The New Community Seventh day Adventist Church in Denver, Colorado is living with “spiritual bang.” Since their initial event last May, New Community leaders and members have been focusing on the theme of Rebuilding The Wall, a robust initiative to revitalize the New Community Seventh-day Adventist Church. Pastor Taurus Montgomery and his team kicked off this initiative with a weeklong revival starting May 28, 2024.
Community impact was the focal point and as a result, the church saw over 800 individuals come within its walls during that week. One member recounted that he had never before seen the parking lot full to capacity. Each night there were hundreds of giveaways including clothes, food, toys and other gifts.
You could see the excitement coming from the church members as they wore their new red community service T-shirts. They were involved in registering people, ushering, providing nightly children’s activities, directing traffic, providing security, praying with individuals and other volunteer activities. There were seven baptisms and many others indicated their interest in joining the church.
Current pastor Brian Irby generated a text list of over 700 of the attendees and in his words,
“These people could become potential members.”
Many of the individuals from the newly generated text list have been responding to the various community impact outreach activities during the year. One of the newly baptized members from the community, along with her family, is now an active member of the New Community Adventist Church.
The mission of the church is to be a place where you can Love, Serve and Connect, and this is done by spreading of the gospel using Christ’s method alone.
We thank the Lord for the revival which He has started. But the outreach activities continue. Once a week the church provides free laundry services to the community and many have been taking advantage of this opportunity made possible by a donor. Through this effort, one of the community folks receiving laundry service indicated her interest in joining the church.
To God be the glory!
Other free giveaway activities are being offered, and anyone from the community who is in need can come to the church and go the designated room after church where the items are stored.
In 2025 the New Community Adventist Church is taking this initiative to the next level. The church is now in the process of securing a grant to obtain a more permanent laundry service option. I thank the Lord for how He has been using Pastor Brian Irby and the members of the community church to rebuild the wall.
Ian Francis is first elder at the New Community Seventh-day Adventist Church in Denver, Colorado.
