Remembering Who Gets Forgotten
September to Remember starts with a question: who are we not seeing?
Not because we mean to look away. It's just easy to miss the need in front of us, the neighbor going quiet, the family barely holding on, the crisis happening on the other side of the world. Easy to walk past it, week after week, without ever really stopping.
For four weeks, we're stopping. Naming what's often overlooked, remembering the people behind it, and stepping in to actually do something about it. Because remembering was never supposed to be the finish line.
For four weeks, we're stopping. Naming what's often overlooked, remembering the people behind it, and stepping in to actually do something about it. Because remembering was never supposed to be the finish line.
From Remembering to Responding
We have power, a voice, a platform, resources, influence, whatever it is, we have it.
September to Remember is about turning that power outward. Using our voice to speak for people who don't have one. Helping the unseen be seen. That's the posture behind every week of this series: what we have isn't for us to keep.
Every week, you'll find a real way to step in, with your time, your talent, or your finances. To give, or to go.
Every week, you'll find a real way to step in, with your time, your talent, or your finances. To give, or to go.
Four Weeks We're Stopping For
Local Focus · Week 1
September 6th · Mental Health
Mental health struggles show up everywhere in the Grand Valley, and they hit hardest among people already on the margins: without access to care, without someone checking in, without anywhere to turn. More than 4 in 10 Mesa County teens report intense mental health distress, and adult distress has climbed sharply in recent years. This week, we're asking what it looks like to be the ones who show up. To notice. To listen. To be the voice and the difference for someone who needs it.
Local Focus · Week 2
September 13th · Poverty
Right here in the Grand Valley, need doesn't always look the way you'd expect. It's the family working two jobs and still coming up short. The senior choosing between groceries and medication. The kid who qualifies for free lunch because there's nothing left at home by Thursday. Roughly 1 in 7 of our neighbors don't know where their next meal is coming from, and for kids, it's closer to 1 in 5. This week, you can step directly into our local compassion efforts already reaching the hungry in our community. To show up. To give. Of your time, your talent, or your finances.
Global Focus · Week 3
September 20th · Convoy of Hope
Global Focus · Week 4
September 27th · Global Missions
For decades, Convoy has shown up in the hardest places, disaster zones, famine, communities most of the world has stopped paying attention to, and put food, water, and hope directly into people's hands. Right now, 2.33 billion people around the world are facing hunger, 864 million of them severely. This week, we join a global effort already in motion. To give one day, and help change a life on the other side of the world.
We close the series by widening the lens to the whole world. More than 3 billion people, over 40 percent of the global population, still have little to no access to the gospel: no church nearby, no Bible in their language, no one who's ever told them the story we've spent four weeks living out. Guest speaker Ray Noah of Petros Nation joins us to talk about church planting and what it takes to reach people who are still waiting to hear. To pray. To give. To go, if that's what you're being called to.
A New Way to Go Deeper
This is the first time we've paired an entire series with a book. Here's why.
A message on a Sunday can move you. But it doesn't stay with you the way a book does, on the nightstand, in the car, during a lunch break, open to a page you underlined weeks ago. Disruptive Compassion gives you somewhere to keep thinking about all of this after the room empties out.
It's written by Hal Donaldson, founder of Convoy of Hope, who you will hear from in week 3. Each week's teacher will bring in an idea or a quote from the book that connects to that week's message. Read along, and you're not just watching the series; you're living inside it a little longer.
Available at Numa. Priced at cost, with the option to pay what you can, or purchase from Amazon.
A message on a Sunday can move you. But it doesn't stay with you the way a book does, on the nightstand, in the car, during a lunch break, open to a page you underlined weeks ago. Disruptive Compassion gives you somewhere to keep thinking about all of this after the room empties out.
It's written by Hal Donaldson, founder of Convoy of Hope, who you will hear from in week 3. Each week's teacher will bring in an idea or a quote from the book that connects to that week's message. Read along, and you're not just watching the series; you're living inside it a little longer.
Available at Numa. Priced at cost, with the option to pay what you can, or purchase from Amazon.
