Burrita 1
Naked - Very Unhappy
Burrita 2
Baby and Dog
Burrita 3
Pre-born, un-born 1
Gramps, Baby
Gramps, Goopy-Eyed Baby
Dad Sleeping Up-nose Shot
Brand New
7 under 8!
9 years ago
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Lana Pictures Continued
Lana Grace Flannery and a baby girl's grip on your heart
Much apologies for the delay in communication.
Lana Grace Flannery was born to Brian and Christa Flannery at 4:08 PM
on Thursday, June 22, four days before she was due. Mother and child
are healthy and doing well. We escaped Denver's Exempla Saint Joseph
Hospital around 5:00 PM on Saturday. Brian is taking some time off
of work. Since we've been home, we're getting better at changing
diapers and sleeping during the night.
I have attached pictures to make the ladies say "awww." The files
are smaller than the camera takes them but large enough to see (just
right for email). Further messages will follow. Send in your vote
for the cutest one. If she looks yellow, she's slightly jaundiced
but healthy (a nurse stopped by this morning to assure us so). If
she looks red, I left her out in the sun a little too long (smells
like lotion and barbecue).
It's incredible - she's growing so fast; she's getting so strong.
She's already lifting up her head - something she shouldn't be able
to do yet. She drove us home from the hospital - not sure she's
supposed to be doing that yet. She likes to look you in the eyes.
She kicks and wriggles constantly. We put her to sleep on her back
but she finds her way onto her belly, contrary to the advice of the
entire medical profession. She says she wants an eskimo for
Christmas.
-Brian and Christa Flannery
Monday, June 26, 2006
Warren Zevon, beside Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen in the morbid musician hall of fame (with Nick Cave as the resident protege), wrote a song called "Don't Let Us Get Sick". A sad prayer of sorts:
Don't let us get sick
Don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave
And make us play nice
And let us be together tonight
Don't let us get sick
Don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave
And make us play nice
And let us be together tonight
The Difficulty of Correspondence (Why I Don't Blog)
Funny: We will drive across a city for hours and gallons of gas to hang out with the people that we want to hang out with. We will call the old gang and ask them what they're doing and try to make complicated plans that involve people we used to live near or go to school with or work with but now live far. But we hardly know the people next door or across the street. The nearest church is populated by people who drive a half hour to get there but not by people like us in walking distance. The people we see every day are never encountered outside their context of work or the gym or the store.
We regularly spend that time, gas, and money to be with the people we prefer so long as they are in town. As soon as they are out of proximity or out of the metropolitan area, the relationship depends on phone calls and emails and the almost extinct written correspondence. Then only the strongest friendships survive with great effort towards their maintenance. The good friendships lie dormant, waiting to resume as soon as the person bounds into our life again. The difficult friendships slowly wither.
Even with friends in town, you start to know the buddy down the block far better than the best friend who lives a city and a rush hour away. You can try to triangulate and centralize, keep all your friends and relations within commuting distance, but sometimes a job or a house or a spouse or new friends land you in a strange and distant land. States or continents away, or no farther than a highway, you have to start over with new friends and even new family.
Distance is more than geography. Things can separate you from friends and family that have nothing to do with where you are located or who is nearby. Not all of these things are bad. Sometimes getting a job, getting married, or having children can change who you see and talk to everyday. Sometimes the distance of circumstance divides people without changing anything else. Growing closer to new neighbors, new coworkers, a new spouse (and the requisite in-laws), or a child or children might mean letting a few old relationships rest or sag.
So when you can't keep in touch with everyone, you chose who and when to reach and love. I am terrible at email. I am terrible at writing letters. I rarely take advantage of free long distance calling even though it's one of my cell phone's selling points. I don't diary or journal - never been that consistent at interacting with myself. Newsgroups, blogs, wikis, the new wave of organizing and distributing information, same old habits. Correspondence, electronic or otherwise, gets done when it has to and with whom it has to. My family at the top, my old friends at a slight distance next alongside my new friends nearby.
All my people across town, across the world, or at a far away enough stage of life, hear from me rarely and when they do, they hear about my affection and my regret for not being there more. If they are normal human beings with the same balance between proximity and correspondence, they understand that delay and scarcity of communication doesn't measure my esteem for them. I may love them more than my friends, but no more than my family, and I would never trade my spot of intimacy, my attention to a wife and a baby.
