August Food Drive
School is in full swing and so are kid’s appetites. If you have been meaning to help our Brighton families by purchasing a nonperishable food item, there is still time. While you are at the grocery store this week, pick up an extra item that you would be buying for yourself and bring it to church on Sunday. Place the food on the food shelves by the office. Let’s keep our food shelves full!
Join Choir
Adult Choir will be resuming rehearsals on Thursday, September 1st at 7:30 pm in the Music Room. We are currently recruiting all voice parts! If you are interested in singing, we hope you'll join us!
Questions? Please email our choir director, Nick Lee - nlee7124@gmail.com
Questions? Please email our choir director, Nick Lee - nlee7124@gmail.com
Blessing of the Backpacks
Blessing of the Backpacks is this Sunday, August 21st. Each year, as school gets started, we bless the backpacks as a reminder to those in school one way or another that we praying for them as the year unfolds. But it isn't just teachers, students or staff members at our schools. We pray for all of us: so bring your backpack and your briefcase, your book bag and your gym bag, the case for your laptop or even your lunchbox this Sunday so they can be blessed. Blessing of the backpacks will take place during our 10:00 service. Bring your gear and we'll see you here.
Per Capita
Per capita is one of the ways we get to participate in the life of the larger church, one of the ways we get to step outside our own walls and share in ministry to the whole world. The per capita we pay as a congregation brings us into partnership with other PCUSA congregations here in the Denver Presbytery, but also with churches all over the United States through presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly.
Per capita is not a collection of dues, but a sign of partnership, a sign that we are in this together whether we live on the coast of Florida or the hills of Arkansas or the mountains of Colorado or the plains of Kansas. With a gift of $35.00 a year, you help fund ministry that extends beyond anything we can even see. Ministries that open doors to grace. Ministries that offer hope to the hopeless. Ministries that reach out to the men and women who pastor our congregations. We are only about a quarter of the way to meeting our goal for per capita participation among our membership so please consider giving and know that as you do give, you are once more participating in something much bigger than any of us can imagine.
Per capita is not a collection of dues, but a sign of partnership, a sign that we are in this together whether we live on the coast of Florida or the hills of Arkansas or the mountains of Colorado or the plains of Kansas. With a gift of $35.00 a year, you help fund ministry that extends beyond anything we can even see. Ministries that open doors to grace. Ministries that offer hope to the hopeless. Ministries that reach out to the men and women who pastor our congregations. We are only about a quarter of the way to meeting our goal for per capita participation among our membership so please consider giving and know that as you do give, you are once more participating in something much bigger than any of us can imagine.
Youth Group
The cool, awesome, super rad Youth Group (6th - 12th grade) meets after the 10:00 worship service on Sunday Mornings. We converse and study God’s Word in the Youth Room upstairs and usually ends at 12:30. If you have any questions, text, call or email Margo at 623-556-3823, margo@brightonfirstpres.org
Display Case
First Kids studied about the early church and how they helped each other and how our church helps others today. Check out the display case to see what First Kids made to illustrate the many acts of kindness our church shows others. Thank you First Kids for your creative talents.
Kids Club
Kids Club will be starting Wednesday, September 7th! This is a time for preschool through fifth grade students to play games, have a snack and hear God’s Word. We will meet in the gym on Wednesdays from 2:15- 4:30, so grab a friend and get excited! If you have any questions, text, call or email Margo at 623-556-3823, margo@brightonfirstpres.org
Adult Sunday School
In Adult Sunday School, we are reading and discussing William Willimon’s most recent book Fear of the Other which is a challenging and timely look at the words of First John where we are told that “There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear…” (CEB). “What might this kind of love look like in our world today?” William asks. In the book we will read stories that make us laugh, make us cry, make us angry, make us grateful. In class my guess is we will do the same as we hear each other’s stories.
Let’s plan to get started at 8:45 a.m. or so each Sunday so we have plenty of time to talk and listen, to reflect and ask questions. The cost for a book if you are able to do so is $13.11. Please email Pastor Matt - matt@brightonfirstpres.org if you would like him to get a copy for you. In case you’re wondering, William Willimon is professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke University Divinity School, having previously served as dean of the chapel at Duke and bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Let’s plan to get started at 8:45 a.m. or so each Sunday so we have plenty of time to talk and listen, to reflect and ask questions. The cost for a book if you are able to do so is $13.11. Please email Pastor Matt - matt@brightonfirstpres.org if you would like him to get a copy for you. In case you’re wondering, William Willimon is professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke University Divinity School, having previously served as dean of the chapel at Duke and bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church.
August 21st (Learning to Fear like Christians) ~ chapter 3
August 28th ~ chapter 4 (Loving the Other in Church)
September 4th ~ chapter 5 (Jesus, the Other)
September 4th ~ chapter 5 (Jesus, the Other)
Lost & Found
Lost something? Found something? We have several items in our Lost & Found box in the church office that need to be reunited with their owners. Drop off any found items in the blue box on the office counter, or take a look to find lost items. Contact Stephanie with questions: stephanie@brightonfirstpres.org 303-659-2192
