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The service trip to Pueblo will be June 24-27. We will hold a commitment meeting (we need sure confirmations) on June 3 rd after
worship. If you are interested and weren’t at our last meeting, come join us! If you were at the last meeting and are getting excited about going, come for further details!

Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward. (Nursery provided.)

Today:

• Worship Service with a brief Wedding of Maia Longenecker & Jeremy Lanouette integrated into service (all are welcome!)

Children & youth (Grades K-12) are dismissed about 20 minutes in to the service for a combined Sunday school. (Nursery provided for younger children.) Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Just a few miles away from the immigrant detention center in Aurora, Casa de Paz (http://www.casadepazcolorado.org/) offers housing, meals, visits and transportation to families torn apart by immigrant detention. During our Sunday worship service on June 17 at 10am, Casa de Paz founder Sarah Jackson will speak about her passion behind the start of this “House of Peace” and what it does today.
• Special duet sung in Spanish by Arturo Gonzalez & Priscilla Gonzalez

Summer’s coming, and we’re celebrating on the solstice with a Family Fun Night “Un”birthday Party on June 21 at 5:30pm. Bring a main or side dish to share for the potluck (drinks & dessert supplied). Also….bring a favorite board game to play with others after we eat. AND…if you can, bring a “gift” that’ll be brought on the service trip to help organizations we’re working with in Pueblo.

Children & youth (Grades K-12) are dismissed about 20 minutes in to the service for a combined Sunday school. (Nursery provided for younger children.) Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Sermon Topic: “In The Boat Together”
• Mark 4:35-41
• Open & Affirming Sunday
• Blessing and Send Off for the Mission/Service Trip
• Collection for Casa de Paz

Children & youth (Grades K-12) stay in the service this Sunday. (Nursery provided for younger children.) Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

Today:

• Holy Communion
• (No Summer Sunday School this Sunday)
• Sermon “Wandering Hermits in a Hi-Tech World”
• Scripture:  Isaiah 45:18-21    Luke 13:31-35

Children & youth (Grades K-12) are dismissed about 20 minutes in to the service for a combined Sunday school. (Nursery provided for younger children.) Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

• Sermon: “Prophets Without Honor & Sending Forth the Disciples”
• Scripture: Mark 6:1-13
• Peals of Praise Bell Choir plays

Children & youth (Grades K-12) are dismissed about 20 minutes in to the service for a combined Sunday school. (Nursery provided for younger children.) Worship concludes about 11:00AM, with coffee and fellowship afterward.

• Sermon: “Standing on Holy Ground”
• Video presentation of Mission/Service Trip
• Scripture: Exodus 3:1-6
• 5 PM Potluck and Flateland’s Program on Trip to India

What’s up there in northeast India, that part which is almost disconnected from the “mainland”–the part sandwiched south of Tibet, west of Myanmar, and north of Bangladesh?

Jill and Byron Flateland, always curious and up for new adventures, went to find out, photographing every step along the way. Share their journey as they discover fascinating tribal people, extraordinary places, intriguing customs, and exotic wildlife, all brought home in vivid images.

Join us as they relate their adventure at First United Church of Arvada, 7195 Simms St, on Sunday, July 15. We’ll kick it off with a pot luck at 5:00pm, followed by an hour-long presentation of photos and commentary. See the 1000-year old intricate stone carvings of Khajuraho (most famous for its erotic art, “naughty bits” not to be shown), the famous open-cremation funeral ghats of Varanasi, life on the tea estates of Assam and Darjeeling, villagers along the Brahmaputra River, life in the tribal areas of the Himalayan foothills, rare and endangered wildlife such as the Asian one-horn rhinocerous, and the vital conservation work being done by an NGO (non-profit) in reducing human-wildlife conflict.