Fourth Sunday After Pentecost    
July 7, 2019
Meeting at 500 E. Colorado Blvd.
Sunday Worship Service: 11:30 am, Chapel
Our Core Values: 
Spiritual Growth. Welcome. Justice-seeking
Flat Jesus goes to a Colorado Rockies baseball game with Ron & Roberta White and former members Betty & Jerry Arca
Reflection for Worship. . .
Mark 9:30-37

Where is God really? Above us, around us, within us? I will make the case for one of these. 
- Rev. Anne Cohen, Reflecting this Sunday

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“The soul is an ecology, a territory. It is populated.”
- declined to state

“In its highest sense [the soul is] a vast capacity for God. A chamber with elastic and contractile walls, which can be expanded, with God as its guest, illimitably, but which without God, shrinks and shrinks until every vestige of the Divine is gone, and God's image is kept without God's Spirit.”
- Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World (1883)

“My soul is myself; the well-spring or point of consciousness, or center of inner activity. The most real thing in the universe to me; the start for all other knowing, the test by which I judge all other data.”
- Upton Sinclair, What God Means to Me (1935)

Also this Sunday

This week’s musical guests will include our own Mattias Orr and Elizabeth Lanski, with Damon Zick on sax. Join us in our 11:30 am service!
Worship Leader
Rev. Anne G. Cohen
  
Sabbatical Coverage Pastor
Rev. Anne G. Cohen
 
Liturgist  
Rev. Leo Lynch
  
Ushers
Aren Burd
Julie Burd 
Peter Keller 
Brian Brandenburg  

Pianist & Music Director 
Connie Washburn

No Church School for the Summer 
There is no church school summer class, but there will be activity packets for other youth so they can stay in worship 
   
Church Nursery (for infants - K)
Lachlan Ashenmiller & Kaye Jenkins 
     
This week everyone comes to the Chapel at 11:30am and stays through the Children's Time and then heads to the nursery with caregivers and parents. 


Visit us at:  uccpasadena.org

Sermon Podcast : 
  
Did you miss a worship service and want to hear the sermon? Please visit uccpasadena.org and select 'podcasts' from the menu on top of the home page or click below
Office Hours 
 Mon. - Thurs. 
9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

July 4th Independence Day
Office will be closed
July 8th Office is closed
Vacation day for Nina
 
Lunch Hours
 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  
 
  Tel. # 626.795.0696
Fax. # 626.795.0698 

Nina Kung  

Save a Life Sunday Blood Drive
On July 14th from 9am-3pm at First UMC Pasadena, Fellowship Hall.

  FLAT JESUS SIGHTINGS...
Flat Jesus was seen at a  Colorado Rockies baseball game. (See photo at the top of the newsletter.)
He was also seen at a local Clergy Support Lunch (serving bread and wine) with at least one person we know - who is looking rested and energized in the midst of Sabbatical.
 From the Rev. Anne Cohen - 

Anne is serving as our Sabbatical Coverage Pastor while the Pomeroys are away on their Sabbatical.

She has office hours Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.
She enjoys meeting people for coffee and conversation...
   Summer SoulCollage® Workshop




SoulCollage® is a creative outlet for emotional and spiritual expression. We have practiced this art several times - on Women's Retreats, preparation for Lent, and for no good reason except to be together! For those who are interested, Anne Cohen will host a SoulCollage® Workshop at her home on Sunday afternoon July 28 - from 2-5pm. RSVP:   acohen99@sbcglobal.netor call the church

For more information:  https://www.soulcollage.com
Thank you Andy Schwiebert for your message last Sunday about embodying a more passionate faith.
And thank you Randy VanDeventer for the great music which led some of us to tears!

Will you offer flowers for our worship one Sunday?

There are many Sundays still available for altar flower donations for 2019. Sign up to remember/honor someone or event! The Flower Chart is located by the entrance in FUMC Chapel or you can contact Nina at the Church Office 626.795.0696 or email her at fccmonina@gmail.com. Thanks to all who have already donated!

(We offer a reminder that altar flowers donation are not tax-deductible.)
Free Monthly concerts on the Third Saturday of each month, at 4pm at First UMC, Pasadena
July 20 - Christmas in July: Aaron shows, organist
There is so much great Christmas music - why not enjoy it mid-year? Always striving first to connect emotionally with audiences of every age through music, Aaron Shows' performances and compositions often bridge the traditional and modern.
Friends In Deed - Back to School Event Volunteers
FID wanted to reach out to FCC regarding their Back-to-School event. They want to see if we have some folks that would want to help on the distribution days starting July 30, 31, and August 1, four or five volunteers, from about 9:30am until 11:30am would be great, then 2 or 3 in the afternoon.

Please contact Lu Nguyen or Anne Cohen if you are interested.
Hollywood Bowl Summer Outing
Please join Membership Ministry this summer at the Bowl for their annual mini-festival dedicated to the smoothest jazz sounds around-featuring The Commodores and Dave Koz & Friends. Tickets are $36 each, with a total of 30 tickets reserved for our group and a deadline of July 1st to turn in any tickets that are unused. Please see Lu Nguyen to secure a spot and pay. As we have done in the past, we will meet before the concert for a potluck dinner and time for fellowship, then head into the Bowl to enjoy the concert. It should be another wonderful evening under the stars. Come and join us!!!
New Bibles to be Dedicated and Placed in our Pews          
Due to the extra pews in our new worship space, Nina has purchased new Bibles to fill the extra pews and you are invited to buy a few to dedicate to someone. Please leave a check for FCC in the amount of $20 with the dedication you wish to be included in the front inside of the Bible. We suggest only 1 or 2 persons be listed in each Bible so that each is more personal.  
Presented to the church by
In memory of
In honor of
We worship at 11:30 a.m. at the Chapel of First Methodist Church every Sunday.
First Congregational Church
of Pasadena
United Church of Christ
500 E. Colorado Blvd.,
Pasadena, CA 91101
Telephone: (626) 795-0696
OFFICE HOURS:
Mon to Thurs
9AM – 5:30PM
Lunch Hour:
12 – 1:30PM