So everybody's waiting for Heaven, that great Holiday Reunion in the Sky, when everyone we wished could be near is restored to us and we all sit down at one big table and eat and smile and laugh at all the stories we haven't gotten to tell yet.
With that assurance, we don't have to wait until then. Although nothing could compare, down here in the mud, we do get glimpses. Besides the happy surprises, the family get-togethers, the 50th birthday parties and silver or gold wedding anniversaries, the school reunions and old friend barbecues: Besides those, we can promote and harbor these collisions of good people. We can defy the distance of space and time and even the bizarre removal that life circumstances cause. In some small, partial way, we can anticipate the kind of feast where everyone has a chair at the table.
That's what Flannery Amalgamated is all about.
We regularly spend that time, gas, and money to be with the people we prefer so long as they are in town. As soon as they are out of proximity or out of the metropolitan area, the relationship depends on phone calls and emails and the almost extinct written correspondence. Then only the strongest friendships survive with great effort towards their maintenance. The good friendships lie dormant, waiting to resume as soon as the person bounds into our life again. The difficult friendships slowly wither.
Even with friends in town, you start to know the buddy down the block far better than the best friend who lives a city and a rush hour away. You can try to triangulate and centralize, keep all your friends and relations within commuting distance, but sometimes a job or a house or a spouse or new friends land you in a strange and distant land. States or continents away, or no farther than a highway, you have to start over with new friends and even new family.
Distance is more than geography. Things can separate you from friends and family that have nothing to do with where you are located or who is nearby. Not all of these things are bad. Sometimes getting a job, getting married, or having children can change who you see and talk to everyday. Sometimes the distance of circumstance divides people without changing anything else. Growing closer to new neighbors, new coworkers, a new spouse (and the requisite in-laws), or a child or children might mean letting a few old relationships rest or sag.
So when you can't keep in touch with everyone, you chose who and when to reach and love. I am terrible at email. I am terrible at writing letters. I rarely take advantage of free long distance calling even though it's one of my cell phone's selling points. I don't diary or journal - never been that consistent at interacting with myself. Newsgroups, blogs, wikis, the new wave of organizing and distributing information, same old habits. Correspondence, electronic or otherwise, gets done when it has to and with whom it has to. My family at the top, my old friends at a slight distance next alongside my new friends nearby.
All my people across town, across the world, or at a far away enough stage of life, hear from me rarely and when they do, they hear about my affection and my regret for not being there more. If they are normal human beings with the same balance between proximity and correspondence, they understand that delay and scarcity of communication doesn't measure my esteem for them. I may love them more than my friends, but no more than my family, and I would never trade my spot of intimacy, my attention to a wife and a baby.
So everybody's waiting for Heaven, that great Holiday Reunion in the Sky, when everyone we wished could be near is restored to us and we all sit down at one big table and eat and smile and laugh at all the stories we haven't gotten to tell yet.
With that assurance, we don't have to wait until then. Although nothing could compare, down here in the mud, we do get glimpses. Besides the happy surprises, the family get-togethers, the 50th birthday parties and silver or gold wedding anniversaries, the school reunions and old friend barbecues: Besides those, we can promote and harbor these collisions of good people. We can defy the distance of space and time and even the bizarre removal that life circumstances cause. In some small, partial way, we can anticipate the kind of feast where everyone has a chair at the table.
That's what Flannery Amalgamated is all about.
Friday, June 09, 2006
FlannCo Technological Innovations
Tame the Machines!
Ways to handle the chaotic data surplus wrought by the information revolution. How to tame the limited and fickle nature of computers to exploit their unlimited potential.
More
A department of Flannery Amalgamated.
(From tamethemachines.blogspot.com 1/1/2004)
Ways to handle the chaotic data surplus wrought by the information revolution. How to tame the limited and fickle nature of computers to exploit their unlimited potential.
More
A department of Flannery Amalgamated.
(From tamethemachines.blogspot.com 1/1/2004)
FlannCo Tech. Innovations: The Problem of Too Much
Proposition: A major side-effect of the Information Revolution and the modern Information Age is the surplus of information, the so-called "Information Overload." While no universal data-format seems likely, the essential elements of any data format are the same. With this in mind, the translation of information from one form to another should be a simple matter, and convertors should be a standard aspect of any new data type. Why, then, does incompatability remain such a problem when it comes to computers, especially databases? A simple concept of data that allows for hierarchy and plurality, combined with powerful tools of conversion and extraction that approach data-mining techniques may prove useful in solving the problem of too much -- this "Information Overload."
