vison” (UMH #451)

Community prayer concerns and celebrations

Pastoral Prayer...Pastor Charles

Gospel Lesson: Mark 2:23-3:6...Pastor Charles

Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God.

Sermon...Pastor Charles / “What is the cost of Sabbath?”

Communion / The Lord’s Prayer (UMH p.13)

*Hymn...“Open My Eyes, That I May See” (UMH #454)

*Words for the Journey...Pastor Charles

Postlude...Louise Cook / “God Be With You Till We Meet Again”

A Prayer for Pride Sunday

by Lauren Plummer / Glendale Baptist Church (Nashville, TN)

Holy One,

Today we celebrate Pride — the gift of living into the fullness of who you have created us to be. Bless all who celebrate this weekend with joy in the knowledge that they belong.

We come with gratitude, Holy Mystery, for all the ways you are known to us and for all the ways you confound our comprehension. We give thanks to you, gender-bending God, who is both mother and father and still between and beyond all our categories of understanding. We celebrate the queerness of Spirit that beckons us out, to new horizons of hope and fuller communion with your being.

We give thanks, we give thanks for all the ways that Love finds us.

And as we celebrate, keep within in us the memory that Pride is also protest — a prophetic witness to the struggle of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, and every non-conforming ancestor who has gone before us. We remember today that joy and love dancing are courageous acts of sacred resistance: a testament to the goodness of your creation, a celebration of triumph over the forces of dehumanization and shame.

With gratitude, we call to mind the faces of all the holy trailblazers, in our own lives and in our larger story, who fought and suffered much, who modeled wisdom and compassion to show us how wide and inclusive Love’s welcome is. We hold these people in our hearts. Bless and keep also the saints among us now — those still using their gifts to speak out in myriad ways and showing us the continuing revelation of beloved kin-dom.

This morning, we remember especially those for whom living authentically has meant loss and grief. We remember those struggling to come out to themselves or their loved ones. We remember those who have been cast aside by family and friends, those abused and silenced, and all lives cut short by shame, stigma, and prejudice. Forgive us, O God, when we let fear shrink our hearts and we try to place limits on your boundless love. May we keep striving to make a world where all people know dignity and can enjoy a life of love and health and equal rights.

We pray that this remembering will strengthen our commitment to create sanctuary and deep welcome for those who have been marginalized. May our worship increase our awareness of grace — that we might give and receive it more freely with one another and all those we encounter. And may our worship reveal the work that is ours to do.

We offer this prayer with Jesus, our sibling an our friend. Amen.

June begins at St. Paul's UMC

Join us Sunday for worship at 10:15 AM in person or online here. Preview Sunday's bulletin here. 

We will celebrate communion. If you are joining us from home, please provide yourself with bread or cracker (any type) and juice (any kind).