The Embassy Church is located in East Denver and we hold our worship gatherings at Cole School of Arts & Sciences Academy. Our mission field is located in the 80205 zip code, which is the twelfth most gentrified zip code in the country. In other words, a community that has been predominately African American…(Read More)
Pastor Brandon (while battling an irksome cold) was the guest speaker at Hope Fellowship Church (Centennial, CO) on the Sunday before “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.” He took the opportunity to address the power of the Gospel and its role in racial reconciliation. If the death of Christ brings us to…(Read More)
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The last week has been both a relief and burden for me. I am relieved that we have finally progressed past the campaign/election season in America. But I am burdened by the manner in which we engaged one another and the reactions to the election results. Part of the U…(Read More)
In our last blog post we visited four questions that we wanted to spend some time unpacking. We asked, 1) What are we doing? (The Mission) 2) Why are we doing it? (The Values) 3) How are we going to get it done? (The Strategies) 4) When do we have a win? (The…(Read More)
I’m sure that many of you are familiar with the anecdotal tale of a young bride who was preparing her first family dinner. As she was about to put a large roast into the oven to begin baking, her mother stopped her and said “You have to cut three inches off the…(Read More)
A few years ago I met a brilliant, quick-witted man named Keith Clerihue. We were on staff at the same Church in the Denver metro area and his office was down the hall from mine. He is not a man of imposing physical stature, in fact when I met him I recall noting…(Read More)
On April 1st 2012 we launched the weekly worship gatherings of The Embassy Church. We are missionaries to the Denver metro area and we have started by engaging the communities that fall within a 5-mile radius of City Park. As missionaries we exegete the community and its residence; we want and need to…(Read More)
The prioritizing of smaller missional communities is a celebrated distinctive of The Embassy. This in no way undermines the value of our larger gatherings; we recognize the need for the saints to gather for regular corporate worship.[1] The large worship gathering is essential for vision casting, celebration, teaching, and corporate joy…(Read More)
What is an Embassy? An embassy is a mission to a foreign government headed by an ambassador. It has the responsibility of representing the agenda of the home state while residing in a foreign land. We can think of no better analogy for the Church. The body of Christ is called…(Read More)
Typically, one writes a story of transformation in retrospect. They look back at what God has done and celebrate how far they have come. This story, however, is different. It is not written as we look back, instead we are looking forward. We want to highlight the story of Denver’s transformation. We have…(Read More)
