Reverend Pam Everhart
7405 Lookout Road
Niwot, Colorado 80503
(303) 530-0241 office@niwotumc.org
Events & Happenings
Events and Happenings at Niwot UMC
NUMC Cookbook Fundraiser
We
are publishing a NUMC Cookbook to commemorate our 140th Anniversary. We
are inviting our congregation (women AND men) to submit up to five recipes
each for inclusion in the cookbook. Please send your recipes to Gayle
Weiss at: g.b.weiss@comcast.net - if you do not have e-mail, please give a
hard copy to Gayle or Deb Nastaj or Lynn Beattie. We have a deadline of
July 31st so please submit them in plenty of time for us to format
everything for the cookbook by that date. The books will be ready for our
140th Anniversary celebration in October.
The Cookbook will be hardback with a spiral spine so that it will lay flat
-- and will have a short history of NUMC included. The recipes will be
separated into categories and each will have an acknowledgment as to who
submitted it.
We're not sure of the final price -- but it could be as much as $15.00. To
give us an idea about how many to order (the more we order, the less the
price will be), please sign up on the sign-up sheet at the back of the
church to help us with our planning. You might consider a cookbook as a
gift for the holidays for a friend or relative.
Thank for your attention and consideration, Deb Nastaj, Lynn Beaty and
Gayle Weiss
Celebrating 140 Years
The Niwot United Methodist Church will be celebrating 140 years as a congregation during 2010. Our celebrations will culminate on October 3rd when Bishop Elaine visits and gives the message.
The NUMC choir performed the premier performance of the hymn on June 12th. Thank you Dale Heidebrecht, Pat Koh, and Choir for a wonderful evening of music. Thank you to Bill Yoh and Andrew Halladay for the lyrics and music for our 140th anniversary hymn “Strong as the Bounding Mountains”. The hymn is beautiful!!
(Pictured above left to right: Bill Yoh, Dale Heidebrecht, Pat Koh, and Andrew Halladay)
We are planning numerous events throughout 2010. We are inviting past pastors to visit on different Sundays so there will be more time to meet the individual pastor after the service. Former pastor David Jaeger will visit on January 31st. We will invite other former pastors on Sundays when Pastor Merlene is not giving the message. We will feature our 140 year heritage in other events, such as Heritage Sunday, and Feast of Beginnings. More information will follow at a later date.
This year can be a meaningful experience as we review our history. Our congregation began as a United Brethren Church in 1870. Then we became Niwot United Methodist Church when the two denominations merged in 1968.
If people volunteer to chair individual events, no one person will become overwhelmed. Susie Banks compiled the history of Niwot United Methodist Church and organized the information into binders. Each 2010 event could be focused on a particular time period in our history. If you would like to help with planning or events, please contact Dorinda at 303-652-2749 or dfdembroski@aol.com.
Magazine Fundraiser
Please
visit http://www.magfundraising.com/NiwotUMC
if you would like to support Niwot UMC with your next magazine
subscription or renewal 40% of the proceeds will benefit the church. You can also purchase some books and music as well as cookie
dough through this site. Questions? Contact Janet
Smith at janetsmith_niwot@yahoo.com. NUMC Book
Club
We had our last meeting of the season in May and discussed Enigma by Robert Harris. After much discussion, we picked three books to start with this fall and then made a list of suggested books. We are always open for more recommendations for good reads.
September 13, 2010 - A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes is considered a little known classic. Written in 1929, it is often compared to Lord of the Flies, and is listed as one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century.
October 11, 2010 - The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz. Acumen Fund founder Novogratz blends two narratives in this memoir about her years fighting global poverty. In one thread, she recounts her early experiences in Africa developing microfinance organizations to assist women. The other thread focuses on her return to Rwanda after the genocide.
November 8, 2010 - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure.
Choir
Rehearsals
will continue on Wednesdays this year.
Blessing of Pets Pictures
Check out the Photo
Scrapbook for pictures of taken during our Blessing
of Pets ceremony. If you
have other pictures that you would like posted of happenings at Niwot
UMC, just send them to webmaster.
"Open
Mic Night"
Wesley
Chapel every Monday at 7:00 pm. Poets & Songwriters
channeling the Muse!
Boulder County Volunteer Program
Join
a local volunteer program that allows you to become acquainted with an
older adult who may have limited social opportunities, and needs the
safety and reassurance of a weekly visitor.
New training dates
are set for Wednesday, February
24th, 9-12:00 pm in Longmont.
For more information, call Mary Jane Longanecker 303-678-6286.
If you have a relative, friend, or neighbor serving our country anywhere or in any capacity, PLEASE give a short summary and a picture to Mary Byrne or Minetta Knowlden and we will post it on our Outreach Bulletin Board.
Want to Adopt?: Please take a look at the Outreach bulletin board. You can adopt a deployed soldier. You get his/her email address and mailing address. Just send emails, letters, cards or whatever. Some of our soldiers do not get any mail, even from their own family.
Boulder County Shelter Dinners
Our October to April season at the Boulder Homeless Shelter is done for this year! NUMC volunteers clocked in over 112 hours! Thank you to all of you who volunteered your time and energy to serve meals at the shelter. From putting out chairs, serving drinks, cutting desserts, making salads, to leaning over the steam table serving hot dinners, nice work! Rest up over the summer, so we can begin again in October!
Boulder Shelter Volunteer Party: ANY and ALL Boulder Homeless Shelter volunteers are warmly invited to a Volunteer Appreciation Party on MONDAY, MAY 17th from 6-8:30pm at Foothills Community Park. Please RSVP to gina@bouldershelter.org Where: Foothills Community Park, 800 Cherry Ave, off North Broadway near Wonderland Lake.
United Methodist Phone Cards Support Troops
The people of the United Methodist Church have donated more than 13 million minutes of conversations with loved ones to U.S. servicemen and servicewomen serving overseas.
The Phone Card Project, five years old this November, was started by Chaplain Lt. Col. J. Maddox Woobery and was initially pushed by the Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the UMC.
“Our process is simple: We collect the donations, order cards, and send the cards directly to our United Methodist chaplains serving in areas of conflict. The chaplains hand the cards out to their service personnel in whatever fashion they determine is best,” said Judy W. Carter, volunteer coordinator of the Phone Card Project. The program operates through the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry’s United Methodist Endorsing Agency. “We remind them that the cards are intended to reach those with the most need. We receive stories and pictures of these cards reaching their intended recipients . . . for which they are so grateful.”
The chaplains who distribute the cards say many serving in conflict zones could not afford to call their family. With Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays coming up, these cards are vital. More: http://rmcumc.org/Community/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=84
To contribute to the phone card program, send checks payable to:
United Methodist Endorsing Agency (UMEA)
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
PO Box 340007
Nashville, TN 37203-0007