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Church Profile

The Monument Hill Church Transition Study Team provided the following church profile to candidates for our Senior Pastor position. It is a brief summary, as of January 2010, of who we are as a body of Christ. This was done for the purpose of allowing candidates to more fully consider this ministry in prayer as a calling for them and their families.

Monument Hill Church S.B.C. was founded in 1957 as the 1st Baptist Church of Monument. Since that time our church has had six senior pastors. Our most recent, Pastor Brad Cowger, was called in 1985 and resigned after 23 years of ministry.

In 1994, the church relocated from downtown Monument to its present location, and changed names to Monument Hill Church S.B.C. (MHC). Our present facility was originally built as a wildlife museum. It is presently configured primarily as a church with office and classroom space, but we also rent office space to offset building operating costs. Our budget is challenging us at the moment.

Our present shepherd is an Intentional Interim Pastor. Pastor Fred Meeks was called to oversee the Intentional Interim Ministry, central to which is our Transition Study Team.

MHC membership is presently at or about 138, with an average attendance of 111 at the primary worship service over the past year. We have only one Sunday Morning service, preceded by Sunday School, presently with three classes ongoing. We have children’s and youth ministries coincident with Sunday School and the worship service.

Our most robust outreach ministry is our AWANA program. It runs on Wednesday evenings along with a youth program, and includes a bus ministry that circulates through Monument and nearby Palmer Lake to bring community kids into the church. AWANA currently ministers to fifty or so kids, and youth about another dozen.

MHC also has a clothing closet/thrift store called Helping Hands I.N.C., and an after school outreach ministry in a trailer park outside of Monument where kids can go to get supervised help with homework, and experience the love of Jesus.

We support a mission effort called The Cercadillo Project in the Dominican Republic. Two of our members are there at this writing, accompanied by former pastor Brad Cowger. Operating outside the town of Cercadillo, this ministry is spearheaded by Ms. Ina York.

MHC is also the sponsor church for Genesis Church, Castle Rock, in Castle Rock CO, just a few miles north of the Tri-Lakes area. It began in 2006 as a church plant work by Pastor Rand Clark, a former worship pastor here at MHC.

MHC is a fully cooperating church with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Pikes Peak Baptist Association. This support is reflected in the church budget.

Our demographic composition is family oriented, largely middle to upper-middle aged, and economically and educationally diverse. We value strong Bible teaching. Our core is a membership of twenty-five or so people who have been here for 10 or more years. Many of them were saved here. Most of our congregation is engaged in at least one ministry in the church.

Our home community of the Tri-Lakes area (Monument, Palmer Lake, and Woodmoor) is a vibrant and growing community. And while we here at MHC value spiritual growth more than numerical growth, we do believe that as a missional or outreach minded church we have the opportunity to grow in the immediate future. It is our desire to minister to the Tri-Lakes area in the calling of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.