Boulder Church Plant Update- April
This month's update includes an introduction from one of our launch team families, Peter and Jan Tighe. I trust you will enjoy learning more about our team and knowing more specifically who you are praying for and how you can be praying.
In about 6 weeks, give or take a day, most of the launch team will have moved to Boulder County. You can imagine the anticipation with us and can be in prayer for patience and steadfastness among the launch team, as several of us remain in our current circumstances and location for another month or more. Already, the families that are in Boulder are making new friends with believers and unbelievers. A small group is underway among those already there for encouragement, prayer, and strengthening of relationships. We have a sense that the Lord will begin adding to our number other believers that have recently moved to the area or who have been church hunting, but not yet a part of a community with other believers. Please be in prayer with us as well about this weekly small group gathering during the month of May. We are asking God to continue raising up a critical band of missionaries, willing to become unified and equipped with another in the Greatest Work know to the Christian on this side of eternity!--Kris
In about 6 weeks, give or take a day, most of the launch team will have moved to Boulder County. You can imagine the anticipation with us and can be in prayer for patience and steadfastness among the launch team, as several of us remain in our current circumstances and location for another month or more. Already, the families that are in Boulder are making new friends with believers and unbelievers. A small group is underway among those already there for encouragement, prayer, and strengthening of relationships. We have a sense that the Lord will begin adding to our number other believers that have recently moved to the area or who have been church hunting, but not yet a part of a community with other believers. Please be in prayer with us as well about this weekly small group gathering during the month of May. We are asking God to continue raising up a critical band of missionaries, willing to become unified and equipped with another in the Greatest Work know to the Christian on this side of eternity!--Kris
The Following : By Peter Tighe
As a brief introduction, my name is Peter Tighe. I am 32 years old, very happily married to my bride, Jan (31 yrs.), since 1996. We have two beautiful young children, daughter Jonatha (5 yrs.) and son Aidan (3 yrs.). My vocation is finance at Charles Schwab & Co. in Denver. My passion is ministry. My wife is a diligent stay at home mom. We were called of God to join the launch team back in late December and moved to Boulder County in March.
To attempt to communicate all God has been teaching us in the past couple of months in a newsletter just isn't feasible. Therefore, let me share with you one continuous lesson that God has imparted on us. Deny self, enjoy Christ. We have been overwhelmed recently how gracious and how good God is in how he communicates with us and matures us in our faith. Both of us have sensed God continuing to remind us to live for him (enjoy Christ) and serve others (deny self), especially in the arena of prayer. It is so easy to arrive to a new environment and begin focusing on all it lacks compared to what we've had. Things such as our living situation, our circle of friends, our familiar routine, and overall, our comforts. And this lesson extends beyond the material and most importantly into the spiritual. This has been evident mostly in our prayer life. We're reminded in Colossians not only to pray, but how to pray...
To attempt to communicate all God has been teaching us in the past couple of months in a newsletter just isn't feasible. Therefore, let me share with you one continuous lesson that God has imparted on us. Deny self, enjoy Christ. We have been overwhelmed recently how gracious and how good God is in how he communicates with us and matures us in our faith. Both of us have sensed God continuing to remind us to live for him (enjoy Christ) and serve others (deny self), especially in the arena of prayer. It is so easy to arrive to a new environment and begin focusing on all it lacks compared to what we've had. Things such as our living situation, our circle of friends, our familiar routine, and overall, our comforts. And this lesson extends beyond the material and most importantly into the spiritual. This has been evident mostly in our prayer life. We're reminded in Colossians not only to pray, but how to pray..."For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
Here's a few simple thoughts in response to this...keep praying, seek wisdom, live holy, be productive, mature in faith, be used by God, gain endurance, give thanks, look forward to eternity. Are there really any other important matters in life? Not really. These are the things that matter most. Everything else will fall into place according to God's providence. 
We are humbled to be a part of Emmaus Road and also very excited. I hope you join in that excitement as our family in Christ. God is at work in Boulder County. A place known for rejecting him is about to be overcome by his Spirit. Not because the launch team is moving here, but because God loves these people so very much and can't stand them not knowing him. He is so good! His love truly endures forever and his word will not return void. Pray and ask God to fill us all on the team with wisdom and understanding and to know his will. In return, we will give thanks to the Father and rejoice with you as we anticipate eternity together.
Thank you!
Peter
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