Sunday Worship will be on our YouTube channel this Sunday at 10AM.
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It is with great sadness that the UMW have decided not to have our traditional Holiday Fair this year. This is our biggest money maker of the year for our Mission projects and pledges.
HOWEVER, watch for ways you can still help us out!
We will be having items for sale virtually, hopefully some jams and jellies available, as well as a possible luncheon of our normal pulled pork sandwiches, but in a curbside pickup or delivery scenario. Also, we will probably be doing another round of cheeseballs for the holidays.
PLEASE watch for the “new” ways to help us continue our mission work in this crazy year of 2020.
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Have you missed going to 350 11th Avenue…you know, our church? Well, here is an opportunity to stop by.
Longs Peak UMC is offering up a challenge to all the Methodist Churches in Longmont and surrounding areas to help fill some of the items in the OUR Center food pantry that are low.
As we know, COVID 19 has impacted and continues to impact a lot of our community members. Many have lost their source of income and now are struggling to keep food on their table and pay their rent.
We have accepted the challenge by agreeing to collect toilet paper, toothbrushes and toothpaste (6 ounces or smaller).
If you would like to support us in this effort, please drop off your purchases by noon on Friday, August 28. We’ll make arrangements to get them to the OUR Center.
This is another GREAT way for us to put more of God’s love into the world!
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Adventurers Adult Sunday School Discussion
Take This Bread by Sarah Miles
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The Adventurer's Adult Sunday school will begin a new book study, beginning Sunday, August 23rd. Social time at 8:30am, discussion begins at 9:00am. Zoom link is below.
Take This Bread by Sarah Miles Synopsis:
Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raised an atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and found herself transformed–embracing a faith she’d once scorned. A lesbian left-wing journalist who’d covered revolutions around the world, Miles didn’t discover a religion that was about angels or good behavior or piety; her faith centered on real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. Within a few years, she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city.
Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles’s life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.
We would love for you to join us.
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Tech Tip of the Week
from Butch Howard
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Here is a little tip for hearing the sermon better while watching the Sunday worship service. This tip in only known by people who have never used a rotary phone. This tip was used successfully on services that have already aired but may not work with the service aired on the 16th, which was lived streamed.
The Tip: If you're having trouble hearing the service, try this. Move the cursor to the bottom of the picture and some icons should appear (like pause, mute, and time of video left). Over on the right side of these icons there is the enlarge/fullscreen icon and to the left of that is one that says "CC". Click on the CC button and, if all goes well, you will see closed captioning of the audio of the service. Do this and you won’t have to admit that you are getting hard of hearing.
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The Staff/Parish Relations Committee (SPRC) sponsored a staff retreat Saturday, Aug. 15, on Zoom. This included SPRC members as well as Program, Music, and Office Staff. It was a morning of some lively discussion, creative ideas and dreaming what we would like to see as we move into the new year and beyond. I want you to know that we have a great staff of people working for our congregation – they are a committed, creative, enthusiastic, and faith-filled group who have often gone above and beyond their job requirements to lead this congregation forward in carrying out God’s call. You will see the results of some of their work in the near future. Please express your appreciation when you see any of them.
Mary Ann Watson
Joan Edmonds
SPRC Co-Chairs
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A Message from Mary Ann Watson |
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To my dear fellow members of HOL,
I miss seeing you all on a weekly basis, sharing greetings, hugs, hearing about your life, sharing mine with you. Yes, I long for our in-person gatherings, but I am trying not to wish that life returns to the old normal. Why? To answer, I’d like to share some words of the senior pastor at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. When anyone asks her, “When will we get back to normal?” She answers, “Never.” Then she writes,
I don’t mean to be mean…. I simply want to be sure everybody understands that things weren’t that terrific in early 2020 or before.
It seemed like every weekend we had another serial killer. The climate was getting hotter and angrier. People actually had to form a movement to affirm, “Black Lives Matter.” DUH. Also “Me too.” DUH. The rich were getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
With the virus, more people see how real racism is. How real it is that women are 80% of essential workers. We knew these things already, but some of us didn’t recognize them. We were dying before Coronavirus, but some of us ignored it.
We don’t need to go back. We need to go forward. Forward to justice, forward to green, and forward to sanity.
So my wish is that my life will never “get back to normal” but will move forward into a new normal where I am more consciously aware of how people of color and people of other cultures are experiencing life and that I will not tire of learning from them and learning how to help our world become more just so all humans have the opportunity for a full and abundant life.
Hope to see you soon. In Christ's Love,
Mary Ann Watson
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Through Mountain Sky United Methodist Foundation, you as an individual can invest your savings in accounts similar to CDs and Money Markets where you will earn above-average interest rates. The fund is called the Methodists Helping Methodists Fund. Your investments allow the Foundation to provide capital improvement loans to United Methodist Churches throughout the region. Investment options include:
- Fixed-Rate Investments (one, two, three, four, and five-year) are available for amounts $1,000 and above. Interest is paid out quarterly or reinvested, depending on investor wishes.
- Variable-Rate Investments are available with a minimum investment of $500. Withdrawals can be made at any time upon written notice.
