¶ Yemi Mobolade biography, ministry, business, and mayoral chronology
This timeline gives the cleanest current chronology the repository can support. It distinguishes official biography, institutional PR, interview self-description, nonprofit self-description, court records, and independent reporting. Approximate or unresolved dates are marked as such.
- Event: Indiana Wesleyan University's alumni profile gives this as Mobolade's birth date in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Source posture: institutional alumni profile.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: IWU says Mobolade moved to the United States at age
17 to begin undergraduate study at Bethel University in Mishawaka, Indiana.
- Source posture: institutional alumni profile.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Bethel University identifies Mobolade as a
2001 graduate.
- Detail: City bio lists bachelor's degrees in business administration and computer information systems.
- Source posture: institutional alumni profile / official city bio.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: IWU profile says Mobolade became an Indiana Wesleyan graduate in
2006 through its online MBA / management-and-leadership program.
- Source posture: institutional alumni profile.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Abbey Mobolade met Yemi in Indiana while working toward a nursing degree and attending a church where he was on staff, according to UCHealth's 2026 profile.
- Source posture: institutional health-system profile / interview.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Mobolade moved to Colorado Springs.
- Source posture: official city bio, IWU profile, and later institutional profiles converge on the year.
- Source variation:
- City / UCHealth: moved to start a church as part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
- IWU: health crisis and desire to move west shaped the move.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade biography, formation, and civic network source cluster
- Event: Mobolade's later
2011-04-13 blog post says he had moved to Colorado Springs about three and a half months earlier to work as a church planter / missionary.
- Detail: This supports a late
2010 or early 2011 formation window for The Movement, but it should not be converted into a precise move or launch date.
- Source posture: self-description.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T184500-0600 the-movement-cma-merger-records-and-archives-pass, The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster
- Event: The public Vimeo layer for The Movement begins.
- Detail: Vimeo RSS lists
Pilot Video uploaded on 2010-11-24; profile metadata gives dateCreated as 2010-11-25T02:18:03Z.
- Source posture: public platform metadata / self-description.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, 2026-04-16T181000-0600 themovementcs-vimeo-profile-and-video-metadata
- Event: Vimeo metadata for The Movement's
Why Colorado Springs? video says Paul and Yemi describe why the harvest is ripe in downtown Colorado Springs.
- Source posture: public platform metadata / self-description; video not transcribed in this pass.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, 2026-04-16T181000-0600 themovementcs-vimeo-profile-and-video-metadata
- Event: Mobolade's
Church Redefined post describes early The Movement formation.
- Detail: The post describes Wednesday gatherings as a DNA-formation phase, says April
2011 was being spent rethinking church practice, and names John Soper, a former C&MA vice president, as teaching the gathering formula.
- Source posture: self-description.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T184500-0600 the-movement-cma-merger-records-and-archives-pass, The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster
- Event: Mobolade's
B.E.L.L.S: Living In Missional Rhythm post describes The Movement adopting missional habits from Michael Frost's BELLS framework.
- Source posture: self-description.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T184500-0600 the-movement-cma-merger-records-and-archives-pass, The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster
- Event: UCHealth profile says Abbey moved to Colorado Springs to join him after finishing nursing school.
- Source posture: institutional health-system profile / interview.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: UCHealth profile says Yemi and Abbey married in
2012.
- Source posture: institutional health-system profile / interview.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Earliest retained Wayback home-page capture identifies
The Movement Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Detail: The page says the site would return soon; it supports public web presence but not formal launch date.
- Source posture: archive snapshot.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, themovementcs-com-20120915064125
- Event: Mobolade's
theMovement 2013 Vision post describes a goal of 13 oikos / missionary communities, and a separate same-day liturgy post names Yemi Mobolade as co-leader of the Downtown-Central Missionary Community.
- Source posture: self-description.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T184500-0600 the-movement-cma-merger-records-and-archives-pass, The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster
- Event: Vimeo metadata for
theMovement's 2013 Think Big Vision describes a practical goal of 13 new oikos / missional-community units in Colorado Springs.
