LIVING IN THE

LIGHT OF GOD

LET YOUR LIGHT

SHINE!

 

Our 2008 Stewardship Campaign begins Sunday, September 30th.  The theme for our giving is “Living in the Light of God: Let Your Light Shine!”

 

Light!  Life!  Illumination!  Warmth!  Healing! 

All are related to the biblical image of Christ as Light of the World.  Yet, in Matthew’s Gospel, Christ tells us “YOU are the Light of the World!”  That truth carries the responsibility of shining light on God’s truth and Christ’s teachings about hope and compassion and community.

 

The degree to which any church is committed to be and bring light is reflected in its budget – how it uses its treasury as well as its energy.

On Consecration Sunday, October 21st, YOU will have the opportunity to join with others within our church family to turn on the light!

The proposed 2008 budget will be arriving at your home soon!

 

“You are the light of the world!

 

You are the light of the world!

 

But if that light is under a bushel,

 

Brrr, it’s lost something kinda crucial

 

You got to stay bright to be the light of the world…

 

So let your light so shine before men

 

Let your light so shine

 

So that they might know some kindness again

 

We all need help to feel fine!”

 

                                                                        ---Lyrics from Godspell

 

 

 

CAMP & CONFERENCE OFFERING

 

WOW!  We give thanks for all who contributed to the special one-time offering opportunity this summer to give to our Central Rocky Mountain Region's Camp & Conferences.  $1020.00 was collected, and will be matched at the regional office by a generous donor.  Thank you for your generosity!

Outreach Committee

 

Hi,

I wanted to make sure that you all were invited to this upcoming Matthew Shepard Event (invite attached).

 

Saturday, October 13

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Pismo Fine Art Glass - Cherry Creek

 

There is no cost to attend the event.  Judy and Dennis Shepard are both scheduled to attend.  This is a great opportunity to meet them and to hear about the latest work of the Matthew Shepard Foundation We’re launching an amazing new project on October 12 and can’t wait to tell everyone about it.

I hope you can attend.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Teresa

 

Teresa Tuschhoff

Development Director

Matthew Shepard Foundation

 

 

 

TO THE CONGREGATION

 

I wanted to take a chance to thank you for the Love Gift and for the 8 years I worked with your children and youth, and occasionally the adults!  You are a special group of people that I won't forget.  Your openness and generosity is incredible.  And speaking of incredible, your youth are amazing.  Don't forget to tell them occasionally what beloved children they are of a Creator God.  Tell them when you see God reflected in something they do or say.  They need to hear it and you need to say it as well!  They have been an astounding group of young men and women and I will miss them and the things they taught me.  I will continue to pray for them and the congregation daily.  Thank you again for the Love Gift and the support and love I felt working there.

Sherrill M. Morris

 

 

STEWARDSHIP 2007

“Living in the Light of God:

Let your Light Shine!”

God’s light, presence, grace and abundance are the focus of our theme for our 2007 Stewardship campaign at church.

• What is our response to God’s light and love in our lives, as individuals and as a community of the faithful in this time and place?
• How shall we live faithfully?

 

We are a community of people graced by the SPIRIT of GOD!

 

As creatures created in the image of God, Imago Dei, we are invited and called to give generously and out of gratitude.

 

We, like God, have light to shine!

Love to share!

Life to give!

 

Our campaign kicks off on Sunday, September 30.  Each week we will focus on different facets of God’s light in our community.  Please join us each week, and especially on Consecration Sunday, October 21.

Janet Barriger

Stewardship Chair 2007

 

 

FOOTBALL PARKING

 

CU games in Boulder

September 29, time TBA – Oklahoma

October 20, time TBA – Kansas

November 3, time TBA – Missouri

Friday, November 23, 10 am – Nebraska

 

 

DISCIPLE SPECIAL OFFERING

RECONCILIATION MISSION 2007!

September 30 & October 7

An opportunity to give to the ministry of anti-racism and racial reconciliation.

 

 

 

FCCAFÉS

 

September 30 – Conversation Café

 

October 7 – Bob Miller from the Jesus Seminar On The Road

 

October 14 – Maggie Haseman – “Exchange Trip to Germany”

 

October 21 – Keith Lance – “My Visit to Portugal”

 

October 28 – Erik Mason – “The Latest from the Longmont Museum”

 

November 4 – Peg & Don Fritschel – “LA to Boston by Bike”

 

DWCC

 

Thursday, October 4 at 9:30 a.m. the Disciple Women Coordinating Committee meets.

 

ELDERS

 

Following the 10:00 a.m. worship service on October 7 the Elders will meet in Riley Hall.

