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Give Thanks In All Circumstances

Have you ever found yourself in a King Soopers or Walmart or Safeway looking for a bag of chips and just thought, “how can I even choose when there are so many choices?”  That happens to me almost every time I find myself in the store.  In our society, we are blessed to have abundant choices.  You need cereal?  Well would you…

Mission Centered Family Activities

November is traditionally a time of reflection, a time to give thanks.   Last year, around this time, we took our children on a family mission day-trip downtown.  We started at the local Dollar Store.  We bought lots of toiletry supplies, as well non-perishable foods.  We set up an assembly line in the kitchen and stuffed plastic grocery store bags with various supplies for the homeless. Then,…

Excelling at Communicating

Greetings Everyone, Fall seems to have arrived as the temperature outside is in the high 60°s and the nights are cooling down.  Fall, my favorite time of year, a time of plants showing their beautiful autumn colors, blue skies and an occasional dusting of white upon the distant mountaintops.  The garden is still producing its fruit, and I don’t worry anymore about weeds.  Fall, a…

Surrender: A Path to Discipleship

Pat’s article A Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for thee. Let me be full, let me…

New Challenges Create Opportunities to Build Relationships

This time of year is always filled with new things. Students go back to school.  Families shift gears and begin to look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Children in the church are promoted from one classroom to another.  New things bring new life and fresh energy. There is no shortage of new things happening here at the church.  The Tapestry congregation is off to a great…

Feeding God’s People

Hello Everyone! Great things are going on at Tapestry as we move forward. But first let’s look back. We had a wonderful first worship service back at the end of August. Over 100 people were there to celebrate with us and worship God for the new things he is doing. Our District Superintendent, Melanie Rosa, was also there with us that day…

Lay Servant Ministry Classes Available

Greetings To You All, This is the time of year when there is an opportunity for all laity to take courses for Lay Servant Ministries.  You can take the “Basic Course” which included United Methodist information, spiritual gifts, leadership development and spiritual practices.  This is a really good foundational course for lay people.  You could also take a…

Insights on Transition

The season of back-to-school is in full swing!  Parents, teachers, staff, and even kids are gearing up for a new school year.  It is the season of starting fresh with new hopes and dreams. The same is also true for our church.  The Little Blessings preschool is back in swing with a full scale operation at the church and now a new extension location off…

New Beginnings

I love new beginnings, and it seems that fall is full of them.  Today my boys started school.  Matthew started 3rd grade and Jackson started Kindergarten.  While other moms in Jackson’s class were having a hard time dealing with their kindergartener going to school for the first time, I was so happy for him.  He is going to have so many amazing moments, meet so many…

Searching for Leaders

Greetings Everyone, As we move into the fall months with back to school activities, business schedules filling up, warm days and cooling evenings, there is still time to enjoy what is left of our quickly vanishing summer.  Sometimes we get so busy, we don’t take time to just enjoy the sunlight filtering through the leafy trees, the cooling breeze as we spend time…

Little Blessings Expansion Update

As many of you know, we have been looking at ways to expand Little Blessings.  For 5 years, our preschool has been expanding at about 10% per year, and we have had with that a continued wait list.  It truly is an amazing ministry within our walls to so many children and families!  We wanted to be good stewards of all that…

La Puente Hygiene Kits

This Sunday, August 16, is the start of our “Gathering” of items for Hygiene Kits for the MIGRANT WORKERS who come to Alamosa, Co. We are also collecting slightly used or new twin sized blankets. Thank you for your past help and hopefully we will be able to fill 100 bags for the men and…