YOU ARE INVITED TO HEALING JOURNEY 2023
At the Healing Journey — a ministry of the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains — we believe healing is not just a destination, it’s a journey. And it’s a journey we don’t take alone.
Like any journey, the path of healing is full of hills and valleys, twists and turns, long dark stretches and suddenly-appearing vistas. And all the time, Jesus is with us. Jesus tenderly leads us: He restores us, He forgives us, He encourages us, and He pours out his love on us in profound, unexpected and utterly joyful ways.
As he leads, we pray with the Psalmist. We “Seek the Lord” and know that He will “answer and deliver us from all our fears and troubles,” because “when the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them.” (Psalm 34:4, 17).
Do you long for healing like this? Maybe you hope to heal a grief-ravaged heart or a one burdened with bitterness, condemnation, or shame. Maybe you hope to break the chains of addiction, to a substance or to a lie. Maybe you hope to bind up a fractured identity or a shattered body. Or maybe you hope simply to know the deepest truth about yourself: that you are Beloved of God, never left alone or abandoned to your wounds, your brokenness, or your sin.
Whatever you hope for, please join us at Jesus’ invitation to “come and see” what healing He has in store for you.
October 6th and 7th 2023 at Wellspring Church, Englewood Colorado.
SPEAKERS
Fr. Jordan Kologe: Belovedness of God
Jesus loves you, Jesus loves me. We hear this regularly in sermons and notes of encouragement but do we believe it? Do we walk in the assurance of our belovedness? The world surrounds us with messages that we are unlovable. Which message wins? Let’s visit our belovedness, together again and trust the Holy Spirit for the power of his Spirit to pour out the truth of our belovedness on us.
Jordan Kologe grew up in the shire, that is, in the rolling cornfields of small-town Iowa. After completing his undergraduate degree he traveled all over Southeast Asia with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) and Youth With A Mission (YWAM). When he returned to the US Jordan joined IVCF staff as a campus minister and then later with IVCF's Urbana Student Mission Conference. Before his call to Advent, he spent five plus years as an associate pastor in an Anglican church in North Carolina while earning his MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and his truly delightful wife Jennie have four children (Rosalie, Levi, Juniper, and Iris.) Their desire is that their home be an expression of the grace and hospitality of Christ. Jordan loves Arsenal F.C., biblical theology, Lord of the Rings, and being in full-on dad-mode.
Lori Mateer: Finding True Comfort in Talking to Immanuel
Life gets going and we often wonder, where can I find true peace, true comfort? Isn’t that what we are all grasping for in a world that has anything but peace to offer us? Lori Mateer will introduce us to the Immanuel approach, a practice that brings us into the presence of a God who quiets us down, and into a place of feeling seen, heard, and understood, where we know that someone is glad to be with us in the distress and can do something to help us.
Lori Mateer is a Relational Attachment Therapist with a private practice in Littleton, CO. She has been trained through all of Thrive Todays's relational skills training tracks and spends her days in her office teaching/training others in their 20 relational brain skills. Lori also leads a few groups through the Joyful Journey on a weekly basis and is on the Thrive Today team for their trainings. More information on Lori is available at: lorimateer.com.
Rob Byker: We Do Not Grieve as Those with No Hope.
“Brothers and sisters we do not want you to... grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again...”(1 Thessalonians 4:13-14b).
Christians are not stoics who reject their tears. But neither do we let our tears rule or define us. Instead, we grieve with hope in our Resurrected Lord Jesus. Pastor Rob Byker will share how the Lord transformed his experience of trial — as one burdened to care for a beloved wife through mental illness and terminal cancer while fathering a family and pastoring a church — into a testimony of enduring and everlasting hope.
Rob Byker served for twenty-one years among the Navajo people as Pastor of Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church in Rehoboth, New Mexico. In March of 2021, his late wife Lisa died after a six-year battle with brain cancer. Rob has four children: James (24), Josh (22), Jacob (20) and Nadia (17). In In July 2022, he married Kendis Paris. They frequently attend Church of the Advent in Denver where Kendis’ late husband Rob Paris was founding pastor.
Rev. Summer Gross: Early Attachment Wounds and Anxiety
Summer grew up with high anxiety, learning later in life how her early childhood attachment style developed a tendency to be hypervigilant. Now, she teaches others to recognize their own attachment style and how the neuropathways received in their first three years often form a skewed image of the love of their Abba. By discovering the tendencies inherent in their early attachment wounds, and dwelling in God's love through spiritual practices like Lectio Divina and Ignatian Imaginative Prayer, people can begin to look up and encounter the tenderness of His face always shining towards them.
