Denver

LifeGate Denver Turns 4 & Experiences Growth

While Jason Best, worship pastor at LifeGate Church, and his friend, Vinny, stood in line at a coffee shop, they met Chris. During their conversation, Chris opened up to them about a difficult situation. By the time they left the coffee shop, Vinny had paid for Chris’s coffee, and Jason had his email address, telling [...]

Restored Church Launches in November

When God wanted to tell His message of love to the people of Windsor, Colorado, near Fort Collins, He brought together an unlikely group. Glyn and Beckey Knight, originally from the U.K., met a small, church, located in a predominantly Hispanic community, that wanted to sponsor a new church in their growing community. That unique combination [...]

You can’t steal a church!

On Sunday morning, December 10, 2017, pastor Nirup Alphonse received a surprising early-morning phone call. The truck and trailer that store all of LifeGate Denver’s worship service supplies were gone. Stolen. “We lost everything…sound equipment, tables, T-shirts, nametags…everything,” he says. And how did LifeGate respond to what could have been a tragedy? “We decided to [...]

LifeGate Denver Gears Up for Summer Nights

Thanks to building renovations throughout the school district where LifeGate Denver typically holds weekend services, the church is meeting in a new venue at a new time throughout the summer. This kind of change can be challenging for any young congregation, but especially one where the idea of being fully committed to the local church [...]

An Easy On-Ramp

How LifeGate, Denver, is making service opportunities accessible to volunteers “Volunteers don’t serve our vision. Our vision is to serve our volunteers.” These statements, loosely paraphrased, sum up the philosophy toward volunteers at LifeGate Church in Denver, Colorado. It’s an important ideological shift, one that is helping the church create an active and viable workforce [...]

News from the Front: Reaching “Unreachables” in Denver, Colorado

LifeGate Church in Denver, Colorado, is reaching a generation that many in the church have declared “unreachable,” and they’re doing it with style. “I really thought our main growth would be through young families,” says Nirup Alphonse, pastor, “but God is bringing us a steady increase through millennials—high schoolers (who attend with or without their [...]

LifeGate Church Celebrates Successful Launch!

“This is the starting gate, not the finish line.” These are the words of Nirup Alphonse, pastor of LifeGate Church in Denver, Colorado, speaking to his team at the official church launch on February 8, 2015. By all accounts, the day was a huge success, with 175 people in attendance and 5 giving their lives [...]