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Children (elementary age) & youth (middle & high school) stay for the first 20 minutes or so, then are dismissed to Summer Sunday School. (Nursery provided.)

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Service to the Community Speaker Series with Lisa Lytle (and members of the Common Earth Community Garden) will talk about the value of urban and community gardens and why they are important to our time in the world. (Pastor Karin is away through Aug 16.)

A Storyteller, from the Close to Home Campaign (http://closetohomeco.org/), Colorado Coalition for Domestic Violence, will be telling the story of “homelessness” from a personal point of view. (We have many homeless people in Arvada!). You are invited to come and bring friends! Presented by the Adult Education Committee

Children (elementary age) & youth (middle & high school) stay for the first 20 minutes or so, then are dismissed to Summer Sunday School. (Nursery provided.)

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Holy Communion (moved here from the first Sunday of the month)
• Job 12:7-10     John 1:1-5
• Pastor Karin Kilpatric’s sermon: “2017 Family Nature Summit: Highlights from My Retreat”

Children (elementary age) & youth (middle & high school) stay for the first 20 minutes or so, then are dismissed to Summer Sunday School. (Nursery provided.)

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Pastor Karin preaches
• Special flute duet by Sue Wedaa & Kathy Hine
• Guitar-led singing from Patty Painter-Wakefield & Leigh-Ann Collett
• Piano music by Patty Painter-Wakefield

There will be a special congregational meeting on August 27th immediately following worship service.  The purpose of the meeting is to address the status of the 2017 Operating Budget and First United Church of Arvada’s involvement, as a participating member, in the Colorado Faith Communities to End Gun Violence, and to provide an update on the Life Celebration Fund.  No vote will be taken during the meeting, but please plan on attending as these are important matters for our congregation.

Children (elementary age) & youth (middle & high school) stay for the first 20 minutes or so, then are dismissed to Summer Sunday School. (Nursery provided.)

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Rev Leigh-Ann Collett preaches on “Righteous Anger?”
• Today is the last Summer Sunday school for the kids, Sept 10 is the special celebration of the start of regular Sunday school.
• Arvada Community Food Bank Collection

Children (elementary age) & youth (middle & high school) stay for the first 20 minutes or so, then are dismissed for the Back to Sunday School Celebration. (Nursery provided.)

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Holy Communion
• Faith Formation Sunday
• Today is Back to Sunday School Sunday for the children & youth. They’ll have a special celebration together and with their separate elementary age & youth Sunday schools when they’re dismissed partway through the service.

An IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) Neighborhood Gather for the Arvada Community will be at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 7755 Vance Dr., Arvada, on Wednesday September 13, 6:30 – 8:30pm. This is a grassroots coalition of schools, congregations, and neighbors working together for the common good of the neighborhoods that are served by the Arvada Schools. The topic for this is “How to Organize a Core Team.”

The book “Grounded: Finding God in the World” by Diana Butler Bass, a leading commentator on religion, politics and culture, will be the source of our fall Adult Study. We’ll explore and meditate upon the idea of a “more intimate sense of the Sacred that is with us in the world”, a shift from a vertical understanding of God.

Pastor Karin will introduce us to the study on September 17 (Genesis). Each week for the following five weeks we will focus on our natural habitat – (:dirt, water, sky) and human geography (roots, home, neighborhood, commons).

Books are available in hardback and online from Cokesbury Press, Amazon, and other book sellers. Not required for participation.

Children (elementary age) & youth (middle & high school) stay for the first 20 minutes or so, then are dismissed for the Youth Sunday School and Worship & Wonder (for elementary age children). (Nursery provided.)

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.