Communion Offering
Thank you for your generous donation to World Communion Sunday! $385 was collected to support this mission!
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2022 Stewardship
Our Stewardship Campaign for the 2022 calendar year is about to begin. The theme this year will be ‘Entrusted Treasures, God’s Gifts in Our Hands,’ which will be the subject of a four part sermon series beginning in October. Please prayerfully consider your support of the ministry of our Church in 2022.
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Pizza with the Pastor
If you are new to UMCE and would like to find out more about the church, please join Pastor Sarah for pizza on Sunday, October 31st. We’ll gather in the library after the 10:30 service for an informal time of getting to know one another better and an opportunity to discover more about UMCE! If you’re interested, please RSVP to the church office by Thursday, October 28th.
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8:30am Ushering Help
We are in need of more ushers for the 8:30am service. It's usually on a rotating basis, approximately once per month, depending upon the number of sign ups. Please contact Penn Gildersleeve or the church office.
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Sunday Adult Education Class
Come meet with fellow church members in the library between the two services. All are welcome! Hope to see you at 9:30 am on the coming Sundays.
October 10
Our own Pem Dunn, master artist and designer of our church's stain glass windows, will shares his art with the class. As many of you know Pem's recent illness caused him to completely lose his sight in his right eye and partial sight in his left eye. This didn't stop him from painting. Now, some say his paintings are even better. Come hear his story.
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Two-Part Series on Immigration
When asylum-seeking immigrants are released from an ICE detention facility onto unfamiliar streets near Denver, Colorado, where can they go for help? Since 2012, Sarah Jackson and her team of volunteers at Casa de Paz have welcomed them into her home and helped to reunite them with their families.
Casa de Paz (House of Peace) offers shelter, meals, plane/bus tickets, transportation and emotional support to immigrants released from detention as they transition to their final destination.
Hear more about this extraordinary ministry! And read ahead at casadepazcolorado.org.
October 17: Welcome Strangers. A document telling a timely story of Loving Thy Neighbor followed by discussion. “A testament to the power of community. A film whose subject is a beacon, lifeline and bridge to the immigration process”. -Palm Springs ShortFest Jury Statement
October 24: Meet Peggy and Dwight Steen, Ambassadors to Casa de Paz. Peggy and Dwight will share with us the story of Casa and their experiences as volunteers extraordinaire. They will answer our questions about Casa de Paz and the immigration process. Peggy and Dwight are members of Trinity UMC. Please give them a big welcome!
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Messy Church
October 13th we'll be launching this year's Wednesday program. Messy Church is a family-oriented church service that we'll be holding from 6-7PM with Pastor Sarah every week. This is a great opportunity for a casual, kid-friendly worship service with something for everyone! There will be crafts, games, discussions, and a brief message.
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Annual Holiday Wreath Fundraiser
UMCE will kick off its annual Holiday Wreath Fundraiser on Sunday, October 17! Wreath orders will be taken for three Sundays (Oct 17, 24 and 31) and delivered to the church the week of Nov 15-19. The online ordering/drop ship option will be available, too. Watch for more details in next week’s Happenings or contact Debby Humphrey at dmhnco@gmail.com or 303-587-7353 with questions.
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Journey Towards Racial Justice
Do you care about racial justice and want to learn more? A great way is to read books and articles and watch and listen to podcasts and videos that help us to hear different voices and gain different perspectives on racism and how it lives and works in our society. Last year some members of the United Methodist Church of Evergreen spent many weeks learning about and discussing racial justice and equity issues and ways to drive positive change in our world. This fall we would like to offer more sessions on these topics to a new group of people including not only interested individuals who attend UMCE, but also interested members of the broader community in which we live.
As a beginning to this ongoing conversation, over several weeks we will read Ijeoma Oluo's book, So You Want To Talk About Race. "Oluo offers a guide to recognizing how barriers may be different for people of color and how to learn from and participate in complex - and often uncomfortable - discussions about race."
We will hold 4 discussion sessions from 7:00 - 8:00 pm MT via Zoom on the following Thursdays: October 14, October 28, November 11, and December 9. The focus of the first meeting will be getting to know each other and learning where people are on their journey toward racial justice, and the next three gatherings will be facilitated discussions on the assigned chapters. We will provide a safe space in which we can choose to admit our own past mistakes and in which we may help each other figure out ways to make improvements in ourselves and in those around us.
We are looking forward to learning from our community and hope you can join us as we all strive to raise the bar and take action for equality and justice. To become part of this supportive study group, please let Heather McGaughey (hpmcg@pacbell.net) know you would like to join.
(Please note you do not need to know anything about racial justice to join this study.)
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2021 Alternative Gift Fair Is Just Around the Corner
The Alternative Gift Fair is back in person this year on Saturday and Sunday, November 13 and 14 at Evergreen Lutheran Church. Last year, we went virtual, due to Covid restrictions, so we’re thrilled we will be back live! We are again sponsored by six local congregations, including ours.
This year, we will have 30 charitable organizations selling and those charity vendors will charge at their tables for their own items sold (some may require cash or check), so we can free up cashier space that will allow for safer distancing throughout the church. Also, for safety, we will offer only sealed food and drink for outside or off-site consumption. Don’t forget to buy goodies to take home from our Bake Sale table, which is how we fund our expenses to put on the Fair each year. We don’t charge the charity vendors to be at the Fair.
In order to help this year’s Fair to be a success, we also need both volunteers and shoppers! As you recall, our motto is “Shop once. Gift Twice.” When you do your holiday shopping at our Fair, you can buy beautiful crafts, jewelry, art, baskets and clothing from around the world for your family and loved ones. However, you are gifting not only for those you buy for, but also those in need, both near and far, that the charity vendors support. For more information, go to our website www.gifttwice.org , where you may also click on the Volunteer button at the top of the homepage to sign up to help. Or, you may also go directly to the volunteer page HERE.
Please shop and volunteer with us again to help make this year’s Alternative Gift Fair another huge success!
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EChO Volunteer Opportunities
Evergreen Christian Outreach is excited to announce the opening of the EChO Shelter at a new location. Beginning Monday, October 18, the shelter will be open for people who need food and a place to sleep on cold nights. The Church of the Hills has made its lower level, which includes facilities for sleeping, eating, showering and laundry, open for shelter guests for the coming winter.
Volunteers -- including people to serve as hosts and people to bring in evening meals -- are needed to help keep this great program going.
Options for food hosts include bringing a hot meal for ten at 6 p.m., or bringing in plastic containers of individual meals, to be kept in the shelter's freezer and used as needed. Two volunteer evening hosts are needed to be at the shelter from 6 to 10 p.m. (Overnight hosts, who arrive at 10 p.m., are presently being paid; however, volunteers are encouraged to sign up in case one of the paid hosts is unavailable. The overnight hosts split the night, so that one is awake at all times.) For further information, please contact Tim Clancy Tim@Evergreenchristianoutreach.org or sign up here.
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Animate Bible Study with Pastor Sarah |
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Animate Bible Study with Pastor Sarah |
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