The advent of the computer and digital media began an era often lauded as the Digital Age or the Information Age. This Information Revolution made countless advances in medicine, science, art and communication possible. It has never been easier to find, create, duplicate and organize information. In fact, it has become so easy to copy and distribute data that the amount of available information has become a problem of its own. Piracy and other forms of illegitimate duplication have exasperated software companies and the recording industry. Violation of privacy and the wide-spread availability of personal details have alarmed others. While these are valid issues, the biggest problem is not malicious, intentional or even illegal. The sheer volume of information in existence is overwhelming the resources of man and machine.
Information Overload
This problem increases constantly as does the amount of data that demands attention, decision and storage. The average person doesn't know what to do with the barrage of knowledge that flows into our lives from printed or broadcast media, not to mention the internet. To cope, many learn to ignore most of it. The stream of freshly ignored data piles atop previously ignored data. Such a mess of information soon outgrows its usefulness and disappears into the void of digital Ether. What actually makes it into an archive or backup will be unreadable in a short time due to the changing nature of data formats and the programs that access them. Interesting or urgent information is discovered too late and important or valuable information is lost forever.
Solutions
The problem has been addressed before. Some suggest rationing the intake of information, scheduling and budgeting data. Others have developed more complex and even more automated methods for organizing and prioritizing information. Others favor the abandonment of the whole mess -- kill your television, clear out, and live on renewable energy sources in the mountains. I do not favor giving up. I applaud efforts to balance information with other aspects of life. I am interested in surplus management tools for information but I leave all of these for another time. For now, I want to consider the nature of information and computer data in particular. Don't worry, I have no interest in profound philosophies or words like "epistemology" and "ontology." Not yet. There is already a field of study called Information Theory but I am approaching the subject afresh. I will refer to the established theories in more scholarly notes and relate my experiments and deductions to them there as well.
(From tamethem.blogspot.com 3/21/2004)
The advent of the computer and digital media began an era often lauded as the Digital Age or the Information Age. This Information Revolution made countless advances in medicine, science, art and communication possible. It has never been easier to find, create, duplicate and organize information. In fact, it has become so easy to copy and distribute data that the amount of available information has become a problem of its own. Piracy and other forms of illegitimate duplication have exasperated software companies and the recording industry. Violation of privacy and the wide-spread availability of personal details have alarmed others. While these are valid issues, the biggest problem is not malicious, intentional or even illegal. The sheer volume of information in existence is overwhelming the resources of man and machine.
Information Overload
This problem increases constantly as does the amount of data that demands attention, decision and storage. The average person doesn't know what to do with the barrage of knowledge that flows into our lives from printed or broadcast media, not to mention the internet. To cope, many learn to ignore most of it. The stream of freshly ignored data piles atop previously ignored data. Such a mess of information soon outgrows its usefulness and disappears into the void of digital Ether. What actually makes it into an archive or backup will be unreadable in a short time due to the changing nature of data formats and the programs that access them. Interesting or urgent information is discovered too late and important or valuable information is lost forever.
Solutions
The problem has been addressed before. Some suggest rationing the intake of information, scheduling and budgeting data. Others have developed more complex and even more automated methods for organizing and prioritizing information. Others favor the abandonment of the whole mess -- kill your television, clear out, and live on renewable energy sources in the mountains. I do not favor giving up. I applaud efforts to balance information with other aspects of life. I am interested in surplus management tools for information but I leave all of these for another time. For now, I want to consider the nature of information and computer data in particular. Don't worry, I have no interest in profound philosophies or words like "epistemology" and "ontology." Not yet. There is already a field of study called Information Theory but I am approaching the subject afresh. I will refer to the established theories in more scholarly notes and relate my experiments and deductions to them there as well.
(From tamethem.blogspot.com 3/21/2004)
The Idea: FlannCo Technological Innovations
Tired of doing more for your computer than it does for you?
Ever wish you could trust it to keep your information safe and orderly?
Wonder when all those dreams of computers that understand you and respond to your commands will come true?
Well, stop daydreaming, bub. Now is the time. The revolution is at hand.
