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Thornton (CO) to Conduct Grand Opening Service
THORNTON, CO (January 27, 2004) - The Crossing Covenant Church will conduct a
grand opening worship service on February 8 in Thornton, a suburb of
Denver, following core development work that began last spring,
according to church planting pastor Jeff Grote.
With help from pastors David Perez of Northpoint Covenant Church in
Broomfield and Chuck Wysong of Christ Community Covenant Church in
Arvada, the church began preview services with 22 adults and 14 kids
last June.
The Crossing Covenant Church conducted four preview services during the
summer with an average attendance of 75 people before launching weekly
services on September 7. More than 90 attended a Christmas Eve service.
Grote and his wife, Melanie, have two elementary school children and
report that connections with parents in the neighborhood have encouraged
some to visit the new church and become part of the core team. Given
that an estimated 80 percent of people in the area are not involved in a
church family, Grote believes there is great potential for ministry to
people who have not previously been part of a congregation.
"The most interesting aspect of our church plant so far has been the
amount of people attending who were previously unchurched," says Grote,
who was a co-pastor for a General Baptist Conference congregation in
Tucson, Arizona, before moving to Colorado in December 2002. "At this
point we have about 50 adults and 25 to 30 kids who are preparing with
us to launch this church. About 75 percent of them are people who six
months ago thought Sunday mornings were about reading the paper and
heading to the mountains. We have a very high percentage of adult
attenders serving - something like 90 percent - on a rotating basis,
either on a set-up team or in our children's ministry, website and
database stuff and much more."
Along with preparing for its grand opening, the church has started three
small groups with a fourth in the planning stages, Grote notes. To learn
more about the church and its ministries, call church staff at
303-884-6139 or email Grote at jagrote@comcast.net.
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