Rough draft; needing advice on slide design and whether or not music is warranted for the topic, or if it would just distract.

1. What do churches spend money
on?

2. Programs
Youth ministry
Electricity
Water bills
Family nights
Building upkeep

3. Cost to start a new church:
300,000 $ (over two
years)

4. There are over 500
churches in downtown
Denver alone.

5. I’m not saying that churches
don’t do a lot of good with the
money they spend…

6. Because they do. But we
also spend a lot of money
(and time) on ourselves.

7. This isn’t a guilt trip; as Christians,
we need to be good stewards of our
money.

8. When we spend all of our
time and money in a
building…

9. We miss the important people that are right outside our
walls.

10. 60 percent of the homeless
in Denver are families with
children...

11. 42 percent are
women…

12. And of the 10,604 homeless
people living in Denver…

13. 3,374 are teens age 24 or
under.

14. Big numbers like that make
homelessness both
impersonal and daunting,
but the facts are the facts.

15. So, what can we do?

17. Dry Bones is an organization
that seeks to help these
disenfranchised young people
living on the streets of Denver.

18. Started by Matt and Nikki
Wallace, Dry Bones builds
relationships with teens that live
on the streets…

19. Bringing life to kids who had lost it:

20. Dry bones, hear the word of the
LORD! This is what the
Sovereign LORD says to these
bones: I will make breath enter
you, and you will come to life.

21. This excerpt from Ezekiel 37
is the defining theme for their
work downtown.

22. Dry bones has a four-
faceted mission:

23. REACH
We are freely extended beyond
our familiar boundaries in order to
form relationships that lead to
rescue.

24. Rescue
Within the context of relationships,
the message of Jesus is shared,
people are saved, and everyone’s
faith grows.

25. Reconcile
The natural response in a rescued
life will be the reconciliation of torn
and broken aspects of life.
Rescued people will find new
beginnings, continue to grow in
faith, conquer addictions, and
return to family.

26. Reclaim
We equip, inspire, and deploy
God’s people to realize their
purpose: to take back what
rightfully belongs to God.