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.

This fall, you and I are invited to consider God's "Infinite Possibilities."  Marian Parsons' column on St. Francis of Assisi and his definition of stewardship is excellent, and I commend it to you for what possibilities it might open up for you as you think about integrating "stewardship thinking" further into your own life.

But what about "stewardship praying," too?  As a congregation, we've been bold for decades about what God calls us to DO to care for the hungry, the  homeless, the excluded in our society, and for the earth and all that's in it.  But, as I've wrestled recently in my own prayer life with what "new thing" God is inviting me to ask God to DO in my life, I've discovered exactly how timid my prayers have been.

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.