Join us for our first Outdoor In-person Worship Service of the season this Sunday at 9:00 AM! Masks and social distancing will be required and BYOChair for all those who are able (with plaza seating available as needed). No RSVPs required, just come and join us! A friendly reminder that our new video and sound system will not only capture our service participants, but will also be able to capture our parishioners attending too, so keep an eye out for your friends if you are watching from home! We will still be live streaming these Outdoor Summer Services, so if you are unable to join in-person you are welcome to worship with us online!

Did you know we need 18 volunteers every Sunday for outdoor services? We are looking for volunteers to be our Safety Ushers - assist with the set up and clean up, Lay Reader for each service, and even help set up for our in-person Fellowship on the Lawn! CLICK HERE to sign up today. We are so excited to offer this outdoor worship experience to all, but we need your help to make it possible. Sign up to volunteer today!

This week we will be holding our first in-person Fellowship on the Lawn gathering following the 9:00 AM Outdoor Sunday Service. Masks and distancing will be required. Though we won't be serving coffee, come enjoy some refreshments as we welcome everyone back to our campus! Get a chance to catch up in-person with Matt and our other service participants whom you have digitally welcomed into your home each week for the past year. With this in-person outdoor gathering, we will not be holding a Virtual Coffee Hour this week or Virtual Children's Chapel.

Thank you all for a great afternoon and evening of fellowship and fun last week! We look forward to our next outdoors/in-person Middle and High School Youth Group takes place on May 15 (weather permitting).

Reminder that Youth Groups will still meet virtually at 6:30 PM on May 7 for Middle School, and May 8 for High School.

9:00 AM - ONLINE Holy Eucharist Rite II

-Watch on YouTube CLICK HERE

-Facebook Live @stmikeschurchCOS

-Watch Vimeo www.vimeo.com/stmikeschurch

-Digital Bulletin CLICK HERE

10:00 AM Fellowship on the Lawn (No Virtual Coffee Hour)

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Drive thru Communion

All we need is U

It takes a village and St. Michael's is looking for amazing volunteers with all sorts of talents and skills. When you see this logo/image let us know if you are able to help. With many new initiatives on the horizon, let us know how you want to get involved. Current opportunities to help:

The Lord's dinner is coming up on Sunday, May 9th. We are looking for 5 families to make 10 bagged dinners to drop off at Diane Verlinde's home at: 915 Oak Bend Court by 3 pm on Sunday May 9. Please email Diane at dverlinde_2006@yahoo.com or call (719) 329-8771 for details.

We will meet on May 11 on Zoom at 6:30 to discuss The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follet. Please have a question about the book ready and email me if you plan to attend, micki.rice@yahoo.com. For July we will read The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker. See you then!

Micki Rice

CLICK HERE to join or enter Meeting ID: 648 253 547 Passcode: 186588.

In the Spring and Fall St. Michael's typically hosts an in-person Newcomer Gathering. However, with COVID and the global pandemic we have moved to plan B. If you are new to St. Michael's since our last Gathering in October 2020, you are invited to join our Rector, The Rev. Matt Holcombe and Linda Kean, Newcomer Ministry Coordinator for a Newcomer Gathering Zoom Party on May 17th at 6:00 PM. This gathering includes anyone living here, or anyone who has joined us as digital members of St. Michael’s from afar. We want to get to know you better and for you to get to know St. Michael’s better as well. Please join us! RSVP to Linda Kean at linda@stmikeschurch.com.

Amalia is in need of Congregational Song Leaders for the outdoor summer Sunday services. We will rotate several singers per week to lead hymns, communion songs and other music. Everyone will be masked and safely distanced. You do not need to be a member of the choir or make a long-term commitment to participate. This is an easy, fun way to get involved in the liturgy! If you're interested please talk to Amalia after the service or email amalia@stmikeschurch.com.

New York Times bestseller An Altar in the World, written by acclaimed author Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey by building upon where she left off in Leaving Church. In An Altar in the World, Taylor shows us how to discover altars everywhere we go and in nearly everything we do as we learn to live with purpose, pay attention, slow down, and revere the world we live in. CLICK HERE to join the Rev. Matt Holcombe for a 2-week group discussion via Zoom on Wednesdays, May 19 & 26, 6:00 - 7:30 PM.

We have an amazing team working hard each Sunday but we simply need more help to keep this going moving forward. It takes some time to train, so we'd like to get our next team training so we can give our current team a little breather come summer. No experience needed, we will train every volunteer. If interested reach out to Elise at elise@stmikeschurch.com to get involved!

Interested in helping? Email Lucy Baldwin at volunteer@mercysgatecs.org or contact Jim Moore jpmoore@usa.net.

Are you having trouble finding/setting up a Covid-19 Vaccine appointment? Are you frustrated with trying to sign up online or navigate vaccine registrations through health care, doctors offices, vaccine clinics, or pharmacies? Please contact Elise at elise@stmikeschurch.com or by calling the church at (719) 598-3244 and provide your full name and phone number. We will pass this on to a volunteer who is particularly skilled at and interested in connecting people with Covid-19 Vaccine appointments who will help set this up for you.

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