It’s time we stopped spending hours learning how to work with these machines. It’s time for them to start working for us, rather than the other way.
For the first time in the history of the world, Mankind has created a machine capable of reason, of logic, and of thought (loosely). These machines can be added to and improved upon far easier than any prior mechanical invention. Most of the time, changes can occur without physical modification, at least without bothering humans to perform the modifications. All people need to do is tell these machines what they want them to do and they handle the underlying details.
That's their magic: that learning, that scalability that automates low-level processes in favor of presenting high-level, nearly intelligent, interfaces for their human operators. They have come from requiring relays, switches and cables to be manually set to needing cryptic numerical information on punch cards. Then they didn't need the punch cards. Then we taught them to respond to more versatile assembly code that could work on more than one machine and was more humanly understandable. Then we taught them increasingly complex languages to do increasingly complex tasks and present themselves at our service more readily. Now we have graphical user interfaces, pointing devices, voice input, communication between computers over distances long or short, files that can be accessed from anywhere, even a little annoying helper paperclip animation that taps on your screen when it knows you're lost.
Yet despite progress in storage space and processor speed that doubles every other year, the languages and interfaces we use to tell the machines what we want to do remain somewhat out of date. We have more computing power than our programs can keep up with and most of the time it's idle. Still, we run into delays and snags and lost information and system crashes. The concepts of information theory are well explored and decades old, yet we have thousands of disparate data formats. Important documents are lost, left behind with the last upgrade or left indecipherable by a new program that doesn’t recognize the old proprietary format. There are promising advances in open source technologies, platform independent languages, universal formats, and widespread standards but they are often under-employed or used improperly, resulting in more confusion.
If they are only increasing the complexity and confusion of our already busy lifestyles, who needs them? Throw them away! Return to the card catalogues, indices, and filing cabinets. But there’s so much information, too much for the old ways to handle. If only there was a way to keep track of it all without resorting to clumsy, counter-intuitive digital abstractions; if these so-called “smart” machines would be responsible enough not to lose our information but to keep it safe, secure, with regular back-ups; if they were approachable and accessible, rather than being great and fearsome as Oz; if they were understandable without a college degree in computer science –- then! Then. Only then might they live up to their hype.
So, again I say it’s time we stopped spending hours learning how to work with these machines. I say it’s time for them to start working for us, rather than the other way.
(From tamethem.blogspot.com 1/22/2004)
Ever wish you could trust it to keep your information safe and orderly?
Wonder when all those dreams of computers that understand you and respond to your commands will come true?
Well, stop daydreaming, bub. Now is the time. The revolution is at hand.
It’s time we stopped spending hours learning how to work with these machines. It’s time for them to start working for us, rather than the other way.
For the first time in the history of the world, Mankind has created a machine capable of reason, of logic, and of thought (loosely). These machines can be added to and improved upon far easier than any prior mechanical invention. Most of the time, changes can occur without physical modification, at least without bothering humans to perform the modifications. All people need to do is tell these machines what they want them to do and they handle the underlying details.
That's their magic: that learning, that scalability that automates low-level processes in favor of presenting high-level, nearly intelligent, interfaces for their human operators. They have come from requiring relays, switches and cables to be manually set to needing cryptic numerical information on punch cards. Then they didn't need the punch cards. Then we taught them to respond to more versatile assembly code that could work on more than one machine and was more humanly understandable. Then we taught them increasingly complex languages to do increasingly complex tasks and present themselves at our service more readily. Now we have graphical user interfaces, pointing devices, voice input, communication between computers over distances long or short, files that can be accessed from anywhere, even a little annoying helper paperclip animation that taps on your screen when it knows you're lost.
Yet despite progress in storage space and processor speed that doubles every other year, the languages and interfaces we use to tell the machines what we want to do remain somewhat out of date. We have more computing power than our programs can keep up with and most of the time it's idle. Still, we run into delays and snags and lost information and system crashes. The concepts of information theory are well explored and decades old, yet we have thousands of disparate data formats. Important documents are lost, left behind with the last upgrade or left indecipherable by a new program that doesn’t recognize the old proprietary format. There are promising advances in open source technologies, platform independent languages, universal formats, and widespread standards but they are often under-employed or used improperly, resulting in more confusion.
