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October 20, 2022

Adult Sunday School 7:45 UPC

Worship is at 9:00 a.m. at UPC (Daycare Provided)

Children’s Sunday School 9:00 a.m. UPC

Worship is at 11:00 a.m. at Rankin

Week #7 The Chosen 5:00 p.m. UPC this week

(If you missed an episode, you can watch online by typing the Chosen into your search engine or download the app to your phone)

Text Box: This month’s mission at UPC is for toiletries at Hillcrest. If you would like to support this mission offering envelopes are on the back table labeled monthly mission. Cash is better than items because we can buy in bulk at Costco, but we would accept personal items.

Text Box: October 30 we will flip our worship times for the fifth Sunday pot-luck at UPC. We will have Rankin worship at 9:00 and UPC at 11:00 followed by potluck and party. Wear your costumes to church and let’s have a great time.

Rising Up is again asking for meals once a week for the warming center. Our day is Friday evening dinner with a breakfast for the next morning. There is a sign-up sheet in the fellowship hall if you can help provide a meal. The warming center is open from November-March.

Text Box: Weldon Valley school is hosting a craft and vendor market Oct. 22 from 8:30-4:30 p.m. If you would like to have a booth, contact Mandi Keating at (970) 768-2355. There is a flyer on the bulletin board in each church.


	Project Regeneration next meeting at Rankin will be at 6:00 p.m. on Oct. 24. Supper will be served.

Text Box: Let us Gather and Give Thanks for our Neighbors! A Table for All—an interfaith, intercultural community meal centered on our shared gratitude to God Hosted by the Fort Morgan Islamic Center and the Fort Morgan Ministerial Alliance Sunday, November 13 at 4:00 p.m. Pioneer Elementary School 415 Spruce St. What to Bring: food that says “home” to you! It might be a main dish, a salad, or a dessert. As we strive to be welcoming to all our neighbors’ needs, please provide a label with the name of the recipe and all included ingredients. Common to all of our faith traditions is the importance of giving thanks to God for the provision of all of our needs. Additionally, our faith traditions teach us to welcome the stranger and to love our neighbor. It is with this motivation that we are coming together for a meal to give thanks together for the gift of being part of this community. From the first recorded celebration meal in 1621 to the time Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the midst of the Civil War and to today, Thanksgiving has symbolized people of different backgrounds, ideologies, religions, races, and ethnicities coming together to give thanks. In a proclamation for the first Thanksgiving, President Lincoln encouraged all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife [and to] heal the wounds of the nation.” These words are just as applicable today as many among us have experienced such suffering and as we strive to bring healing to our community and nation through the acknowledgement of the ways we are all interconnected.

Please help us keep up to date on prayer requests by emailing me or the church.

Prayer requests Rankin: Homer & Shirley Anderson, Deanna Moos, Ernie Peterson, Evelyn King

Phyllis Draegert, Larry Giauque, Neil Wahlert, Fred & Doris Wahlert, Jennifer & Kane Cabral, Steve Simonds, Emily Anderson, Brian Christensen family, Danny, Donnie Stewart, Rod’s Mother, Danny

Amanda’s family

Prayer requests UPC: Peggy Coup, Maxine and Don Geist, Kay Coffin, Tim Ludgate, Loren Probasco, Damon Naill, Damaris Cooksey, Drena Robertson, Norma Miller, Jerilyn Campbell, Kenrda Rozic, Shari Schantz, Joann Pierce, Bob Everett, Paul Schonstrom

Presbytery Prayer Calendar: Presbytery meeting on Thursday

Household Prayer: Morning

God of light,

thank you for another day.

With each hour,

may I be watchful for signs of your grace,

ready to show your love,

and eager to tell the good news of Jesus Christ.

Make me more faithful than I was yesterday,

and lead me in the paths of righteousness. Amen.

Household Prayer: Evening

Thank you for the challenges and blessings of this day, O God.

If I kept faith with you, thank you for your Spirit’s help.

If I looked away from you, turn me back around.

As night falls, I relinquish my pride and my fear

and entrust all whom I love to your care,

with prayers for a peaceful rest;

in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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