Summer Greetings, The second of the three church conferences are now over. Our annual Rocky Mountain Conference ended on June 12th with Pat Bell and Cody Anderson both involved in the Celebrating of Ministry Service: Pat was Commissioned along with six others,( a step along the way to becoming an ordained elder), and Cody was recognized as being a licensed Local Pastor. We selected Rev.…
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Greetings from Portland and the General Conference Proceedings, My roommate had an insight last night of the UMC in relationship to the biblical story of Jacob and his struggles with the angel of God before meeting his brother Esua (Genesis 32:22-32). Her insight was that our divided UMC is like Jacob as we struggle to go forward. Liberal versus Conservative, both sides…
Spring Greetings, I am writing this in the waning moments of this latest spring snow storm. Outside my window on a huge pine tree, heavily snow-laden branches are being released from those wet mounds of snow as the branches move and shower snow downward and then return to their normal positions. Sometimes there can be too much of a good thing: too…
Greetings to you all! As we near the end of our Lenten journeys and anticipate the celebration of Easter, I pray that you have gained new insight into your own spiritual life through the devotion booklet by Rev. Cody and the inspirational sermons from both of our pastors. There is still time to reflect and seek to understand just how much the love of…
Greetings Everyone, This week is a forerunner of spring as the temperatures rise almost to 70°. A wonderful time to get outside and enjoy the warmth, as long as you don’t get pushed around by the winds! This is also a time to take part in an opportunity to learn more about how the Holy Spirit is working in other United Methodist churches in…
Greetings Everyone, I want to share with you an opportunity that is coming up on Saturday morning of March 5th . This event is our annual district leadership conference, and it will be held at Tri-Lakes UMC which is not far away; south on 83 to the El Paso county line and then west & south about one mile. The keynote speaker is Rev. Dr. Janet Forbes (senior pastor…
Greetings Everyone, My prayer for you in December has been that you have found greater meaning and joy during Advent and Christmas. For those of you who have dealt with grief and pain over the past month, my prayer has been that you have felt the love of Christ surround, uplift and enable you to move…
Greetings Everyone, This is a month when we traditionally think of giving thanks, and this is certainly an appropriate time to thank all of you who have been in leadership of our Parker UMC. Some of you are going off a committee, some of you are staying on or changing to another committee and some of you are just beginning a commitment to…
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…
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…
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…
Greetings Everyone, This is a time of many transitions for our church family and the opportunity for us to look forward with hope and not with apprehension. I want to share with you some insights of a recent lay leadership training that I took that involves the word “hope” as it applies to us as laity: H is for hospitality – an area in…
Greetings, Another day and more rain and cool weather, but summer’s heat and blue Colorado skies cannot be far away. On May 24th an event in our Christian year that should heat our spirits up and rev up our souls will be here– Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit among the disciples. As I think about the changes that occurred midst those men and women…
Greetings on this Resurrection Day, May your journey, from the beginning of Lent through the celebration of our Lord’s resurrection, continue to bring insights and understandings in the days to come. Remember- every morning is Easter Morning! Due to some changes in our PUMC committees, the Nominations Committee is looking for those who are willing to step forward into a leadership position of…
Greetings Everyone on this Beautiful Spring-like Day! On March 7th our church hosted a District Leadership Conference. So laity and clergy came from Colorado Springs (on the south of our area), Breckenridge (on the west), Southern Denver metro area (on the north) and Calhan/Rush (on the east) and all the areas in between. We have 40 United Methodist Churches within this geographical area that make…