Choir Zoom
2021-02-28 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
Come one, come all! Calling all choir members, new and old, current or past! Our Lakewood UCC choir is hosting a Zoom get together on Sunday, February 28, from 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm, for a fun time of singing and catching up during this crazy time. Click HERE to join us, cant wait to see you there!

Lenten Book Study
2021-03-01 18:30 - 19:30
This year we’ll be reading “Sabbath As Resistance; Saying ‘no’ in the Culture of Now” by Walter Bruggemann. This is a short but important book about what keeping sabbath looks like as 21st century Americans. While many of us have seen life “slow down” during the pandemic, we may not have thought intentionally about what resting means and how countercultural it really is. If you would like us to get you a copy of the book, please let Pastor Curt know and we’ll order you one. Click HERE for the Zoom link to join!

Lenten Donation Drive
2021-03-07
Week Ending 3/7 – Sample-sized toiletries
During Lent, we are donating different items each week to different local non-profits. This week, our Lenten Donation Drive is partnering with Denver Rescue Mission. Denver Rescue Mission has been serving the Denver homeless community for nearly 130 years. They provide emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach. Denver Rescue Mission needs individual (sample-sized) toiletries of all kinds (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant, etc.)

Faith Formation Live on Zoom!
2021-03-21 10:30 - 11:30
Faith Formation time for our elementary and pre-K kids is returning to a once-a-month Sunday morning time. We will be engaging in the Illustrated Ministry’s Beatitudes Curriculum, all about Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount (Blessed are the…). We’ll have two lessons each month, one will be through Zoom on Sunday morning, with two Faith Formation Companions leading. The other will be in materials sent home (through snail mail) to families each month.
The Sunday morning Zoom will happen simultaneously as our Sunday morning worship service. Our first Sunday morning Faith Formation Zoom will be March 21 at 10:15am. A separate link will be emailed to parents and caregivers – please let Rev. Mollie know if you need the link.

Vigil of Remembrance and Lament
2021-03-21 18:30 - 19:30
Due to the impending snowstorm, we are moving the Vigil to March 21, at 6:30pm. The same link works for registration. Sunday, March 21, we will offer a vigil of remembrance and lament, marking a year since the beginning of the stay at home orders, when our lives were transformed by COVID-19. We will gather at 6:30 pm in the courtyard area by the west side parking lot for a time of candle lighting, prayer, and being together (while social distanced) as we grieve the incredible losses of this past year. Masks are required. Please sign up here. The sign up includes a waiver and screening questions. In case of inclement weather or if you do not want to gather in person with other, we will have a pre-recorded vigil available on our YouTube channel.

Palm Sunday
2021-03-28 10:00 - 11:30
Sunday, March 28, is Palm Sunday. It’s the Sunday that marks Jesus’ triumphant arrival in Jerusalem, the start to Holy Week. Usually we receive and wave palm branches, with singing and shouts of Hosanna to mark this Sunday. We invite you to still participate in the waving of branches, singing and shouts of Hosanna, from your many homes this Sunday. Find something to wave – a branch, this coloring Palm, a scarf would even work. Let us make way for Jesus and the start of Holy Week!

Maundy Thursday Service
2021-04-01 18:30
Join the church community online for a Zoom Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Service. The link to this service will be sent out during Holy Week. The service will also be available on our YouTube channel. We invite you to view this service from a kitchen or dining room table, as we will join together for communion as we remember the story of Jesus’ journey to the cross.

Easter Services
2021-04-04 06:30 - 11:30
Sunrise Service – Sunday, April 4, 6:30am (outside, in person, registration required!)
Join us for a beautiful, small Easter Sunrise Service at 6:30am Easter morning. Since the first resurrection, people have been meeting at dawn’s first light to celebrate Christ’s resurrection and God’s promise of hope and life. Join us in the courtyard at church for this short yet meaningful service. You must register for this service HERE.

Easter Service – Sunday, April 4, 10:15am (online)
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Easter is the high point in the Christian calendar and a day of great joy and celebration. Join us for a very special Easter Service beginning at 10:15 am, via Zoom and YouTube. To celebrate the resurrection as we make a joyful noise, we encourage you to bring a musical instrument of some kind to your home worship space. This could be a horn or a fiddle, the piano or a kazoo, drums or a bell. Let us make a joyful noise, in our many homes – distanced, but together!

Fellowship Spring Fling!
2021-04-11 11:30 - 12:30
Fellowship would like to personally invite you to drop by and say ‘Hi!’ via the Fellowship Zoom link after Sunday Worship. It’s great to see all the regulars but we’re missing the rest of you! Simply click on the Fellowship link found in the Saturday email and join in the lively Zoom conversation! On Sunday, April 11th, join us for a SPRING FLING where we talk all things “Spring” – gardening, hiking, clutter-flinging, or sitting back and relaxing – you name it! Drop in and see what folks are up to and let folks know what you have (or haven’t) been doing. The fun is just one click away! Keep an eye out for the Fellowship link in the Saturday email. See you on Zoom!

