Help us beautify our church grounds and surrounding area! We'll be spreading mulch, planting along the strip between our parking lot and the City sidewalk, and trimming bushes. Bring gloves, shovels, and a wheelbarrow if you have them. Free parking is available in the church's west lot, accessible from the alley.

Our Community Partner The Family Learning Center is creating a new nature area and needs your help! Join the Community Planting and Outdoor Work Day to plant trees and shrubs, create art, build sheds, and move mulch and compost. This is a great opportunity for all ages to volunteer together – come for a full day or just an hour or two. Please bring a drill, saw, shovel or rake to help us get all the work done. Contact Brenda Laartz to sign up and click here for more info.

Come as you are and stay a while. After worship, join Jill and Bob von Trebra, and Chris Braudaway-Bauman at a restaurant on Pearl Street. We’ll gather around a table to share good food, good company, and good conversation. Whether you’re new or have been here awhile, there’s a place for you. We'll meet in the Link after Worship. RSVP to Bob von Trebra.

We need your feedback, please. If you have not yet shared your thoughts through an interview or survey about a potential Capital Campaign for the church, please do so as soon as you have the opportunity. The digital survey will close on Tuesday, June 2 and we want your voice to be included. You can do it right now!. Please read the brief fact sheet and then click here to fill out the survey. If you got a paper survey in the mail and you prefer to respond in that way, please bring the survey to church this Sunday so that your thoughts can be included in the analysis of the feedback. We only need one survey per household. Thank you so much!

Our work with Fellowship Development, the consultants guiding our Capital Campaign Feasibility Study, is nearing completion. In the coming weeks, members of our Planning Team will host several opportunities for the congregation to hear the results of the study, ask questions, and learn more about possible next steps in this season of discernment for our church’s future. Please join us at any of the following gatherings:

Sunday, 6/14: 8:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. | Standish Room

Monday, 6/15: Board of Management Discussion and Vote

Wednesday, 6/17: Church Council Discussion and Vote

Friday, 6/19: 7:30 p.m. Zoom (MeetID: 834 5532 0822, Pass: 112283)



Sunday, 6/21: 8:45 a.m. | Standish Room

Sunday, 6/21: Congregational Meeting, 11:15 a.m. | Sanctuary & Zoom (MeetID: 846 6662 2944, Pass: 907860)



Thank you for the thoughtful participation that has shaped this process. We hope you will take part in these important conversations together.

Help us honor the people in the United States affected by gun violence and elevate the voices of advocates who are taking action to demand an end to gun violence. Because orange symbolizes the value of each person's life, we wear orange to call an end to gun violence. Please join our Gun Violence Prevention (GVP) Ministry all weekend and on Sunday by wearing a scarf, pin or other orange item to worship on June 7.

With deep sadness, we share that our beloved friend and member Danni Bangert died on March 11, 2026. Danni was a member of First Cong for over 50 years. We hold her husband of 68 years, Merv, and daughters, Lesli and Lari, and their families in our hearts and prayers. A Service of Thanksgiving for Danni will be held at First Congregational on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel. There will be a reception after the service in the Standish and Heritage Rooms.

Stu Cummings, a founder of Go Electric Colorado and guest speaker at last month’s CAT forum on home electrification, is offering First Cong members a special showing of his home’s energy modifications and cost savings on Saturday. June 6 from 10:00 a.m.-noon in S. Boulder. Please stop by 1105 Toedtli Dr. and bring your curiosity and questions! Bonus viewing: Stu’s garden, certified by the Colorado Native Plant Society.

For more information, contact Pat Whitaker.

Hear ye, hear ye; Jonah has returned and he has a whale of a tale to share! On June 7th, our ARTS Camp campers return to present The Big Fish, a film noir telling of the story of Jonah set to some jazzy showtunes. Come to worship to see our annual ARTS Camp musical and learn what Jonah was really doing on his trip. We welcome our new children and youth choirs director, Julieta Garcia Reyes, and our counselors and volunteers Maeve Brown, Nora Hess, Bob Matthias, Louisa Matthias, Laura McCutchen, Roy McCutchen, Amelia Steed, and Violet Tatterson.

Everyone is invited to join us for our annual Spring Picnic immediately following the ARTS Camp Musical at our 10:00 a.m. Worship service on Sunday, June 7. BBQ sandwiches (pork, chicken, and a vegan option), pasta and green salad, baked beans, dessert and beverages – all provided for you by our Board of Community Life. Please feel free to bring a lawn chair as sometimes we fill up all the seating. All are welcome and warmly encouraged to join us for food, fellowship, games, and a playground for the kids. Hope to see you there under the picnic shelters!

In 1987 First Cong became an Open and Affirming Congregation, meaning we invite and affirm our LGBTQ+ siblings into membership and leadership. To live into that covenant, we invite everyone to participate in Boulder PRIDE on June 13, 2026. We need volunteers to help host and welcome people at our booth (library parking lot) AND we need 600 frozen freezer pops. You can sign up for both in the Link after worship

or email Carmen Valdes to become part of the First Cong PRIDE Booth Team. 

Each year during PRIDE Month First Congregational Church celebrates PRIDE during at a PRIDE Sunday Worship service. You will hear from LGBTQ+ and Allies Ministry Members as to the importance of belonging to a faith community where everyone is welcomed and affirmed. At this service you are invited to wear your rainbow bandanas and other rainbow clothing to show love and support for our LGBTQ+ Siblings.

Contemplative Camp has been an annual event for more than 40 years. Experience a week of learning about, and practicing contemplative prayer (also known as Centering Prayer or meditation) in the beautiful natural setting of La Foret Conference & Retreat Center near Colorado Springs. There are also opportunities for reading and discussions, walking the labyrinth, and hiking. Comfortable accommodations are available in the new Lapp Lodge. Visit the La Foret website at or talk to Bob von Trebra for more information.

If you are new to the church and want to learn more about its programs and groups or if you’re a long-time member with knowledge to share, the Navigator Program can help! The Membership Committee will link new members with long-time members who will help them learn more about First Cong’s boards, committees, ministries, and small groups. Our goal is to integrate new members into our church community. For more information or to become part of the Navigators, contact Nancy Wade.

The congregation will for important Congregational Meeting on Sunday, June 21, immediately following worship. at 11:15 a.m. At this meeting, the congregation will vote on whether to move forward with a Capital Campaign this fall and will also vote to affirm the members of the Selection Committee for Associate Minister. Childcare and activities for children and youth will be provided during the meeting. As we continue discerning our future ministry, your presence and participation are greatly valued.

A service of gratitude for our country and its professed ideals, tempered by honest reflection and a renewed call to justice, humility, and love. Together, we will consider both the promise and the unfinished, complicated story we inherit, seeking the courage to meet the future with clarity, responsibility, and hope. We are honored to welcome longtime member and former Congressman David Skaggs as preacher, with music offered by our Brass Quintet. Following worship, David will lead a Congregational Conversation.

After standing vacant since last September, our Carriage House is once again under lease. Unless Ventures, a Boulder-based venture capital firm focused on industrial innovation, advanced manufacturing, and climate technology, has signed a one-year lease with an option to extend for an additional year. They were introduced to us through Gibbons-White, the church’s facilities management company, and are moving in this week. With downtown Boulder office vacancies near 30%, we feel especially grateful to welcome a new tenant whose work resonates with our values and brings creative energy to this unique space.

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