I want to give you a quick update on our Burn the Ships initiative, as of August 2025.
We’re currently working through the permitting process with Boulder County. During this phase, we’ve learned that we need to address our existing septic system before we can proceed with the next steps. Our team is actively collaborating with contractors to identify the most effective and sustainable solution for our church community. Once we have an approved plan, we’ll be able to continue advancing through the permitting process.
We are confident and expectant—God has faithfully provided for us in the past, and we trust in His continued provision.
How you can pray:
That God would provide the resources we need to move forward.
That He would continue to bless our church spiritually.
For wisdom and discernment for our team as we navigate next steps.
We’re grateful for your prayers and partnership with us. We’re excited to see how God continues to work through this journey!
Matt Hessel
Lead Pastor
First and foremost, Burn the Ships is a discipleship initiative. It is for us to grow as disciples, and it is so we can make more disciples. Our primary goal is that as close to 100% of our people will have a life-changing encounter with God as it relates to their generosity. We want every person at LifeBridge to take their next step to grow in generosity. We follow a God who is extravagantly generous. We want to follow His lead as this is part of every individual’s personal discipleship.
This investment over the 2 years represents supporting and strengthening our general budget – which is anything but “general”. It is our disciple-making ministries, NextGen ministries, care ministries, outreach partnerships, Level Up initiative, weekend experiences, and ministry operations.
If we want to win NOCO, then we need to fix and update one of our primary tools: our campus. Our goal is to renovate the entire campus to take care of deferred maintenance, reconfigure the interior of the building to maximize our space to accommodate growth and facilitate ministry, and update the aesthetic appeal of the campus.
We believe that it’s all ONE MISSION we’re on as a church — the mission to introduce people in Northern Colorado to Jesus, and lead them in their next step with Him. So we’ve decided that our collective giving over the two years will all go into one fund for this next season of ministry expansion — to celebrate the totality of our generosity growth as disciples of Jesus.
The Burn the Ships initiative will last for two years, and we are crossing the midpoint in April 2025. In the two years, every gift that is given to LifeBridge will be used both to continue our ongoing ministry work and to move our mission and vision forward.
We are asking that you pray and seek God’s leading on what He is asking of you. Prepare your heart to hear Him, and then listen to what He says.
Finally, prepare to be amazed. We serve an awesome God, and we anticipate He will move in huge ways as we seek an unprecedented impact from our collective Burn the Ships commitments – something only God can do.
Ready to be part of all that God’s doing in and through us at LifeBridge?
