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MINISTRY UPDATE
Colorado Missing Day on Feb 4 was great to be part of. I had the opportunity to meet with family and friends of those missing and also offer an invocation before the reading of the 676 names, those missing for over one year in Colorado.
 
Over the past few weeks we continue to support our responders going through very difficult times. We have had a veteran firefighter commit suicide, a seven year old die from being attacked by a dog, a seven month old that died at the hospital after being coded, the health clinic shooting in Evergreen, CO, and court hearings for officer involved shootings. These are just a small portion of things that are always ongoing in the responder world on top of the everyday life of our responders. Please keep them in your prayers.
Coming up on April 22 and 23, we will have our RMPFC annual meeting and a day of advanced chaplain training. Our keynote speaker this year is Jerry Schemmel, former voice of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Rockies. Jerry is a survivor of the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in which 112 people lost their lives. He will share his powerful story of survival and how that experience forever changed him.
Jerry’s focus will center on a question that is deeply relevant to all of us: What do you do when you are faced with a crash in your own life, and how do you move forward in the midst of difficult and challenging situations?
As chaplains, we encounter this question on many levels. We walk alongside others in their moments of crisis while also navigating our own. Jerry’s story will challenge us, encourage us, and provide meaningful perspective for the work we are called to do.
I would like to invite you to join us for the annual meeting to get to know more chaplains as we serve those who serve us, see the impact you are making as supporters of the ministry, and be challenged as Jerry calls all of us to lean into Christ and face the adversities in our life.
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