Our beloved Margaret Bowdey turned 100 years old on May 20, 2020! A small group of friends gathered outside Margaret’s home, and a bagpiper serenaded her from a safe distance, and played “Happy Birthday.” Several folk took photos, and Pastor Matthias took some video. Happy birthday, dear Margaret! You are a treasure! Click on any […]
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Please enjoy this video created from photos sent in by YOU, our congregation and friends. The video was created by Stephanie Moffitt in celebration of the Festival of the Christian Home, May 10, 2020.
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If you weren’t able to join us on a Sunday morning for our Zoom worship service, you can still enjoy the recordings of the services. Sunday, May 24: Seventh Sunday of Easter, Celebration of This Year’s Graduates CLICK HERE to view/download the worship bulletin for the May 24 service. Sunday, May 17: Sixth Sunday of […]
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, First United Methodist Church of Boulder has closed our building until further notice, and moved our worship services ONLINE. Join us on Sunday mornings at 10:30 am MDT via Zoom, an online meeting platform. The Zoom meeting information for our 10:30 am worship service (and online coffee hour, which immediately […]
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will postpone our ONE THING collection until we are able to meet in person again, and bring items to church. Thank you for your generosity so far, and we’ll continue with our collection as soon as we safely can. During Lent, our congregation is engaging with our community partners […]
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At our Charge Conference Celebration on Sunday, February 2, longtime FUMC member and FUMC’s Photographer-in-Residence, Richard Saxon, shared a video that he created from photographs of our church community taken during the past year. We thank Rich for this moving, beautiful, and fun retrospective of 2019 at First United Methodist Church of Boulder!
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Are you as frustrated as I am with our elected leaders and their inability to move the needle on climate change? So many things regarding the climate seem “big” and out of our control. Except, however, what we eat. The following image, from the University of Michigan, shows the carbon impact of various types of […]
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Now that the first residents are moving into the Attention Homes (AH) Apartments, on-going efforts to support them are underway. Our neighbors at St. John’s Episcopal Church, across Pine Street from FUMC, are opening their Whittier Pantry to AH Apartments residents to help them with toiletries and other household needs. The items most needed […]
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Bishop Karen Oliveto of the Mountain Sky Conference preached at First United Methodist Church of Boulder on March 5, 2017, our twentieth anniversary celebration of becoming a Reconciling Congregation, fully welcoming of LGBTQ people and their loved ones. After this uplifting service, the members and friends of First United Methodist Church came forth to speak […]
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We were delighted to participate in the 2018 Boulder Pridefest celebration in Central Park on Sunday, September 9, 2018. Our friends at Out Boulder County worked so hard to organize this event, and it was spectacular! The weather was beautiful, the entertainment was excellent, the food trucks were yummy, and the wide array of vendors […]
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