Author: Steve Rabey
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Twelve Tribes group, with a Manitou Springs connection, finds itself in spotlight after Marshall fire
The 2,000-3,000 members of the Twelve Tribes, one of the few groups surviving from the Jesus movement of the 1960s and 1970s, seek to obey God’s will as revealed in the old and new testaments. They take Hebrew names, live communally, home-school their children and try to keep to themselves. But privacy may be hard…
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Colorado prison ministries offer offenders grace and second chances
In 1990, Howie Close was an angry and violent 17-year-old Denver punk looking for fights. One night he beat up on a group of Japanese exchange students. New hate crime legislation mandated 75 years in Colorado prisons. He started fights with fellow prisoners, landing him in solitary confinement, where he found an old, torn-up Bible…
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Supreme Court case will address public funding of Christian schools
One week after it heard opening arguments in a major case on abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear opening arguments Wednesday on another important and divisive case involving faith and public life: The use of taxpayer dollars for private Christian schools. The case, Carson v. Makin, was brought by parents in Maine who were…
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Colorado Springs advisors help donors give with discernment
The woman worked for years as a secretary, unaware that she would inherit $60 million from her father after his death. She wanted to give most of it to Christian charities, but wasn’t sure which ones would provide the biggest bang for her bucks. Help came from WaterStone and Excellence In Giving, two Colorado Springs-based…
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Colorado Springs non-profit Exodus Road has rescued hundreds of survivors from sex trafficking
Matt and Laura Parker were former high school sweethearts who sought to serve God by leaving the staff at Woodland Park Community Church in 2010 and moving to Thailand to run a girls school operated by Colorado Springs-based Joy to the World Foundation. But soon after starting their new jobs, they realized their calling was…
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COSILoveYou hopes to enlist 5,000 volunteers for seventh annual CityServe event
A small, local nonprofit that builds bridges of cooperation between people in churches, parachurch organizations, other nonprofits, businesses, schools and city and county governments is gearing up for its annual initiative that it bills as “the largest single-day volunteerism event in El Paso County.” COSILoveYou, a small nonprofit that emerged from church leaders’ desires to…
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Ministries use social media, web for digital evangelism
The same technologies that can bring TV shows, games, maps, weather reports or porn to your smartphone are being harnessed by Christian groups who use the same web search and social media functions to conduct global digital evangelism. When people do web searches using words such as hopelessness, fear, anxiety, suicide, or asking questions like…
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Coaches and counselors help Coloradans cope
COVID-19. Lost work, wages and businesses. Lockdowns that caused too much separation from some people and too much contact with others. Anxiety, stress and depression. Substance abuse. Domestic violence. Difficulties eating and sleeping. Thoughts of suicide. America’s lost pandemic year damaged many people’s mental health, leading to an increased workload for hundreds of local counselors,…
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Colorado Springs area author offering samples of new self-help book
John Eldredge, the Colorado Springs area author of the 2001 bestseller “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul,” is offering samples of a new book and study on “getting your life back.” Through Friday, readers can sample free chapters of Eldredge’s latest book, “Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World…
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Andrew Wommack urges Christians to ‘take over’ Woodland Park, Teller County
Andrew Wommack has long urged his followers to “take back Colorado” from the “demon-possessed” socialists and Democrats who’ve turned the state from red to blue. Last month, that rallying cry became practical, as Wommack urged followers to take control in Woodland Park and Teller County. “Man, as many people as we have in this school…