Brewatitudes
2021-04-11 15:00 - 16:00
We will meet virtually for our April Brewatitudes. Grab a favorite brew or non-alcoholic beverage and join us for conversation on the intersection of theology, faith, and culture. This April, we’ll get an overview of Liberation Theology. Please reach out to Rev. Mollie Landers Hatt for the link to join us!

Live Faith Formation
2021-04-18 10:00 - 11:00
Sunday Morning Faith Formation time for our elementary and pre-K kids is returning once a month via Zoom, on Sunday mornings! We will be engaging in the Illustrated Ministry’s Beatitudes Curriculum, all about Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount (Blessed are the…). We’ll have two lessons each month, one will be through Zoom on Sunday morning, with two Faith Formation Companions leading. The other will be in materials sent home (included in this packet) to you all each month.
The Sunday morning Zoom will happen simultaneously with our Sunday morning worship service. In theory, this means you all as parents and caregivers will be able to get the kids set up on their Faith Formation Zoom, and have separate worship time by yourself. Our next Sunday morning Faith Formation Zoom will be April 18. A separate link will be emailed to you, please be in touch if you do not get it.
The Zoom lesson in April will be “Blessed are the Meek”, and curriculum pages will be sent to your home. The other, family based lesson is “Blessed are Those Who Hunger and Thirst”, and will be sent to homes as well. Engage whenever you can or want, however you can or want! Please see Janet Cass or Rev. Mollie with questions.

Lakewood UCC Book Group
2021-04-18 11:30 - 12:30
The Lakewood UCC Book Group will meet Sunday, April 18th, at 11:30 am via Zoom to discuss White Houses, by Amy Bloom. If this would be your first time to attend Book Group, contact Linda Andreen at 303-738- 0212 and she will send you the link. “The salty yet poetic narrator of White Houses makes this historical romance, in memoir form, engaging and moving. When journalist Lorena Hickock and U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt became romantically involved in 1932, they dreamed of a life together a cottage on the Roosevelt estate… Reviewed by Ruth Latta, Compulsive Readers. age is not as famously quotable as Austen’s own.” – Quill & Quire

Anti Racism Book Group
2021-04-22 18:00
Last summer, when the George Floyd protests were still happening in many cities, the Mission, Outreach, and Evangelism Board set out to offer the Anti Racism Book Group as a resource for our congregation to learn more. The books we have been reading have all been by Black authors, talking about the Black experience with a range of perspectives: from deeply personal to deliberately heuristic. These have allowed those within the group to have rich conversations about our own life experiences and examine what it means to take steps from “I’m not racist” to “I live in a world that still has racist systems in place, so I want to be consciously anti-racist.” Reading and discussion can be great steps in that journey! We hope you’ll join us.
The upcoming schedule for the Anti-Racism Book Group is as follows:
April 22: Eloquent Rage – Brittney Cooper
May 27: The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize winner)
June 24: No Ashes in the Fire – Darnell Moore
July 22: Caste – Isobel Wilkerson (Oprah Book Club Choice)
August 26: Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson (NY Times Bestseller)

Parking Lot Worship
2021-04-25 10:15 - 11:15
Please join us for an outdoor and distanced worship service in the church parking lot. Please use street parking, the east lot at church, or the lot on the west side of South Lakewood Elementary. We will have a few reserved spots for those who typically use handicap parking. You can bring your own chair, or we will have chairs available. Preregistration required. Sign up HERE.

Spring Clean Up at Lakewood UCC!
2021-05-01 10:30 - 13:30
The Annual Spring Clean-up at the Church is planned for Saturday, May 1, 2021 from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM with lunch provided by the Board of Church Operations. This will be a great opportunity to accomplish things with other Church members as we get the outside areas (and perhaps some inside parts of the Church) ready for spring and summer. Please bring gardening tools that you may have.

Anti-Racism Book Group
2021-05-02 11:30 - 12:30
The Anti-Racism Book Group will meet this Sunday, May 2, at 11:30 am to discuss Brittany Cooper’s ‘Eloquent Rage.’ You can find the zoom link for the discussion by reaching out to our office at Office@lakewooducc.com. All are welcome to join! In May, we will be reading Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys.’ Books for the group are available for loan on the Welcome Center.

Calling all Pride Parade Supporters!
2021-05-08 10:30 - 11:30
Join us as we film our part of Denver’s virtual Pride Parade in our parking lot on Saturday May 8 at 10:30
All you need is your most colorful outfit and your very best smile! We will be filming this as part of the video we will submit for the virtual parade in June. Lakewood UCC continues to celebrate 20 years as an Open and Affirming congregation. We hope you will be part of our celebration! Please let Pat Hayes know if you are planning to participate at 303-431-2674 or at Pahayes80004@yahoo.com.

