Behold I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth . . .
Isaiah 43:19-20
We are contending for revival in Colorado starting with the rural areas, all the way to the capital city and beyond!
"Revive" means to live, sustain life, live prosperously and be restored to life or health from sickness, discouragement, faintness and death; To give strength and to be renewed in hope and confidence; To make operative or valid again. "I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to My people…"
Why revival is needed . . .
Death has tightened its ugly grip as suicide and overdoses continue to increase throughout the state of Colorado. Now labeled the “suicide belt” of our nation, Colorado ranks seventh highest in the country. Death in the rural areas is higher than cities due to isolation and the lack of resources.
Rural veterans have a 20% increased risk of death by suicide compared to urban veterans.
Farmers and ranchers face high suicide rates due to factors including long hours, geographic isolation, lack of social opportunities, and the stigma surrounding mental health care.
Fentanyl coming across the border, along with opioid addiction has pushed the overdose rate in rural communities 45% higher per capita than in cities.
Rural veterans have a 20% increased risk of death by suicide compared to urban veterans.
Farmers and ranchers face high suicide rates due to factors including long hours, geographic isolation, lack of social opportunities, and the stigma surrounding mental health care.
Fentanyl coming across the border, along with opioid addiction has pushed the overdose rate in rural communities 45% higher per capita than in cities.
Our goal with ORC . . .
We are building an alliance of pastors, leaders, and ministries with one heart and vision to see Colorado return to her redemptive purpose as a life-giving forerunner to the United States. Through a series of strategic phases and events in tri-community regions, our intent is to crush death, revive hope and restore life. By raising up ministry leaders, we can empower the Church to become the resources needed to intersect devastation and despair with God’s life and purpose.
"Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will shout for joy… For waters will burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water… A highway will be there, a way, called the Way of Holiness.” Isaiah 35:5-8
Stay tuned for more as we prepare to hit the ground running . . .
"Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, life will flow from each one, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land…" Isaiah 32:2