If you would like a DVD of Sunday Service, please contact Butch Howard.

Thank you so much for welcoming the live ringing of music ministry from your bell choir this past Sunday! We were excited to be back - the last time we were able to ring for you live was March 8, 2020. We want to let you know we appreciate your patience with having the seemingly miles of bells tables up front for months now. Having the extra space between ringers has been a blessing that allows us to keep doing what we like most to do - rehearse and ring for you!

I would also like to thank the sound crew for sharing their time and expertise for our recording sessions. Without this stalwart crew, we would just be a bunch of ding-a-lings ringing bells with no sound - how sad would that be?! So, a big shout out to Tim Bradley, Butch Howard, and Eli Solt!

But wait, there are even more fine folks to thank... Jean Malchow for sewing us beautiful matching masks that even include having an embroidered bell on each one. Karl Scott for donating materials and putting his excellent carpentry skills to work by making extra ringing stands so we can safely ring by keeping our distance from prepandemic stand partners. A special thank you to husband, Lynn who generously loaned tables, pads, extra bells when needed and continues to do copious amounts of copying so that each bell choir member can ring from their own music.

And of course there are the ringers... A handful of brave souls who started rehearsals back in May of 2020 using music that only required eight to twelve bells. It was a bit terrifying but we kept at it and slowly started adding more ringers back into the choir as they felt comfortable to do so.  It was quite an accomplishment last fall when we had enough returning ringers that we could begin using our 3 octave handbell music. I want to let all the ringers know that they are appreciated and loved. I think they are some of the most talented musicians I have ever had the pleasure of creating music with!

Our bell choir is also blessed with two wonderful individuals who make themselves available to sub for the choir. One of our subs, Jan Shoemaker helped us out last summer and you will most likely see her soon, subbing for us yet again. Raeann Larsen is our other fantastic handbell sub. She has been coming to weekly rehearsals for months - filling in where ever needed - and boy, did we need her!

We look forward to continuing to ring live monthly as it is safe to do so and perhaps even add a couple more recording sessions because there should always be music in worship to stir one's soul.

The United Methodist Women will be celebrating UMW Sunday, next Sunday, April 18th. Please plan to join us. We would like as many UMW members to be present as possible. Watch for your invite via email from the church. Don't have email? Contact your Circle chair or the church office to make your reservation. We're excited to see you!

What an amazing story: from the Heart of Longmont to the OUR Center to our

neighbors in need in Longmont…

We all know the need is great, and we all want to make a difference. Over the last

year, more families than ever have been seeking resources to help stabilize their

lives. Many households have never had to ask for help but find themselves in a

crisis not of their own making and often do not know where to turn.

One of our partners in addressing the needs of our community is the OUR Center,

the focus of our Lenten food drive and our March compassion offering.

Again, YOU showed up BIG!!! The food drive provided 1,777 pounds of food (two

pickup loads of food) to the OUR Center grocery distribution; this provided food

to approximately 30 families experiencing food insecurity (the OUR Center is

currently seeing an average of 70 households per day getting groceries).

You also provided $2,965 through your compassion gifts. The OUR Center used

the financial support to help several families remain in their homes and keep

utilities on. In many cases the direct financial assistance on behalf of a family

allows the family to avoid homelessness.

Thank you again for showing your support. Thank you for putting more of God’s

love into the world.

It is with sadness and trepidation that UMW is cancelling Holiday Fair once again this year. We usually contact our vendors in May and with the 4th surge of COVID and not knowing the future, we decided to cancel the festivities. Lots of different money making projects are in the works though and you can help by collecting those "Treasure Trove" items and garage sale items and donating them to the church. Watch for more opportunities to assist the UMW in continuing their Mission work here and abroad as well. Thank you again for all your support of the United Methodist Women of this church.

2021 PPP MSC District Gatherings

Each district will host its District Gathering on zoom. Bishop Karen will share a message and Communion. Keynote speaker, Rev. Amanda Henderson, author of Holy Chaos: Creating Connections in Divisive Times, will offer teaching moments with breakout rooms. Henderson recently partnered with Iliff School of Theology to create the Institute for Religion, Politics & Culture as a place for scholarship and research about the way legislative initiatives are shaped by religion.

Read Ken Cruz's newsletter below. (Click to download a PDF.)

Applications may be obtained by calling/texting Edy-Kay Ward at 303-882-9209 or emailing edykay318@gmail.com.

Send them to communications@heartoflongmont.org

Do you have a prayer request? We have a new prayer request mailing list! Please send your prayer requests to prayers@heartoflongmont.org.

Many of you have asked how to connect with our two adult Sunday school classes hosted on Zoom. Here's how! The Zoom invites for each are below.

Topic: Adventurer's Sunday School

Time: Sundays at 08:30 AM Mountain Time

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 899 8823 7522

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Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcuFSJs49U

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcwNcMLWd

ALSO, Butch is looking for folks to video record a short interview with. These interviews are shown during Sunday service.  Interviews are short (one-to-two minutes) and are a gift to the congregation to be able to see and hear friends we haven’t seen in close to a year

We'd love to share your stories! Send your submission to communications@heartoflongmont.org with "Pulse" in the subject line.

If you come to the office you will need to wear a mask and use the hand sanitizer inside the office doors. We may need to limit the number of people in the office at any one time. 

You can call Carol at the church office, 303-776-3523, during those days and times. Or you can email her anytime at office@heartoflongmont.org.