Graduation Announcements Due
2021-05-11 17:00
On May 16 in worship, we want to recognize, celebrate, and bless the members and friends in our church community who will graduate this spring. If you (or your child) are graduating from high school, college, graduate school or military, please send the following details to Mollie at mollie@lakewooducc.com – name, school, graduation date, future educational/career plans. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, May 11. We would also love to have a picture of each of our graduates. Thank you, we look forward to celebrating the many accomplishments!

The Language of LGBTQ+: Understanding Current Terminology
2021-05-11 19:00 - 20:30
Join the church community for an evening of education as we continue leaning into our Open and Affirming identity. We’ll learn about current LGBTQ+ terms and better understand the evolution of this language. Bring a friend and your questions, as we learn from Kassidy Pressley, Rev. Wendy Kidd, and Jeremy Shaver. This is part of our Rainbow Celebration, as we celebrate 20 years of being an Open and Affirming Church. Register here! Parts of this will be recorded and made available if you are unable to attend.

Lakewood UCC Book Group
2021-05-16 11:30 - 12:30
The LUCC Book Group will meet Sunday, May 16 at 11:30 am on Zoom. We will be discussing American
Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson. “American Spy works on so many levels — it’s an expertly written spy thriller,
as well as a deeply intelligent literary novel that tackles issues of politics, race and gender in a way
that’s never even close to being heavy-handed or didactic.”- NPR. All are welcome! If this will be the first time you attend, contact Linda Andreen at 303-738-0212 and she will send you the link.

Brewatitudes
2021-05-16 15:00 - 16:30
We will meet outside in the church courtyard in May! Bring a favorite non-alcoholic beverage and join us for conversation on the intersection of theology, faith, and culture. This May, we’ll get an overview of Womanist Theology. Join us!

Strengthen the Church Offering
2021-05-23 10:00 - 11:00
As we celebrate Pentecost and the formation of the church on May 23, we’ll take one of the five special offerings of the United Church of Christ. “Strengthen the Church” special offering supports new church starts, developing the spiritual lives of youth and young adults, and helping to fund the “God is still speaking” campaign. We hope you’ll contribute to strengthening the wider church, and therefore our church. Please write “Strengthen the Church” on your check or choose “National Church Offering” on tith.ly on May 23.

Parking Lot Worship and Sabbatical Send off Sunday!
2021-05-23 10:30 - 11:30
We hope everyone is able to come to our May 23 parking lot worship service and Sabbatical Send Off Celebration. During the service, we’ll have a time of blessing Curt and the Preston Family as they enter Sabbatical from May 24-August 21. After worship, we will enjoy lunch together and send Curt and family off with celebrations. Please sign up by May 19. You can sign up by clicking HERE.

Save the Date: Annual Congregational Meeting on Zoom
2021-06-06 11:30 - 12:30
The agenda will include a vote on our new slate of board and committee members, a check in on our finances and the endowment and review of our year in pictures. Please plan to attend to ensure we meet our quorum numbers. We’ll have the annual report, finance updates, etc. in the next couple of weeks available for your review.

Family Hike sponsored by Faith Formation (for singles and non-kiddos too!)
2021-06-06 16:00 - 18:00
Families of all configurations are invited to join Faith Formation for a hike. June 6, at 4pm we’ll meet at the trail head of White Ranch Park, Upper Trailhead (also called West Trailhead). This will be a 2-3 mile hike, friendly for most hiking abilities. Please register here so we know who all is hiking and enjoying God’s creation together.

Brewatitudes
2021-06-13 15:00 - 16:30
We will meet outside in the church courtyard in June! Bring a favorite non-alcoholic beverage and join us for conversation on the intersection of theology, faith, and culture. This June, we’ll get an overview of Queer Theology.

S'mores & Singing
2021-06-19 19:00 - 21:00
Campfire…S’mores…Singing, does that sound like fun to you? Please join us on Saturday, June 19 from 7 to 9 pm in our favorite courtyard & parking lot area for a fun filled evening around the campfire. All you need to bring is a chair and your cool nonalcoholic beverage. This will be the first of several events for us to reconnect after being apart for sooo long!

Pride Sunday Worship
2021-06-20 09:00 - 10:00
Please join us for an outdoor and distanced worship service in the church parking lot. June’s service is our Pride Celebration worship service, planned by the O&A Celebration Group. We invite you to wear bright colors in any shade of the rainbow! Please use street parking, the east lot at church, or the lot on the west side of South Lakewood Elementary. We will have a few reserved spots for those who typically use handicap parking. You can bring your own chair, or we will have chairs available. Please fill out the registration here.
