Contribute to our Spring Food Drive today! Help those in need in our communities by donating food and household goods (see list) to be distributed by Boulder County AIDS Project (BCAP) and Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA). Your neighborhood coordinator

is happy to receive your donations: Bob Matthias, SE Boulder; Roy McCutchen, North Boulder; Bob Patoff, Lafayette/Louisville; Kristen Aldretti, Gunbarrel/Heatherwood; and Phil Braudaway-Bauman, Longmont/Niwot. Questions? Contact Don Reed, Drive Leader.

The FCC Spring Highway Cleanup will be on May 10 from 9:00-11:00 a.m. We will gather on Lefthand Canyon Dr. adjacent to the Greenbriar Inn to conduct this cleanup on Route 36 (FCC Adopt a Highway site). Covered toes and long pants are strongly recommended. Some work gloves provided. Orange vests and bags provided by CDOT. It's a beautiful area of the county and the cleanup is much-appreciated by bike riders passing by. Coffee and donuts will be provided by the CAT Ministry. Contact Allison Hamm with questions, and to volunteer.

Through our financial gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS),

we enable the United Church of Christ to respond to disasters, build sustainable communities, and send support to refugees. You may give through our OGHS online giving form or make checks out to First Congregational Church and put OGHS in the memo line. Thank you for your generosity.

Support Groups for grief and caregivers meet every month. These groups are always open to new participants, including first time visitors and folks who haven’t attended in a while. Due to Mother’s Day celebrations, grief and caregivers’ groups will not meet May 11.

These groups will meet on May 18 at their usual times.

Please join us on Sunday, May 18 for Pilgrimage Sunday as sixteen members of the congregation share reflections from the Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) Pilgrimage for Understanding to Selma & Montgomery. This is the third group of congregation members who have made this pilgrimage, and they will share a brief overview of the trip, how it impacted them and what is next. Please come and hear testimonies

so we can better build together a community of justice together.

FCC's Racial Justice Ministry is excited to support the Jerusalem Youth Chorus in two concerts coming to Colorado: Saturday, May 31, at 7:00 p.m. at Mountain View United Methodist Church in Boulder, and another in Denver TBD. JYC is a choral and dialogue program in Arabic, Hebrew, and English for Palestinian and Israeli youth in Jerusalem. For tickets click here and use code JYCHOPE for a 15% discount. Click on JYC for more info on the mission of the choir.

Join us for worship on Mental Health Sunday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m.

as we live into being a WISE (Welcoming, Inclusive, Supportive, and Engaged) Congregation. Our WISE Covenant says,” We believe that all people are beloved by God, and if a person has a mental health challenge that person has a right to be seen as a person first.”

On this Sunday before the July 4th holiday, our worship is an extended prayer for our country. We welcome Mark Udall, former U.S. Senator from Colorado (2009-2015) as our preacher. Church member and former Congressman David Skaggs will join him in leading worship. In these days as our democracy is being challenged in surprising ways, this morning serves both as a confession of the ways we have fallen short of living our ideals and as a renewal of our aspirations and hope.

We are in need of 25 plastic buckets (3-5 Gallon) for ARTS Camp. If you are able to lend or donate one or more buckets, please bring to church by Sunday, May 25 and drop off in the main office. Mark clearly with your name if you want it returned to you after camp is over, and THANK YOU!

This group for children ages 0-5 with their parents and caregivers meets with Anne Martinez on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. in our church nursery, with free-play in the indoor/outdoor play spaces until Noon. This drop- in group is an opportunity open and available to the wider community.

The LGBTQIA+ and Allies Group have designed a shirt with the phrase Love Is Love on the front and the First Cong logo on the back. We wanted to have a shirt we can wear to Open and Affirming (ONA) Sunday, PRIDE and other events showing people that First Cong is a safe place to worship for ALL of God’s children. We are not raising funds but are just providing a way to give testimony to God’s love. If you would like to order one, click here.

Each Sunday after worship we meet in Plymouth Hall (or The Link

on Soup Kitchen Sundays) for a time of fellowship, coffee and treats. Please consider providing 2-3 dozen baked or packaged cookies, or

2 loaves of fruit breads or 20-30 pieces of coffee cake, etc., to be shared at Fellowship Hour. Contact Wendy Hall if you have questions or are unable to sign up using the link. Thanks for sharing your sweet love with one another!

Thanks to donors thus far who've contributed to the new book exchange! Take time to stop by and browse the shelves to see if there is something of interest to you. Two tall shelves create the "Book Nook" in the west stairwell of the FAITH Center and a smaller shelf sits outside Plymouth Hall. Help yourself! Have questions or future donations? Contact Jane Thomas or Patricia Whitaker.

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