Milagro Updates

May and June upcoming stuff

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:06:15 +0000

**May 19 -- Pentecost Sunday! Join us for worship and then a release of doves followed by Pentecost Sundaes!

** Saving Jesus Redux -- a 12-week series featuring conversations with leading progressive scholars on how to make Jesus relevant in the third millennium. Tuesdays, 6:00 p.m. starting May 21 and going through August 20. See our page under "Latest News" for full details.

** June 8 -- Garden Kick Off party, 10:00 a.m.

** June 15 -- Free Car Wash, 8:00 a.m.

Saving Jesus Redux

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:23:02 +0000

Join us on Tuesday nights beginning May 21* for our 12-week serieis, Saving Jeus Redux.

Tuesdays, 6:00 p.m.
*no sessions on June 18 or July 16
$5.00 if you want printed materials.

Have you always had questions about some topics, ideas and doctrine but were afraid to ask because you thought people would think you were a heretic, or worse yet, would kick you out? Then join us for our 12 week discussion for what will prove to be an enlightening and challenging journey.

Each session seeks to expose participants to observations and ideas about Jesus that have been longheld by theologians and lay-people alike. Many of the ideas have simply failed to “trickle down” into our churches or small-group conversations. Saving Jesus Redux will prime participants to be part of the fabric of a vital Christianity already being woven by both “church alumni” and those still in the church who are working to reclaim an ancient and authentic understanding of what it means to be a “Jesus follower.”

May 21, Session 1—Intro: Jesus Through the Ages
May 28, Session 2—Who Was Jesus
June 4, Session 3—What Can We Know About Jesus (and How)
June 11, Session 4—The World Into Which Jesus Was Born
June 18 — NO SESSION
June 25, Session 5—Jesus’ Birth and Incarnation
July 2, Session 6—Teaching of Jesus: Wisdom Tradition
July 9, Session 7—Jesus’ Program: The Kingdom of God
July 16—NO SESSON
July 23, Session 8—Jesus’ Ministry of Compassion
July 30, Session 9—Who Killed Jesus?
August 6, Session 10—The Atonement
August 13, Session 11—The Resurrection of Christ
August 20, Session 12—Why Jesus is Worth Saving?

March Holy Week Events

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:16:09 +0000

Everyone is welcome to attend our events.

**Palm Sunday, March 24, worship @ 10:30 a.m.

**Seder - Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 p.m.

**Good Friday Service, March 29, 6:00 p.m.

**Easter Sunday Service, 10:30 a.m. We'll "flower the cross," have an Easter egg hunt, and a pot luck after worship!

Milagro and Marnie featured in Chieftain article

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:33:34 +0000

http://www.chieftain.com/religion/everyone-is-welcome/article_67e07e6c-7d5c-11e2-9f9a-001a4bcf887a.html

Everyone is welcome
Milagro’s new pastor sees inclusion as key to salvation
By LORETTA SWORD
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

Marnie Leinberger had been away from Pueblo — and church — for 26 years when she returned in 2006 from Arizona.

She had joined the ranks of the “nones” — the “spiritual but not religious” — after leaving the Catholic faith of her childhood and trying several other traditions in hopes of feeding her yearning soul and her questioning mind.

She was pleasantly surprised by the growth she noted in the hometown she’d left as a high school freshman. She was even more pleased by what she found when a friend convinced her to try Milagro Christian Church. She’s been attending faithfully since then.

She was named pastor in February, nearly a year after Rev. Amy Piatt and her husband Christian, who was musical director, left to lead a church in Portland, Ore. Leinberger and two others shared pastoral duties until the congregation asked Leinberger to take the role.

Had anyone suggested in 2006 that she someday would be a pastor, “I would have laughed and said ‘never.’ But I’ve come to realize that whenever I say ‘never,’ God seems to say ‘double-dog dare ya’,” said Leinberger, 46.

Actually, it was the Piatts who first encouraged Leinberger to consider going to seminary and working her way into an associate pastorship. She had spent long hours with them discussing her most troubling questions and personal beliefs about Christianity, Scripture and faith.

Milagro is a Disciples of Christ church. The denomination is known for its encouragement of individual exploration, and for “welcoming everyone to the communion table” without restriction or rules, Leinberger said. She was drawn to Milagro primarily because the congregation included “lots of misfits and rejects” that many other churches exclude, whether by formal doctrine or through more subtle means.

