April 16, 2008 Volume 20, Number 6
Offer made on new location!
On March 31st, the church made an
offer to purchase the St. Luke’s Orthodox Church property at
This offer is contingent upon approval by the congregation, and on a general building inspection and an energy audit. Before a final congregational vote, there will be additional opportunities to tour the building. Don’t start packing just yet – the sale would not close until fall of 2009, to coordinate both with St. Luke’s plans and with the sale of our current property.
If you have any questions about the
St. Luke’s property, feel free to contact any member of the Site Selection
Committee:
Please keep everyone involved in this process in your prayers over the coming weeks.
Erik Mason
FCC HONORS
GRADUATES
On Sunday, May 4
everyone is especially invited to attend a time of honoring our FCC graduates
during the 10:45 a.m. worship service.
GUIDELINES FOR SITE SELECTION & BUILDING
First Christian Church –
(published in our Discernment Process Report)
Our
To be a faithful, growing church that demonstrates true community, deep Christian spirituality, and a passion for justice (Micah 6:8)
Our Core Values:
*Sustaining our congregation
*Maintaining our identity
*Growing our ministry and mission
Our mission and core values provide a firm foundation for our congregation, and a framework for our pastoral and lay leadership to follow as decisions are made going forward. Your Site Selection and Building Committees ask that you keep these in mind as you prayerfully consider the information we will present about building options, space and programming needs.
Charles Haseman, Building Committee Chair
Becky Campbell-Howe, Site Selection Committee Chair
SELECTED TEXTS
April 13 April 20 April 27 May 4
Acts 2:42-47 Acts 7:55-60 Acts 17:22-31 Acts 1:6-14
Psalm 23 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 Psalm 66:8-20 Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35
1 Peter 2:19-25 1 Peter 2:2-10 1 Peter 3:13-22 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11
John 10:1-10 John 14:1-14 John 14:15-21 John 17:1-11
To the wonderful ladies of New Women's Group
– Thank you for the beautiful flowers, it was so thoughtful of you.
Sincerely,
Teri
Stickle
Thanking the Disciple New Women for my rose bowl.
LIFE AND NEWS OF THE CONGREGATION!
Congratulations! Shawn Crowder has
been named to the Deans’ List for the fall 2007 semester! Shawn is a student at the Berklee College of
Music in
Mixed feelings for us: Kendra Colyar
shared with the congregation that she will be moving to
The same can be said of Erica Haseman
who will begin an internship in
Keith Lance reports that his recent trip to
the East Coast for Spring Homes Tours was, once again, a joyous event! Keith makes such trips annually.
Unless you’re prepared for an exuberant and
un-Reader’s Digest version response, don’t ask Linda Abel about
her recent
COOKIES
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
The Disciple Women are again sponsoring the "Cookies for College
Students" project. We will be mailing
cookies to our college students to let them know we are thinking of them and to
wish them good luck on finals.
Our college students this year are: Kendra Colyar, Shawn Crowder, Erica
Haseman, Blake Howard, Michelle Manica, Christine Morris, and Aimee Shepherd.
If you would like to participate, please bring two dozen cookies to
church Sunday, April 13, or bring them to the church office by 10:00 a.m. on
April 14. Any extra cookies will be given to CU students at PRISM (formerly
UMHE, United Ministries in Higher Education).
Please call or e-mail me ahead of time if you plan on bringing cookies.
Thank you.
Carol Ashmore, 720.304.2113, <dmashmore_uid@msn.com>
Did you notice?
The Worship Committee is working very hard this year to make small changes in our worship and worship space for the purpose of enlivening our worship and encouraging worship attendance. We hope you have noticed some (or all) of them. Some hints: Holy Humor Sunday (a first for us), decorations on Easter, little “donkeys” distributing palms on Palm Sunday, the sanctuary chairs creating new space on each of the seasons of the church year, information in the bulletin and The Ram’s Horn about each of the liturgical seasons, diaconate sitting during the first part of communion hymn and singing along, and the pulpit re-designed and “perked up,” to mention just a few. What things have you noticed?
We on the Worship Committee think change is good! We like to try new ways to worship, and we think that “playing” with our worship and our worship space will help the congregation to prepare for the many changes we will have as we move to our new sanctuary.
