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During the weekend of October 15, over fifty women gathered at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Denver for The Well's annual Women's Conference. This year's conference was a little different from previous conferences in several ways. One key addition this year was the speakers. The teaching came from Bob and Shari Stewart, a husband-and-wife team who share a practice in Louisvill...

My best friend's newborn baby girl died last year.The amount of love and support she and her husband received so quickly was astounding. Their church body set up an online campaign to pay for her medical expenses and another site where people could sign up to bring them meals.But as the weeks, months, and years passed, they stopped receiving food and gifts, and we stopped ...

We are working to provide a brief spotlight on the blog for volunteers in each of the church ministries to give some insight into the different opportunities to serve at The Well. To find out more about serving on the Well Kids team, please contact our Well Kids Director, Andrew Reimer.Names:Aaron and Brittney FlowerWhere do you serve in TWK?We serve together on Sunday mor...

We are working to provide a brief spotlight on the blog for volunteers in each of the church ministries to give some insight into the different opportunities to serve at The Well. To find out more about serving on the First Impressions team, please contact our Ministry Coordinator, Maggie Costley.Names:Ryan and Maren HorjusHow long have you been serving on the First Impres...

Pastor Brandon Washington (the Embassy, Denver, CO) recently brought our congregation a vision and challenge of living in diversity within our context. He passionately brought attention to God's desire to see all tribes and tongues worshipping Him together now - not only in the new heaven and new earth. (sermon link)First, a word of empathy to our Boulder church. I grew up...

Missional communities are the primary way we connect with others and live together on mission. These smaller groups of people provide an opportunity to know others and be known within The Well community. Through these relationships, we mutually challenge and encourage one another to truly believe our Identity in Christ and live a life that shows the world who God truly is....

There was a period in my life when I pretty much avoided the news. It wasn't because I was too busy or the news was too depressing, though that's what I would say out loud. Instead, it was apathy. I knew there were wars happening across the globe and that injustices due to race and class were apparent in my own community, but my mentality was that those events didn't direc...

We had our Fall Missional Community Quarterly this past week and talked about what it means to be hospitable and invitational. Our MC Quarterlies are meetings designed to give our MC leaders a chance to learn from each other and continually grow, so one of our hopes is to provide a place for leaders to get fresh ideas and insights into what is working and what is not in th...

In the last blog we talked about the purpose of our MC Quarterly Events and what the Central Boulder MC has been doing well. Click here to catch up.Relational InvestmentThe investment came to play in how they invited people to these trips. Generally, they didn't invite someone on this trip that they haven't spent time intentionally getting to know first. This wasn't to vet...

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