Want to have some fun? All members and friends of the FUMC community are invited to participate in the Fellowship Potluck groups. It’s a great opportunity to meet new people in the church or to get better acquainted with old friends. Each potluck group consists of four couples and/or singles who meet once in the […]
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The Jesus Seminar on the Road, a program of the Westar Institute, is coming to FUMC Boulder September 27-28 with presentations by scholars Ally Kateusz and Perry V. Kea! Mark your calendars now for Jesus and Paul, Sex and Power. Did Jesus practice gender equality? Is Paul the source of our sexual hang-ups? This seminar […]
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Are you as disturbed as I am by the images we are seeing regarding plastic pollution? Many places I hike or camp these days in Colorado have bits of plastic garbage here and there that I pick up. I visited the Padre Island National Sea Shore with my sister recently, and they were handing out […]
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2019 marks First United Methodist Church of Boulder’s 160th birthday! We will be celebrating throughout the year with special events, culminating in a special service marking this milestone on Sunday, November 24, at 10:30 AM, with Rev. Chuck Schuster as our Guest Preacher. Check back to this page often for details about anniversary year happenings! […]
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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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Welcome Home Sunday was September 9, 2018! This special Sunday was the first day of our new children’s Sunday School year (new curriculum and schedule this year!) and was also our Chancel Choir’s first Sunday back after their summer break. After church, we all enjoyed an ice cream social on the patio. The weather was […]
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Dr. Celene Lillie, our church’s Director of Adult Education and Spiritual Formation, is also a Biblical scholar and author of the book The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis. Over 6 Monday evenings this fall, September 10–October 15, 7:00-8:30 PM in the youth room (second floor), […]
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First United Methodist Church has been blessed to be the beneficiary of a major bequest from the estate of longtime FUMC member Thelma Haydon (1913-2017), who died last year at age 103! Half of the bequest was designated for the Endowment Fund, and the other half is undesignated. In order to be good stewards of […]
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On two upcoming Sundays, August 12 and 26, come to two special Forum programs (9:00 am in the church parlor) entitled “Facing Futures: Dark, Winsome, Bright, and Violent,” led by author, professor, pastor and returning Theologian-in-Residence (TIR), Dr. Hal Taussig. These 75-minute sessions combine spiritual exercises, conversation, and the reading of a recently-discovered early Christ […]
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