For the past several years our church has been involved in working with the people in Wellington, Colorado. We have had the good fortune of enlisting two experts in church starts, The Reverend Jim Cowell and The Reverend Warren McConnell. Jim was the founding pastor for Sunrise United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs and is author of many publications on new churches. Warren was chair of the Church Expansion and New Church Development Committee in the Rocky Mountain Conference. That committee helped start the church in Steamboat Springs, Hope United Methodist in south east Denver, and St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Highland's Ranch.
Warren and Jim began working on the new church in Wellington after Kent Mallard came to our church and encouraged us to build on people's passions for ministry.
Susan Warren has been the pastor of the Wellington Church since this past August. She has helped the church gather a sense of identity and the members recently purchased a building and are getting ready to renovate it and turn it into a church building.
Susan will preach this coming Sunday. She will share with us an update as to where we are with the Wellington church and how we can help.
Susan is a graduate of The Iliff School of Theology and has been director of the Hospice of Boulder.
We will send our college student off as they go on a mission project to San Francisco and we will learn about the Nuba Water Project in Sudan Africa. We will be taking up an offering to help provide clean water.
Charles Schuster
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment