Back To Work

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

Jeremiah 1:9-10

I get most excited about the build and planting part of the verse above. I have no doubt that is what we are here to do! Build these military teens, their families and their community up and at the same tim plant new seeds, water old ones and ready a harvest to God's perfect glory!

I am a bit of a big dreamer and I have had so many visions and my heart leaps when I think of the harvest to come. Military teens from all over Colorado Springs joined together to worship and to share in God's word, to take it to their peers with joy and expectation! How exciting it is to have this kind of hope going into such a hard fought place! First to find them, then to bring them in and then to introduce them to the One True God who LOVES them! AHHH! Can you believe this is our actual day in and day out JOB!?!

Team Praises 

*We had a wonderful trip to our Youth Worker's Camp and lots of amazing team building and rest for our souls. 

*God continues to provide our every need while we wait to be funded as fully paid staff.

*Our groups blended well for the first time and that was a huge blessing for us to see.

*New Teens are hearing about us and are wanting to be apart of what we have going on.

*New opportunities for new spaces and times are starting to emerge.

*New volunteers are starting to come forward and starting the process of the paperwork required.

Team Prayer Requests

*Please pray for the hearts of the teens we know and have in our small groups. Pray that their faith will deepen supernaturally through Christ. We are asking The Holy Spirit to move in them in ways only He can and to use us to guide, hear and walk with through this season with them.

*Pray for our small groups and for our wisdom as leaders of when to blend and when to add new options.

*For team members, leaders, volunteers and support partners. Pray for the Laborers that will join us!

Individual Requests

For Rachel: For her mom and dad which are in the process of moving and the life change to come within their home.

For Vanessa: For clarity, organization and work/life balance. 

For Jeni: For a miracle with their second house in GA, that it will sell or rent soon and that they will have provisions until it is. Also for their kids through this season that they will be understanding in this season and that all their needs will be met.

Thank you for being fellow laborers with us in lifting up our requests. It seems like such a small task and yet it is the very thing that releases God's power over all things we ask to do! This is first and foremost where our works starts in the throne room of God, asking HIM to help, to lead and to bless. Thanking HIM for all things given and taken. So thank you brothers and sisters for working along side us in this ministry here and within our own lives! May you be blessed.

Refresh The Soul

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Psalms 133:1‭-‬3 ESV

Today we pack for a FREE Youth Workers Retreat! We have been blessed with this time together as a team and look forward to the whispers of hope for our team here.

We have gained much administrative ground over the last couple weeks and as we get the emails sorted and tasked divvied up we are finding just how monumitous our plans are. We have great ideas and we are meeting some amazing kids. Doors seem to be opening here and there and life as a team has begun. What a praise it is to work with fun-loving, mission-focused people!

We have great needs, however, as we plan and begin to implement each plan and for that we bring our requests to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, as He is the only one able to accomplish any of these things through us.

-We ask for provisions. Monetary and donations. Our salaries and our mission determine on the giving of others. Just as we have been called to do this work, we believe others have been called to support it. Pray for partnerships to be formed and for donors to come forward with the same sense of action we have for doing the work here.

-We ask for unity. As our team continues to grow and build pray for our teamwork to be as such. Pray that our actions are Holy Spirit lead and that our fruit is that of eternity matters.

-We ask for volunteers and other leaders to step up and be made knows. For their quality to the mission to be beyond what we could ever ask and for their calling lead them to us and us to them. That we will be fragile with their hearts and work hard to develop them in ways that continues to make disciples long after we are gone. Pray for the names that have put in my heart, that when we are able to ask them, their heart will leap with confirmation of their duties!

-We ask for the hearts of these teens. That seeds will be planted even now and that each student we make contact with will know for certain they are loved and known by the creator Himself. Pray for our words to them be what The Lord wills for them and that every outreach, small group and sports event, that teens will know us by our love.

-Most importantly, we pray that in all things, word and deed we will bring glory to God with our lives inside and out of youth ministry. May this week's getaway bring joy and life to our souls and may the bonding that takes place in the next few days be the work of years together. May The Lord accomplish goodness in our souls that we come back with vision and passion, peace and joy. May God have His way in us!

"Now to HIM who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of HIS glory with great joy,  to The Only God, Our Savior, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever, amen."
Jude 1:24-25

Blessings brothers and sisters, we are thankful for your love, support and prayers. We pray for you and yours as well. God is in this and what joy it will be to see His answers from heaven's eyes!

As The Lord Leads

A cord of three threads was prayed for and soon came to be.

Youth For Christ Campus Life Military here at Fort Carson and Peterson Air Force Base has been born and three of us have come together in leadership roles to share in the ministry calling to reach military teens in our community with grace giving, gospel centered love and relationships.

For our first Wide-Spread Prayer Requests will keep it short and sweet:

First for our team by name: Vanessa T, Rachel W and Jeni K

Pray that our bond as a team will continue to grow and that our hearts will be lead by the call of Christ here to military teens, their friends and their families, but also to one another as workers and friends!

Pray for our joy and strength as we reach out for funding partnerships and that The Lord will send provisions from near and far to help accomplish the mission we stand before. Pray for giving hearts and for those called to walk along side of us in this ministry in the way of provisions.

Pray for our small groups that have already started, one in the form of a small military home school teens core Bible study and one as an adventure/hiking group. Both groups have proven to build bonds and friendships that were not previously there before and give us so much joy at the glimpse of the future of these groups and more! These "kids" are amazing!!!

Pray for quality youth leaders and volunteers. Ask that God would send harvesters to work along side us and to join in the joy of sharing the Love of Christ. We need these relationships in order to impact our large area of outreach, to establish in-school clubs and to grow local area ministry opportunities.

Lastly, please pray for the teens and families we hope to be impacted by our ministry here. We are asking for God-sized outcomes and for eternity to be different because of our work here. May these teens and their families find Christ in us and in our work with them, may they feel loved and cared for and may their hearts be soft to God's call.

Thank you for your prayers and your concerns for our ministry. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have!