Social and Annual Meeting

Yes, we are looking forward to our first

Social on May 15 after Mass

Our Social and Annual Meeting is set for May 15th immediately following our 5:00 pm Sunday Mass. This will be our first community social in a very long time and we hope all who can will attend. We will also conduct our annual business meeting. (In-person and on Zoom.)

A variety of food and drink will be available to all.

If you cannot attend the business meeting virtually or in-person, you can assign a PROXY to vote for three new leadership council members and to ratify the budget. Just print and complete this form and have a Mary of Magdala member present it at the meeting sign-in table. (How does a proxy work?)

Please be sure to review the Leadership Council nominee's messages via this Link.

Join us for discussion on our

May 'Isaac Reads' book.

“Don’t be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart:

The Story of Elvia Alvarado”

**Note New date** - We will be meeting virtually on May 24th. A link to RSVP will be sent later this week.

If you have previously signed up for ISAAC Reads - you are already on the list and do not need to sign up again. If you are new to the program - sign up here

ISAAC Reads is a book group with discussion on a book that deals with immigration issues or just immigration in general. We pick a book to discuss every 6 wks.

Read about the book here. For questions, email Lisa Jones.

How Does Our Garden Grow? With Volunteers!

If you have an interest in gardening and love fresh veggies, maybe you would enjoy helping at the 301 Faith Partners 2022 garden at our beautiful location on the south side of the campus by Spring Creek.

This garden was created in 2012 and has been producing every year except for a COVID pause in 2020. We do have a great group of volunteers, but could use some more help.

So, to share in another garden of plenty this upcoming season, contact Pam or Wally Jacobson at wjacobson5@comcast.net or call (970) 223-2276. Hope to hear from you! We start plantings soon.

Job Posting for Trinity Lutheran

Trinity is looking for a Financial Coordinator - a year-round, 20-25 hr. per week position handling bookkeeping and accounting and working with the Finance ministry. Here’s the job description.

301 Faith Partners Joint Ecological Team (JET)

Please join the next Joint Ecological Team (JET) meeting on Tuesday, May 31, at 5:30 pm either via Zoom or in-person. The JET meets as needed to plan educational events, bike to work day, volunteer opportunities and advocacy. Zoom link will be posted soon.

Please send prayer requests to marymagdalafc@gmail.com. Prayers will be listed for one month unless requested for longer. Prayers for the repose of souls will be listed for six months unless requested for a longer time.

Recording - 4th Sunday in Easter, May 8, 2022

Here is the video recording of the readings and the homily by Mother Rosean Amaral. The worship aid is available for you to print or view to assist with prayer.

Social Justice Reflection - May 8

Almost every culture throughout history has personified the earth as “Mother Earth” or “Mother Nature”. One exception was ancient Egypt which personified the earth in the male god, Geb, whose sister, Nut, was the goddess of the sky. In Greek mythology, the earth goddess, Gaia, is the primordial deity who births the sky, the Titans (who parent the Olympian gods), and the sea. Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greco-Roman deity.

The name used in Western academia during the Renaissance was Tellus Mater or Terra Mater, the Latin for “earth mother”. Indigenous peoples see themselves as the caretakers of Mother Earth and use her gifts sustainably based on values extending back thousands of years: hunting, gathering, and fishing to secure food for self, family, the elderly, widows, the community, and for ceremonial purposes. Everything is taken and used with the understanding that one takes only what is needed, so that future generations will not be put in peril.

The United Nations’ Environment Programme is calling on humanity to recognize its senseless and suicidal war against Mother Nature. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution combine to not only disrupt the earth’s life-sustaining processes but cause human suffering and kill more than 9 million people prematurely each year. The burden of environmental decline is felt by everyone, but disproportionally by the poor and vulnerable and looms even larger over today’s youth and future generations. Metrics like the Gross Domestic Product overstate economic progress without reflecting the cost of environmental destruction. Governments, businesses, civil society, educational institutions, the media and individuals all have a part to play in taking account of nature in our policies and decisions.

On this Mother’s Day, let us be grateful for all God’s gifts given freely through the bounties of Mother Earth and renew our commitment to do our part to respect and care for the earth.

Past Recordings, Bulletins, and Announcements

For all bulletins, reflections, Sunday recordings during, visit our webpage. Please contact us with questions, concerns and ideas for better connection with and for the community - marymagdalafc@gmail.com. And feel free to call the office at 970 493-9536

Newsletters of Trinity Lutheran Church and the St. Paul's Episcopal  

What are our partners in ministry up to? Click here for the Trinity Lutheran Church monthly newsletter, "Tidings". And here is St Paul's weekly bulletin.