Following a meandering career path that included managerial positions with agencies that served “developmentally different adults” and indigent alcoholic women, Leinberger now works full-time in the 4-H program at Pueblo’s Colorado State University Extension office and parttime at Milagro, while also completing her studies with Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Okla.

Although she had never imagined being a pastor, Leinberger is grateful that others saw that potential in her and ignited it.

“I couldn’t have been plopped into a more welcoming faith tradition.

This is perfect for me,” she said. “We have a lot of people here who normally just ‘don’t do church’ because they’d feel weird anywhere else. But they can bring that sense of isolation and alienation here.

They can come in all their brokenness and find out they’re not alone — that their brokenness might even be healing for someone else.”

Church Shower, Women's Tea, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:15:43 +0000

**February 12, 6:00 p.m. Our annual Mardi Gras pancake dinner. Suggested donation $5/adult; $3 kids ages 5-10; kids under 5 free.

** February 13, 6:00 p.m., Ash Wednesday service.

The next few things

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:20:36 +0000

**December 11 is our Leadership meeting, 6:00 p.m.

**December 18 is our Building Relationships meeting, 6:00 p.m.

**Christmas Eve Service, December 24, 5:30 p.m. Our kids will act out the christmas story, and we'll close wtih a candlelight service.

December 1 and 2

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:51:13 +0000

This weekend, December 1 and 2 will be busy at Milagro.

On Saturday, December 1 at 2:00 p.m. we'll celebrate a different kind of worship service - a U2charist. The worship service will be built around the music of U2 and 100% of the offering collected will be sent to ONE, a grassroots organization that fights poverty and preventable disease. See http://www.one.org/us for more informmation.

Sunday, Demember 2 is the first weekend of Advent, and we'll celebrate with a Hanging of the Greens and potluck after worship! Then at 1:30 p.m. the book group will meet to continue their discussion of The Shack.

Picnic in the park

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:20:38 +0000

Sunday, September 16, join us after worship for a picnic at the pavilion at City Park. Bring a covered dish to share, or a desert. Drinks will be provided. It's free to attend but we will be taking a "love offering" to offset the cost of renting the pavilion. We'll gather at about 12:00 noon and play in the park until 5:00 p.m.!!

Pueblo Pride Festival August 19

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:02:39 +0000

Join us at our information booth on Sunday, August 19, at the Pueblo Pride Festival in Mineral Palace Park. The festival will start at 10:00 a.m. Stop by and say "hi." If you'd like to help with the booth please write to us at milagrochristian@gmail.com or call the church phone at 719-545-6400.

Pastoral Message

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:31:17 +0000

A pastoral message from Dr. Rev. Sharon Watkins, Genral Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

From her message:

"Among Disciples, a core manifestation of our unity with diversity has always been the open Table. Knowing that the Table is the Lord’s, we make room for whoever will come at Christ’s gracious invitation. All are welcome. Diverse though we may be, we, too, call ourselves by one name: Disciples. Our challenge (as individual brothers and sisters in Christ and as congregations) is to help each other feel welcome and also safe at the table of our Lord."

You can download a .pdf of her message on her blog at the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) website, and watch the video:

Free Car Wash!!

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:31:35 +0000

On Saturday, June 30, we are gonna host a free car wash! Grace is free, why not a car wash? Join us in the fun, or bring your car by for a quick cleaning. We'll also have free ice cream cones while supplies last! Yea, summer!

May and June Stuff

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:12:21 +0000

Yard Sale June 2! Bring your gentley used, SALEABLE stuff to the church. Then plan to join us for the sale. We'll need people to set up, and will really needed people to tear down and haul away to the ARC whatever we don't sell. Call the church at 545-6400 for more information or to volunteer to help.

Spring Feast Registration Information

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:55:43 +0000

Spring Feast registration information is now posted on the Central Rocky Mountain Region website. This is a wonderful opportunity to get to meet other Disciples of Christ members throughout the region. There will be registration forms available at the church. Please plan to attend this wonderful event.

