Pastor Claire Invites You

to Join Us July 10!

Welcome Pastor Claire to

Our Congregation!

This Sunday, July 10th we will be welcoming Pastor Claire to our congregation. We will be celebrating her arrival with an old fashioned ice cream social right after church, provided by the UMF. Of course there will be coffee and tea as well. 

We hope many of you will not only be able to attend her first service, but also able to stay for a short time afterwards for ice cream and to introduce yourself to Pastor Claire. 

Remember to wear your name tag if you have one, and if you don't have one, check with the office to get a new one.

Fond Farewell

Reverend David Burt ended 4 years of pastoral leadership at the Heart of Longmont UM Church on June 26th. Church members turned out to celebrate him and his wife, Rebecca, in full force.

A memorable church service full of joy and celebration culminated with a BBQ lunch. People had an opportunity to wish David and Rebecca well on their journey into David’s retirement.

It was an occasion for tears, laughter and memories. David’s focus on “putting more of God’s love into the world” guided HOL toward a focused mission of transforming lives and the world. A focus that doesn’t end with David’s departure but strengthens the missional momentum with Reverend Claire McNulty-Drewes’ arrival.

Thanks For Your Hard Work!

This past week we had a Mission Work Week to work on our church building and grounds. We had 37 people working over 379 hours to complete tasks including but not limited to:

• Pulling weeds around the building including playgrounds
• Cleaning the table/chair room including washing all the tables and chairs and scrubbing the floor of the room.
• Replace and paint the wood exterior on the east side of the choir room
• Cleaned and replaced gutters as needed
• Cleaned and organized the janitor’s closet
• Cleaned lights, exit signs and diffusers
• Cleaned the parlor chairs
• Cleaned the blinds in the parlor
• Cleaned windows inside and out in the gallery and west airlock
• Cleaned the first-floor stained glass
• Patched potholes in the parking lot
• Trimmed trees, shrubs, and roses
• Fresh mulch for the flower beds
• Repaired sprinkler system
• Cleaned the gallery area furniture
• Spot cleaned the carpet
• Replaced a drain grate
• Rehung the gate to the north playground
• Repotted plants
• Dusted artificial plants in Narthex and Sanctuary
• Reorganized and restocked pew backs in the sanctuary
• Repainted the door to Wesley Hall, inside and outside
• Adjusted exterior light timer
• Cleaned the courtyard flower beds
• Replaced air filters in the education wing

Thank you again for all of your hard work, time and dedication to keep our building maintained so that we may put more of God’s love into the world. Thank you so much.

Faith and Reason Sunday School

New Book Study

You are invited to join the Faith and Reason Sunday School class who have chosen Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes by Robert McAfee Brown to study. It does not promise to be an easy book, but it will help prepare us for wiser service and can renew or ignite our passion for reading the Bible.

We meet by Zoom at 8:30 AM Sunday mornings.

URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83045218818?pwd=VGRodW5Ta3JxTng4emhva2tvY094dz09

For questions, please be in touch with Marty Allison at martyallisonco@gmail.com

Podcast Ponderings

Hello HOL,

For the next 5 weeks the Adventurer's Class will be doing a series on Podcast Ponderings. A podcast link will be sent out the Tuesday prior to our class time. We meet on Sunday mornings at 9 in the Parlor and we would like to invite anyone from the congregation to join us. 

If you are unable to make that time frame, you can join Tricia Grafelman on Monday afternoons at 1:00 in the Parlor to discuss the same podcast we "pondered" the day before.  

Our first Podcast is listed below. There are several different links so you should be able to listen/watch no matter what type of technology you have.  

Looking forward to this summer time discussion series together.

If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Grafelman at 303-506-3678.

Bishop Michael Curry & Dr. Russell Moore — Spiritual Bridge People

On Being with Krista Tippett

We’re in a tender spiritual moment, widely feeling our need for re-grounding both alone and together. By way of the Almighty force of Zoom, Krista engages a forward-looking conversation with two religious thinkers and spiritual leaders from very different places on the U.S. Christian and cultural spectrum: Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry and Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through their friendship as much as their words, they model what they preach. The Washington National Cathedral and the National Institute for Civil Discourse brought us all together.

