Come to the home of Jay Rourke and Karen Cumbo at 3808 Florentine Circle, Longmont for the first 2025 FOG gathering. Bring a wine for the season-something for cozying up to a fire, or whatever will brighten the cold, gray days of January. Couples should bring a bottle of wine and an appetizer; singles may bring either. Nonalcoholic beverages available. Everyone 21 and over is welcome, even if you don't drink wine! Park on the street, and walk to entrance on interior drive between buildings. Phone 970-222-0176.

In place of resolutions, the Ministry of Last Things (MLT) invites you to gather to discuss 5 questions for the new year based on the journey of Grammy Award Winner, Jon Batiste, and his wife and best-selling author, Suleika Jaouad. These questions will help us reflect on 2024 and challenge us to align 2025 with the lives we dream to live. For info on MLT or the Forum contact Jean Abbott.

Our new church website is ready! Join us this Sunday after the

10:30 a.m. service for a Celebratory Show and Tell in the Sanctuary. Explore new pages and features like the Member Dashboard.

Can’t make it this Sunday? Catch a repeat on Sunday, February 2,

at 9:15 a.m. in Plymouth Hall or at 3 p.m at Frasier Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder.

We extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Patricia “Pat” A. Ostwald. Pat died on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at the age of 98, and was a member of our congregation for more than 60 years.

Recent events have sparked a wave of misinformation and fear, affecting many in our community. This question-and-answer session with FCC member and Boulder City Council Member Nicole Speer offers a safe space to voice your concerns, learn about Boulder’s efforts to safeguard our values and people in these chaotic times, and learn practical ways to make a difference. 

With so many concerns in the world today like lives lost to wars and senseless acts of violence, entire cities burned by wildfires, divisive policies enacted, and struggles in our personal lives, where do we find hope? Through whole & small group discussions with old and new friends and having fun together, the Men’s Retreat provides an opportunity to build an Active Hope. The retreat cost $185.00 with partial and full scholarships available. Email Peter Oakes or Linda Kowatch for more info.

We warmly welcome as this year’s MacKenzie Lecturer, Dr. Nancy Ammerman, a world-renowned sociologist of religion and leading expert on congregations and congregational life. For Saturday’s workshop, she will be joined by Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi of Iliff School of Theology in Denver.

Lecture, Friday, 2/7 at 7:00 p.m. | Sanctuary and YouTube

How Shall We Gather? Reflections on America’s Changing Religious Landscape and the Necessary Future of the Church

Workshop, Saturday, 2/8 from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. | Plymouth Hall

Envisioning the Church of the Future

Worship-Sunday, 2/9

Contemplative Prayer Service at 8:30 a.m. | Chapel

Sanctuary Worship at 10:30 a.m. | Sanctuary and YouTube

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ARTS Camp returns June 1-7! All children and youth grades 2-8 (for the 24-25 school year) are invited to a week of summer camp at Highlands Camp in Allenspark, CO. We will put together a musical, learn different arts media, and do traditional summer camp activities like a low ropes course, rock climbing, boating, and a talent show! Registration is $550 per camper and camperships are available from the Voss Camp Scholarship Fund. Register online.

This year's annual high school mission trip is taking us to Fort Worth, Texas! We will focus on Food Insecurity, doing hands-on work in places like community gardens and food pantries/kitchens and also learning about advocacy efforts to secure and increase affordable access to healthy food. This trip is open to all current high schoolers (grades 9-12). Register online. On Sunday, February 9th at 9:15 a.m. in the Standish Room, we will have an orientation meeting for high schoolers and their families. See you there!

Here’s a great way to show your support for the Youth of our Church! The Board of Faith Formation is coordinating an auction (to be hosted in the springtime) and a Pick-a-Party event to raise money for their Mission Trip to Fort Worth, TX in June. Can you donate an auction item/experience or host a Pick-a-Party?

Pick-a-Party works like this: Hosts decide a theme to their event, a time and place, and a price per person for their event. The host will be in charge of their event, but the Board of Faith Formation will collect all the information about participants and collect the money for the event. Some ideas from the past include dinners with cuisine from different parts of the world, a games night, crafting, geocaching, hikes and just about anything a host can imagine.

Both of these fundraisers require donations of your time, talents or auction items to make it a success! Please use this link to sign up for

the auction or to host a party. Thank you for your support!

Intercambio, one of our mission partners, is starting a book discussion group that will read a new book every three months. Their first book is The Newcomers, Finding Refuge, Friendship and Hope in America by Helen Thorpe. This acclaimed book gives a riveting account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school. Intercambio offers in-person (Friday, 1/31, at 10:30 a.m. at their Longmont office) and online discussion (Monday, 2/3 at noon). For more details, along with the session you would like to attend please RSVP (irene@intercambio.org).

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