Ascent Church of Evergreen

Men's Retreat 2019

Guys, don't miss this year's Men's Retreat! Registration is live - - sign up now to reserve your spot and some invaluable hang time with a great group of men!

Dates: Thursday 1/24/2019 to Saturday 1/26/2019

Location: Snow Mountain Ranch in Winterpark

Costs: $165 (includes Lodging, 3 meals on Fri & breakfast on Sat) **Scholarships are available - and if you'd like to contribute towards additional scholarships, please select this option during registration or contact Andy Wann**

Check In: Thursday after 3pm (First session, 7:30pm)

Check Out: Saturday at Noon

Featured Speaker: Bryce Kurfrees from Columbus, Ohio

Bryce is a broken guy who has to work hard to walk in the Spirit and not the flesh and who keeps realizing the gap between God's holiness and His focus to help men realize the fragility and brevity of life and our imminent judgment when we want to hear "Well done!"

Contact Andy Wann at 303-919-2233 or andy@bhhselevated.com with any questions!

https://ascentchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/179741

Joy's Kitchen Mobile Food Pantry

Joy's Kitchen Mobile Food Pantry is in full force every other Saturday in the Lodge. Come volunteer from 10:30a - 1p to get involved with a GREAT cause! Build community with our friends at Joy's Kitchen and all those in our mountain community who come to experience this wonderful organization! Let's share God's love!

If you are in need, come see us from 11:30a-12:45p - - there are NO QUALIFICATIONS and ALL ARE WELCOME!

If you can't volunteer, consider donating - - every $10 provides groceries to a family of 4 for a week and with your help Joy's Kitchen feeds nearly 1000 families and rescues 24,000 pounds of food a month!

DONATE NOW!

https://joyskitchen.org/donate/

Visit our FB page for dates!

Questions? E-mail relations@ascentchurch.co!

Ladies Bible Study

Ladies, we're pleased to announce an exciting new Bible Study opportunity coming in January, 2019! In Discerning the Voice of God, respected Bible teacher Priscilla Shirer promises to show us how to welcome God more intimately into our lives by learning together how to better listen for and hear His voice, His heart, and His will. What a better way to begin the New Year than with a renewed commitment to discern what God is saying to us personally by a deepening understanding of His Holy Spirit alive and active in us and speaking to us. In His Word, Jesus promises us that "My sheep hear My voice".

Hosted by Victoria Taylor on 7 consecutive Monday evenings, 6:30 - 8:30 pm beginning January 14th in her home, look forward to light refreshments, deepening connections with other women, and a growing consistency in expectantly and continually hearing from God!

The cost for this Study is $18 and includes a workbook with 5 lessons to be completed each week at home before we gather together for the next weeks' lesson.

Questions? Contact Victoria Taylor at women@ascentchurch.co.

https://ascentchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/181070

Men's Breakfast

Guy's, enjoy fellowship and food at our next Men's Breakfast on Saturday, February 23rd, (8:00-9:30am in the Lodge), where we'll hear from Mark McIntosh, founder of Victory Productions. Mark is passionate about encouraging groups and individuals to achieve goals and overcome challenges - to produce “victory” in life despite the unexpected twists and turns. Bring a friend!

https://ascentchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/196716

Man Up Group

The Fall session of Man Up Group launches on Thursday, Aug 30. We have two groups: a 7:00am group and a 7:00pm group that meet every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday of the month.

This Fall, the men will be reading “How God Makes Men: Ten Epic Stories, Ten Proven Principles, One Huge Promise for Your Life” together. It is an easy read, but is provocative and speaks to the lives of 10 men in the Bible--very much like us--who experience life's heaviness and difficulties (some even tragedies), but follow through with God. They give us examples ago consider and follow as they keep their faith and press higher into who God is making them. The cost is $15 for the study materials.

For more information and to join, e-mail john@ascentchurch.co.

Workshop

Join the New Workshop! During this first session, the group will read and work through the book “To Be Told” by Dan Allender, PhD., a discovery of how God has written your life so far, and how God is leading you into the rest of your story. With God as your coauthor, He will show you how to follow Him into the future.

Our stories, in all their beauty and heartache, shape and influence every dimension of our daily life and relationships. Knowing the impact of our story and finding God’s redemptive work within it is vital for emotional, relational, and spiritual formation and health. Our culture often encourages us to focus only on the positive experiences and put the painful ones behind us. Far too often, when the true impact of our stories of wounding and heartache go unaddressed, we find ourselves bound to unhealthy and unfulfilling patterns without hope for change.

Giving ourselves permission to explore how the goodness and pain in our life have shaped us opens the door to transformation and a deeper capacity for joy, intimacy, and fulfillment. To Be Told is far more than the popularized movement to “know your story.” It is an invitation to truth-telling, healing lament, deep soulfulness, and lasting change.

Each participant will follow the book’s guidance, with support from the group, in writing the story of their life, and will enter into an understanding of how to multiply their story by telling it in community - giving it to others for their benefit.

Meetings will be the 2nd Thursday of each month with work required in between meetings. The cost is approximately $50 and will include the purchase of the book, workbook and a small fee for a special 1-day simulcast of a “To Be Told” conference by Dr. Dan Allender.

Community will continue afterwards with intermittent “Story Feast” gatherings, where we will feast together on a meal and on the stories God has written in our community.

Questions? Contact Sharon Regan, nextsteps@ascentchurch.co

https://ascentchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/168990

The Solomon Project

9 months. 12 learners. A dedicated mentor. And the Scriptures.

Personal formation with the goal of living with greater wisdom.

Do you want to increase in wisdom? A person whose reflexes increasingly become like God's desires and ways? Someone who understands God, life, and the world better each day? 1 Kings 4 says "God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore . . . He was wiser than anyone else . . . He composed some 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs. He could speak with authority about all kinds of plants, from the great cedar of Lebanon to the tiny hyssop that grows from cracks in a wall. He could also speak about animals, birds, small creatures, and fish. And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon."

This Fall, we begin an intentional and intense discipleship with the goal of discovering God's wisdom--to not only understand THE SCRIPTURES better, but to understand LIFE more deeply. This doesn't happen by occasionally watching documentaries and just listening to someone else preach about it a couple times a month. It requires great curiosity, intense effort, and increasing faithfulness. God can only invest wisdom about the larger world into those who are learners, those who are humble, and those who are dedicated.

The Solomon Project is about pursuing this with deep-hearted, wide-eyed, and spiritually/intellectually/emotionally hungry people. With 17+ intense group sessions from Sept 18-May 19 along with a one-on-one personal discipleship each month with a mentor, and curriculum that stretches us, you cannot emerge from this year unchanged.

There is a costly investment to be a part of a Solomon group: (1) commitment to attend no fewer than 15 of 17 group sessions--which fall on 2nd & 4th Wednesdays (6:30p-8p), (2) 100% commitment to monthly one-on-one mentoring appointments, (3) commitment to read all the materials and perform the exercises, (4) faithfulness to attend no less than 28 of 36 Sunday Worship/Sermon experiences during this 9-mo season, (5) dedication to enrich the others in the Solomon Project group both relationally and intellectually, and (6) a commitment to personally develop another person in their spiritual life during the year following your time in the Solomon Project.

If you are interested in learning more, contact john@ascentchurch.co.