We are at a time of new beginnings as we plan to be back for in-person worship NEXT Sunday, September 26.

Be sure to stay tuned for communication this week about health and wellness protocols that we will be using in conjunction with the Boulder County Health Department guidelines, including masking for all who enter our doors.

Today is our second Sunday to livestream our service at 10am MST. Please be patient as we adjust to new technology in this regard. We are grateful to extend our worshiping community to all who are not able to join us physically at 1237 Pine Street.

Take a look around today's Pine Street Post edition---there's a lot!

I am grateful to be on this journey with you.

With heart,

CLICK HERE to join us on Youtube Live for today's Sunday Worship Service. CLICK HERE to download a copy of the worship guide. The service video will begin streaming at 10am. So if you don't see it right away keep checking on the link.

A portion of the service will be available to rewatch on the Pine Street Church YouTube Channel by Sunday afternoon each week. However, the best way for you to experience the Hybrid Edition service is on at 10am via YouTube Live.

Give: Your financial gifts to God through Pine Street Church are more essential now than ever. Make a gift today. If you are giving online or sending checks in the mail, thank you. If you are a person who normally places your gifts in the offering boxes on Sundays, please consider giving online HERE.

Please join us, and invite your friends and family, as we return to in-person worship, two weeks from today, on September 26th at 10am. We'll celebrate this momentous occasion with a new message series kick called:

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.

In our return to in-person worship you can expect our COVID safety rules and regulations to mirror those required by Boulder County Public Health. These can change often and we will keep you informed of any changes that affect our Sunday morning gatherings. For now, per Boulder County Health Rules, we will require masks and will observe safe gathering protocols.

All Pine Street Church Services going forward will be available for remote viewing via a high quality Live Stream that can be found on the Pine Street Church YouTube Channel each Sunday at 10am

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

So many people have been affected by extreme environmental events: hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, wildfires, as well as a pandemic. Our earth home is in peril. As people of faith, we are called to use the available collective knowledge to save and protect God’s gift of creation, which has provided and sustained life for countless years.

Join others in reading and discussing the book All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson. The book contains about 60 essays, poems, illustrations, each contributing to the breadth and depth of hopeful wisdom offered.

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 on September 28. 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.

Praise for All We Can Save

“Hopeful and illuminating, All We Can Save is an anthology of essays by women at the forefront of the climate crisis. So often climate writing can make us feel doomed and anxious, but this collection is a comfort because of its honesty and courage…. It’s a reminder that we can work with hope towards a better future.”

In recent months the Church's Leadership Council has engaged with several organizations who will be leading our church through a comprehensive Strategic Planning Process. It begins very soon, and we need your help! You're invited to complete a Church Assessment Tool (CAT), an on-line instrument that will help our church leaders to gauge the strength, vitality, and trends in and of our church. The information gained from this assessment will be valuable in helping us make decisions about the future of our church.

In about a week, you will receive an email with a unique link to the CAT. Beginning Monday September 7th, we are asking you to go online by clicking on the link to be provided in an email that day and tell us about your experiences in and priorities for our church. Please do not discuss the survey or your answers with others as this may influence their answers.

If you need a paper copy, please contact the office (admin@pinestreetchurch.net or 303-442-6530).

All answers will be strictly anonymous. There is no way of matching any assessment to a particular person, so please feel free to candidly share your perceptions, opinions and experiences. Our future together is dependent on your participation and honest answers.

Many thanks,

Your Leadership Council

PINE STREET CHURCH HAS A HEART for MISSION!

In our continuing effort to support and build a relationship with TGTHR (formerly Attention Homes), we inquired about donating school supplies for residents and the congregation was invited to bring needed items to the August in-person worship service. We subsequently received a detailed request from TGTHR asking if we could fill 12 backpacks with recommended school supplies. As our planned collection time was August 29, after school started, we decided to purchase the needed supplies. Each backpack contained four spiral notebooks, two folders, a number of pens and pencils, colored pencils, markers, pocket Kleenex, hand sanitizer, an alarm clock and assorted snack items. Thanks to Jan Arney, who provided the backpacks, and to Carol Simpson, Larry VanSpriell, and Mary Beth Mankin, who shopped for and purchased the supplies, we delivered 12 filled backpacks to TGTHR on August 17, with a donated valued of $578.74. These were taken to middle or high school students at Chase House and The Source. An additional $88 worth of items were donated on August 29 and delivered on Sept. 7. THANK YOU to all who helped these teens start the new school year not only with needed supplies, but also knowing that they are loved by their neighbors.

Three teams from PSC continue to provide (on a rotating basis) one meal per month to Chase House.

Mission Giving

Thank you to all who contribute to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering in July. We raised $1175 in support of disaster relief and other ministries at home and abroad.

Watch this space for news about the World Mission Offering which will be received throughout the month of October. This year’s theme is: We’ve Been Surprised by God’s Glory. If you’d like to play a role in promoting this opportunity to participate in God’s transformational work in our world, contact Carol Simpson. (pastorcms@cs.com).

Off Broadway Gallery at PSC

Opening Event:

Duration:

A native of Glenwood Springs, CO, Berta Post was inspired at a young age by her uncle, a Taos artist, to express herself through drawing and painting. Post’s landscapes and still life works rely on an intuitive use of color which invite the viewer from an exploration of the terrain to a more contemplative space rich in feeling and memory. Exhibit duration: Sept 26th - October 27th.

If you're interested in seeing the final days of the current exhibit featuring the art of Adderly Grant-Lord please contact gallery curator, Waverly Matthews to schedule a showing by this Thursday September 23rd.

waverlymatthews@gmail.com

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

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

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.