In the second Lay Pastoral Training, October 11-13, thirty-three local church activists gathered in Grand Junction for what will be known as the Grand Junction cohort. The participating group came mainly from the Western Slope. What was significant about this training was that roughly a half of participants were women.
The content was similar to the Denver cohort, as reported in NewsNuggets. “They are very excited, encouraged, and motivated to enter or get more involved in this wonderful work,” said Nate Skaife, pastor of Grand Junction Church, and main lecturer.
Comments about the training express what the weekend provided. Rick Pitt from the Wind River Fellowship congregation said that the event helped him “more clearly how important it is to take responsibility to serve and participate.”
“I am so grateful for this experience to grow in my knowledge of Scripture and to learn to bring others to know Jesus,” commented Jan Watson from Grand Junction. Similarly,
Marti Hartnell also from Grand Junction said that the training “is full of important tools to use.”
For Don Kaner from Alamosa, the training event was “generally, a good experience,” but “we tried to put too much material into the weekend – hence too few personal interactions and not enough prayer.”
The subjects for the next training events will be the topic of the state of the dead belief and biblical preaching, as well as Bible study for depth in the January 31-February 2, 2020 in Denver, and February 7-9, 2020 in Grand Junction
—Rajmund Dabrowski with Nate Skaife; photos by Ron Carrick and Mickey Mallory
