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Index E-Free Church Christian Science Church Holy Rosary Parish St. James Episcopal Church Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman Bozeman United Methodist Church Chabad Lubavitch of Montana Springhill Presbyterian Church Mosaic Chapel Journey Church
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“We should invert our eyes and practice a sublime astronomy in the infinitude of our hearts, for which God was willing to die... If we see the Milky Way, it is because it actually exists in our souls” — Léon Bloy, The Mirror of Enigmas
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“God is Love.” -I John 4:16 “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” -Jesus Christ
“Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.” -Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science Church And Reading Room
Located at: 8th & Story, Bozeman Sunday Service & Sunday School at 10:00AM Wednesday Testimony Meeting 7:00PM Reading Room Hours: Thursday 2:00 - 4:00PM, 1st & 3rd Saturday 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Phone: 586-5819 • www.CSbozeman.com
HOLY ROSARY PARISH 2020 1885 - 2018
Christ made the following statement The community Holy Rosary Parishin is the body moreofthan any other of Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit, called to His public ministry: gather for worship, cherish the Roman Catholic traditions of ourNOT faith, toBE live AFRAID� the gospel, minister to “DO and be Christ to the Holy Rosaryothers, is Covid 19 compliant by practicing all world. mandated protocols, including social distancing and mask wearing.
Confessions Confessions Mass Times Mass times Live Stream Mass Saturday at 5:15 pm 3:30 pm 3:30pm Sunday at 8:00 am Saturdays 5:15pm Sunday at 10:30 am Saturday Saturdays and 10:30 am Sundays 8:00am and 10:30am 220 W. Main Street Bozeman, Montana 59715 (406) 587-4581 | holyrosarybozeman.org
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Holy Rosary Parish
Over a Century of Community in the Gallatin Valley 1879~2020 then proceeded to the new church for the Holy Rosary Parish was formed in 1879 even though Catholic services were held in dedication by Bishop Carroll. private homes and public halls before With the growth of the the first church could be built Catholic presence in the “As the Gallatin and dedicated on August Gallatin Valley throughout Valley continues to the last 140 years, there has 29, 1885. By 1904 there had been such significant growth grow, it is our hope been a constant need to in Bozeman that the original provide more services and that Holy Rosary church on the corner of more space in the church North Seventh Avenue and Parish continues to for the growing number of be the welcoming congregants. While there Mendenhall was too small.
presence for those have been many restorations, The land for the current church on Main Street and choosing to settle in additions and improvements Third Avenue was obtained this most majestic over the years, the most recent renovation and in 1905. The ground breaking of places.� expansion (2010-2012) has ceremony, with the laying of been the most extensive. the cornerstone, was held on June 9, 1907. The last mass at the As the Gallatin Valley continues to grow, original church and the first mass in the it is our hope that Holy Rosary Parish current church were held on May 3, 1908. continues to be the welcoming presence The children of the parish received their for those choosing to settle in this most sacraments in their original church and majestic of places.
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St. James Episcopal Church The STONE CHURCH WITH A WARM HEART, SHARING ABUNDANCE TOGETHER IN Christ
Rooted in scripture, tradition, and reason, St. James Episcopal Church has been ministering in the Gallatin Valley since 1868. As one of the premier Episcopal churches in Montana, we have numerous and varied ministries conducted by an active and growing congregation. St. James offers programs for all ages, worship and community outreach opportunities that are led by a talented staff of highly trained and caring individuals. Join us as we share the love of Jesus with all God’s children.
The Rev. Canon Clark Sherman, Rector The Ven. (Ret) Roxanne Klingensmith, Deacon The Rev. Connie Campbell-Pearson, Deacon/Organist The Rev. D. Gregory Smith, Assisting Priest. Breanne Cutler, Director of Music Rhonda Nelson, Parish Administrator 5 West Olive St. Bozeman, MT - (406) 586-9093 - www.stjamesbozeman.org - sj5westolive@gmail.com 40936-1
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“The point is simple. Social distancing is necessary. Relational distancing is not.”
