Third Thursday Christian Networking Group

Thursday, January 21st
12:00-1:00 pm.

Location:
Lafitte’s restaurant at the DoubleTree Hotel
8773 Yates Drive
Westminster, CO 80031
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Welcome! Have you been looking for the opportunity to do business networking with fellow Christians? Join us on the Third Thursday of each month! The focus of our group is to meet other Christian business men and women and provide an opportunity to network and fellowship with each other. Each month we have a special guest speaker who will encourage and inspire us. There are no fees or memberships, just come and start building relationship with other professionals!

Guest Speaker: Randy Schow, Mountain States Children’s Home

“I have a wonderful wife of 34 years, three children of my own and 3 foster children, all of who are grown and on their own, except my youngest who is in college. I have been in Christian child care for 29 years, 17 of which has been with Mountain States Children’s Home. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and feel blessed to be able to help children through difficult times in their lives and see hope in a God who loves them.”

Click here to visit the Mountain States Children’s Home website.

You can also visit the Meetup group page and/or Facebook page for additional information.

Lafitte’s serves a delicious Sandwich Buffet for lunch. You pick the bread, your choice of oven roasted meat, tossed salad with dressings, potato salad or cole slaw and all the sandwich fixin’s. The Buffet and a drink cost only $9.00 and it is well worth it!

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December Meetup:
Thursday, December 17th

Guest Speaker: Mike Browning, Campus Ministries of Grace Christian Church at CSU

“My name is Mike Browning and I am a campus evangelist at Colorado State University. My fiancé, Ashley, and I started doing full-time campus ministry in December of 2008. Both of us were students at CSU when God really touched our hearts and changed our lives through the Campus Ministries of Grace Christian Church.

We would love to share with you more about how God is reaching literally thousands of students at CSU with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

As a staff of thirty-three, we have been able to share the Gospel with literally thousands of students, and we’re just getting started. Here’s what the first week of this year’s fall semester looked like:

• 2,941 students were approached with the Gospel
• 795 of them are interested in finding a church and/or meeting in a Bible study

Those are some statistics from our first week of this last semester. That has translated into hundreds of Bible studies, and most importantly, many new believers in Christ! I am currently teaching 21 weekly Bible studies and Ashley is teaching 15 weekly Bible studies, as well.

God is touching the hearts of so many young people on our campus. We are excited to share with you more about how He is doing it, and how you can be a part of it through your prayers and partnership.

Thank you for your time and interest in this ministry!”

In Christ,
Mike Browning

For additional information, visit our Facebook, Meetup page or call Orion Mortgage, Inc. at 303-469-1254

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November Meetup:
Thursday, November 19th

Guest Speaker: Nathan Jones

Nathan Jones has been involved in the field of prison ministry for the past 8 years. He is currently on staff with Prison Fellowship Ministries, an organization started by Charles Colson in the late 1970’s. Nathan’s passion is to see the Kingdom of God manifest in the hearts of individuals on both sides of prison walls.

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October Meetup:
Thursday, October 15th

Guest Speaker: Brian Gish

Topic: “Success in 27 Seconds”
Brian is giong to teach us how to make a great first impression.

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September Meetup:
Thursday, September 17th

Guest Speaker: Ken Miller

Ken Miller works with Cornerstone Church, Boulder Valley Church Planting Network, and the Global Initiative. He has been in full-time ministry for over 20 years. Ken will be speaking on Trends in Global Missions.

Ken’s greatest loves are his wife and family, Jesus, the Broncos and Pepsi.

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August Meetup:
Thursday, August 21st

Guest Speakers: Jerry and Lois Clark

Jerry and Lois will be speaking about how to strengthen your marriage through your Christian walk.

Check out their ministry at MakingMarriageMarvelous.org

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July Meetup:
Thursday, July 16th

Guest speakers: Tim and Nina St. John

Tim and Nina are the editor and publisher of Denver Christian Family magazine. They will be sharing the history of the magazine, including how God moved them to Colorado.

