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Common Earth Community Garden is sponsoring some free, informational, hands-on workshops for Earth Day at the location of the Common Earth Community Garden on Saturday April 23, from 4-5:30pm. Topics are

• Art of Composting
• Natural Bees and Pollinators
• Clay Seed Bombs

Join us for the annual Spaghetti Supper Fundraiser on April 23rd at 5:30pm. This fun evening supports our annual mission trip to La Puente, the homeless shelter in Alamosa where the youth will volunteer this July.  We will begin serving at 5:30, but hope you can come early for Earth Day workshops, sponsored by the Common Earth Community Garden.   Tickets are $10 for adults, $6 for children 4-13, and free for children 3 and under.

The Adult Sunday School time together “Coffee and Conversation” will not be a class, as such, but rather a time when we can gather to talk about issues important to our lives as we are living them. Coffee will be served at 8:45am, with the conversation beginning at 9.

A conversation about “Earth Day:  History and Progress” begins on April 24 with Tony Satriano facilitating.

A series of conversations on “Just Eating” will begin in May.

Children & youth spend the first 20 minutes with parents in worship, then are dismissed to Sunday School.

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

Today:

• Earth Day Worship Service
• A Litany for the Common Earth Community Garden
• Psalm 148
• Celebration! Choir sings
• Premiere of new song “The Greening of the the Earth” written for this day by Patty Painter-Wakefield
• Be part of “The Unending Hymn” for congregation, choir, soloists and flute–an ostinato prayer chant based on chord changes in Pachelbel’s Canon in D by Rev Jeremy McLeod

“Just Eating” is a play on words that this new class will examine as it explores the opportunity to thoughtfully live out our faith and practice justice as we “just eat”.

We will use scripture, prayer and stories to explore five key aspects of our relationship to food:
Food sharing as sacramental
The health of our bodies
The access others have to food
The health of the earth
The ways we use food to extend hospitality and enrich relationships

Children & youth spend the first 20 minutes with parents in worship, then are dismissed to Sunday School.

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

Today:

• Holy Communion
• Sermon: “Water:  An Element of This Earth and A Symbol of the Eternal”
• Genesis 1:1-10      John 4:1-15
• Quilt Display before and after worship

An All Church Clean-Up Day has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 7 from 9 to noon. There will be work, both inside and outside, weather permitting.  There’s a list posted on the table at the church entrance and in the fireside room with items for your consideration. If May 7 doesn’t work for you and another time would be better, let Bill Martin, Trustee-Facilities, know.

Work on the list includes:

• vacuuming red sanctuary chairs
• washing windows, inside and out
• polishing pulpit & organ
• cleaning patio & installing the umbrellas
• rake/blow leaves in Columbarium
• use weedeater where necessary
• mow the north & west lawn

“Just Eating” is a play on words that this new class will examine as it explores the opportunity to thoughtfully live out our faith and practice justice as we “just eat”.

We will use scripture, prayer and stories to explore five key aspects of our relationship to food:
Food sharing as sacramental
The health of our bodies
The access others have to food
The health of the earth
The ways we use food to extend hospitality and enrich relationships

The quilting group will display and sell quilts we have accumulated over the year on Sunday May 8 (moved from May 1 because of the wet weather). Pick up a gift for Mother’s Day, for a new baby or a nice lap cover for yourself or someone in a wheelchair. Most of the quilts sell for $25, which is a donation to the church and is much appreciated. Actually, we always have some on hand if you have a need. You can ask Gail Goodman or Emogene Meier for a showing any time.

FYI: The Quilters meet periodically throughout the year.  If you are interested in joining them, please contact the church. Don’t be frightened off by the thought that you don’t know how to quilt, because we are actually just tying the quilts and all you have to do is tie knots. They are small, lap or crib size, usually. We tie several each time and they are usually given to charity or people we know who are ill or disabled or have a new baby. Join us whenever you like.

Children & youth spend the first 20 minutes with parents in worship, then are dismissed to Sunday School.

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

Today:

• “The Black Madonna: An Image of Compassion” Acts 11:1-18  John 13:31-35
• A young woman’s visual tribute to her family and their adventures
• “Precious Lord” bell solo by Gene Richer, with organ accompaniment
• Mother’s Day