http://www.newcovenantchristianchurchdenver.com/

New Covenant Alpha Omega Ministries, 119 Park Avenue W, Denver, CO (2026)

08/13/2024

SAFE PLACES

The violence here in Denver over the last few days has been gut-wrenching and profoundly sad. We mourn them all, but so many of us were particularly affected by the shooting in Commerce City. We all hurt. Some seem quick to dispense blame, but there is certainly enough to go around. I heard something Topazz McBride said in her interview on the Channel 7 News. It was a confession and it convicted me. She said, “I wish I would have reached out more.” I echo her sentiments.

We all, as Black men, should feel equally convicted and even somewhat responsible. Where are the safe places for our men (and women) to deal with our trauma, our mental and spiritual health. We may not stop any given situation from happening, but we can certainly try by having some preventative measures in place.

Our non-profit FACEIT (Family Advocacy Crisis Education Intervention Team) has served this community since 2003. We are partnering with Servicios De La Raza and 7 other organizations that form the City of Denver’s STAR (Support Team Assisted Response) Program.

We respond to 911 calls that are appropriately screened and do not require a police response. We are a culturally and linguistically responsive organization serving the City of Denver. We provide trauma-informed care, mental health services, emergency temp/housing, family/individual counseling and interventions around non-violent crises.

Our staff has planned several workshops next month that will inform our community of the resources that are available. You may call us directly if you feel yourself experiencing a mental health crisis or you just need a safe place.

In 2003, our organization was founded as a community response to the police shooting of 15 year-old developmentally disabled child in the doorway of his mother!s home. As a community we all “faced it” then and we will “face it” now. There is plenty of blame to go around for what has and what hasn’t been done in our community.

Let’s create places, safe places, to deal with our mental health and life itself.

https://www.faceitcommunity.org/about-us

10/09/2022

What Shall We Preach?: Part 5
Acts 3: 16-26

12/15/2016

“Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people”
(Luke 2:10)

Why did the shepherds get the good news first? Of all people, why them? They were people who most of society had very little respect for. Their occupation was nothing parents encouraged their kids to embrace or become. Most kids in the ancient world did not grow up with a career goal of being a shepherd. Shepherds were considered to be among the dregs of society. They stuck out like a sore thumb. Many of them owned nothing except the clothes on their backs.

You knew a shepherd when you saw one because you often smelled him before he arrived. They were often ruthless people who could not be trusted, working just for money and not because they were devoted to the job. What did they do to deserve being the first to receive this “JOY-causing” good news? Were there not more qualified, upstanding, clean-living folk who were more deserving of this honor? Who were these people and why them? They don’t attend church and when they do no one really wants them there. “Why them”, we scream.

Sometimes the message of Jesus’ birth gets lost in the politics of the Church. We seem so hell bent and preoccupied with confining people to categories (left/right, conservative/liberal, rich/poor) until we simply lose sight of the message. We get so preoccupied with keeping people out that we forget that God has let everybody in! This good news, the angel said, is “JOY” to all people. Wherever you are and whoever you are God has made it known that you are included.

From the beginning God never intended any to be excluded. Jesus’ birth was simply a revelatory event that shed light on a truth that had always existed, but was not practiced in society or the religious community. Is that still true, today? We need Advent to remind us of this age-old and abiding truth: God loves us all!

The Church may struggle with including gay folk, but God doesn’t. The woman who had the abortion may no longer be accepted at the communion table, but she is accepted by God. For all who have suffered the humiliating pain of divorce and the church’s judgment, JOY is still available to you!

We may want to “wall-off” and deport illegal undocumented persons, but you can’t separate people from the love of God. You may despise the fast food worker, the waiter, the waitress, the lawn guy, the sanitation worker, and every other occupation you deem to be beneath you, but in spite of our exclusionary attitudes and actions all of us are the recipients of this Jesus “JOY”! It is the good news that God has accepted us all!

You are welcomed to join us this Sunday for the lighting of the 4th Advent candle of “JOY”. Our own Pastor Terrence Hughes will bring a message that is sure to bless us. Keep your head up and allow no one to steal your JOY. You are accepted and loved by God and let no one tell you otherwise. Now, go spread the JOY!

New Covenant Christian Church Alpha & Omega Ministries
119 Park Ave. West
Denver, Colorado

Service times: 9am. (Church School)
10am. (Worship)

12/08/2016

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

As we move toward our third Advent Sunday and the theme of PEACE, I am shamefully reminded that I may not have always appreciated the gift of PEACE that God has given to me. I don’t know if you have noticed, (I have) but there seems to be a real shortage of PEACE in our world. It is one thing to see PEACE absent among nations, but it is downright painful to see how this shortage of PEACE is destroying people.

