Reverend Pam Everhart
7405 Lookout Road
Niwot, Colorado 80503
(303) 530-0241 office@niwotumc.org
Outreach
Outreach
Outreach
The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is currently very low on personal care supplies for our residents. Items needed are: Bar soap, Shampoo (small bottles preferred), Razors, Deodorant, Band-aids, Antacids, Cold/allergy medication (non-alcoholic), Cough drops, Vitamins – multi and C, Antibiotic ointment. Donation drop off times are before 10am and after 5pm daily. Thank you for help.
Crayons Calculators
The
Outreach committee is currently collecting school supplies to fill 8
backpacks for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in the Boulder Valley and
St.Vrain School Districts through the Crayons to Calculators program. A
sign up sheet is currently in the back of the church and the supplies
need to be turned in by Sunday, August 8th. If you wish
to donate money instead, we will give it to the program and they will
use it to buy items that are still needed. Just write "school
supplies" in your check memo.
Thanks.
Make No Malaria Happen
The World Health Organization reports that most of the approximately 1 million deaths from malaria reported worldwide in 2006 were African children under 5 years old. You can be part of creating a world in which we can do more than imagine No Malaria, we can see it happen.Saving Lives in Sierra: www.umc.org/globalhealthNothing But Nets: www.umcor.org
Heifer Project
The Youth and Children are collecting funds in the glass pig to support the Heifer Project. Heifer's mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth by facilitating the equitable sharing of the planet's resources. Heifer's strategy is to “pass on the gift.” Our contribution will provide an animal for a family and that family will share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.
Bring your loose change on the second Sunday of each month, Children's Sunday, and help fill the pig.
Boulder County Shelter Dinners
Our church has been assigned to serve dinner the 4th Wednesday & 2nd Thursday of each month from OCT through APRIL! This is an amazing and very rewarding opportunity! The dinner shift is from 5:30 -7:30 pm. This includes Christmas Eve, so be thinking of when you might like to volunteer! See Mary Byrne or e-mail her at ptmarybyrne@comcast.net.
For more information go to NUMC & Boulder Homeless Shelter or
visit Boulder Camera's MyTownColorado at http://mytowncolorado.ning.com/forum/topics/niwot-umc-and-the-boulder and the Denver Post's Niwot Hub at http://denver.yourhub.com/Niwot/Stories/News/Nonprofit/Story~678553.aspx to read about the work that Niwot UMC is doing with the Boulder Homeless Shelter. Either or both newspapers might run their stories in their print edition if lots of people read and rank the article!
Reminder to Watch RMCUMC.org's News Column
Those of you who regularly visit Rocky Mountain United Methodist home page will have noticed the story about United Methodists involved in hurricane recovery through UMCOR. Visit the story here: http://tinyurl.com/5mg5kq or click the link on the right-hand column of RMCUMC.org. Another story is here: http://tinyurl.com/5zjcdr . United Methodists are doing amazing work: The United Methodist Committee on Relief managed the consortium of nine voluntary organizations that used a $66 million federal grant to assist 73,346 households in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Boulder United Methodist Mission Partners, Inc.
BUMMP, Inc.(Boulder United Methodist Mission Partners, Inc., a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation) is a volunteer mission group that represents United Methodist churches in the southern part of the Peaks Sub-District of the Rocky Mountain Conference, including Niwot UMC. Check out their new web site at www.bummp.org.
Mission Trip to UMCOR
Members of Niwot United Methodist Church went on an BUMMP(Boulder United Methodist Mission Projects) mission trip to the Sager-Brown UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) site in Baldwin, LA where they sorted and organized 6,000 health and school packets to be sent to Azerbaijan and Haiti. Members from our church family that attended are Joe and Dorinda Dembroski, Gary and Charlotte Gates, Liz and Fred Smith, Rev. Merlene Barner, and Jennifer Hayes.
Iraqi Children
The Youth and congregation collected soccer balls, candy, and stuffed animals for Jared Knowlden's unit to share with the Iraqi children. Jared (Dennis and Minetta's son) drops these items from his helicopter. Jared also reports that the soldiers could use snacks such as jerky, crackers, etc. He also said LETTERS are great, and most soldiers don't get many letters. We shipped over 70 pounds of supplies to Iraq.