Celebration.
He is Risen.
This month has been a month of celebration. Celebrating Easter with the Oaks Church, meeting new friends at parks, having old friends come visit, and so much more. March has been a sunny, bright, and optimistic month that we hope sends us into the second quarter of our church planting residency with much enthusiasm and zeal.
Jubilee.
As I mentioned last month I have begun working a part-time job in the craft coffee industry. Jubilee Roasting Co. has treated me well, taught me much about espresso and espresso theory (for real, that is a thing), as well as provided a great opportunity to meet downtown Denverites. The mission of Jubilee is to create well and be good neighbors. It’s been fun to adopt this mission as an employee, as a citizen, and as a church planter to this lovely city we call home. This job is a large answer to prayer, not just because I get free coffee, but because through my employment I have been able to learn so much about the local affluent Denver citizen, as well as the houseless and addicted citizens. Blatant drug use, violence, quite a bit of getting screamed at, and even some really sweet conversations have come from my time at Jubilee, and I am looking forward to so much more.
What’s Been Happening
Michael finished his six month church planting training through The Send Network. We are eternally grateful for the investment of the network, the trainers, and the brotherhood of the five other planters in the Front Range.
Michael will begin volunteering for a nonprofit organization in the next couple of weeks to learn more, minister to, and love on houseless and impoverished members of the community.
We are deeply pursuing prayer (still), and have a goal of praying over all of the homes on every single street in Capitol Hill, Lincoln Park, Speer, and Baker neighborhoods in the next 3-4 months. Our prayer over every home is that the eyes of their hearts would be opened to the beauty of the gospel, and that the Holy Spirit would send laborers into the harvest.
We are slowly but surely chipping away at meeting 100 people in this area in the next 90 days.
Our friend (and intern), Nik, has begun stage one of his internship at Capitol City Church where he grows as a disciple of Jesus and a leader of not only himself but of others.
We had the joy of having wonderful friends from Iowa and Minnesota visit last week. What a recharging and life-giving experience that was for us.
We are praying that in the next couple of weeks we will be able to start at least one if not two or three Bible studies with primarily unbelievers. We are super excited to see what God will do through His Word and His Body by His Spirit.
Prayer Needs
Pray for Jake, Dillon, Anna, Martha, Jess, Evan, Troy, Casey, Tracey, Kevin and Liz. These are friends, coworkers, neighbors, and strangers (soon to be friends) that we hope become Family.
Pray for increased sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, how to fight the spiritual war as a Son and Daughter seated with Christ, and that we would be united in our marriage as a part of this fight.
Pray for Aksel, Flora, and Frances. One of our hopes is that they would experience a double portion of the Spirit than what Ally and I have or will receive in our lifetime. We pray for their souls and their wellbeing as we seek this insane endeavor.
Pray for unity in our ever-forming team! We want a bigger team, but even more, the right team. We now have two teammates who are hoping to move here this fall with at least one teammate in the city looking to join us.
Pray for the spiritual reality of the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Baker, Speer, Alamo Placita and Lincoln Park. These places are wealthy and affluent with lots of homeless people, but something they are both tethered to is addiction. There is a dark spiritual presence here that we are actively praying on the streets would be pushed back.
Pray for our neighbors. We have two couples on either side of us who do not know Jesus and are of course very okay with that. Pray for these two couples that we would show compassion to them, the heart of Jesus as gentle and lowly, and that their would be a supernatural encounter that they cannot ignore!
Pray for the longing and aimless souls in our neighborhood, Capitol Hill. We are praying that God would give us divine appointments with the poor, the homeless, the wealthy, the millennials, and anyone who resides in this area. Pray for healing, repentance, and renewal.
Pray for our funding to be fully met. We don’t just ask you to give, but to pray that others would join us! We want a vast network of partners to be in on what God is doing for their own joy. We feel like we are sharing in the spoils of what God is doing when we gain new partners in any way.
Here is our reality:
225 Prayer Partners
2 team members (that aren’t a VW!)
$101,200 raised for Phase 1 (92% of the way!)
Here are our goals:
250 Prayer Partners
A team of 15 people by 2022
$110,000 raised for Phase 1 (Nov. 2020-Oct.2021)
