Staying connected is probably one of the most significant and important things you can do as part of the Colorado Baptists Church Planting Network. Church Planters, Church Planting Catalyst and Church Planting Missionaries/Trainers/Teachers are listed here, by Baptist Associations, in order for you to stay connected and further network with one another.
The Church Planting and Missions Team facilitates in identifying unreached people groups and planting new churches among them. Whether in ethnic communities, resort and leisure areas, or within socio-economic groups, we're leading Colorado Baptists to penetrate all pockets of lostness in our state.
God is doing something unique in Colorado. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but church leaders are sensing it’s a new season. Unity isn’t a distant dream but a forthcoming reality. At Frontline Church Planting we believe it all starts with making disciples who make disciples. The MULTIPLY Conference is a gathering of leaders who dare to dream that God is doing something fresh and He might want to use ordinary folks like us.
Did you know that in 2011 Southern Baptist churches reported an increase in the number of churches along with the number of baptisms? Praise the Lord! However, SBC reported that in 2011, fewer churches were participating in reporting their church data. Now this information is valuable to us to know as Southern Baptists. However, we wouldn’t have any of this information without the Annual Church Profile (ACP).
Big things are happening through prayer at Elevation Church in Loveland, Colorado. God’s Spirit has been pouring out blessings for those faithful to lift Elevation up in prayer. God blessed Elevation with a faithful prayer support team willing to pray daily for Angus and Elevation church.
"In February, John Howeth and I enlisted a prayer team to undergird the ministry with 40 days of prayer leading up to Easter,” said Lead Pastor Angus McKinley. “Praise God, we are already starting to see a difference!”
With a clear, simple purpose statement of “Make Disciples,” what does a church do when it outgrows its landlocked facilities in a part of town facing significant demographic changes?
As Pastor John Piper once said, “God has given prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world.” Will you join us in interceding for those who seek to advance the Kingdom of Christ?
This is the third installment of a series of articles featuring Colorado church planters. We intend to list every one of our church planters on the field for you to lift up in prayer.
I have been doing a personal study in the book of Acts. It is our playbook on how we should be involved in reaching our world for Christ. The amazing thing about the book of Acts is that Jesus told his followers in Acts 1, “…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,” and in Acts chapters 2-28, we see that fulfilled. As the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit they began to reach out to those who did not know Christ, in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the entire world.
The Church in the book of Acts spread from 120 in the upper room, to thousands of Disciples in Jerusalem, to places like Cyprus and Cyrene (Northern Africa), then to Antioch (Syria). I believe that this missionary effort is evidenced in churches in Western Colorado also. Here are some examples:
South Fork, CO - Calvary Baptist Church of Monte Vista is a church with a long time presence in the San Luis Valley. Established in 1955, memories of this congregation run deep within the local communities. And as is consistent with the work of this body in the past, once again Calvary Baptist is moving forward, and acting on a vision, to impact this region in positive ways. Calvary Baptist has sprung forward, launching a brand new satellite campus: Calvary Baptists Church, South Fork. Calvary Baptist Church South Fork opened its doors for services on April 7th at 2pm with the hopes of making South Fork a better place by its very existence.
“WHAT?” “Are you serious?” “Have you lost your mind?”
Yes, those were the words that I uttered when my husband told me he was leaving his current position in a large church in Colorado to plant a church. Security is extremely important to me and we were leaving that….again.
We were called to Colorado from Texas in 2001 to take a job at an established church. All I had ever known, my family, my career and the southern culture that I loved and adored were all left behind. Over the years, I had grown accustomed to life in Colorado and had grown to love the people in our community and church. Now this…shock, disbelief and denial are the three words I would use to describe what I was feeling.
My wife Kelly, our five kids (Noah, Jasmine, Brian, Isaac, and Shamie), and I love Littleton. Our family loves to be outside hiking, biking, camping, and playing sports together. Our family has been blessed to call Littleton our home (twice now as we recently moved back to Littleton from Yankton, South Dakota) and we have made many great friends here.
Littleton is a community filled with people who value education, community, recreation and family. In fact, most people who live in Littleton and visit Littleton see the community as a nearly postcard-perfect city; a great place to live, work, and play. While Littleton is all of those things, it is also a community desperately in need of the Gospel.
Posted Thu, 2013-04-11 08:50 by Church Planting...
