January 20 Colonial Church News

January 24 Online Worship

Sunday Worship Online

Connect to online live worship service at https://colonialucc.online.church/ at 8:30 or 10:15 a.m.

Or, you can watch our service anytime after 8:30 a.m. on Sundays via YouTube at https://bit.ly/CCYouTubeV

Online Children's Sunday School. This week's Sunday School Bible story will go live on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. https://bit.ly/CCYouTubeVid

If you know of kids who might enjoy taking part in our Sunday School, invite their parents to signup to be on the list to receive the weekly materials at https://bit.ly/CCSSOnline.

Online Coffee & Conversation. Grab your coffee, your tea, your beverage of choice and join your fellow Colonialites in our Coffee & Conversation Zoom Room. We will be connecting with each other between our worship services. Stop in for a quick minute to catch up with each other! You can connect at https://bit.ly/CCCoffeeCon

2021 Colonial Church Budget – Congregational Meeting February 7

The Colonial Administrative Board and other members of the Council met on January 9 to review, discuss and agree on a recommended budget for 2021. Read the minutes here. Review the proposed budget here.

A congregational budget approval meeting is scheduled for 9:15 am on Sunday, February 7. Join the meeting at

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88239305408?pwd=QTdEZTNGQmxnWHFXaUMxNDVBK0loZz09

Happy Birthday to Our Solar Panels

Happy Birthday to our solar panels for the first full year of energy production! These workaholics produced almost 25% of our year's electricity and saved Colonial Church about $2,880 on our energy bill. Even with a pandemic these panels put in a great year, creating the equivalent of 153 trees planted and 22,500 pounds of CO2 emissions saved from the atmosphere.

Colonial Women Activities

Note: All Colonial Women activities are now virtual. You can attend through the Zoom links below. We need to connect now, more than ever!

Colonial Women Big Biscuit - 9:30 a.m. on February 1 via Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87575214584?pwd=NEQxQmxBUi9OZlRra2RGRlMxNjdnQT09

Colonial Women Blue Moose - 5:30 p.m. on February 9 via Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83126269022?pwd=cGZJOXVkZXk1MXRmcXNESUM4Q2dlZz09

Colonial Women Book Group - 7:00 p.m. Friday, February 26 via Zoom. We will discuss "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett.

Your Support Matters

Our work together matters - to each other and to the community. We are needed more than ever in this difficult time.

Your pledges help Colonial to do its work. Counters are counting and we are making deposits. You may mail in your pledge checks or any other payments. An easier alternative is to make contributions online. You just fill in your banking information or provide a credit card and your name and email and what fund you are paying (Stewardship, food pantry, etc.) and the amount. Click the donate button below.

If you have any questions, you may email or call Heather in the office or Jayne Quimby, Financial Recorder.

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Coffee with the Pastor

You can still chat with Pastor Aaron on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. but we are currently meeting via Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83732113798?pwd=N2ZXZW14OC90dWFidXJzYlZpWlVCdz09

Year-End Giving Statements

Your year-end Giving Statement for 2020 have been sent out. If you have any questions about your statement, you may email or call Heather in the office or email Jayne Quimby, Financial Recorder. Thank you for your support of Colonial Church!

VANish the Void Supplies

Pre-pandemic, Colonial helped Kar Woo and Artists Helping the Homeless by providing and serving a meal in Mill Creek Park once a month for homeless people. We hope to resume that outreach eventually. In the meantime, the Colonial Board of Outreach is providing funds for non-perishable food items for Woo to hand out when he is out in the Be the Change van helping disadvantaged and homeless people in Kansas City. You can give to that effort here by selecting AHH from the dropdown menu.

Colonial Women Rummage Fundraiser

Because of concerns about COVID-19, Colonial Women is hosting a rummage collection rather than the usual sale. The goal is to raise $1,000, which means about 5,000 pounds of items! Savers will pay us by the pound for quality items. To reach that requires 250 13-gallon white trash bags of soft goods and 200 boxes of hard goods. We are also collecting boxes of books for a book sale.

Let Marylee Battaglia know how many bags or boxes you have collected so we can see progress toward the goal. The collection is April 11, 2021. Note nothing will be stored at the church.

Celebrations!

In this time of staying connected remotely, please remember these folks who are celebrating milestones.

Happy Birthday!

22 Jim Cook

23 Kim Mann, Carol Scott

24 Loren Griffith, Francine Knoll, Glenna Loomis

Colonial Member Directory

We have updated the Colonial directory. This is a private directory for the Colonial Church community as an easy way to communicate with members of our church community. We are making this available because you are unable to come to the church to pick up a directory.

Please do not share this directory with people outside this community for private or commercial use.

January 2021 Colonial Member Directory