Our partnership with Attention Homes to build affordable housing for at-risk young adults on our church property is coming up for review by the Boulder Planning Board on Thursday, May 18. This meeting is a very important hurdle for our project, and your support is needed, both at the meeting and in the time leading […]
First United Methodist Church’s Perspective on the Attention Homes Project
First United Methodist Church’s Perspective on the Attention Homes Project Support for the Homeless First and foremost, the Church supports Attention Homes Apartments because it is consistent with our core values and mission to support the disadvantaged and disenfranchised. Consistent with these ideals, we currently offer, at our Church building, assistance that reaches over a […]
Attention Homes Sleep Out Thursday, 11/10, on Our Church Lawn
Our friends at Attention Homes, an agency that provides shelter and other vital support services to homeless and runaway youth, are getting ready for their 5th annual Sleep Out for Homeless Youth event on Thursday, November 10th. First United Methodist Church of Boulder is proud to partner with Attention Homes for this important community event. […]
Sunday, 8/14, 12:00 Noon: Urgent Congregational Meeting about Attention Homes Housing Project
On Sunday, August 14, at 12:00 noon, please come to an urgent Congregational Meeting in our sanctuary about our proposed housing partnership project with Attention Homes. At the August 2nd Boulder City Council meeting, the City Council made it very clear that though they support the Attention Homes/FUMC project to provide housing and supportive […]
Thursday, 7/14: Planning Board Hearing on Our Proposed Housing Project with Attention Homes
Our church and Attention Homes want to partner to bring stable, transitional housing with supportive services to our downtown Boulder neighborhood, where they are needed most. The housing would be built on what is now our church parking lot (parking for our church would move underground). The next step in the process of moving our […]
6/23 at 6:00 pm: Community Meeting for Attention Homes Project
Our partnership project with Attention Homes and Gardner Capital Development to develop 40 units of affordable housing for at-risk young adults on what is now our church parking lot continues to move forward. Right now, there are two ways you can help this project develop: FIRST: Our church will host a community meeting […]
June 10–New, Requests, Reminders, and Prayers from Pat
With Love from Pat June 10, 2016 News, Requests, Reminders and Prayers … Last Sunday our Lay Leader Jon Kottke announced on behalf of our District Superintendent Skip Strickland that Joe (Rev. Joe Agne) will be appointed by Bishop Elaine Stanovsky as pastor of Cedaredge Community United Methodist Church of Cedaredge, Colorado, effective July 1, […]
Attention Homes’ Kaleidoscope Gala-A-Go-Go 50th Anniversary Celebration on 5/14
With Love from Pat April 9, 2016 Our young adult affordable transitional housing project has already made this quite a year for our church’s partnership with Attention Homes. Yet in addition, this is the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Attention Homes. How about that! And it all started with the vision of First United […]
Celebrating 19 Years of Welcoming Everyone on March 6
With Love from Pat On Sunday, March 6th, our 10:30 am worship service will celebrate our nineteenth Anniversary of becoming a United Methodist Reconciling Congregation. On March 4, 1997, our church family decided to live out our faith fully and to intentionally reach out to our sisters and brothers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, […]
Community Meetings About Proposed Housing Project with Attention Homes: 2/16 & 2/23
On Tuesday, February 16, and Tuesday, February 23, our church will host open community meetings about our proposed housing development project with Attention Homes on our church property. The meetings will be from 5:30 – 7:30 pm both days and will be held in our parlor. Please come. Absolutely everyone is welcome…Whittier neighbors, FUMC […]