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000501977287

Listen on any device:

https://onbeing.org/programs/bishop-michael-curry-dr-russell-moore-spiritual-bridge-people/

Watch and listen on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yM0c0E9ZQ

GUN SAFES UNPACKED

In preparation for the Gun Safe Giveaway Event on Saturday, July 9th, 230 gun safes were unpacked.

The safes will hold 2 hand guns and can be secured by a cable.

The Gun Safe Giveaway will be held at the Longmont Safety and Justice Center on Kimbark from 9 to noon or until the safes are all given away.

Heart of Longmont is supplying snacks, water and Gatorade to volunteers working the event.

If you feel called to help with this mission to increase safe gun ownership sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e48afa62ba0f5c70-giveaway

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world”

Mahatma Ghandi

SUNDAY KIDS SUNDAY SCHOOL

July 10

The July Sunday School session will be July 10th at 9:00.

The Sunday kids will be building and decorating a kite that they can take home. All kids who have completed 5th grade and younger are welcome! Older kids can join the fun if they wish.

The next Sunday School session will be Saturday, August 13th for another fun project.

Weekly Sunday School will return with a fun fall kick off on August 14.

Please attend church with your children this summer to reinforce their Christian growth.

July's compassion offering supports Reconciling Ministries.

If you wish to donate to this month's compassion offering, you can do so online by clicking here and navigating to the Monthly Compassion Offering tile. Or, you may send a check to the church office with "Compassion Offering" on the memo line.

Summer Mission U

"Bearing Witness in the Kin-dom"

a Zoom presentation

Register here: https://mtnsky-reg.brtapp.com/MissionU2022

Study leader and Mission u Dean Kathryn Witte will facilitate a four-week study focusing on how we live out our Christian witness. We know what Jesus would do; so what gets in the way of our own commitment to live out our call to actively live in peace, justice and mercy? We will wrestle with how to live in civility while carrying out our desire to live our beliefs. We are continually reminded that we are driven by the knowledge of the Word and the love of God that empowers us.

The study is offered on consecutive Wednesdays, July 13, 20, 27 and Aug. 3, from 7-9:30 p.m.

We invite you to come in from the heat of summer and join us in a cool space where we will engage in meaningful conversations about the meaning and applications of etiquette, morals and ethics. Can’t make all the sessions? Don’t worry, we record each session so that participants can catch-up between sessions.

The Bearing Witness In the Kin-dom book is available on Amazon. Participants are asked to read the first chapters of the book in preparation for session one.

Mission u is a collaboration between the Mountain Sky United Women of Faith and the Conference Mission Engagement Team. Certificates of participation are offered for this study for 10 hours and can be indicated through registration.

Our Mission:

Putting More of God's Love Into The World

Helping all persons find deeper meaning and God’s purpose for their lives as committed Christ-followers.

Serving as the Heart of Longmont means:

We will welcome all persons, without reservation or judgment,

just as Jesus Christ would do.

We will work tirelessly by entering into intentional acts of compassion and social justice to make our community a place where God’s love is known by all, where poverty and deprivation are unknown by any, and where respect for the worth and dignity of each person is the norm.

We will respect and honor other religious traditions

while choosing Christ as our way of knowing God best.

We will emphasize life-long learning so that we may

engage our world from a dynamic and creative perspective.

We will work to protect God’s creation.

We will practice stewardship of all aspects of our lives,

including time, talent, financial resources, and spiritual gifts.

News from Longmont Meals on Wheels

Longmont Meals on Wheels needs kitchen volunteers and summer substitute drivers! Folks can volunteer as often as 1-2 times a week or as little as once a month. 18 is the minimum age to drive a route alone, but kids are welcome to join their parents or grandparents. Call 303-772-0540 or find more info at longmontmeals.org/volunteer.

Calling all knitters, crocheters and sewers! We have the ambitious goal of collecting 400 pairs of homemade mittens or gloves for our home-delivery participants for the holidays. For more information go to longmontmeals.org/events or contact Annie Christoffersen at annie@lmow.org or 303-772-0540.