My conviction and confession for having a lack of appreciation for God’s gift of peace has everything to do with the fact that I know I have done so little to address my mental health. I, meticulously, take regular physicals. I do the dental, but not the mental--so little down through the years to address my mental health needs. “I’m good.” Isn’t that what “The Pastor” is supposed to say? (When will I begin to treat my mental health as though it matters?)

I know we all believe we are good and that we won’t ever succumb to the anger, anguish, and anxiety that seem to have overtaken so many in this nation. You won’t ever convince me that the South Carolina policeman who shot that unarmed fleeing black man in the back did not succumb to, or suffer from, some mental illness? No one in their right mind shoots another human being that way unless he is mental. I mean, you can almost see PEACE slipping away in some people.

A Montgomery County (Indiana) mother admitted to killing her two young children before trying to kill herself. Three days ago Colorado’s own Rashaan Salaam, winner of the 1994 Heisman Trophy and former Chicago Bears running back, was found dead outside a Boulder, Colorado Park with a pistol next to his body—an apparent su***de. I know we all believe we are good, but there is a shortage of PEACE within a lot of us.

Jesus may very well have given you the gift of peace, also, but it’s up to us to cultivate it. It is up to us to increase our peace just as we would do with any gift God has given to us. Are we really good? I’m not, but I am thanking God for grace because I know I have done so little to cultivate my peace and promote my mental health. Yet, God has been my peace. I pledge to do better and to also encourage you to increase your peace!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukkah, Happy Kwaanza, and God's grace upon us all!

Join us this Sunday as Rev. Dr. Marjorie Lewis, PhD, and one of the leading mental health professionals in Colorado and an ordained minister of the gospel will be our speaker for this third Sunday of Advent.

Rev. Dr. Lewis will be speaking on the Subject: “Never Underestimate The Power Of Peace.”

9am—Church School
10am—Worship
NEW COVENANT ALPHA OMEGA MINISTRIES
119 Park Avenue West
Denver 80205

12/03/2016

Wrongly convicted and unjustly incarcerated for 28 years, Clarence Moses El now lives as a free man. On this second Sunday of Advent (Hope) come out and hear his story, a story of hope and trust in God.

Join us for "A Morning With Mo" this Sunday. At 9:00am (Church School) join Mo for a Q&A session. At 10am. Mo will be the speaker for our Sunday morning worship. You don't want to miss this Sunday as we hear a word of "Hope" from this anointed over comer.

Breakfast refreshments served at 9:00am.We are located at 119 Park Ave. West.

11/22/2016

Clarence Moses El

Clarence Moses El will be our guest speaker for December 4, 2016. That will be the second Sunday of Advent—the Sunday of HOPE. Clarence has spent the last 28 years incarcerated for a crime he did not convict. After being tried for that crime again this month he was found not guilty and today lives as a free man. Come out and hear this dynamic man of God tell his story and God’s story around his redemption and deliverance. You don’t want to miss this anointed word on HOPE!

Join us every Sunday:

New Covenant Christian Church Alpha & Omega Ministries
119 Park Avenue West
Denver, Co 80231
10am.

03/23/2016

We want to invite all of our FB friends and your honored guests to join New Covenant Christian Church Alpha Omega Ministries this Friday for our 17th Annual Women at the Cross City-Wide Good Friday Service. What an exciting service this will be! 'Oh, how we love Jesus!' And at such a time as this, we need to hear a word from the Cross! We have Seven Anointed Women of God who will feed our faith! You dont want to miss it. The Gospels tell us that during the entire Christ-event women were the last ones at the Cross and the first ones at the Tomb. How blessed we are to honor Jesus by honoring these, and all, sanctified sisters of the faith. Our Psalmist will be none other than the incomparable Tara Washington and our guest Musician will be the anointed and gifted organist Bishop Charles Jackson! WOW!!! This year's service will be held at the Odom Memorial COGIC, 3301 Williams Street, here in the Mile High City. See you at High Noon. CAN'T WAIT!

07/10/2015

Don't Miss It! Please join us as we celebrate Pastor Holmes' birthday!!!!!

04/04/2015

An Awesome 7 Last Words Women at the Cross. The pastors brought a dynamic Word!

03/12/2015

Rehearsals for the "Women at the Cross " choir will be held at Shorter Community AME Church on Saturday March 21st and March 28th at 4:00 PM. All women are invited to participate!

01/07/2015

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