We also know that for every change some members will find that it enhances their worship and for others it will diminish their worship experience. By the way, this is also true for things we have done “forever,” like using the Lord’s Prayer as part of the invocation every Sunday. Our goal is to make every worship service meaningful and a time and place to honor and celebrate intense feelings and thoughtful reflections while we are worshipping God. The only way we can find out whether our changes are achieving these goals is for you to tell us what enhances your worship life and what diminishes the experience.
Your Worship Committee wants to hear from you.
Members of the Worship Committee: Eleanor Hubbard, chair (303.494.9718; hubbarde@colorado.edu); Barb Wilkins-Crowder (303.665.3508; wcjandb@juno.com), Charles Haseman (303.665.9775; greenman@indra.com), Peggie Hudiburg, elder’s liaison (303.499.9435; peggiehudiburg@comcast.net); Debbie Manica, diaconate’s liaison (303.666-8868, deb.manica@qwest.com) Our staff members: Terry Zimmerman, Dustin Adkins, Jeff Hogan, and Becca Hirsch, can of course be reached at the church office: 303.442.1861, fccboulder@fcc-boulder.org.
Thanks to all
those who help us worship
Of course, as always, we very much appreciate the hard work of the choir, and the ministerial and music staff, the diaconate and the elders who create our worship experience weekly. There is so much going on “behind-the-scenes” that makes it possible for each of us in the congregation to worship each Sunday, and we thank all of those who make it possible every Sunday.
We also want to thank some special people for their contributions to our worship experience:
Terry-for thinking of, designing, and pulling off our Holy Humor Sunday. Becca - for choosing just the right song for the choir to sing and Keith - for prayers and scripture readings that enhanced Holy Humor Sunday. Peggie, Dennis, Dave M., Charles H., - for decorating for Easter Sunday, draping the large cross with cloth and the small cross on the communion table with flowers, and arranging our lilies and spring flowers. Charles - for re-designing the front of the sanctuary and for getting a crew together to create
our new space, re-designing and creating our new pulpit out of our old one, and also for re-arranging the sanctuary chairs for each liturgical season.
The Worship Committee
Week of
Compassion
Again, FCC has shown its generous spirit. $1180 was donated to the annual Week of Compassion offering and will help the stricken around the world. Thank you, everyone who contributed.
Christian Outreach Committee
SAME SONG…NEW VERSE
Here are the words to the choir "anthem" on Holy Humor Sunday,
sung to the tune "Immortal, Invisible."
Immoral, impossible, God only knows
How basses and
tenors, sopranos, altos
At service on Sunday
sound rarely the same
As those who last
Sunday to choir practice came.
Unready, unable to
sight-read the notes,
Nor counting, nor
blending, they tighten their throats.
The descant so piercing is soaring above
The melody only a
mother could love.
They have a
director, but no one knows why.
No one in the choir
deigns to turn her an eye.
It's clear by her
waving she wants them to look,
But each of them
stands with his nose in the book.
Despite the
offenses, the music rings out.
The folks in the
pews are enraptured, no doubt.
Their faces are
blissful, their thoughts are so deep,
But it is no wonder,
for they are asleep!
Priscilla
Gifford
ORGAN CONCERT
Our very own organist Jeff Hogan and his friend, John Cannon will present
an organ concert in the FCC sanctuary on Friday, May 2 at 7:00 p.m. The concert entitled “Tribute to a Legend,”
is in honor of the life and death of Robert Cavarra, as Jeff and John both
studied under the direction of Mr. Cavarra.
The concert will include works by JS Bach,
Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Rheinberger, Nicolas Bruns, Lefebure-Wely and others.
A free will offering will be
received.
WELCOME NEW MEMBER!
On Sunday, March 30th, at the
conclusion of the Golden West service, we welcomed Helen Robertson into our church
family! Helen began to worship with us
in February of this year. She comes as
an Associate Member, retaining her membership with
Please add the following information
to your church directory and remember to welcome Helen the next time you see
her!
Helen Robertson
303.939.0667
FCC CAFÉS
9:30 a.m. - Riley Hall
April 13 – Sandy Bish – “Topics in Healthcare Technology”—
April 20 – Property or Building Committees
April 27 – Martha Mason – “History of Our Buildings”
THURSDAY,
APRIL 17
DEBORAH-REBEKAH GROUP – 9:30 a.m., Spruce Room at Golden West.
