PINE STREET POST
October 10th, 2021
A Weekly Newsletter from Pine Street Church
In-Person Worship and On the PSC YouTube Channel... I’ve Been Meaning to Ask…

What do you need?

This is the third week of our four-part fall message series, "I've been meaning to ask..."

This week’s question recognizes that we all have needs and that we need each other. It reminds us that we each have unique needs; we can’t assume to know what is best for others. It also prompts us to reflect on our own needs, priorities, and desires, which can sometimes be difficult to discern from one situation to the next.

Join us today at 10am MST in-person or online at the Pine Street Church YouTube Channel.

With heart, 
Andrew 

CLICK HERE to download a copy of today's worship guide. And join us for today's worship online at our Pine Street Church YouTube Channel
WORLD MISSION OFFERING -
We’ve Been Surprised by God’s Glory



During the World Mission Offering this October, we have the opportunity to join the transformational work God is doing around the world through International Ministries’ 120+ global servants and 250+ global partners. God can use our participation not only to change lives internationally, but also to deepen our own discipleship in Christ. You can take part in what the Holy Spirit is doing to bring God’s kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven.”

Please prayerfully consider a generous gift to The World Mission Offering which will be collected throughout the month of October. You can give online HERE, being sure to select "World Mission Offering 2021" from the drop down tab, or you can give in person Sunday mornings by dropping an offering in our offering box using a WMO envelope found in the pew racks.

With gratitude for your generous support,
Your Heart for Missions Team
2021 Crop Walk!

The Boulder County Crop Walk is scheduled for October 24th and the PSC Heart for Missions team is urging our participation and support.  The Boulder County Crop Walk takes place every October as part of a nationwide effort to increase awareness and raise funds to alleviate hunger and poverty here in our community, the United Sates and internationally. Our financial contributions support Church World Service (CWS), an organization that aids not just hunger and poverty, but helps with displacement and disaster needs. Currently CWS is offering aid to victims of the earthquake in Haiti and supporting the re-location of afghan refugees. Locally, 24% of the funds raised go to Community Food Share.
Last year the Crop Walk had a more virtual platform, with small groups of people walking together on event day. Fund raising was still brisk and the Boulder County Crop Walk raised over $42,000.

This year the actual walk will be hosted at Heart of Longmont Church. We created a PSC Pine Heads team. Regardless of your physical participation, you can support the Pine Heads who will be walking and this very worthy cause.
Art Brunch
with Waverly Matthews

CLICK HERE to join today's meeting via Zoom

Arts and The Allure of Marxism

Throughout the 20th Century, Marxism has captivated many within the arts. Writers as different at Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway were professed socialists. Artists Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Andre Breton were evangelists for communism. Art critic John Berger espoused socialist ideals through out his career. Why has Marxist ideology fascinated so many artists when artists, historically, have not faired well in Marxist societies? 

Join us as we look closely at the appeal of Marxism in the art world while also examining the challenges of creating art in socialist societies.

This is a hybrid meeting. You are invited to attend via the ZOOM link provided or in person in the Salon Room at Pine Street Church located at 1237 Pine Street, Boulder, CO.
"I've Been Meaning to Ask"

Some of the best conversations start with good questions—questions we’ve been meaning to ask, questions that keep us curious, and questions that lead us deeper into courage and connection. This worship series is formed around four guiding questions: “I’ve been meaning to ask… Where are you from? . . . Where does it hurt? . . . What do you need? . . . Where do we go from here?” As you can see, these questions aren’t surface level; they invite us to tell our stories, share our pain, care for one another, and dream about a new way forward together.

We hope this series helps us to behold each other as images of the divine. That it helps us strengthen our capacity for empathy and compassion. May it remind us of the power of unassuming questions. May it show us that courage is rooted in the heart. Through vulnerability and authenticity, may our courageous conversations lead us to glimpse hope, joy, and beauty—and to become the community God created us to be.

Join us for today's worship online at our Pine Street Church YouTube Channel
Adult Learning Opportunity

All We Can Save has been selected as this year’s “One Book, One Boulder”, and we are one of the registered book circles to share insights from the book. Copies of the book are available for loan from Boulder Public Library.

