Teamwork = Dreamwork
It Has Begun.
Our team is forming and growing. Pictured above is a brave soul named Elle Weg who recently moved to Denver from South Dakota / Iowa. She has begun settling into her rhythms here in Denver as she continues online school at Sioux Falls Seminary, works her new barista job at Jubilee Roasting Co. (I KNOW RIGHT?!), and continues to learn the city and all it has to offer.
Elle is a zealous, teachable, servant-hearted student of the word who longs to cross cultures and even oceans to bring the gospel to the hurting and the lost. We met here almost a year ago at our vision night at Redeemer Church in Cedar Falls, IA when the Spirit pressed her to mark a silly little box expressing interest in our core team.
Pray for Elle. She is crushing it right now, but we know that she has made a declaration of war by moving here and joining the likes of us. Pray she would make friends, that she would have clarity of what life looks like in this context, pray for stable housing, finances, and a rooted identity as a daughter, a servant, and a sent one by the Spirit that overflows in a bold evangelistic spirit.
Elle is the first, but not the last. We have others joining us (and others we are praying join us) over the next month. The fact that God keeps building this church is a dream come true for us, and I hope that it is for you as well as you have come along with us, partnering in the gospel together.
What else is going on?
We finished summer with a SICK vacation that was completely changed last minute.
Aksel started Kindergarten at Bishop Elementary two blocks from our house (which is why our vacation changed)!
All three kids celebrated birthdays: Aksel turned 5, Flora turned 3, and Frances had her first birthday!
We are prayerfully pursuing new partnerships with churches and other individuals so that we can healthily stay, serve, and send as a local church here in Denver.
We’ve begun a cohort with Multiply Group alongside seven other churches in the Front Range to develop our church’s leadership development pathway. This is perfectly timed for us as we begin with our core team looking ahead to how we can lead well and create a culture of leadership development.
Prayer Needs
Pray for our marriage and that it would STAY healthy and only get healthier.
Pray for our kids and that they would see the collision of intellect and experience in the gospel as we live as sent missionaries to Denver.
Pray for our team to be united as we continue to grow. Pray that the evangelistic temperature of our team would be HOT and ever-climbing.
Pray for Martha and her family that they would be shaped in all parts of life by the gospel.
Pray for those who are lost in our lives. Trev, Jess, Jer, Kris, Kevin, Liz, Harlow, Caleb, T & C, E & T, and so many others yet to come.
Pray for clarity on some fun steps ahead around studio space to use for arts, office space, and a means of meeting more people.
Pray for partnerships in Lincoln Park to form between us and the community.
Pray that God would keep uprooting beliefs that we are performing for him or that we have to pretend to be something we aren’t. The cross is so much greater than this.
Keep praying for the right teammates. We have more and more people that we are praying would join us here in Denver (and they don’t know it yet), but also those who we hope God sends from other states. And yet, our biggest prayer is that God would raise up some from the harvest to be a part of our team.
Pray for the empowerment of our team to use their gifts, live out their callings, and unite in the gospel as the Family of God.