If they are only increasing the complexity and confusion of our already busy lifestyles, who needs them? Throw them away! Return to the card catalogues, indices, and filing cabinets. But there’s so much information, too much for the old ways to handle. If only there was a way to keep track of it all without resorting to clumsy, counter-intuitive digital abstractions; if these so-called “smart” machines would be responsible enough not to lose our information but to keep it safe, secure, with regular back-ups; if they were approachable and accessible, rather than being great and fearsome as Oz; if they were understandable without a college degree in computer science –- then! Then. Only then might they live up to their hype.
So, again I say it’s time we stopped spending hours learning how to work with these machines. I say it’s time for them to start working for us, rather than the other way.
(From tamethem.blogspot.com 1/22/2004)
Saturday, March 25, 2006
River at Quixote's!
Local music: Denver, Colorado, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Folk
Hello Lovely River Fans!
River will be playing at Quixote's on April 6! The band will be unveiling many new songs and the night will be remembered as the first live show recorded with the new lineup, so don't miss it- this will be available in it's entirety shortly after!
(the attached document is the official poster for the show)
$5 at the door, 18 and up, 9 pm doors
Much love from the boys! We'll see you there!
www.4river.com
www.myspace.com/4river
(Reproduced from an email).
Hello Lovely River Fans!
River will be playing at Quixote's on April 6! The band will be unveiling many new songs and the night will be remembered as the first live show recorded with the new lineup, so don't miss it- this will be available in it's entirety shortly after!
(the attached document is the official poster for the show)
$5 at the door, 18 and up, 9 pm doors
Much love from the boys! We'll see you there!
www.4river.com
www.myspace.com/4river
(Reproduced from an email).
Travel Party
When’s the last time you found yourself in a far away land?
Invitation: Travel the world in a single evening.
When: 7 April 2006, 7:00PM to 11:00PM and beyond
Where: The Flannery Homestead Aurora
Vicariously tour the globe through each other’s stories, pictures and communicable diseases.
Bring an exotic ethnic dish or else don’t. There should be plenty to go around. (If no one brings anything, we’ll order Pizza and pretend we’re in Italy.) (Guffaw.)
Invite anyone who might have an interesting travel experience to share. Uninvite anyone that’s not really interesting.
Spouses, pets, Algonquins and children are welcome.
Bring pictures, videos, slides, souvenirs, boutonnieres, illegally imported fruits or animals, and stories.
If you’re boring and haven’t been anywhere, come anyway. Travel by imagination costs less than a plane ticket. You owe it to yourself to take advantage of our discounted, recounted, second-hand adventures. It’s a travel thrift store! Don’t worry: A high-class thrift store.
- Thailand
- Cambodia
- Ireland
- Germany
- Spain
- Poland
- Los Angeles
Countries expected to feature prominently:
Remember: If you miss this party, don’t worry. The Flannerys plan a party every month. Sometimes, they happen. You can help. Attend, vote, donate blood, use your blinker, wash your hands, thank you.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Informational Desserts, Sunday morning Bible studyin Feb. and church in March
January 15th, 2006
Dear Friends:
Hope Fellowship Church is off to a great start in only two weeks. We had 80 people attend our first two informational desserts expressing interest in our new church. There seems to be a buzz spreading about Hope Fellowship Church. With people already spreading the word, we fully expect to have over 100 people in attendance at our first service on March 5th.
If you have been unable to attend our previous informational desserts please consider joining us for an upcoming one. Joyce Beck will host our next dessert on Friday, January 27th at 7:00 PM.
Lloyd Lewan will host our final informational dessert on Friday, February 3rd at 7:00 PM . If you are unable to attend either of these desserts, feel free to contact Pastor Paul for more information. You may also get information from Sandy Davis our administrative assistant.
Our first worship service is scheduled for Sunday, March 5th at 9:30 AM at the Walnut Hills Elementary School located at 8195 E. Costilla Blvd., Englewood (corner of S. Uinta & Costilla, southwest of I-25 & Arapahoe). It is a beautiful school with perfect facilities and a particularly attractive stage. It also has plenty of rooms to build a great children's Sunday school program.
Although our first worship service does not start until March 5th, we will be hosting Sunday morning Bible studies through the month of February. Come join us on February 5th at 9:30 AM in the home of Fred and Gale Probst. Childcare will be provided at these Sunday morning meetings so spread the word.