At August 1, 2020, rates for fixed-rate investments range from .95% for a 12-month term on deposits of $1,000 to $4,999 up to 2.58% for a 60-month term on deposits of $10,000 and over. Variable-rate accounts starting at $500 pay .30%.
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Consider naming Heart of Longmont UMC as a beneficiary in your will or living trust. The gift could be a set dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or a specific asset. |
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Next month's Compassion Offering will support the CROP Walk. CROP Walk will be a little different this year: To keep everyone safe and healthy, Walks are going virtual – either walking alone, with immediate family or in small groups walking a safe distance apart.
Be sure to check out the upcoming September 3 edition of the Pulse for more information on how you can participate in a Virtual CROP Walk!
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Have an article or photo you want to see in the next edition of the Pulse?
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Adult Sunday School Classes on Zoom |
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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. |
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Adventurer's Sunday School with Tricia Grafelman |
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Topic: Adventurer's Sunday School
Time: Sundays at 08:30 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 889 5699 4366
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Meeting ID: 889 5699 4366
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Faith & Reason Sunday School with Marty Allison |
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Sunday, July 5⋅8:30 – 9:45am
Weekly on Sunday
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 830 4521 8818
Password: 115380
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Meeting ID: 830 4521 8818
Password: 115380
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The HOL UMW Are Here For You! |
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Your United Methodist Women would like the congregation to know that if someone needs something and can’t--or shouldn’t--go out please contact Lynn Greenhalge at 303-651-3911 or halge@aol.com. We will get it taken care of! If you just need someone to chat with please let us know that as well! We’ll give you a “phone buddy”!
We need to stick together in these trying times and we want you to know we’re here for you, our church.
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Do you have an article, story, or update you'd like to put in the Pulse?
The deadline for submissions is August 31.
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Churches weigh options to reach seniors | United...
Technology has provided many answers for pastors trying to stay connected with their members during the coronavirus pandemic. But in some rural or smaller churches, landline telephones and newsletters sent via snail mail continue to play a role.
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www.umnews.org
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What Would Wesley Think? - The Michigan Conference
Rev. Glenn Wagner asserts, "It can be fruitful to approach today's challenges with guidance from Methodism's visionary founder, John Wesley." GLENN M. WAGNER Michigan Conference Communications WWWT? What would Wesley think? What would John Wesley ...
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michiganumc.org
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United Methodists to Host New "Dismantling Racism" Town...
United Methodist Communications Office of Public Information FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2020 Nashville, Tenn.: Two new interactive town hall discussions are planned as part of the "Dismantling Racism: Pressing on to Freedom" initiative's...
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Hope, Act, Vote.
We have a dream to carry on and work to do. The loss of civil rights leaders is sad and disquieting. This is not the moment to lose the voices and witness of the Honorable John Lewis, the Honorable Elijah Cummings, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery...
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Dangerous combination: Virus, poverty, immigration |...
In a recent conversation with our son, a pulmonologist and critical care physician in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, he spoke about the disproportionate number of Latino immigrants he is treating for COVID-19. On one particular day, 95% ...
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Disaster fatigue
By Dr. Rick Vance Like you, I hoped we would be further along in the recovery from COVID-19 by this time. This morning's report from the Centers for Disease Control, tells me that we are not. This public-health disaster has deeply affected people ...
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www.gcumm.org
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Coronavirus exacerbates economic, racial disparities |...
St. John's United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sits on what its lead pastor calls "the corner of wealth and poverty." On one side of the church is the Louisiana State University campus and its surrounding affluent homes. On the...
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Seeing removal of statues as 'doing no harm' | United...
By Linda Bloom Aug. 10, 2020 | UM News Three years ago, an Aug. 12 march in Charlottesville, Virginia, by white supremacists opposing a city council vote to move a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Leeended in tragedy.
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United Methodist Communications Turns 80! | ResourceUMC
This year, United Methodist Communications celebrates 80 years of communication ministry. Communication has changed dramatically during the agency's storied history, the seed of which began at the Uniting Conference of 1939, where bishops voiced...
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What does the Bible mean by "peace"? | The United...
The Hebrew word we translate as peace is " shalom." The way "shalom" is used does not mean to feel calm nor the absence of conflict. Instead shalom, peace, is the result of right relationships with God, one another, and with creation. The concept ...
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Slavery and the founders of Methodism | United Methodist ...
By the Rev. William B. Lawrence Aug. 13, 2020 | CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (UM News) The Rev. William B. Lawrence Photo by H. Jackson/Southern Methodist University. Although multiple Methodist denominations are global institutions, a number of them began...
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office@heartoflongmont.org / 303-776-3523 / WIFI Password HOL2016M |
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In-person worship is suspended at this time
but we welcome you to join us on our Facebook and YouTube pages!
We also welcome you to join us for online worship services
on our YouTube channel
Sundays at 10AM.
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The office at Heart of Longmont is open
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10:00am to 1:00pm.
Carol Barnett will be in the office to help with any special needs you may have. 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 always call Carol at the church office, 303-776-3523 during those days and times. Or you can email her anytime at office@heartoflongmont.org.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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