We will meet by Zoom on Tuesday evenings for nine weeks, starting. If you are interested, or have questions, contact book circle leader, Mary Beth Mankin, mbmankin545@gmail.com. Let us encourage one another in making a difference.
Upcoming Services at Pine Street Church

Please mark your calendars for a number of important services happening at and around Pine Street Church in the coming weeks.

  • Monday October 18th, Kathryn Stuart/Deborah Rothe Memorial Service at Pine Street Church - 2pm
Sunday Morning Greeters Needed

We're looking to fill out our online signup form for being a greeter on Sunday mornings. It's both easy and important! And even more so, FUN!

Men's Fellowship Group

The Men's Fellowship Group has a new meeting schedule. Beginning immediately they will meet in person for Breakfast at the Parkway Cafe on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 a.m. They will also hold a monthly Zoom gathering at 9:00 a.m.on the third Tuesday of each month. Please contact Bill Mankin for more information on how to join these meetings: mankin@ucar.edu
Oasis Women's Group: New Book Study

The Oasis women’s book study/support/ministry is currently reading The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita L. Sanchez. "The Four Sacred Gifts reveals how our world depends on each of us to discover our interconnectedness to people, earth, and animals, with awareness that we are ‘all one relation’”.

Dr. Sanchez is a Boulder author. This is a great time for women to join the group to learn something new, as well as develop new relationships. Contact Mary Beth Mankin, mbmankin545@gmail.com, with questions or to get zoom information for Oasis meetings on Thursdays at 1:30 PM.

Click Here to join the Zoom group Thursdays at 1:30pm
The Pinehead Portal

Check it out, and register today, HERE. There's a church directory, updates from the PSC Leadership Council and much more. Email admin@pinestreetchurch.net if you have any trouble registering and gaining access.
THE CHURCH AT PRAYER
God's desire for us is our wholeness; the Hebrew Scriptures call this shalom. This wholeness incorporates our physical, mental, emotional, and relational being.

*Please note: If you wish to include a prayer need on this Community Care list---or another specific pastoral care need for which you would like prayer, please email Pastor Andrew Daugherty at Andrew@PineStreetChurch.net

PSC's Nurture and Prayer Team also stands by for prayer support. To share your prayer concerns, needs, or celebrations, contact Rev. Carol Simpson at: pastorcms@cs.com

Community Care List
Please use this list today and throughout the week, praying with special intention for:

  • The people of Afghanistan
  • The people of Haiti
  • The healing of the division in our nation. For unity and peace and an end to violence.
  • Thanks be to God for COVID-19 vaccines that are being distributed now!
  • Out Boulder County and all those in our LGBTQ+ community
  • PSC's Off Broadway Preschool and summer camps
  • Those in our Boulder community who suffer from food insecurity and hunger and who are experiencing homelessness
  • All who celebrate joys and those who are distressed in mind, body, or spirit, and members of our spiritual family including:

Short term
Chris Dowd
Jo White
Susan Medley (sister of Carol Simpson)
Alicia Andersen
Juan & Denise Aragon and their children (recently diagnosed with COVID-19)
Carter Edgerley (chemotherapy treatment and son of PSC bookkeeper Michele Edgerley)
Lizzie Parker
Dan Torpy 

Long term
Jo White 
Susan Medley (Carol Simpson’s sister)
Bud Clifford, and all those who cared for him. Bud, neighbor of Neva Huffaker, passed away this past week
Vondell Martin 
Shirley Scott 
Butch & Kathy Stanko, Friends of Polly McDonald
Jo Judd
Kerry Hassler

Missionaries
Lance & Christina Muteyo, Juan & Denise Aragon, Ruth Fox, Pieter & Nora Kalkman

*Please notify the church office (303-442-6530) or David@PineStreetChurch.net if there are people who should be added to or removed from our community care list.
In Case You Missed It:
Pine Street Church Sunday Morning Worship:
Hybrid Edition,
Sunday, September 26th, 2021