St. James This is not a crisis anyone wants, but I am hoping this crisis displays who Christians really are and that we show what kind of Christians we really are. I believe serving and loving others as Christ himself has served us through his death and resurrection is central to our faith — even when it involves personal risk and cost. That’s what I hope this crisis will reveal. The point
is simple. Social distancing is necessary. Relational distancing is not. Let’s seize the opportunity to check on our neighbors. Let’s build a relational bridge when the virus wants to create a social moat. During the pandemic, we will be separated in many ways. We still have to stick together. Let’s show who we really are, as Christians in our day.
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“Sometimes it seems god could be the eye of a horse that holds a darkened lake, some boat of light upon wind swept grain. And here among the opened white scroll of clouds trapped inside a water trough lies a baptism without doctrine.” — Greg Sellers, Faith Found in a Pasture
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Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ The Pilgrim Connection Pilgrim Congregational Church connects the people of Southwest Montana with one another. Now in its 59th year, Pilgrim offers a rich mix of spiritual, educational, and mission-based activities that reach far beyond its Bozeman location. In keeping with its Congregational roots, Pilgrim maintains a strong focus on outreach and social justice. Church members and friends work in partnership with more than 20 different outreach programs to help those in need, including caring for the homeless through Family Promise.
they feel included and supported. If you’re looking for a community in which to express your talents and ideas, look no further. Many people form lasting r e la t ionsh i ps onc e t h ey c onn ec t w i th musical groups and book discussions, or join one of the many classes offered each year.
No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.
People come to Pilgrim from many religious backgrounds, and for many reasons. They stay because
Pilgrim is an open and affirming church that includes all persons, embracing differences of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, mental and physical ability, and racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
The people of Pilgrim believe that more light and truth may yet find their way into our lives, if we are willing to listen and consider.
Online services: Sundays at 10 a.m. on Facebook, @PilgrimChurchBozeman, and at uccbozeman.org Pilgrim Congregational Church 2118 S. 3rd Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715 406-370-1069 | uccbozeman.org
NUTURE YOUR SPIRIT HELP HEAL OUR WORLD Community. Peace. Justice. Compassion. Welcome to Unitarian Universalism, where you can nurture your spirit, serve in the world, and find your own truth and meaning. We are a caring, open-minded religious community that encourages you to seek your own path, wherever it may lead. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman 325 North 25th Street 406-586-1368 Currently streaming live Sunday Services at 10:00am on Facebook and Zoom Weekly religious education for children Visit our website uufbozeman.org
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman status, ability and opinions as well as religious Unitarian Universalist congregations are bound background. UUFB serves our larger community by common principles rather than a fixed creed through ongoing social justice engagement, or dogma. We encourage the pursuit of individual including Family Promise, Fork and Spoon, the spiritual growth as well as a commitment to social Gallatin Valley Food Bank, as and environmental justice “We seek elusive answers to the well as other work for racial and to building a “beloved questions of this life. justice and environmental community.” The commitment to worship together, to learn We seek to put an end to all the action. together, to work for justice We are currently following waste of human strife. together and to care for one social distancing guidelines another creates a bond that We search for truth, equality, and by live-streaming Religious remains strong even when blessed peace of mind. Education for children, our beliefs change. As a non-creedal Sunday morning services, religion, UU theology draws And then we come together here, and our after-service social from many sources, including to make sense of what we find.” hour. Services are streamed at Buddhism, religious humanism, 10:00 a.m. on Facebook live (Shelley Jackson Denham) Christianity, Judaism, and and Zoom. This fall we will Earth-based spirituality. Many continue with online RE classes UUs draw from more than one source, enriching the and will also offer a new option for children 3-6 eclectic nature of our congregations. years old from 9:30-9:50 a.m. Our regular RE The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman, the largest UU congregation in Montana, strives to be welcoming and inclusive, especially concerning gender, race, sexual orientation, economic
Class will continue to meet at 11:00-11:30 a.m. for 7-12-year-olds. For more information, visit our website at http://www.uufbozeman.org.
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Bozeman United Methodist Church
bout a year before our now 8-year old was born, my husband and I experienced our first miscarriage. No one knows what to say when you lose a baby. My supervisor, wanting to be supportive and offer comfort, gave us a candle. I lit that candle every night those first few weeks. It may have even been months.
we have to surround ourselves with others on the journey. In his book, Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig puts it this way, “Life lesson: the way out is never through yourself.” And in doing so, we give ourselves the opportunity to be held by God who created us, Christ who redeems us, and the Holy Spirit who sustains us.