COMMUNITY TABLE – FCC serves.
SATURDAY, APRIL 26
BOARD, SITE SELECTION COMMITTEE, & BUILDING COMMITTEE – 9:00 – 1:00, Riley Hall
FRIDAY, MAY 2
ORGAN CONCERT – 7:00
p.m., FCC sanctuary. A free will offering will be received
SUNDAY, MAY 4
Women’s Book Group – 4:00 p.m., at the home of Priscilla Gifford. Discussion
of Floating in My Mother’s Palm by
Ursula Hegi
TUESDAY, JUNE 10
OUTREACH COMMITTEE – 2:00 p.m.,
*Child care
will be provided
Rocky Mountain Chorale
Spring
2008 Concert Information
Dreams of Thee
Please mark your calendar & save one of
these dates!
Friday, April 18th, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: St. Andrew Presbyterian Church at 3700
Baseline,
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Location:
A reception follows the Saturday performance.
Each concert features a guest vocal group from
the Boulder Community.
I have a limited amount of $5 tickets that you
can have (1st come, 1st served!) by calling me at
303.442.5081.
Tickets are also available at the door ($10 adults, $7
students/seniors). If you would like
to help with the concert by ushering or running
the ticket table in exchange for free admission, give me a
call.
FRIDAY'S GUEST GROUP: The University of Colorado's newest a
cappella addition, On the Rocks is the premiere women's vocal group on
campus. OTR proves that women know how
to rock. Now 9 members strong, On the
Rocks prides themselves on a wide array of musical styles and traditions.
Members are: Alex Decker, Meghan Wright,
Emily Sullivan, Anna Canty, Blyne Kelly, Natalie Tuteur, Aislinn Ryan, Saren
Oliver, Marylynn Snyder.
SATURDAY'S GUEST GROUP: 3 Story Limit is an a cappella ensemble of
eight singers, who love to sing so much that they steal time from everything
else in their lives to create music, including their full-time jobs and their
families. 3 Story Limit's repertoire is
eclectic, and embraces just about anything its members like --these days, that
means jazz, pop, classical, and a little rock.
Members are: Janet Eden-Harris, Alan Hanna, Jim Irwin, Joe Maclennan, Sara
Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Paul Ward, and Rachel Shannon.
For more information regarding Rocky Mountain
Chorale in general or this concert in particular, visit
Kay Norris
WE REMEMBER IN
PRAYER
Jim & Shirley Abbott (brother-in-law and
sister of Dave Norris), Walter Adkins (grandfather of Dustin Adkins) Milton
Ashmore, Tracy Ayers (friend of Chris Ford & Heather McLaughlin), Bud
Bradley (friend of Kay Lowe-Wendling), Leslie Couchman (friend of Becky Trejo),
Carole & Ford Craig (friends of Marcie Geissinger), Eve Crolius, Don &
Donna Dowd (friend of Marilyn Howell, Cera Franchini (daughter of June Franchini),
Megan Howe, Aidan Immroth (friend of Keith Lance), Priscilla Inkpen, Phil Loney
(friend of Barb Koshio), Bob Shields (brother-in-law of Neil Ashby), the
Homeless, People of Tibet, life & death of Jody Horton (relative of Jane
Byers).
NEXT RAM’S HORN DEADLINE: MONDAY, APRIL 21
Your
Church Staff Welcomes You:
Terry Zimmerman, Pastor Linda Abel, Administrative Secretary
Rebecca Hirsch, Director of Music Jeff Hogan, Organist
Dustin Adkins, Youth Director Jaime Alvarez, Custodian
Jessica Duncan, Nursery Attendant
An open and affirming congregation.
E-mail: fccboulder@fcc-boulder.org, Terry’s E-mail: terryzimmerman@fcc-boulder.org
Linda’s E-mail: lindaabel@fcc-boulder.org
Office Hours: Monday – Friday - 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (303) 442-1861 Fax: (303) 442-6413
Keep up with what’s happening at FCC on the website, www.fcc-boulder.org.
First Christian
Church