 

FNATM

 

Bob and Kay Lowe-Wendling will host the Friday, October 12, Friday Night at the Movies at 7:00 p.m.  The movie is Everything is Illuminated.  A young American Jewish man begins an exhausting quest – aided by a naïve Ukrainian translator – to find the righteous gentile woman who saved his grandfather when his small Ukrainian village (along with most of the populace) was obliterated during the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941.  Does he succeed?  What does it mean to search for God and God’s meaning for our lives?

 

NEW WOMEN’S GROUP

 

All women are invited to the next New Women’s Group brunch meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 13 at the home of Rosie Campbell.  The discussion topic will be “This I Believe.”

 

CROP WALK

 

This year’s Crop Walk is Sunday, October 14, beginning at 2:00 p.m. at Community UCC Church.

 

FCC BOARD MEETING

 

The next regularly scheduled FCC Board meeting is Tuesday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the Education Building, Room #5.

 

DEBORAH-REBEKAH GROUP

 

The next Deborah-Rebekah Group meeting is Thursday, October 18 at 9:30 a.m. in the Spruce Room at Golden West.

 

FCC – COMMUNITY TABLE

 

Thursday, October 18 is FCC’s night to serve at Community Table.

 

WORSHIP COMMITTEE

 

The next Worship Committee meeting is Sunday, October 21 following the sanctuary worship service.

 

WOMEN’S BOOK GROUP

 

The next Women’s Book Group will be on Sunday October 21 at 4 p.m. at the home of Priscilla Gifford, Golden West.  They will be discussing After Long Silence by Helen Fremont.  New members always welcome!

 

30TH ANNUAL DINNER FOR COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME

 

Saturday, November 10 is the annual dinner for the Colorado Christian Home at the Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom

 

 

LIFE & NEWS OF THE CONGREGATION!

 

Louise Johnson spent a long weekend in Minnesota with her sister and her husband on their peaceful farm.  She saw a pair of Whistling Swans and 4 goslings (almost full grown) on their pond and every day 3 deer!

 

Ohio was the destination for Carol and Ed Poore.  They visited family and friends and

enjoyed the “green of things” as the trees, lawns and meadows were lush and green!

 

 

The Tall Grass Prairie was one of the destinations on the road trip Jean and Ray Crowder took.  They then traveled to South Dakota for a high school class reunion.  Jean reports they had a wonderful time.

 

 

While on a trip to Nova Scotia to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Peggie and Roger Hudiburg were called home prematurely because of the death of their good friend

Wayne Stockebrand.

 

 

Joann Dennett enjoyed a week at the Inn at the Opera in San Francisco where she attended performances of Samson and Delilah and Tannhauser.  She also visited the Asian Art Museum and went to the Target Family Concert of the San Francisco Symphony.

 

 

 

SELECTED TEXTS

 

                        September 30                         October 7                                October 14

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15               Lamentations 1:1-6                    Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7

                        Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16                   Psalm 137                                 Psalm 66:1-12

1 Timothy 6:6-19                       2 Timothy 1:1-14                       2 Timothy 2:8-15

Luke 16:19-31                           Luke 17:5-10                             Luke 17:11-19

 

 

 

PULPIT GUEST – OCTOBER 7

            Bob Miller, with the Jesus Seminar on the Road will be our pulpit guest at both services on Sunday, October 7.

 

 

 

OCTOBER BIRTHDAY & ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS TO:

 

  1        David Norris

  2        Jeanette Arnold

            Melvin Clark

  5        Roger Dennett

11        Stacey Dee

Irene Egeland

            Cindy Zimmerman

17        Peggie Hudiburg

19        Jessica Crowder

21        Jim Bohannon

Roy Shepherd

25        Deborah & John Rode

Cory Wendling

26        Dale Abel

27        Mary ann Pinon

28        Martha Mason

29        Gary Howell

30        Kristy Austin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMORIAL SERVICE

 

            A memorial service will be held for Wayne Frank at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, September 30th in Phillips Chapel at Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder.  A reception will follow.

 

 

 

WE REMEMBER IN PRAYER

 

            Joann Dennett, Ferne Denton, Margaret Gray, Becca Hirsch, Priscilla Inkpen, Dorys Lester,

Lola Monroe (grandmother of Jen Sullivan), Nicole (friend of Marilyn Howell), Cassie Paladino (great-niece of Evelyn Haskins), Bruce & Frieda Searby (friends of George & Maxine Cebula), Sonora (friend of Jen Sullivan), Fonda Walls (friend of Margaret Cline).

 

A Heads Up: HALLOWEEN EVENT!

Here's a date to remember!  October 28th!  The day of our all-church Halloween event.  All ages invited to wear costumes to the after worship potluck sponsored by our goulash Outreach Committee! Oooooooooo!

 

 

NEXT RAM’S HORN DEADLINE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 8