Rev. Rick King: Senior Minister

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Rev. Rick King grew up in Ohio. He graduated from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio; received his B. A. in English from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio; and his Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. He has served churches in Palatine, Elmhurst, and Chicago, Illinois, and Winona, Minnesota. In addition to pasturing churches, Rick has worked in a homeless youth shelter in Chicago and was a professional massage therapist.

Rick has been married to Linda Kopecky since 1996. They have three boys: Eli, Samuel, and Gabriel.

In his spare time, Rick enjoys cycling, walking, yoga, reading, eating vegetarian cooking, and spending time with his family.

"Expressing a Sense of Identity"

Since January's congregational meeting, and even more often recently, you may have seen or heard our new church identity statement:

"We gather as God's people to discern Christ's way, seek social justice, and discover the holy."

As the M & M group (Moderators and Ministers) worked on the statement over several months, and then introduced it to the Cabinet and then the Congregation, we were very careful about the words we chose, because language not only expresses what we think and feel, but shapes it.

So I thought I'd take time in this summer issue to unpack the meaning of the words a bit in the hope of generating further reflection on this statement of who we are as a church.

Sara Weatherman: Associate Minister for Christian Education and Youth

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Before coming to First Congregational in Longmont, Sara served as Minister of Education at First Congregational in Colorado Springs from 1985 to 1998. She was responsible for Church School, youth and adult education, intergenerational learning events, summer activities, children's choir and women's ministry. Sara also served as Associate Conference Minister for Programming in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ, from 1994 to 2001. Responsibilities included a full range of summer camp programming, youth ministry, support of local church education through curriculum events and teacher training. The Rocky Mountain Conference includes Colorado, Utah, and Southern Wyoming. Before joining the UCC in 1985, Sara served in Presbyterian and United Methodist Churches, and a Protestant Chapel in Stuttgart, Germany. She was educated at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She grew up in New Mexico where her father was a Presbyterian minister.

Sara has two adult daughters, Amy of Longmont and Karen of Colorado Springs. Sara dabbles in Biblical archaeology, likes to read, sing and play the flute in her spare time.