Join us for worship, community gatherings, and special events throughout the year.
EDV Serves: Dinner at Colorado Village Collaborative Micro-Community
Sunday, January 11, 2026
12:00 AM
Help EDV build relationship with the residents of the Colorado Village Collaborative Micro-Community at 38th and Steele. Prep food beforehand and join together to serve dinner and play games with residents on Saturday January 10th, from 5p-7p.
We hope to provide 40 total meals. Sign up to make Entrees, Salad+Bread+Drinks, or Desserts for 20 people.
**if you'd like to help make food but need financial assistance to buy the ingredients, please indicate that when you register.**
Who is Colorado Village Collaborative?
Empowering Community, Enacting Change
Mission: Colorado Village Collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing homelessness.
Micro-Communities are small communities comprised of individual, hard-sided shelter and a community center. Micro-Communities serve people experiencing homelessness, providing safety, stability, and shelter during transitional times in a person’s life.
Join us for our annual Winter Soul Care Retreat hosted at ARVADA VINEYARD. This is a dedicated space to reflect on 2025 and prayerfully look ahead to 2026, considering the ways God might be calling you to live for the upcoming year.
Register directly with Arvada Vineyard here ( https://mhv.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/3301108%20 ).
And since we are an invitational church, consider who you might invite to join you:
* Do you have a friend who wants to think deeply about where they have been this past year and where they would like to go in the year to come? Invite them!
* Do you have a friend who is seeking to follow Jesus and wants to experience his clarity and his rest? Invite them!
* Do you have a friend who needs space to be reflective about the shape of their life in this season of following Jesus? Invite them!
We invite you to join us — and thousands of others from across the state — in the Denver Marade, the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, on Monday January 19 from 10am-1pm, with an opportunity to also serve marchers from 9-10am.
The Denver MLK Marade is the longest running MLK parade in the country and participating in it is a simple public way of demonstrating God's heart for Justice and to spread hope that we might taste the future fullness of the Kingdom of God even now, here on earth.
Park at Church In the City then head over to the MLK statue and look for the Faithbridge banner and Pastor Vernon Jones, Jr.—we will be marching together!
If you also want to serve marchers, EDV is sponsoring free-coffee and hot chocolate at Church In the City and offering prayer before the Marade officially begins, 9-10am. We would love to have you represent the love of Jesus with us through these simple acts of kindness.
Please Register to march and/or volunteer.
Join us on Wednesday mornings from 7:45a-8:45a for a time of prayer and bible study as we root ourselves in the Scripture from Sunday’s sermon and praying for our church.
We encourage you to pray for EDV every Wednesday, even if you are unable to join us on Wednesday mornings.
Note: Text 720.663.9433 or use the EDV Slack #edvupdates channel to be let in, use the red church office door. To find the prayer room, take stairs by red door to the second floor, then head down the hallway.
How satisfied are you and your partner in your relationship?
If you are just dating, newlyweds or newly committed, empty nesters, considering divorce or just looking for ideas to improve communication with your partner, join us for this workshop!
This relationship wellness workshop, led by Darren McKinnis, will introduce you to key principles based on the popular Gottman Method, created by world-renowned psychologists Drs. John and Julie Gottman.
Cost is $10/couple; please register just one of you.
About Darren: I'm the only Gottman Certified Therapist in the 4 Corners and the only male certified therapist in Denver. I work with conflict in the relationship. Everyone experiences conflict in life. My job is to teach you how to do it with your significant other, successfully!
Friday, February 27, 2026 - Until Sunday, March 1, 2026
11:00 PM
Join us for our first ever EDV All Church Retreat! On the weekend of February 27-March 1, our church will take a break from our normal Sunday worship to travel down to Colorado Springs for an All Church Weekend Retreat.
The theme of our retreat is “Empowered Sabbath” and it will be an opportunity to rest with one another as well as to worship in the midst of a million Ponderosa Pines. We’ll have teaching and activations on the power of the Holy Spirit to bring life, healing, and rest in the midst of a world and a time so desperately in need of our God's powerful renewal.
Friday, February 27 @ 4pm thru Sunday, March 1 @ 11am
La Foret Conference and Retreat Center in Colorado Springs
Cost is significantly subsidized by EDV and includes rooms and meals: $150/adult, $40/child.
We do have scholarships available, so reach out if you need that. And also, if you have a neighbor or friend who you think would love to join us, let us know and EDV would love to sponsor a newcomer or family of newcomers!
Pilgrim Way Salon: Lab Dogs, Ethics, and the Hidden World of Animal Research
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
1:00 AM
Pilgrim Way Salons
Monthly | 7–9pm | Drinks & Appetizers to Start
Suggested donation: $10
What makes a life worth living? What does it mean to seek what is good, beautiful, and true?
Once a month, we gather around these questions—not to debate, but to dwell. Our Pilgrim Way Salons are curated evenings of conversation, hospitality, and reflection hosted in a welcoming space, with drinks and light fare to begin.
"What’s a salon?"
It’s not just a haircut—or a fancy term. Historically, salons were intimate gatherings in homes where people explored big ideas through civil, spirited conversation. That’s what we’re reclaiming.
Each evening features a guest speaker or expert voice, followed by guided dialogue and generous Q&A. Whether you’re skeptical, spiritual, curious, or convicted, come pull up a chair. There’s room at the table.
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Salon: Lab Dog — Love, Ethics, and the Hidden World of Animal Research
with journalist Melanie D.G. Kaplan
What happens when love for one animal leads you into a moral maze that implicates millions of others?
In Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research, journalist Melanie D.G. Kaplan weaves together memoir, investigative reporting, and ethical inquiry. The story begins with a beagle she loves—and unfolds into a searching exploration of the scientific, legal, and moral systems that shape how animals are used in research.
As a former MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow and Vermont Law School Animal Law Media Fellow, Kaplan brings rare access and clarity to a world most of us never see: laboratories, regulatory bodies, scientists, activists, and the quiet contradictions many well-meaning people live with when care, progress, suffering, and necessity collide.
This salon will explore questions that resist easy answers:
* How do we hold compassion and complexity at the same time?
* What does it mean to care deeply while participating—directly or indirectly—in systems that cause harm?
* Where do love, science, ethics, and responsibility intersect in a modern world built on tradeoffs?
About the Author
Melanie D.G. Kaplan is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on science, ethics, and the human stories beneath complex systems.
– 2021–22 MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow
– 2022 Vermont Law School Animal Law Media Fellow
Books will be available for purchase.