When we tried to get pregnant again, which, for us Bozeman United Methodist Church’s December meant a trip to an infertility clinic, they wouldn’t worship theme is I Believe Even When and is let us light the candle, but we would take it with inspired by the words of an anonymous Jewish us into the room. It brought me poet scrawled on a wall during the strength and reminded me of all Holocaust, “I believe in the sun, those who were sending their love. “How many times even when the sun is not shining.” After our daughter was born, we has 2020 made you This Advent and through Christmas, let the light of Christ show that we started trying again right away, since feel like that little can still “believe, even when” we are we had been successful once before discouraged, lonely, even when we flame, fighting to we didn’t dream it would be difficult feel hopeless. again. When it happened again, this
keep your head above
time twins, I got my candle out. The “Suddenly a great assembly of the the wax, trying to heavenly forces was with the angel flame was harder to light, all the wax had hardened around the wick. I praising God. They said, “Glory snuff you out?” watched the faintest flame fight back to God in heaven, and on earth the dust and the new hot wax that peace…” (Luke 2: 13-14). We yearn didn’t have anywhere to run. “The candle is going to see the scene play out, to hear the music of the to go out,” I thought, angels, to feel the rush to the manger, to see what “it’s not strong enough.” this star that pierces the night sky has come to proclaim. We want to believe the Good News is the I watched the battle for a while, amazed that such culmination of humanity’s pain of birth: “don’t be a tiny spark could hold. Eventually, I poured off afraid” for unto us a sign has come that will be to some of the wax and the light grew a little bigger. A all people… “on earth, peace.” We want to believe little more wax, a little more light. the candle won’t go out. “The candle is going to go out,” I thought, “it’s not After that first miscarriage I took some time off to strong enough,” but it didn’t go out. help my body heal and my heart mend. My first How many times has 2020 made you feel like that Sunday back I thought I was ready to help lead little flame, fighting to keep your head above the worship, but when the time came, I couldn’t do it. wax, trying to snuff you out? How many times have “Is there something you would like to do?” my coyou told yourself, my light, my energy, my hope is pastor asked me. “I’m so sorry, but I think the only going to go out, I’m not strong enough? thing I can do is light the candles.” “Carrying in the light of Christ is the perfect thing for you to do this I can imagine some of the things that have made day and always.” your light dim. Political conflict that threatens families, isolation orders that make us feel truly ---disconnected, black bodies harmed and demanding Rev. Amy Strader is the co-pastor at Bozeman justice, and fires that challenge us to truly be stewards of creation. And while I can’t tell you what United Methodist alongside spouse Rev. Eric Strader. Two have two kids, two dogs, and a cat they will make your light shine brighter, I can tell you don’t really like. Rev. Amy also sits on the Board of what won’t… your own strength. Directors at Bozeman Health. You can learn more We can worship God anywhere, but to live out the about us and our services at www.bozemanumc.org things the baby born in a manger came to teach us,
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Chabad Lubavitch of Montana
“I was new to Bozeman anD FRom tHe moment I aRRIVeD I was emBRaCeD BY tHe CHaBaD FamILY. a JewIsH Home awaY FRom Home Is eXaCtLY wHat I neeDeD, anD tHat’s wHat I’Ve FoUnD HeRe. It’s a nURtURInG PLaCe on so manY LeVeLs– sPIRItUaLLY, soCIaLLY, anD moRe.
