City of Refuge Church

Jesus on Trial (3/28/15) Dave Greshel

Adoption By Laura Purdie 3/21/15

The Trinity by Jacob Carroll (3/14/15)

Debra Cox

Leadership Meeting 2/27/15

Tommy and Krissi Green with Peter Ross

Celebrating Dreams By Peter Ross, Tommy, and Krissi Green(2/29/15)

Q & A Part 2 (2/14/15)

by Laura Purdie, Chris Cox, Patrick Kelley and Alberto Suriel

Q1 How do you feel about how Christianity and Politics merge/intersect/collide?- Alberto Suriel

Q2. What would you say is "the mission of the church?  What is our charter? -Laura Purdie



Q3 When seeking "healing" from past hurts (ability to trust, pain from betrayal, fears about future) what is the responsibility we have vs that of God to bring about healing?


Q4 Why does God remove people from us when we want healing and restoration? Are our tears ever in vain? If He says "no" how do you accept that when you don't want to? - Chris Cox


Q5 When you feel like God doesn't hear you, what is the problem? Why does God remove people from us when we want healing and restoration? Are our tears ever in vain? If He says "no" how do you accept that when you don't want to? When you feel alone and people give trite answers, what is God really wanting from us? Is he wanting cookie cutter responses or healing? -Patrick Kelly


Q6 Was the law abolished or fulfilled? how do they interact now in the new covenant. -Alberto Suriel

Defeating Lies and Vows with The Character Of Jesus By Travis Gibb 2/09/15

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. ephesians 4:25          

I stand and educated people often in regards to how to be succesful. I have meetings and inspire people. I put my heart into the community at large to build them up in hopes to see others succeed. I have a great track record in this. However, standing her in front of our church. I am humbled and nervous. Business, is easy but this is hard. This intimate. You see its standing here that i worry about what people think. I know people in this room have seen my struggles. They have seen my heart, we have cried together, we have laugh together. I have seen Jesus within them. In the way they speak to me i have felt the love of the father. However, i wonder do they see Jesus in me?  The truth, i know thats a lie. I know that those arent what i need to be worried about. I know what right in my heart. I know that people see me with love and i have blessed them just as much as the have bless me. However, often its easier to just believe the lie. The truth is harder pill to swallow. So, today i want to talk about the lies and vows we make. I want to talk about how they wage battle with us but as long as we continue to learn and grow from the character of christ that we can overcome and achieve even greater things. Then what we think.

Impacting Our Culture (Guest speaking at COTR on 11/16/14)

Impacting our culture

At COR we are really big on raising leaders so that we can impact culture. We believe that as we help unleash the call and gifting in an individual within their context we help release the culture of the throne room of God into our daily lives.

What is culture?
Culture: refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, hierarchies, roles, determined by the development of a collective

People create culture with the fundamentals of their value system. Being position to set the value system at the center of culture is vital to developing it.

It’s not just about raising good kids it’s about developing an environment where living righteously  is not only admired but rewarded.

Why is impacting our culture important?

Bill Johnson from bethel once asked the question: “Why has the mormon religion managed to grow for over 100 years, despite persecution and false theology?” He answers that question by saying “Its because they have built a culture that protects and promotes what they believe.“
Mormons realized early on that if they are not in the business of creating and impacting culture than what they believe is vulnerable to be attacked and shrink.

Mormons vs The State of California: It was primarily the mormon voters who voted in the state of california to prevented, albeit for only a few years, that same sex marriage becoming legal in the state. This was made possible because the Mormon leaders of the LDS Church put out a decree to all their congregants to organize, protest and vote.  

We even almost had a Mormon President (Mitt Romney) a feat that would not have been possible 50 years ago. Considering how tough of a time we had trying to accept a catholic president (JFK) in 1961

Both Bethel and IhopKC have created a culture-impacting-community that is actively shaping the surrounding community. How they do this I hope to help you understand. Not because you guys aren't doing it but by understanding how we do it can help us capitalize on our efforts:

The primary objective of God is to glorify his son by  entrusting Him with  His kingdom. The primary objective of Jesus is to glorify his father by expanding his kingdom. The primary objective of the holy spirit is to glorify both by building the kingdom in the hearts of man.

Our  primary objective is to glorify the trinity not by building a church but by expanding the kingdom of God here on the earth. We do that by impacting and transforming the culture around us.  COTR has been actively doing that by creating a revival culture as part of its DNA.


Impacting culture really isn't as complicated as it might sound. as a matter of a fact we do it all the time. Here’s an easy way to look at it:

Guest Speaker Gary Stebbins (10/25/14)