If you would like to support Hope Fellowship Church financially, please feel free to send your contributions to Hope Fellowship Church.
We are off to a great start and have already been blessed with solid spiritual elders, an administrative assistant, Sandy Davis, and an experienced business manager, Tina Squires. Brian and Christa Flannery will serve as the student ministry directors. A young college student, Tim Cohen, is stepping up to launch a college-aged ministry for young adults. We have put feelers out at Denver Seminary in search of a children's ministry director. We aim to have all the vital programs for great worship, children, and youth in place by opening Sunday. You owe it to yourself, for His Kingdom's sake, to at least look into the birthing of this exciting new church called Hope Fellowship.
Grace & Peace,
-Pastor Paul Flannery
Hope Fellowship Church
Dear Friends:
Hope Fellowship Church is off to a great start in only two weeks. We had 80 people attend our first two informational desserts expressing interest in our new church. There seems to be a buzz spreading about Hope Fellowship Church. With people already spreading the word, we fully expect to have over 100 people in attendance at our first service on March 5th.
If you have been unable to attend our previous informational desserts please consider joining us for an upcoming one. Joyce Beck will host our next dessert on Friday, January 27th at 7:00 PM.
Lloyd Lewan will host our final informational dessert on Friday, February 3rd at 7:00 PM . If you are unable to attend either of these desserts, feel free to contact Pastor Paul for more information. You may also get information from Sandy Davis our administrative assistant.
Our first worship service is scheduled for Sunday, March 5th at 9:30 AM at the Walnut Hills Elementary School located at 8195 E. Costilla Blvd., Englewood (corner of S. Uinta & Costilla, southwest of I-25 & Arapahoe). It is a beautiful school with perfect facilities and a particularly attractive stage. It also has plenty of rooms to build a great children's Sunday school program.
Although our first worship service does not start until March 5th, we will be hosting Sunday morning Bible studies through the month of February. Come join us on February 5th at 9:30 AM in the home of Fred and Gale Probst. Childcare will be provided at these Sunday morning meetings so spread the word.
If you would like to support Hope Fellowship Church financially, please feel free to send your contributions to Hope Fellowship Church.
We are off to a great start and have already been blessed with solid spiritual elders, an administrative assistant, Sandy Davis, and an experienced business manager, Tina Squires. Brian and Christa Flannery will serve as the student ministry directors. A young college student, Tim Cohen, is stepping up to launch a college-aged ministry for young adults. We have put feelers out at Denver Seminary in search of a children's ministry director. We aim to have all the vital programs for great worship, children, and youth in place by opening Sunday. You owe it to yourself, for His Kingdom's sake, to at least look into the birthing of this exciting new church called Hope Fellowship.
Grace & Peace,
-Pastor Paul Flannery
Hope Fellowship Church
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Information about Hope Fellowship Church
More information about Hope Fellowship Church and Paul Flannery can be found at the following internet location:
http://hfcdenver.org
http://hfcdenver.org
What makes Hope Fellowship different from other churches in the area?
- We are committed to caring, shepherding pastors and not just cold spiritual technicians.
- We believe in freeing people to serve without going through a bureaucracy.
- We believe in church growth in order to influence more people for the Kingdom of God.
- We emphasize a front porch experience through classes and small groups.
- We consider children's ministry as a high priority.
- We emphasize missions and ministry every week in the Sunday service.
- We believe in a variety of worship styles. As soon as possible, we
- will offer alternate styles in order to reach a wider group of people.
What does Hope Fellowship value?
Hope Fellowship Church has eight value statements which define the
kind of church it will be:
1. We honor and submit to Christ as Leader and Lord.
2. We value upbeat worship with a variety of styles.
3. We value "outsiders" and seek to connect through genuine
friendships & acts of kindness.
4. We value families and seek to reach out to children and youth.
5. We value looking beyond ourselves, networking with other churches
and ministries to reach Denver and the world.
6. We value caring pastors and laity that shepherd one another through
classes and small groups.
7. We value unleashing people to use their time, talent, and treasure
to reach others.
8. We value worshipping with 5+5 giving. 5% to the church and 5% to
another ministry.
kind of church it will be:
1. We honor and submit to Christ as Leader and Lord.
2. We value upbeat worship with a variety of styles.
3. We value "outsiders" and seek to connect through genuine
friendships & acts of kindness.
