Keita Andrews
Keita is a pastor at Colorado Community Church (CCC) and serves as the Director of the MORE Life Center and CCC Recovery Ministries. He enjoys the outdoors, where you can often find him on his bike. Keita is an advocate for God’s grace and seeks to help men and women move through their “hurts, habits and hang-ups” so they can fully experience God’s love.
Kacy Lou Leyba
Kacy is your a-typical, 6’2″, Xicana, barefoot hippie. During the school year, she answers to, “Yo, Miss!” in the halls of the Denver Street School where she currently works as the East Campus Principal. Her passions lie where storytelling, adventure, spiritual motherhood, cross-cultural ministry, and the opportunity to see the goodness of the Lord in the crappiest of situations intersect.
Chuck Orwiler
“Is it dumb to believe in God?” That question launched Chuck on his faith journey decades ago. It remains with him as a driving force for living a relevant faith.
He served on the staff of Denver Friends Church for 37 years. Now retired he spends his considerable leisure time traveling the world and playing golf. Which is absolutely true, except for the considerable leisure time, world travel, and golf.
Chuck is grateful for the ministry of WGA which has enriched his life since its inception. He and Vicky enjoy their family, their faith community, creative handwork, and walking in pretty places.
Colleen Sanderlin
Colleen is a former middle school teacher turned fire and life safety educator- she has a passion for empowering people of all ages with life changing information and skills. As a middle school teacher, Colleen taught an array of subjects including: AVID, Physical Education, Adventure Education and more. She coached 120 pre-teen aspiring track athletes at one time and even taught driver’s education on the side. In her current role with a local fire department, she educates community members about human behavior and ways to reduce risk to make the community safer.
She has knitted over 140 hats, run half marathons, prefers manual transmissions and would choose a sunrise over a sunset. She is an aspiring improvisational theater participant and enthusiast in the Denver area. She is also a part of the one percent. The one percent of ambidextrous people on the planet. She has yet to identify her spirit animal.
She believes God writes a story on every human heart. We are personally pursued by a God of grace and redemption, mercy and healing. She believes real beauty is found in ashes. (Isaiah 61:1-10)
She enjoys spending time with her family and going to various Little Man Ice cream venues across the state. She loves Disney world, a nice walk and can occasionally be found picking up a basketball and sinking some 3-pointers. She is a fourth generation Coloradoan and LOVES calling Colorful Colorado home.
Halee Savery
Halee is a full time mom to 2 inherited teenage girls and 3 small children, wife to one fabulous husband, and part time music leader at Denver Friends Church. She hasn’t slept in 5 years, but still manages to dance with her children in the kitchen, push all the neighborhood children on the tire swing in her front yard, and answer all the questions about life thrown at her by her 5 year old (yes, flies have ears and I have no idea why God made wasps). One day, she’ll probably go back to teaching music and performing in the occasional musical, but for now, she is enjoying her kids, her church, and lots of coffee.
Tyler Traylor
Tyler is the Operations Coordinator and Pastoral Intern at St. Patrick Presbyterian Church in the heart of downtown Denver. He is also the Executive Project Manager for the Aspen Grove Church Planting Network; a non-profit that exists to serve church-planting churches through recruiting, equipping, funding, and prayer. Currently enrolled in the London School of Theology; working towards an M.A. in Biblical Hermeneutics. He loves to preach the Gospel to himself and others, believing it to be the power of God for salvation. Currently, he spends his time trying to climb the ranks of Chess.com and flipping free furniture on Craigslist.
Rubèn Rodríguez
Ruben is a screenwriter and pastor living in Littleton, Colorado. His eclectic and geographically scattered upbringing, coupled with a strong passion for people and art, have given him a unique voice for both the screen and pulpit. Ruben has been invited to speak in various places across the globe on the topics of creativity and spirituality, and is currently the Parish Director for The Sacred Grace East Colfax, a parish church plant to the people on and around East Colfax in Aurora, Colorado. He has been married for ten years to an incredibly patient wife and has two super rad daughters. He loves reading, writing, film, music, rock climbing, and disc golf.
Beth Vrieswyk
Beth is a writer and artist who grew up in Denver. She has spent the last few years as a piano teacher, but recently left the education field to work as an event planner in Aurora. She loves playing the guitar and piano, and is in the process of finishing her first novel.
Tamika Simmons
Tamika is the Education Coordinator for Work Options for Women; a non-profit culinary training program for all people. She has also worked with Providence Network and Open Door Fellowship as a Pastoral Apprentice for three years. She received a Masters of Divinity with a specialty in Messianic Jewish Studies from Denver Seminary in 2015. She loves sharing God’s message of love and acceptance while, continually receiving it, through everyday interactions and personal introspection of God’s love for her and everyone on this earth. Currently, she is trying to conquer Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody on her cello and learn how to cook a perfectly medium well steak.
Adam Skinner
Adam is a full-time student in Denver Seminary's clinical counseling program. Over his 11 years in Denver, he's been a performance poet, a case manager for people with HIV/AIDS, and a preacher at Scum of the Earth Church. When not spending time with his wife and new daughter, he can be found getting lost in the mountains with a hammock and a good book, but only if you're willing to search pretty far off-trail.
Tracey Hups
As a communications director, Tracey creates content including blogs, white papers, infographics, webinars, newsletters, and emails—lots and lots of emails. After working remote for 7 years, Tracey discovered that she is an extrovert’s extrovert and is really happy to be back working in an office surrounded by people. An avid reader, Tracey is making her way through James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read Before You Die. Currently, she is about 90 percent through the A’s, so she has a long way to go, but is enjoying rereading old favorites like Richard Adams’s Watership Down as well as discovering new gems like the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.