• Timothy Project KE 2014: Keeping Up With Kenya

    Recently, Pastor Mike Klassen of the Neighborhood Church of Littleton, shared this letter with CrossTraining after the team's earlier trip to Kenya. Thank you CrossTraining for helping make The Neighborhood Church’s mission trip to Kenya an overwhelming success! August 7-20, our church sent a team of five people to share God’s love with children living in two orphanages—one in Kitale (on the western end of the country) and one in Nairobi. Before I left, I asked Brad Kenney if CrossTraining could find some soccer equipment to donate to the two orphanages. “No problem,” he replied. “Just give me a few weeks to round it up.” A few days before our departure, Brad asked me to meet him at his house

    Oct 16,
    - by Brad Kenney

  • Timothy Project HT 2014: Helping in Haiti

    For the team at Parker Evangelical Presbyterian Church today's mission trip to Haiti represents an exciting return to a country that has been wrecked and ravaged by so many things - from natural disasters, like earthquakes to extreme poverty and a lack of natural resources. For Pastor Gary McCusker the trip to Haiti wasn't part of his original plan. For the past two years, I have led a Parker High School’s Baseball Mission trip to the Dominican Republic...due to the success of these trips, we expected to return this year with a larger group than the past two years combined. But, as McCusker shares, the doors of opportunity closed to Dominican and a different door - one to neighboring Haiti, opened instead. To be

    Oct 09,
    - by Brad Kenney

  • From the Rev: Someone between Ezra and Nehemiah

    During seminary, I recall a particular moment when I was contemplating what future ministry would look like: one scenario, meant fundraising for salary and ministry to work with the Colorado Rapids as chaplain; the other scenario, meant working and doing the chaplaincy within the "margins" of life and work. As I relayed my fear and aversion of trying to raise money to my best friend, he simply said, "Oh, you must be an Ezra." His statement caught me off-guard and I begged an elaboration. He proceeded to share that in looking at different personality types, it had been helpful for him to compare the contemporaries of Ezra and Nehemiah. Both men of God, they both made a return to Jerusalem in

    Sep 14,
    - by Brad Kenney

  • Timothy Project MX 2014: Back to Mexico

    For Ann Nerney, the trip to Juarez, Mexico in a couple of weeks will be a return to a place where she encountered God moving amongst the poor of Juarez and she is excited to go and minister there again. We all went to Juarez together to build a house for a family in 2013...When the family received the keys to the house, they were not the only ones crying with joy.  It has filled our hearts with a love of the people of Juarez and gives us a reality of how God blesses each of our lives. With Juarez being one of the most severely depressed and impoverished areas so close to the United States, the impact of seeing

    Sep 11,
    - by Brad Kenney

  • From the Rev: Character in the Dark

    The evangelist, D.L. Moody once said, "Character is what you are in the dark." Who are we when no one is looking? Who are we when no one is around? Perhaps, for the professional athlete, this question seems irrelevant - much of the professional life is spent in front of cameras, events and comments are captured by smartphones, minutia is tweeted, facebooked, instagrammed and more.  Is there any dark in an athletes' life? Is there any moment when the crowds or coaches, family or friends aren't watching? Well, regardless if we are professional athletes or have another vocational capacity there are no moments when we are ever truly alone or unseen. Proverbs 15:3 tells us, The eyes of the LORD are everywhere,

    Sep 07,
    - by Brad Kenney
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