We need your input!
We have been blessed that one of the key connecting points and spiritual practices during our COVID shut-down has been Pastor Dean Penrod preparing a daily Bible lesson-devotional since April, 2020. We greatly appreciate the time and effort he has given to this -- not missing one day. It has helped many of us in our daily walk with Christ being spiritually fed for discipleship growth and strength during this time. Now is the time to see if there is enough interest to continue the "Daily Response to the Word". Please let Jessica know by May 24 if this is something you would like to see continued. Pastor Dean is willing if there is the interest.
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VBS Setup Party
We need your help for setup for Vacation Bible School! We are looking for some help on Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st. Please let Sarah know if you can help! There are LOTS of different types of projects.
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Our very own Ty Sailor had an ESPN appearance! He is #47 in the very front with the orange shirt! |
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Welcome New Members!
We welcome these new members who joined our congregation on May 16:
- Jessica Coons
- Greg & Paula Huffaker
- Holly Kay
- Bill & Kathy Short
- Michael Watters {affiliate}
Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing some background and a picture for each of them. Thanks for taking the time to get to know these great folk in our midst!
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Welcome to Bill & Kathy Short
Bill grew up in Arkansas and Kathy in California. Both Kathy and Bill attended Chico State University where they met at the end of their junior year. They married at the beginning of their senior year. Bill graduated with a BS in Industrial Technology and Kathy received a BA in General Studies for Elementary Education. They finally settled in Evergreen in 1987. Kathy did a bit in Sunday School and was a Deacon for the Church of the Hills. Bill was very active in leadership and served on many boards.
Kathy was a homemaker for their family of six, and Bill worked as a Mechanical Engineer. Kathy went back to school and graduated from Regis University with a Masters in Computer Information Systems. Bill and Kathy have been involved with Pura Vida, and have gone on four Mission trips to Guatemala.
Bill enjoys collecting stamps and coins. He has enjoyed golf, racketball, mountain biking, and running. He is currently trying raising quail as a hobby. Kathy likes to hike, travel, learn Spanish, and play with their nine wonderful grandchildren.
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Welcome to Jessica Coons
Jessica Coons, born and raised in New Jersey, moved to the foothills over 9 years ago with her husband, Stacy, of 18 years. The Coons family moved to Colorado 12 years ago from the east coast. Jessica owned her own online virtual assistant business for 10 years before coming to UMCE as the Office Manager. She has now been the UMCE Office Manager for 1.5 years.
You will usually find the Coons family kayaking in one of the many lakes and reservoirs throughout Colorado anytime it's not snowing. Stacy is a project engineer that loves fishing, golfing, and gunsmithing. They have a 6 year old daughter, Abigail. She is a social butterfly and you can find her usually talking or running fast. They also have a 2 year old dog, Emma. Emma is a super friendly pup and spends her days sunning outside at doggie daycare.
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Baptism of Rowan Fitz Sailor
On May 23 at the 10:30 service we will join in the sacrament of baptism for Rowan Fitz Sailor, son of Matthew and Sarah Sailor, born December 10, 2017. We welcome out-of-town family who will be joining us for this special event.
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Church Office Closures & Summer Hours
Jessica will be on vacation starting Friday, June 4th and returning on Monday, June 21st.
Two church members have offered to fill in at the office for a few days during this, Debby Humphrey and Paula Huffaker.
We will have open office hours 9:30am-11:30am on these dates:
- Tuesday, June 8th
- Thursday, June 10th
- Tuesday, June 15th
- Thursday, June 17th
Please note, that there will be no Happenings on Friday, June 11th. Please reach out as soon as possible if you have something to advertise beforehand or if anything is needed before June 4th, such as Zoom info for an upcoming meeting, etc.
Starting on Monday, June 21st our summer office hours will be in affect:
- Mondays: 12pm-2:30pm
- Tuesdays: 9:30am-2:30pm
- Wednesdays: 9:30am-2:30pm
Thank you for your cooperation!
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Business Directory Bulletin Board
This bulletin board will be getting an overhaul and update by July. If you have a business you own or a part of, please feel free to add to it after July or give to Jessica in the church office.
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Summer Worker for Teen, Inc. in Conifer Looking for Room to Rent
Hello, my name is Ben Montgomery and I am a recent grad of the CSU sociology department. I will be working in the Conifer/Bailey area for the summer for Teens Inc, a youth development program with an emphasis in environmental stewardship. Jimmy Conway put me in touch with this church and said you all have been extremely kind to him during his time with Teens Inc. I was curious if anyone in the community had a room I could rent out for the summer? I am extremely flexible and will work with anything at this point.
Pastor Deb’s note – Two summers ago a UMC pastor in Wisconsin reached out to me about a young man in her congregation coming to work for Teen, Inc – so it was a pastor to pastor referral. Glenn & Pat Stoll hosted him, and he provided house sitting and animal care for them in exchange. We are happy to post this request, but it doesn’t come from a pastor referral.}
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Update from the Trustees on the Bathroom Renovation
The planning and preliminary work is progressing. We believe we now have found our contractor to do the work, but the schedule has likely been pushed to fall of this year.
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Hosts for Outdoor Coffee Fellowship Following Worship Needed
If you'd like to have Coffee Fellowship following worship resume, we need your help. For the next few months at least, we will hold it outside the sanctuary doors [as JeffCo COVID restrictions allow]. Pastor Deb has a simple plan to make it happen. If you are willing to host coffee fellowship a time or two in the coming months, please be in touch with her. For a while, we will just be able to hold it sporadically as hosts are scheduled. We will be very grateful for whatever can happen to make this fun time of fellowship and visiting possible once again.