Summer Joy Gross is an Anglican priest, retreat leader, and spiritual director. She has a Masters of Divinity and for ten years, served with her husband, The Rev. Canon Andrew Gross, in South Haven on the coast of Lake Michigan. She is associate faculty of Spiritual Formation and the Art of Spiritual Direction at Healing Care Ministries’ spiritual direction school and taught Healing Care Groups under Dr. Terry Wardle’s guidance for twelve years in Anglican parishes. She instagrams at @revsummerjoy, and podcasts at The Presence Project Podcast, running an online ministry by the same name. She desires to help people receive a secure attachment with God, healing attachment wounds created early in their life. On days off, you can find her cooking gargantuan breakfasts for her three always-hungry teens, or holding a fly rod in one of North Georgia’s streams with her husband of twenty-seven years. The Emmanuel Promise: Discovering the Security of a Life Held by God, comes out with Baker Publishing House late spring, 2024.
Kim Bagato: Will I Ever Be Able to Trust Again?
Will I ever be able to trust again? This is a question asked by women who have been betrayed by their husband’s pornography addiction or infidelity. Betrayal is like riding in the passenger seat of a car on a road trip and you’re suddenly ejected out of the vehicle and into the air. You land and become part of the roadside rubble. You’re stunned, hurt, burning with pain. You lie there in the sweltering sun wondering what happened to your life. Kim has spent the last decade walking alongside women who’ve been betrayed. She invites them to trust God, themselves and others again. She emphasizes that healing happens in community and encourages women to seek support from others who are trustworthy.
Kim Bagato finds fulfillment in leading small groups for betrayed women, something she has done for the past decade. She is a Christian Life Coach, Biblical Counselor, writer and speaker. She lives in California with her husband of 36 years, where three adult kids call her Mom and the Grands call her Grammie. Kim enjoys sunny days, listening to people’s stories, laughing with friends, reading, walking and traveling. You can connect with her at trustingagain7@gmail.com.
Fr. Ken Robertson: LGBTQ+ Persons and the Gospel that Heals
The church's endless debates about LGBTQ+ ideology, belonging, and cultural expression often ignore an important reality: LGBTQ+ persons are already within our churches, seeking Christ's power to live according to a biblical sexual ethic. What can we learn from these brothers and sisters who are finding healing in Christ? How might they lead the church in being agents of healing to this community? And could those within the church who don't identify as LGBTQ+ even learn to be discipled by them, welcoming them to expose the false gospels and hidden idols that lay just beneath the surface of our best intentions? As we walk together, there is opportunity to discover the gospel that's been there all along. Join us as Father Ken offers the fruits of 10 years of pastoral ministry in this community, walking more deeply into the healing we all so desperately need.
Ken Robertson has been the lead pastor at International Anglican Church in Colorado Springs since 2015. When he's not writing sermons or keeping coffee shops afloat with his black tea addiction, he's reveling in time with his family, including his wife Sarah and his four little girls. If they're not in the Springs, they're probably in a pop-up camper somewhere in the western US.
Bishop Ken Ross will celebrate the closing Eucharist for Healing Journey 2023.
Ken Ross, bishop of the Diocese of the Rocky Mountains, is passionate about the gospel and about helping people step into who God has made them to be. He and his wife, Sallie, live in Colorado Springs and cherish time together.
Brian Kam will lead worship for Healing Journey 2023
Brian Kam is excited to be planning and playing the music for Healing Journey 2023. Healing Journey has been a time of renewal and strengthening in different ways for his journey as a father and husband. It has helped to remind him of the healing power of Christ physically, emotionally, and spiritually. In HJ2023, we will use song to remind us of the healing power of our Lord and Savior. As a people, we remember where our help comes from by looking to the mountains and remembering how our God has saved His people in the past and continues to save us now.’
HOTEL INFORMATION
Recommended Hotels in the Area:
Hampton Inn & Suites Denver/Highlands Ranch
3095 W County Line Rd, Highlands Ranch
303-794-1816
Indoor pool, Free parking
Residence Inn by Marriott Denver Southwest/Littleton
3090 W County Line Rd, Littleton, CO
303-791-3010
Indoor pool, Free parking
Courtyard by Marriott Denver Southwest/Littleton
3056 W County Line Rd, Littleton, CO
303-791-3001
Indoor pool, Free parking
Staybridge Suites Denver South – Highlands Ranch, an IHG Hotel
8211 Southpark Cir, Littleton, CO
303-397-9901
Indoor pool, Free parking
For all questions, please get in touch with us at Healingjourney@drm.church.