Author: Steve Rabey
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Colorado Springs-based Navigators releases free discipleship app
For 92 years, Navigators, a quiet, $170 million, Colorado Springs-based international ministry, has focused on discipleship: helping believers deepen their faith and become committed disciples of Christ who reproduce such faith in others. But research conducted with nearly 5,500 people in 2020 and 2021 showed that 37% of believers — about 40 million U.S. Christians…
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Group behind ‘He gets us’ Super Bowl ads has roots in Colorado Springs
Ken Calwell enjoyed a long, successful career as an executive with Domino’s Pizza, Wendy’s, Papa Murphy’s and Pizza Hut, where in 1995 he led the national launch of a phenomenally popular item: the stuffed crust pizza. By 2016, he wanted to do something different, something more integrated with his Christian faith, which grew deeper after…
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Colorado Springs church blesses city with both sacred and secular sounds
Music has been an essential part of Christian churches for nearly 2,000 years. For nearly a century, Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church has shared its unique musical gifts with Colorado Springs. The bounty can be seen in an upcoming week when the downtown church will offer sacred and secular concerts to the community. On…
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Forge conference in Colorado Springs will serve ‘missional practitioners’
Mention the word “missionary” and some people picture someone who travels far away to share the Christian message. But an international movement called Forge teaches that every believer should be a missionary right where they are. The group will bring its Forge America Summit to Colorado Springs on April 28-30 to encourage and inform like-minded…
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New Orthodox church rises in Colorado Springs
Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other Christian traditions fueling the growth of Holy Theophany Church in the Springs, whose nearly 300 members will consecrate their new church next Sunday. Metropolitan Tikhon, patriarch of the Orthodox Church in North America, will preside at…
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Colorado Springs-based Agora helps U.S. churches and nonprofits find leaders
When churches and nonprofit ministries seek new leaders, some simply post a job notice online and pray about it. But a number of large Christian groups across the country seek help finding the just-right senior pastor or CEO and turn to Agora Search Group, a Colorado Springs-based business that specializes in recruiting high-level pastors, leaders…
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Religious and spiritual events happening in the Pikes Peak region this month
In March, the Pikes Peak region will offer five public performances from popular authors, artists and performers who make religion and spirituality accessible to the masses. • Jordan Peterson — Monday, Pikes Peak Center The popular Canadian psychologist, author, YouTube star,and podcaster — who has become famous for philosophizing on the purpose of life, manhood,…
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Worldview ministries prescribe proper thought, belief, action
Charles Colson was President Richard Nixon’s “hatchet man” and “evil genius,” and the first aide imprisoned for Watergate-related crimes. He converted 50 years ago after reading C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity,” was released in 1975 and the next year started Prison Fellowship, now a $61 million international ministry. In 1991, he founded Colson Center for Christian…
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Palmer Lake-based Bible ministry’s revenue soars more than 300% after years of decline
Century No. 3 started rough for the oldest of the Pikes Peak region’s many international evangelical organizations. Biblica, which was founded in 1809, saw its income fall from more than $26 million during some years of the 1990s and 2000s to less than $14 million in 2018. That’s the year the ministry brought on Geof…
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Colorado Springs area Bible ministry’s revenue soars more than 300% after years of decline
Century No. 3 started rough for the oldest of Colorado Springs’ many international evangelical organizations. Biblica, which was founded in 1809, saw its income fall from more than $26 million during some years of the 1990s and 2000s to less than $14 million in 2018. That’s the year the ministry brought on Geof Morin, former…