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Win-Win: Help Nathan & Anna Get into Their Townhome by Having Some Work Done Around Your Home
Our song leader and choir director, Nathan, and fiancé, Anna, are looking forward to closing on a townhome purchase in the coming weeks. We can help them with their down payment and initial funding by hiring Nathan to help around our homes. He's offering to do yard work, build fences, painting, manual labor inside or out, etc. He's available Saturdays and Sundays after church this month with added availability during the week the first half of June. Contact Nathan at 402-705-0458 or njensen7@live.com.
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Ministry Jottings
Things Aren’t Always as They Seem
Here’s one of my favorites {& it’s true}
Mr. Collins was flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles for business some years back. The 60-seater commuter plane had to make an unexpected stop in Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant announced to the passengers there would be a short delay, and if they wanted to get off the aircraft, the plane would re-board in about 30 minutes. Everybody decided to get off. Mr. Collins and a blind man with a Seeing Eye dog were in the back. As they had been talking, the blind gentleman explained how this was a fairly regular flight for him. Mr. Collins commented how well behaved the dog was just tucked on the floor quietly below the seats.
It was even more obvious that this was a regular flight for the blind man when, after the other passengers had gotten off, the pilot came back and, addressing the man by name, said, “Kevin, would you like me to help you walk around the airport a bit to stretch your legs? The man appreciated the offer and said, “no thanks, but could you walk Scout around a bit?” Which the pilot was glad to do.
Now, picture this. All the people in the gate area coming to a complete standstill when they look up and see a pilot walk off the plane with a Seeing Eye dog. The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they tried to change airlines!
Have a great day and remember – things aren’t always what they appear.
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Mountain Resource Center Food Storage
As most of you know, Mountain Resource Center (“MRC”) is one of the missions our Church has supported over the years. MRC delivers high quality, integrated health and human services within a 1000 square mile rural mountain area, serving a population of over 65,000 in West Jefferson, Clear Creek, Gilpin and Park Counties. Among its many services, MRC operates a food pantry and an early childhood and family education program. Due to the Covid pandemic, the early childhood and family education program was suspended while at the same time demands on the food pantry exploded. Average food purchase costs to meet the increased demand went from 8,600 pounds a month to 36,000 pounds a month.
Because additional food storage space was required to meet the increased demand, while the early childhood and family education programs were temporarily suspended due to Covid, MRC utilized the classroom ordinarily used for those programs for food storage. Although we seem to be returning to some degree of normalcy, the economy is failing to recover as quickly as the threat of Covid. Demands on the food pantry have not decreased significantly, and they are not expected to do so for some period of time. MRC is able to resume its early childhood and family education programs but had no place to hold them because the classroom is currently a food storage area. As a solution, and there being no other space available in the MRC building, the Board of MRC elected to purchase an outdoor food storage container. The cost for this was unanticipated and unbudgeted.
MRC has requested special assistance with this purchase. In conjunction with other churches and faith based organizations in the MRC service area, we will be collecting donations to assist with the container purchase on Sunday, May 23 rd. Of course, for those attending worship services remotely who wish to donate, MRC has a donation link on their website. As MRC says, any donation, of whatever amount, will help. |
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SPRING and GARDENS GO TOGETHER!
Some of us helped with housewares awhile back for the new Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Renaissance Veterans apartments at Fitzsimons. The Vets are planting a garden at their facility and could use some items. If you would like to help this garden grow, here are their needs: SMALL garden tools {these can be new or used in good condition}; new gardening gloves for men.
Please bring your donations to church by the 10:30 service on THIS Sunday, May 23, there will be a drop-off in the Choir Room. They will be delivered to CCH that week. Planting and tending their garden will be a gift to these Vets and our beloved Earth! Thank you for being part of this mission outreach!
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EPAD Golf Tournament
Only one week remains to register for the Evergreen Public Access Defibrillation (EPAD) Golf Tournament at beautiful Hiwan Golf Club (deadline is Friday, May 28). Enjoy a round of golf while raising money for EPAD’s AED and community CPR programs.
Contact Debby with any questions (303-587-7353). We’ll see you on June 7! Maureen Sullivan & Debby Humphrey
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Baby Bottle Drive
Life’s Options in Evergreen is thankful for life and we are collecting change to change lives. Please pick up your physical or virtual baby bottle today, fill it up with spare change, cash or checks and return to church during the weekend services no later than Father’s Day.
Life’s Options provides much needed services to those in our community who are struggling with an unplanned pregnancy. Their work also goes well beyond counseling services and includes practical support with items needed in the daily care of infants and children. Thank you for supporting and helping us continue our life-changing work. Life is a precious gift and we are thankful for life at every stage.
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Tuesday, June 1st - Friday, June 4th |
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Saturday, June 5th - Sunday, June 20th |
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Jessica is on Vacation
Limited office hours
(see Happenings)
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8:30am @ Fellowship Hall & Outside |
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Men's Breakfast & Spring Workday |
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9am @ Evergreen Rodeo Grounds |
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11am @ Fellowship Hall & Library |
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11am @ Fellowship Hall & Library |
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Onsite worship: 8:30 & 10:30
Online worship: Available from 9 on
Online Kid's Sunday School: 9:30
Onsite Kid’s Sunday School: 10:30
Online Youth Group: 1:30 - 2:30
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THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF EVERGREEN
Growing a community of faith by serving a world of need and changing lives. We affirm a spirit of openness and hospitality to all, including persons of all races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, financial strata, and abilities who seek a closer walk with God.
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