Our Story
Thank you for reading our story. There are many many days of heartache and triumph. May our story point us all to the bigger story and even more so yet to the Great Storyteller! He is worthy of our hearts’ affections and our very lives.
Formed out of death…
Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Three of us came to Northern Colorado in the Summer of 2018 to start a new church. That church died in late summer of 2020. Upon the death of that first church; some of us wondered what was next. A few of us wanted to keep going and wanted to put down roots here in the Northern Colorado soil, but we were also hurting. So we took our time…
There is a wonderful Christian reality called the resurrection. Jesus lived. Jesus died. Jesus rose from the dead.
That same Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12:24
We believed and still believe the death of one gathering has led to a new life being expressed in a new way hoping to bear much fruit over time. There was real pain at the end of 2020. Real life has been born out of real death…that is good news!
So we’re a church?…
Spring 2021-Summer 2021
There was no accident in the forming of Valiant Community Church, but when we became a local church has always been a bit funny to us. We were gathering together at the end of 2020 and into early 2021. We had determined we liked gathering, and we also determined we were not a church. We were being the church, but we were not a church.
By March 2021 we said otherwise. We said…”so we’re a church?”. The answer was yes. We had been living out life as a church, and now we were ready to make that “official” in the eyes of God, each other, the State of Colorado, and the community of Northern Colorado.
By this time we had a vision from the scriptures which was guiding our process, focus, and intentions. The vision also gave us our name. We said we would call ourselves, Valiant Community Church, because Gideon was a “mighty man of valor.” Judges 6:12
We said we thought the world was going to need people of courage. The world was in need of people to not give in when life is difficult, to sacrifice for others when the need is apparent, to give of ourselves when the country was divided, and to not run away from challenges because people were hurting. So we took on the name Valiant. Community was added because we wanted to be a community of people with similar hearts but diversified in personality, economics, culture, etc etc. We added the word, Church, because that word is the best word to describe a people of God on mission together. Valiant Community Church was born in the summer of 2021.
Year One of Three…
Summer 2021-Summer 2022
The vision we have is a three year vision. The first two years are mostly unseen works underground if you will in the spiritual soil of our lives. The work of God being done this first year is a deepening of faith, relationship in Christ, and healing. The second year’s work of God is more of the same as year one. The third year of the vision is a planting of new “crops and vineyards” and a reaping of harvest. We are in year one of this vision. The Lord has added to our number and has taken away from our number, but we sense a strong new work God is doing in Northern Colorado.
So we press on expecting to see God do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine.
Even in year one we have seen God grow our resources and He has met us in our needs. He is shaping our future, and we trust Him.