In this world of uncertainty, one thing is still certain­ – we will ascend to the spiritual world when our time comes. By the immense grace of True Parents, we celebrate our lives of attendance to True Parents with the Seonghwa Ceremony and we end our earthly journey with the Wonjeon Ceremony at our burial. Elders of the Colorado Family Church Shirley Chimes, Dr. D. Michael Hentrich, Jim Chimes, David Mahardy, and Catherine Ichinohe searched for many months and eventually were led to an extraordinary burial opportunity few can match in America.

UPF Colorado, together with the Colorado Family Church, organized a Peace Road event on Sunday, August 2, 2020.

We started off with a prayer at the MLK Memorial in City Park Denver, the beginning point for Denver’s annual MLK Day “Marade”.

Since our Colorado Family Church upgraded its Sunday Service, we've had a lot of newcomers walking in the door and returning week after week. A big part of this upgrade was creating our Welcome Ministry.

The Welcome Ministry greets each person and makes sure that they are well taken care of. Newcomers are given a gift bag, matched with older members as guides, and regularly prayed for.

Despite the challenges everyone in the nation is facing right now, the families of the Colorado Family Church have found loving ways to connect and support each other through this difficult time. Several families in the community had become very ill (presumably Covid-19) and were suffering from very high fevers, headaches, breathing difficulties and complete exhaustion. It was disheartening for everyone, not being able to do much to help. However, one way people could make a difference was in providing meals for these families. Whether through an organized meal app, or simply being compelled organically. Family after family cooked nutritious and warming dishes, and then dropped them off on the porches of the affected members. The food is not only feeding their physical bodies, but their spirits as well.

I wanted to write out my testimony of what took place exactly two weeks ago from today: how Mike and Adonia Hentrich of the Colorado Family Church lifted us from destitution to total resurrection. I think it's incredibly important to observe and document the small miracles, as well as the obvious ones, as a way of reminding us all how our Heavenly Parent can work through people and situations. Because when my family was in need recently, we were taken care of in a way that is very profound and something that is lacking for most people.