4. We value families and seek to reach out to children and youth.
5. We value looking beyond ourselves, networking with other churches
and ministries to reach Denver and the world.
6. We value caring pastors and laity that shepherd one another through
classes and small groups.
7. We value unleashing people to use their time, talent, and treasure
to reach others.
8. We value worshipping with 5+5 giving. 5% to the church and 5% to
another ministry.
Why Plant Another Church in Denver?
(1) The Church of Jesus is alive - it is organic and not an
organization. Therefore, if it is truly alive, then it goes through
the normal cycle of birth, maturation, and aging. One more branch is
born to the vine.
(2) While most churches drift inward, we will place an unusually
strong emphasis on outward initiatives and ministries.
(3) If everyone in the Denver-metro area decided to attend church one
Sunday, there wouldn't be enough room in all the churches in town for
them. Denver is a big city and growing. Churches must keep up with this.
organization. Therefore, if it is truly alive, then it goes through
the normal cycle of birth, maturation, and aging. One more branch is
born to the vine.
(2) While most churches drift inward, we will place an unusually
strong emphasis on outward initiatives and ministries.
(3) If everyone in the Denver-metro area decided to attend church one
Sunday, there wouldn't be enough room in all the churches in town for
them. Denver is a big city and growing. Churches must keep up with this.
Hope Fellowship Church - Denver, Colorado
- Hope Fellowship is:
- A new church in the south-central Denver area focusing on Christ and on influencing others for his Kingdom.
Pastor Paul Flannery, formerly of Colorado Community Church, felt led to start Hope Fellowship for a number of reasons. Two primary reasons for the church are (1) intentional caring for one another and (2) consistent emphasis on ministry that reaches beyond the walls of any building. - Pastor: Paul Flannery, formerly of Colorado Community Church
- Motto: "Unleashing People to Connect and to Serve Others"
- Sunday Morning Bible Study beginning in February, 2006
- Where: Probst House
- Sunday Morning Church services beginning in March, 2006
- Where: (Planned) Walnut Hill Elementary School, two blocks south and west of Arapahoe & I-25 at E. Costilla Blvd. and S. Uinta St. (8195 E. Costilla Blvd., Englewood, CO, 80112)
Paul Flannery - Hope Fellowship Church
After over ten years of ministry at Colorado Community Church, local Denver pastor, Paul Flannery, is branching out to start a new church in the south-central Denver Metro area (I-25 and Arapahoe).
For some time now, Paul and his wife, Patsy, had been praying for the Lord's leading as to how they might influence as many people as possible for the Kingdom of God. They came to the conclusion that it was time for Paul to serve in a role in which all of his gifts would be used rather than just some of them. He felt called to serve as a senior pastor.
They decided not to serve in just any old church, however. "We believe that He is calling us to plant a brand new interdenominational church right here in this ever-growing area around Denver," says Pastor Paul. Their goal is to be located in a way that meets the people as they move into the new developments in the areas south and east of C-470 and I-25.
On top of its total commitment to Christ and his Word, the new church has two main focus points: Intentional shepherding (fellowship) and ministry outreach. Paul is committed to reserving time every Sunday for a story about outreach, a ministry testimony from the congregation, or a brief mission presentation.
Hope Fellowship Church has not even started to hold Sunday services and yet it is already growing. They are spreading the word and inviting anyone that shows interest but Paul is stern in his position towards "stealing sheep" or soliciting congregants from other churches: "If you are already connected and involved with another church, that is fantastic. We aren't trying to divert people who have already connected with a fellowship. If the Lord puts this church plant on your hearts, we would appreciate your prayers and any help you can offer."
He goes on to say, "We suspect that some of you aren't strongly connected with any church and are not experiencing close fellowship with your brothers and sisters in the Lord. If you have an interest, please consider attending one of [the] early informational desserts. Come let me share a great vision for birthing a brand new work of Christ and the Holy Spirit."
Hope Fellowship Church will be holding Sunday morning Bible studies starting in February, 2006, at the Probst House.
They plan on moving to a full Sunday morning church service in March at the Walnut Hill Elementary School, One block south of Arapahoe Road on S. Uinta St. at E. Costilla, 2 blocks west of I-25 (8195 E. Costilla Blvd, Englewood, CO).
For more information call Sandy Davis at the HFC office number. You can also email.
See http://hfcdenver.org for more information.
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