Denver Christian Family exists to provide Christians and the community at large with ways to grow and develop as a part of the Denver Christian Family. The local publication is designed to promote positive living by sharing with readers the latest news on entertainment, healthy living, parenting and inspirational literature as well as what individuals and organizations are doing to try to address needs of the family. The inaugural issue will be released July 1st. Check it out at DenverChristianFamily.com

Nina St. John Biography
I was born in Connecticut and with the exception of stops in Ontario and Vancouver Canada have lived in New England, mostly in Connecticut and Vermont.

After spending 25 years in the insurance industry, the last 9 in management, I felt God had other plans for me.  I sensed a passion to do more than the corporate routine.  I felt I was working to become something I was supposed to be in the world’s eyes rather than listening to what God wanted me to do.

I have felt called to missions since I was a very small child, gazing for hours at the photograph of Jesus, surrounded by children asking “What happened to your hand?” which hung above my bed.  I was blessed to mission in South Africa in 2006, but only just recently realized the significance of missions in my own back yard.  This is the reason Tim and I have chosen Acts 1:8 as the passage for the model for our life’s work as Denver Christian Family…”But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”   This is our Jerusalem!

It is with great humility that I find myself in this field, sharing the word of God through the works of Christian Leaders, Mission Makers and the Encouraging Words (to name a few of the columns), of so many talented and mission-minded citizens.  We have been blessed with the opportunity to work within our community in such an intimate and fulfilling way.

As a Christian, continually growing in my own faith, it is my prayer that this publication will personally enrich the lives of all who read its pages.  My prayer, too, is that you will partner with us to help us to make this publication something the entire Christian community can be proud of.  I currently reside in Denver, Colorado.

Tim St. John Biography
Born in Miami, Florida and raised in Gadsden, Alabama, I spent my early years listening to the sermons and Bible stories of my father, a prominent Baptist Minister.  My parents spent the first few years in Miami and Atlanta before settling in Gadsden for the beginning of my elementary, junior high and high school years.  I became a Christian at the age of 10 and growing up the son of a minister for the first 20 years or so of my life my father was the only minister I knew.  As I’ve told him before, that’s both a blessing and a curse.  Sometimes he would step in and take care of Spiritual needs and directions that I should have been allowed to do on my own.

As a freshman at the University of Alabama, I was told by an English Composition professor that I “had the talent to become a very successful writer.”  I ignored this advice and continued in my chosen course of study, Pre-Law, until transferring to Auburn University and majoring in Management and Accounting.  After graduation from Auburn University I lived in Birmingham, Alabama for 25 years.

After reaching adulthood and having to stand on my own Spiritually, I have felt the call of God to do some sort of ministry since I was in my 20’s.  However, for most of the years in between my 20’s and now I haven’t answered the call.  That all changed in 2002 when our church held its first annual Global Impact Celebration for missions.  I went to the alter and dedicated the remaining years of my life to serving in some sort of ministry.  I didn’t know whether it was fulltime missions or volunteering my time and services to a trip or two each year to a mission field but since then God has sent me all over the world to answer His commission.

God gave me the talent to put words to paper unlike my father who delivered sermons from the pulpit.  Although I’ve never felt my calling from God was to be behind a pulpit I’ve had to deliver sermons on mission trips to Peru, Central America and Israel.  My writing poems, short stories and a novel led me to write a weekly faith based column in an Alabama newspaper before moving to Denver.  I now feel led by God to put the talent He have me to use with Denver Christian Family magazine in my new mission field of Colorado – my Jerusalem as referenced in Acts 1:8.

After 25 years in the corporate world I’m now a former Accounting/IT executive who has pursued a passion for writing.  My short stories, poetry and novel can be found in various publications an amazon.com.  My wife, Nina, and I have recently brought the publication Denver Christian Family to Colorado as publisher and editor.  I currently reside in Denver, Colorado.