First Congregational UCC Choir

The First Congregational UCC choir is directed by Chris L. Tate and accompanied by Rob Tate.  Choir rehearsals are at 7:15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Sanctuary and at 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings.

See www.uccchoir.weebly.com for important dates and choir information.

Gospel Sunday is May 16. The choir's last day of the season is May 23.  To listen to this service and others see http://www.ucclongmont.org/what/sermons.

Summer Music

If you would like to share your musical talent on a Sunday during the 9:30 a.m. worship services in the summer (May 30 - Sept. 5) contact Chris Tate at 303-651-1765 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Each summer members and friends of First Congregational UCC offer their talents for the summer music spots that take place in the absence of the choir.  Music includes instrumental, vocal and or small group or large group or a combination of these. Thanks to all who share their talents.

Summer Jazz Sunday is Sunday, June 27. Join us for gathering music at 9:15 a.m. featuring Roberta Courtney, Bill Jacques and Roger Topliff.

The Combo Band and Children's Worship

Youth participate in The Combo Band on Sundays at 6 p.m. in the Chapel. The band, directed by Tony Porter, practices on Sunday evenings through out the year, and participates in special music worship services. No music experience is necessary.

Children's Worship includes singing accompanied by leader Roberta Courtney and her guitar or Sara Weatherman, Associate Pastor for Christian Education and Youth Ministry.

The Sanctuary at First Congregational UCC is home to the Longmont Chorale and the Wednesday Music Club's Christmas Vespers service. Piano recitals are performed here through out the year.

July Featured Artist - Sara Kirkpatrick

Photographer and church member, Sara Kirkpatrick, is featured in July. Sara , age 20, is a sophomore Anthropology major at Colorado State University who plans to attend medical school after graduation. She has been interested in various forms of art her entire life and took her first photography class in 2005 at Longmont High School. Since then she has taken senior pictures for Longmont High graduates, done couples photo shoots, assisted in wedding photography, and won three nature photo contests.
Photo by Sara Kirkpatrick is pictured below.

August Featured Artist - Stephanie Hilvitz

I have been working in some form or another with my art for the past 30 + years. I studied at the California College of the Arts and have a BFA degree from CSU in fibers. My work has always focused on the tactile, layering of paper, fabric, beads and/or mixed media. I enjoy the exploration of visual journaling and that additional layering of words that adds both transparency and story telling to the images in my mixed media pieces.

My current work is an exploration of milagros, amulets and talisman. The symbols and sacred beliefs share a deep connection in meaning and knowledge across the world and across time. I like the label of 'ethnic merging' rather than mixed media to describe this work, the coming together of influences that draw from the deepest spiritual source that feeds all traditions. It whispers, "we're only different on the surface". - Stephanie Hilvitz (www.stephaniehilvitz.com or http://rodrigvitzstyle.typepad.com)

Kathleen Reilly is the Art Coordinator for the C.E. Board. For information call 303-776-9243.

News from Our Church Library

Selections available in the library include:

• True Compass by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. No matter your political convictions, you will enjoy this memoir of a very flawed human being who used his position of privilege to further the cause of justice for those with little power. His deep faith played a central role in the strength he found to persevere.

• Robin R. Meyers' Saving Jesus From the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus calls seekers and believers alike to leave belief about Christ behind in favor of becoming imitators of Jesus, ... re-creating faith communities freed from hypocrisy and filled with hope."

• In A Case for God, Karen Arnstrong's brand new book, this noted author "cautions us that religion was never suppose to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason... That the task of religion is to 'help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations.'" Drawing on her great knowledge of the lengths humans have gone to experience a sacred reality that they call by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao, Armstrong makes a powerful argument for using the insights of the past to build a faith that speaks to our dangerously polarized age.