Messages from the Northwest Region

All right. I am Reverend Kimberlee Law, and I serve three Episcopal churches. I’m a Lutheran pastor, but serve three Episcopal churches, Glenwood Springs, St. Barnabas, St. John’s in New Castle, Colorado, and then All Saints in Battlement Mesa. It is a delight to be a partnership vicar for these three churches.

We have a variety of things going on, and one of my favorite times of the season we’re about to enter into is our season of creation, where we spend about eight weeks focusing on creation and just thinking about our relationship with the natural world and how we can be better stewards of God’s creation. So that’s upcoming.

Of course, it’s wedding season, and we just had a baptism at one of the churches, so those are always a delight. But it’s a lovely region, wonderful missioner that we’re sorry is leaving us, and we just are grateful to be … I’m grateful to be serving there. Thank you.

Hey, Colorado, it’s Matthew Frey, St. John’s in Granby, Trinity Church in Kremmling, and Cranmer Chapel in Winter Park, and we are delighted to be part of the Northwest Region up here. One of the things that you may not know about the Northwest Region is that we’ve got the best skiing in all of Colorado. So if you’re planning that youth group trip and you’re wondering where to go ski and then worship on Sunday morning, we’re one of the places that you can come.

Hello, I’m Catie Green. I’m the rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Steamboat Springs. And in thinking about the Northwest Region and what I find just most encouraging about my service to this community is just the thin space between the created world and the world of the church. You can certainly worship with the wonder and glory of God’s people inside a building, but the creation outside just makes it even more spectacular, especially in these … Any season of the year, the thin space is always a means of connection to God in great ways.

Hi, I’m Deacon Mike Williams, and I’m with Transfiguration in Vail, and I’ve been here now for about 30 years, and the last eight, I’ve been the deacon. And I have been very, very involved in our community. I’m the only deacon in the Vail Valley, and so I get to be involved with a lot of everything that goes on.

We’re very service-oriented here. We have a lot of really fun people that work with us, that help us out. We have a mobile kitchen that serves for accidents or fires or stuff like that, to prepare food for the workers there. We have four shelters that we can use for people who … when Vail Pass is closed, or Glenwood Canyon is closed, that we can provide shelter for them and food and a bed. And it’s all done by the involvement of the community spirit.

It’s a wonderful bunch of people. We have a lot of things going on. The church is very, very active. And please come and join us whenever you’re in the area. We’d love to have you. Thank you.

Hey, I’m Reverend Will Fisher. I’m an at-large supply and interim minister in the Northwest Region, and we worship a wild God. We live an adventurous and sometimes even dangerous faith. So what better place to live that faith and to serve that God than here in the Northwest Region. God bless.