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406-585-8770 Office@JewishMontana.com www.JewishMontana.com rabbi@jewishmontana.com ••www.JewishMontana.com
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1956 Lubavitch World Headquarters, under classes include Mishna and Mysticism, A Touch of Heaven the leadership of Rabbi Menachem M. – From Big Sky Country, Torah & Tea and countless one-onSchneerson of blessed memory, sent its first one classes in Talmud, Jewish law, and Kabbalah. pair of rabbinical students to visit Jewish families and individuals spread across Big Sky Country. Chabad offers a wide range of holiday and year-round This annual custom continued for fifty years, as Chabad programs including High Holiday services, Sushi in the Sukkah, Menorah Lighting in - Luabavitch students visited Jews Chabad Lubavitch of Downtown Bozeman, Purim extravathroughout Montana and acted as ganza, Passover Seders, Lag B’Omer Montana opened its doors in a Jewish address for those seeking BBQ and Bon-Fire, Shavuot Ice Cream tradition. Bozeman, welcoming all Jews, Party, Women’s League of Chabad, regardless of background, In the summer of 2006, on the heels Kids Hebrew School, Jewish Student affiliation, or level of of his two summer visits in 2004/05, Union @ MSU, Montana’s Jewish Rabbi Chaim Bruk and his newlywed Voice, Montana’s Jewish Art Calendar, observance. It’s their wife Chavie, spent the summer in Montana’s Jewish Retreat, gatherings core belief that every Jew Montana and were encouraged by the to support Israel, and have also built should have the opportunity to Montana’s only Mikvah, a state of the prospects of opening its first Chabad experience the joy of their Center. In March of 2007, Chabad art Jewish ritual bath. They have also Jewish heritage, grow in its Lubavitch of Montana opened its opened fully staffed local chapters doors in Bozeman, welcoming all understanding and practice its in Missoula and Kalispell, servicJews, regardless of background, affiliing those growing communities. tenets at their own pace. ation, or level of observance. It’s their Their website www.JewishMontana. core belief that every Jew should have the opportunity to com has over thirty-nine thousand unique visitors per experience their Jewish heritage, grow in its understanding year; giving people living in all four corners of Montana and practice its tenets at their own pace. and way beyond an opportunity to learn about their tradition. To receive Rabbi Chaim’s weekly Torah email or for “Knowledge is power” which why Chabad has focused any other Jewish related questions, contact him at Rabbi@ much of its efforts on Jewish education and lectures. Their JewishMontana.com
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“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then when our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” — Hermann Hesse
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“Building authentic community in Christ.” We are a church to call home where relationships flourish, generations connect, neighbors are loved…for the glory of God.
Legacy Site
9855 Walker Road, Belgrade, MT 59714 Worship Service – Sunday at 8:30 am Experience family style church in a country setting, with classic hymns and relevant sermons for all ages.
Bozeman Site 4769 West Babcock, Bozeman, MT 59718 Worship Service – Sunday at 10:00 am Join us for blended services of hymns and contemporary worship, with a particular focus on equipping families in Christ.
• Nursery Care and Sunday School for pre-K and elementary students is available at both sites on Sunday mornings during worship. • Youth Group (grades 6-12) meets on Sunday nights from 5:30-7:00 pm at the Bozeman site. • Springhill Girls Club (girls in grades K-5) and Cadets (boys in grades K-9) meet at the Legacy site on Wednesday nights during the school year from 6:30-8:00 pm. • Women Connect meets at the Bozeman site on the first Wednesday of the month (October-May) from 6:30-8:00 pm for fellowship, Biblical teaching and music.
406.582.8000 • info@springhillpres.com www.springhillpres.com
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Mosaic chapel Mosaic chapel
a new, non-traditional church Bozeman. is aisnew, non-traditional churchinin Bozeman. Ratherthan thanregular regular church Rather churchservices, services, wewe meet ininhomes wherewe weshare share a meal meet homeseach each week, week, where a meal and Godand andfaith. faith. anda adiscussion discussion about about God Then once a month all our groups getget together Then once a month all our groups togetherfor fora large with food, music, teaching and discussion. an gathering All-Group Gathering with food, music, teaching and discussion. Learn more at mosaicchapel.org
Mosaic chapel Mosaic chapel
mosaicchapel.org • info@mosaicchapel.org info@mosaicchapel.org mosaicchapel.org 406-219-0117 406-219-0117
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WEDNESDAY
December 23rd
THURSDAY
December 24th
celebrate with us! 70-ish minutes of engaging worship,
a Christmas narrative, and a candlelight element.
IN PERSON + ONLINE
Select your free tickets at ChristmasAtTheCommons.com Children’s ministry for ages infant to 5 will be available at each gathering
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“You will realize the doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tries to penetrate the mystery of God. You will realize that Scripture itself is the work of human minds, recording the example and teaching of Jesus. Thus it is not what you believe that matters: it is how you respond with your heart and your actions. It is not believing in Christ that matters; it is becoming like him.” — Pelagius, from The Letters of Pelagius, as quoted in Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality, J. Philip Newell