THE TEAM

Favorite Things: Biking around Denver, breakfast burritos, snowboarding, riding the RTD to Union Station, farmer’s markets, smoking tri-tip, reading, mountain biking, listening to podcasts, spending time with Daylie and being a girl dad x3! 

Taylor doesn’t like: snakes, true crime podcasts, scary movies, humidity, mosquitos and all the pokey weeds that are in my yard.

Favorite Things: Reading, crossword puzzles, true crime podcasts, ice cream, carbs, my husband and girls, coffee first thing in the morning, the feeling when I don’t have to cook dinner.

Daylie doesn’t like: laundry, being late, when people ask for a bite of my food, BATS.

Taylor and Daylie Hunt have spent the last 10 years serving together at Mission Church in Ventura, California, where they developed a deep love for creating spaces where people from every kind of story can experience the hope of Jesus. For Taylor, that calling is personal—his own faith came alive at one of the messiest and lowest points of his life, and ever since, he’s dreamed of planting a church for messy, broken, searching people just like him. Now, Taylor and Daylie are bringing that dream to Denver—a city they love, filled with people searching for connection, purpose, hope, and something more. Along with their three girls, they’re putting down roots here to help create a church where people can come exactly as they are and discover a hope that meets them right in the middle of real life.

T.D. and Jen Oakes have been married for 29 years and have two adult kids and two needy dogs—Scout the Labrador (angel) and Buckley the Beagle (handful). Both raised in Denver, they grew up just miles apart but somehow didn’t meet until college in Missouri. They’ve spent more than 30 years doing ministry together, including helping plant Mission Church in Ventura, California, 15 years ago. Now they’re thrilled to be back home in Colorado for this next (Broncos) season of life, bringing everything they’ve learned and experienced along the way to CityHope—and they can’t wait to see what God does next.

Favorite Things:  Music, Painting, Photography, Snowboarding, Tenkara Fly Fishing, E-Bike, Movies, Denver Broncos, Surfing, Trail Running, Chipotle

T.D. doesn’t like: bad drivers