By Kaylee Looney
Fourteen participants took turns receiving their certificate for completing Church Planter Basic Training. The atmosphere of the group was relaxed and playful as each participant made his/her way to the front of the conference room. They were serenaded by the rest of the group to a slightly off-key, a cappella version of Pomp and Circumstance. The laughter was a welcomed ending to the three-day intensive training.
Posted Thu, 2013-04-04 14:16 by Church Planting...
By Steve Hoekstra
One of the many wonderful things I enjoy about the ministry God has given me is getting to spend time with pastors. This past week I was driving through the beautiful San Luis Valley with a pastor friend. We began by sharing some great stories about God working in churches throughout Western Colorado. Then, without even realizing it, we fell into “commiserating” about churches that seemed to have difficulties and why. As I realized it I said “I think I have gotten a little jaded over the years.” My pastor friend agreed that he probably had also.
Posted Wed, 2013-03-27 14:08 by Church Planting...
By Steve Hoekstra
Phil and Judy Langley came back to serve Colorado Baptists in 2004 as the Associational Director of Missions for the Continental Divide Association in South Central Colorado. I say came back because they had been in Western Colorado before as Church Planters in the Parachute area. Colorado is a mission field and Phil and Judy are missionaries. When they returned to Colorado in 2004, they looked around their Association and saw great potential and great need.
Posted Mon, 2013-03-25 15:54 by Church Planting...
By Jim Misloski
In the last issue of the Rocky Mountain Baptist we introduced you to some of our most recent arrivals to the Colorado church planting field. In the last 5 years Colorado Baptist Churches have started over 50 church plants that are currently on the ground and growing. We’re going to introduce you to all of them before this series of articles is finished. We hope you will join us in regularly praying for our planters by name. Planting a new church is a declaration of war. They need your prayer cover as they storm the strongholds the enemy has erected in the communities where they have been called to start a new church.
Posted Wed, 2013-03-13 09:33 by Church Planting...
By Dr. Mark Edlund
And you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in … Judea and Samaria… Acts 1:8
A guiding verse in my life is Acts 1:8. My wife jokes … kind of … that I can do a service that can marry a couple, bury a believer, dedicate a building, ordain a new minister, or install a new pastor using this passage. The truth is that our Lord gave us two very clear imperatives after His resurrection and before His ascension. The first we call the Great Commission (found in Matthew 28:18 – 20). There we are commanded to make disciples of all people groups by going, teaching and baptizing. The second imperative is Acts 1:8. In this scripture, which has indeed been a life verse and a spiritual focus in my life, we are told to be His witnesses in four concentric circles. And our Lord states that all four concentric circles are our responsibility as believers and as His church.
Posted Thu, 2013-02-21 18:53 by Church Planting...
By Dr. Mark Edlund
Greg Cole’s impact on Colorado can be recorded in chapters of ministry. I first met Greg when I came to Colorado as Executive Director in April of 2001. I made it my goal to tour each of the 11 associations of Colorado to meet the pastors and learn about the churches. I was guided by the Associational Directors of Missions (ADOMs) for each of these groups of churches. At the time Greg was an ADOM and he was the one to introduce me to the churches and pastors of the Pikes Peak Baptist Association, but I’m getting ahead of myself in relating Greg’s impact on Colorado.
Posted Mon, 2013-02-11 15:22 by Church Planting...
Many pastors and church leaders desire to reproduce churches through starting new churches. Often there seems to be more questions than answers on how to accomplish this task. Many would love to have a guide that would assist their congregation in making this church planting dream a reality.
“Churches Planting Churches” Training (CPCT) is a biblically-based, practical resource. The event is a “workshop” for planting new churches, not a conference. You will actually work with your team to complete an implementation assignment before you leave the CPCT.
God is doing something unique in Colorado. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but church leaders are sensing it’s a new season. Unity isn’t a distant dream but a forthcoming reality. At 
Big things are happening through prayer at Elevation Church in Loveland, Colorado. God’s Spirit has been pouring out blessings for those faithful to lift Elevation up in prayer. God blessed Elevation with a faithful prayer support team willing to pray daily for Angus and Elevation church.
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By Brad Cowger
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By Kaylee Looney
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By Steve Hoekstra
By Dr. Mark Edlund
Many pastors and church leaders desire to reproduce churches through starting new churches. Often there seems to be more questions than answers on how to accomplish this task. Many would love to have a guide that would assist their congregation in making this church planting dream a reality.
