Stories tagged with: denver

• Denver's beauty, spiritual need seen by NAMB trustees

  by Mike Ebert, posted Friday, October 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Hayley Catt/NAMB

  DENVER (BP) -- Set against a backdrop of freshly snow-capped mountains on the front range of Colorado's Rockies, North American Mission Board trustees saw firsthand how Southern Baptist church planters are countering spiritual darkness in the midst of a recreational paradise.

  On the Monday before their Oct. 4-5 meeting, trustees loaded onto buses to visit church planters at their places of ministry. One, Kevin Hasenack, is planting Calvary Church Denver in one of the most diverse communities in the area. Read More

• Cornerstone unites, grows in cooperative ministry

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, September 02, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  LONE TREE, Colo. (BP) -- Visitors might have thought things were good at two Denver-area churches, University Hills and Cornerstone, before their merger in 2008.

  Yet both churches, each with a Sunday morning worship attendance between 150 and 175, needed revitalization, internal renewal. The merger was the impetus to fill that need, said Michael Atherton, called in 2005 to pastor University Hills.

  "This merger allowed this church to pool the talents, treasures and resources of ... Read More