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If you are a pastor and would like to help lead the state for life, contact us for an invitation to our 1-hour remote meeting with pastors across the state on the 2nd Thursday of each month for encouragement and ideas for leading your congregation for life!

PASTORS FOR LIFE

ABOUT US

Pastors For Life (PFL) will lead the state to protect vulnerable children and pregnant mothers from those greedy to exploit and destroy them. PFL advises CLI, reviewing CLI strategies and wording for theological soundness. PFL invites all pastors to lead God's people in changing law to end the sacrifice and slaughter of innocent children. Pastors of any denomination in any capacity (lead, assistant, youth, worship, elder, missions) are invited the 2nd Thursday of the month at 11 am. Because every child is worth protecting.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. (Matthew 28:20)

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

PFL Core Team

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Dr. Jimmy Alexander

Dr. Jimmy Alexander, founder of Alexander Ministries International, Inc.. has pastored several churches in the United States and helped to establish more than 60 churches worldwide, as well as missions and Bible schools throughout the world on four continents since 1971. Jimmy holds a Doctorate in Theology, a professional designation of Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow, has served on an advisory board to a U.S. Congressman for several years, and was on an Advisory Council to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Insurance Division in Colorado.

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Dr. Sean Cole

Sean Cole is the lead pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sterling, Colorado. He has a doctor of ministry in expository preaching from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also an adjunct instructor of Old and New Testament and Biblical Interpretation at Colorado Christian University. He hosts a podcast called "Understanding Christianity." His wife is Dawn, and they have two boys, Aidan and Zachary.

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Dr. Scott T. Bottoms

Dr. Scott T. Bottoms is the Representative for CO House District 15 located in El Paso County, serving in his second term. He is also the Lead Pastor of Church at Briargate in Colorado Springs, where he has served for almost thirteen years. Before serving in Colorado Springs, Dr. Bottoms served in Strasburg, CO and Rocky Ford, CO. During that time, Dr. Bottoms earned his Bachelor of Arts in Church Ministries from Southwestern Assemblies of God University in 2002, then in 2006 earned his Master of Arts in Urban and Intercultural Ministries. In 2011, Dr. Bottoms finished his Doctorate of Ministry in Intercultural Spiritual Leadership.

Dr. Bottoms is a veteran having served eight years in the United States Navy. He has served on executive boards with the Assemblies of God, Nelson University, and Strong Cross Ministries, serving as the chair for Sarah’s Home.

Dr. Bottoms has been married to Linda for 34 years, and together they have three children, two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren.

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Pastor Mark Landess

Pastor Mark moved to Colorado Springs with his wife Lori in 1983 to become the church's associate pastor. After the close of the previous pastor’s ministry, Mark was asked to be the church pastor. His ministry at the church is characterized by a commitment to expositional teaching and preaching. After years of supporting “pro-life” ministries, Pastor Mark and associate pastor Chris Gaona realized some of the “pro-life” ministries were not that “pro-life.” God sovereignly crossed their paths with Colorado Life Initiative and Got-A-Heart Ministries. In 2024, Pastor Mark was asked by Faye Barnhart to become part of the Pastor’s for Life team to assist with Biblical direction.

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Chris Gaona

Pastor Chris and his wife, Christa have been a part of Nor’wood Bible Church since October of 1999. They have served the church in varying capacities as lay ministers, until January 2020, when Pastor Chris came on staff as an Associate Pastor. Through the challenges and lessons learned by going through COVID in 2020, God brought about a passion for seeing all of life under the authority of Christ, prompting a desire to be more engaged in the community and culture. By God’s sovereign hand, He brought about a connection with the Colorado Life Initiative, and as a result, Pastor Chris’s involvement in Pastor’s for Life.

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Phil Steiger

Phil Steiger and his wife Heather are both natives of Colorado and have been married for 31 years. Phil has been the Senior Pastor of Living Hope Church for 20 years and has loved the opportunity to minister in the community he and Heather have called home all their lives. Phil has a B.A. in Economics from CU Colorado Springs, and an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion from Denver Seminary. Phil and Heather have three wonderful dogs and almost more nieces and nephews (biological and spiritual) than they can count.

Assistant to Pastors For Life

Faye Barnhart, LAS

Faye was a women’s advocate for 19 years, served four pregnancy care centers in two states, including serving as the CEO/Executive Director of the largest pregnancy care center in the United States and Colorado geographically, growing from a center about to close its doors to five locations covering six counties and converting it to a medical clinic with more than fifty dedicated volunteers and maintaining more than a 90% carry rate for mothers over seven years. She started in the prolife cause in the 1980’s. A prelaw student who graduated with honors, she worked toward a master’s degree as a single mom. She was an aid at the Colorado state capitol, an intern in the media, and served on a federal think tank on the co-occurrence of adult and child violence. After her degree later in life, she pursued a career in communications for international ministries. Faye was accredited as a Life Affirming Specialist and has walked with many mothers facing overwhelming challenges while pregnant as they chose life for their children. She helped write and put forward life initiatives in 2020 and was a Co-Proponent of the Colorado life initiative in 2024. She is married to a Colorado farmer with grown married children, an adopted special needs son, and grandchildren, one of whom needed life-saving surgery at birth. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior as a small child in the church where her late father pastored.

"When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers,
I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless
and plead the case of the widow.” (Isaiah 1:15-17)

"For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another, if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever. But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 7:5-11)