Mission u

 2024 Virtual Mission u Studies

Register now for Winter Mission u–Finding and  Building Peace in an Anxious World.  The Winter Study topic is a timely one. If you’ve taken the Finding Peace in an Anxious World study, please know the content will be much different and centers on the Beattitudes Bible passage. The study is designed for the anxious time we are in … elections, world challenges, immigration and so much more. 
 
See the registration information below and follow the link. We invite you to register now! 
 
Once you are registered please forward or cut and paste the information and share it with your wider community. Remember all men and women are invited to this study. Consider having the notice in your church bulletin or other community groups. You can also create a watch party at your church or at someone’s home for each session. Small group activities can be conducted with your group live in that way. 
 
And what about Super Bowl Sunday (Februrary 11, at 4:30 p.m. MT)?
 
We’ve thought of everything! Join us that Sunday and leave for your watch party when you need to, Or if your Super Bowl watch party starts early, don’t you worry, the sessions are recorded. We record and post each session on our YouTube channel. In fact you might want to look at past studies. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwDuT4-UslC6Q4EREWYPlA 

Free Virtual Winter Mission u Adult Study — Sunday Afternoons, February 2024

Dates/Times:  February 4, 11, 18 and 25, from 2-4:30 MT

A time for informal conversation will be offered from 1:45 to 2:00 p.m., just prior to each study session. 

Study: Finding and Building Peace in Anxious Times 

This study will offer spiritual tools and actions we can take to calm anxieties and to employ our faith to serve as peacemakers in anxious times.

 Study Leader: The Rev. Su DeBree

 To access the online registration form, please click on this link: online registration

Note: The “recommended readings list” on the registration form is only a suggestion. It is okay to not read any of the suggested reading; just come prepared to learn and share!

 Questions? Contact Kathryn Witte at kathrynwitte75@yahoo.com or Belinda Alkula at belinda.alkula@gmail.com.

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Winter 2024

“Finding and Building Peace in an Anxious World” is a four-week study led by the Rev. Su DeBree. Using the book “Finding Peace in an Anxious World” by Erin James-Brown as a springboard.
The class will run four consecutive Sundays, via Zoom, from 2-4:30 p.m., beginning on February 4, 2024 and ending on February 25, 2024.
“Finding Peace in an Anxious World,” first presented in winter 2021, offered ways to identify and overcome anxiety within ourselves. Building on that, this study will present new material and will offer an updated interpretation, exploring how to build and sustain peace beginning within our immediate families and on into the world around us. The 2024 presidential campaign season, other political candidate contests, world dynamics, the ongoing Ukraine/Russia war, drug abuse, economics, gun control, family issues and mental health topics are all in the forefront of news, social media, and more. We plan to offer tools to help participants calm their anxieties, but more importantly, we will focus on how we can use our faith to build and sustain a non-anxious way of spiritually navigating our lives.
 
The virtual study addresses anxieties in a solid, down-to-earth manner. We will explore ways to discover peace through spiritual disciplines and the use of caring, creative ways to face conflict, as we strive to be instruments of God’s peace. A time for informal conversation will be offered from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m., just prior to each study session. There is no registration fee.

If you did not participate in the first study, you are encouraged to purchase the book “Finding Peace in an Anxious World” and read it prior to the event. It is available on Kindle. The class is ecumenical and is open to all men and women. The link to the online registration form is at:  Register here

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Summer 2023

Mission u Study
Exploring the Lord’s Prayer as a Spiritual Practice for Social Transformation

Tuesdays in July/August – July 11, 18 25 and August 1 from 7:00-9:30 p.m. via Zoom

 

This study by Riva Tabelisma gives fresh eyes to the Lord’s Prayer. Often learned by rote, the Lord’s Prayer is a rich guide for how we can live out God’s kin-dom in our lives. Tabelisma invites participants in this study to step away from the automatic recitation of the prayer and dive deep into the meaning of each line over the course of four two-hour sessions. Each of the sessions examines sections of the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6:9–13, as it is recorded in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
      Living the Kin-dom can be adapted to a variety of settings outside of the Mission u format, including Sunday school and other church school settings.

Study Leaders:
 Sandy Barton
 is a member of Hope United Methodist Church in Greenwood Village, Colorado, where she is a member of United Women in Faith, the hospitality team, the handbell choir; and she is a Certified Lay Servant. Sandy moved to Colorado in July 2020, from Florida, and is living in southeast Denver with her cat, Henry.
   For more than 40 years, Sandy taught high school. She taught in Pennsylvania, Morocco (as a Peace Corps Volunteer), the U.S. Virgin Islands, Denver, and IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
   Sandy is a long-time member of United Women in Faith. She was a district spiritual growth coordinator in the Florida Conference and has done many Spiritual Day Apart programs. Her experience includes teaching several Mission u spiritual growth studies. She now serves as the Spiritual Growth Coordinator on the Metro Mile High District team. “I am looking forward to meeting many of you in the months to come,” says Barton.

Denise Logan is a member of the First United Methodist Church of Rocky Ford, Colorado, where she and her husband have lived for 45 years. Denise is a Certified Lay Servant and teaches Sunday school. During her 40+  year membership at the church, she has taught several different age groups of Sunday school and vacation Bible school; directed children’s choir, helped with the youth group, and she is a member of the adult choir. Denise has been a member of United Women in Faith (formerly United Methodist Women) since her early days with the church. She is the treasurer of her local unit and the spiritual growth coordinator of the Trinity District. Denise said, “I am really excited to lead a Mission u study.”

Mary Cousins is a member of First United Methodist Church — Prairie Campus, Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Prairie Campus is a new church plant that meets in a school.
She serves as a greeter at the hospitality table, communion server, and enjoys bible studies, and being a Prairie Gal.
Mary is a long time member of United Women in Faith.  Before retirement in 2010 she served in Kansas  as a district Vice President and district secretary for the Great Plains Conference. She has also served various offices in local units across Kansas.  Mary’s unofficial title was ‘Preacher’s Wife’  !
Mary lives in Colorado Springs with her daughter and grandchildren.  Trained as a teacher one of her life long dreams  has been to teach at Mission U!

 
 

Register here

 

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Mission u Study – Who Can We Be Together: A Biblical Exploration   of Luke 13 was held on Sundays, February 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2023; from 2pm – 4:30pm MST via Zoom

Study Leader: Rev. Char Elliott – attended Iliff School of Theology in Denver, CO, graduating with a Master’s of Arts in Religion in 1998.  She was ordained as a Deacon in Full Connection in the UMC in 2004. During her ministry, she served as Christian Education Minister at Sunrise UMC in CS for a total of 16 years.  After ordination, she went on to serve in the area of Christian Education at Highlands UMC and Washington Park UMC in Denver.  Char retired in 2015 and lives in Colorado Springs with husband Fred Schneider.

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Mountain Sky Conference YouTube Channel Link (with recordings of past Mission u virtual study)  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwDuT4-UslC6Q4EREWYPlA  

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Mission u Study – “Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action,” Sunday Afternoons – Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022, 2:00-4:30 p.m. via Zoom

Study Leader: The Rev. Waveland King, the United Methodist pastor serving the Mineral County United Methodist Parish in western Montana.

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Photos from previous Mission u Events

  • Mission u - Ft Collins - July 13-14, 2018

 

Mission u is a cooperative school in the Rocky Mountain Conference between the United Methodist Women and Global Ministries