Be sure to check out the Central Rocky Mountain Region wesite for full details. http://www.centralrockymountaindisciples.org/?page_id=1071

Holy Week Activities

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:37:16 +0000

**Friday, April 6 -- Good Friday Candlelght Service, 6:00 p.m.
Join us for our solemn rememberence on Good Friday. This is a quiet and moving candlelight service that leads us through the events of the day that Jesus was executed.

**Sunday, April 8 -- Easter Sunday! Service @ 10:30 a.m.
Join us as we celebrate the victory of Love! Bring a boquet of flowers and before the service, we'll "flower the crosss" (see photos here). Bring candy filled eggs for the kiddos and a dish to share and after worship we'll have an Easter egg hunt and wonderful fellowship with a potluck.

Memorial Tribute to Pat Pumphrey

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:09:04 +0000

The congregation of Milagro would like to express our gratitude for the memorial donation made for Pat Pumphrey. We were very blessed by the gift and were able to purchase new chairs for the sanctuary. These chairs allow us to more comfortably seat our growing congregation and makes the space more flexible so that we can better serve the community.

Holiday Stuff

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:23:40 +0000

Advent
This Advent season we will be using "Partners In Prayer" - a daily prayer/meditation guide. We'll also meet on Wednesday evenings through Advent (November 30, December 7, 14 and 21) from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Piatt's.Call the church at 545-6400 for more information.

Light Parade Float
We'll have a float in the Pueblo Parade of Lights, and on November 19th we're gonna decorate it. We need your donations of time, talent and lights (and garland, paint, duct tape....). We're going for a Charlie Brown Christmas, but what we really intend is to have an eclectic bit of decoration reflective of our eclectic congregation. The beauty of Milagro is that we don't all match, and even though we think we might not fit, we all belong. So join us starting at 11:00 a.m. on November 19th to decorate. Then join us on November 26 for the Parade. As we know more about meeting time/place and such, we'll pass it along.

Christmas Eve service
Join us at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 24, for a quiet Christmas Eve Candlelight service. There is no dress code. Everyone is welcome.

Christmas Day
On Christmas day, our youth choir will lead the service with song and perhaps a pageant! And there's no need to dress up - in fact we are encouraging you to show up pajama-clad! You can let the kids play with their presents until the very last minute, no rushing to "get ready." You are already ready! Join us and bring your favorite holiday treat to share!

State of the Church meeting

Tue, 10 May 2011 03:25:15 +0000

Join us after worship on Sunday the 15th for a presentatio by the resource team on "the state of the church."

Book Group and Yard Sale

Sun, 01 May 2011 22:01:50 +0000

Book Group
Starting Wednesday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. we'll be reading Banned Questions About the Bible. From the publisher about the book: Where did Adam and Eve’s kids find spouses? Does God justify violence in scripture? Does the Bible call for sexual purity? (and what qualifies as pure and impure?) Ever get the feeling that you can’t ask those kinds of questions at church? But if we can’t ask the tough, keep-you-awake-at-night questions within our faith communities, then what good are those communities?

Yard Sale
We are going to have a yard sale on June 4! Save your stuff and bring it to the church beginning Sunday, May 29th. If you have questions about the yard sale, questions about how to donate items, or if you'd like to help, please call the church at 545-6400

Holy Week and Leadership meeting.

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:00:25 +0000

Holy Week Events
Please check out our Featured Events page for the scoop on our Holy Week events.

Milagro Leadership Meeting
We've moved the Leadership Meeting to the first monday of the month. Because of all the events at Milagro in April, we've cancelled the April meeting and our next leadership meeting will be Monday, May 2, at 6:00 p.m. Childcare is available. Bring your dinner!

Leadership Meeting, Community Garden

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:52:21 +0000

Leadership Meeting:
Our next leadership meeting is Monday, March 14, at 6:00 p.m. Childcare is available.

Community Garden:
     10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m
     Miracle Community Garden is a 2 acre community garden with 80 plots. We have lots of plots but only a few gardeners. To cover the cost of water we are charging $40 per plot, BUT we have many people who are willing to donate the plots for interested gardeners. There is no reason not to come and start a plot. We have the land the water and the tools, mulch, manure and some seed availability, as well as classes through out the summer on adobe, cob and gardening.
      We will also have art, garden planting, Garden selection, Seed Exchange, Pony rides, fun and friends. Come and claim your plot in the community garden. Work on a community mural project or just take part in an awesome way for us to make affordable and healthy food available to our community.