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...is a space devoted to details about current events, people and happenings at Lord of the Mountains Church. It’s place for members and friends far and near to keep up to date on what’s going on and to find information on how to participate. We welcome information and input from congregation members, friends, and committees. Just e-mail what you know to Meg Castle, megmcgc@mac.com and it will get shared all around. Let us know if you’re celebrating something special, or if you’ve been honored in some way, or if you’re a teen who just won a prize, a scholarship, or a skiing medal. We’ll pass it on!
Music, Music, Music Summit Music and Arts at Lord of the Mountains and the Breckenridge Music Festival are collaborating on another concert on Sunday, February 12, at 4 p.m. This time it is a string quartet that will make beautiful music in our sanctuary. The program will include String quartet Op. 77 by Franz Josef Haydn, the “father of the string quartet, Maurice Ravel’s only String Quartet, a masterpiece created when he was a student, and Puccini’s intimate little gem titled “Chrisantemi (Chrysanthemums).”The concert program gathers musical friends including Summer Festival Orchestra concertmaster, Nathan Olson who is co-concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He brings guest cellist, Ian Jones, to join Breckenridge Festival Orchestra artists Meghan Jones and Matthew Carrington. Nathan Olson has appeared as Guest Concertmaster with the Symphony Orchestras of Toronto, Omaha and Tucson and as Principal Second Violin with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Concertmaster Academy, is concertmaster of the Canton Symphony, and substitutes with the Cleveland Orchestra. With the Kashii String Quartet, he served on faculty at the Insbrook Music Festival and won the silver medal at the 2005 Fischoff Competition. Ian Jones attended UCLA and Indiana University. He has played in the cello section of the Honolulu Symphony, and has studied further at Indiana with Eric Kim, principal cello of the Cincinnati Sympnony. He began a Masters in Performance program as a teaching assistant at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in fall, 2011, and in October was appointed the newest member of the Tucson Symphony. Meghan Jones is the Assistant Principal Second Violin in the Sarasota Orchestra. Prior to her time with the Sarasota, she was a member of the New World Symphony and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She is an active chamber musician and teacher in the Sarasota area. Originally from Edina Minnesota, Meghan earned her Bachelor’s of Music at Northwestern University and her Master of Music at Boston University. She has been playing with the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra since 2002. Violist Matthew Carrington has worked with members of the Ives and Alexander Quartets as well as with Janos Starker, Ik-Hwan Bae and Pamela Frank. He has performed as a member of the Evansville Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and the National Repertory Orchestra. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a member of the resident strong quartet program. He also holds a Masters and Performer Diploma from Indiana University. Tickets for this concert are available from the BMF office, 970.453.9142, or online from the Summit Music and Arts website, summitmusicandarts.org. Cost is $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. There is a $1.50 per ticket fee per online orders. Children and students under 17, as always, are free.
Second Offering Proceeds from our February 26th second offering will travel all the way to Namibia to provide scholarships for young students there, students who might not otherwise progress beyond 10th grade. All students must take an exam at the end of 10th grade -- an exam which determines whether they can enter 11th and 12th grades. If they pass, boarding school is the only option for the upper grades, and they are far away from the students' homes. Our funding helps provide scholarships for this schooling. Scholarships provide room, board and tuition, and, possibly uniforms, bedding and transportation, depending on the school costs where students choose to attend. If they have some money, the scholarship funds enable students to attend a better school than they may otherwise be able to afford.
Since we became
involved in this work, the number of students eligible for the
upper grades has increased from about 30% in 2005 to 50% in 2011
-- a dramatic accomplishment.
This year a goal is to encourage higher grades on the English
portion of the exam by offering a slightly larger
scholarship to those who score well in English..A full
scholarship costs $225, and donors are more than welcome to
sponsor a student with this amount. However, every donation
helps, and it all adds up to a life of greater opportunity for
several Namibian young people.
Community Dinners
Sheila Robinson of Q4U followed that act
with Sloppy Q’s on January 31 – always a great hit. Cheerful,
efficient volunteers from Summit County Church of Christ served
the meal.
Second offering totals for 2011 January: $556 + $200 (Thrivent match) to Lutheran World Relief February: $7,6019.50 + $500 (Thrivent match) for Namibia Scholarships March: $1,692 + $500 (Thrivent) for Good Samaritan Home, Jeremie, Haiti April: $1,713 + $500 (Thrivent) for Japan Earthquake Relief May: $644 + $500 (Thrivent) for Community Dinners June: $2,950 for Home Building in Manchay, Peru July: $1,732 + $300 (Thrivent) for Books and Supplies, Dillon Elementary School August: $1,557 + $500 (Thrivent) for La Puente, Alamosa September: $1652 + $472 (Thrivent) for Family Intercultural Resource Center October: $408 + $438 (Thrivent) for Domus Pacis November: $1,060 + $500 (Thrivent) for Peace Lutheran Church, rebuilding project, Joplin Missouri December: No second offering TOTAL FOR 2011: $25,990.50 ($4,410 Thrivent) January 2012 second offering raised $1,448.10 for Lutheran World Relief.
Offering Envelopes Day Services LOTM's Day Services is attracting more clients these days as flyers have been circulated at the Community Dinners and other places around the county. The shelter is open Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 1 p.m to 4 p.m. and sometimes longer in order to allow time for laundry to be finished. A regular group of clients is coming each time we are open. We offer showers, laundry service, phone and internet to those in our community who do not have access to these things elsewhere. Some have used all of the services we offer. FIRC screens those who wish to come and spend time with us. Two volunteers are needed each afternoon to staff the facility. There is a sign up sheet in the narthex, or you may call 970.468.6809
Tune In Friends near and far can once again tune in to a live or archived worship service on the Internet. To access services, go to the church website, lordofthemountains.org, and click on "Webcast of Service." Follow the link to the service you wish to see.
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cakes
with cherries. There were leftovers since 349 (32 children)
arrived to dine on food for 450, so there was wonderful food for
Father Dyer to serve on Sunday, Here we see the great volunteers
from Breck serving dinner, and head of Food Services, Mark
Kimball, receiving a gift plate for his hard work on behalf of
the dinner.
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