- Source posture: public platform metadata / self-description.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, 2026-04-16T181000-0600 themovementcs-vimeo-profile-and-video-metadata
- Event: Colorado SOS articles formed
The Wild Goose Meeting House, LLC, ID 20131335087.
- Relationship label: co-founder / downtown entrepreneur.
- Detail: articles list Russ Ware as person forming the LLC and an attachment lists Russ Ware and Blessing Mobolade as members as of organization.
- Source posture: public filing / public record; official city bio and IWU profile also place Wild Goose in
2013.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-colorado-sos-business-records
- Event: Archived The Movement home page lists Missional Communities, Priesthood of All Believers, calendar, and Sunday Gathering.
- Detail: Sunday Gathering is listed for the second and fourth Sunday of the month at Harvest Downtown,
411 N Weber St, Colorado Springs, at 5:00pm.
- Source posture: archive snapshot.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, themovementcs-com-20130722040521
- Event: Archived The Movement content pages preserve the clearest operating-model and leadership evidence.
- Detail: Leadership page lists Yemi Mobolade as
Pastor, Experimenter & Architect and Paul Aung as Pastor, Missionary & Practitioner; missional-community page lists neighborhood groups and names Abbey and Yemi Mobolade as Downtown North II leaders.
- Source posture: archive snapshot.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, themovementcs-com-community-leadership-team-20131209130247, themovementcs-com-community-missional-communities-20131209124904
- Event: Archived The Movement home page remains active with the same Sunday Gathering / missional-community framing.
- Source posture: archive snapshot.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, themovementcs-com-20140105191734
- Event: Gazette reporting says The Movement was merging with The Sanctuary.
- Detail: The article attributes founding to Paul Aung about three years earlier and describes The Movement as a Colorado Springs congregation in the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination.
- Source posture: independent reporting; direct merger document not captured.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, 2026-04-16T181000-0600 the-movement-colorado-springs-source-recovery-pass, 2026-04-16T184500-0600 the-movement-cma-merger-records-and-archives-pass
- Event: A retained MidAmerica District C&MA directory archive lists Colorado C&MA churches, including HarvestDowntown and North Springs Alliance, but does not show The Movement in the visible directory capture.
- Detail: The capture came after the reported May
2014 merger, so this is a public district-archive limit rather than proof that no earlier plant, funding, or credential file existed.
- Source posture: official district archive snapshot.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T184500-0600 the-movement-cma-merger-records-and-archives-pass, midamerica-district-ds-updates-2014
- Event: COSILoveYou describes its origin as convergence of three streams in
2014 and 2015, including Bless the City / City Serve, a generosity teaching series, and pastor / mayor convening around homelessness and Springs Rescue Mission.
- Relationship label: church-city convening collaborator.
- Source posture: official organization self-description.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade biography, formation, and civic network source cluster
- Event: Colorado SOS articles formed
Niche Coaching and Consulting, ID 20151595937.
- Detail: articles list Amber Cherise Ayers as registered agent and person forming the LLC; they do not name Mobolade.
- Source posture: public filing / public record.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-colorado-sos-business-records
- Event: IWU says Mobolade was a ministry leader at First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs from
2015 to 2017.
- Title variation: other sources use director of outreach and engagement, minister of City Outreach and Engagement, and minister of City Engagement and Worship.
- Source posture: institutional alumni profile / official biography variants.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade biography, formation, and civic network source cluster
- Event: Archived
themovementcs.com home page returns a service-provider display error.
- Source posture: archive snapshot; supports broken public web presence by this date, not formal closure.
- Source basis: The Movement Colorado Springs source cluster, themovementcs-com-20160111195021
- Event: Earlier biography material says Mobolade was recognized as a Colorado Springs Business Journal
2016 Rising Star.
- Source posture: institutional / campaign biography.
- Source basis: 2026-04-06T003651-0600 full-bio-yemi-mobolade-2903d8da
- Event: Colorado SOS articles formed
GOOD NEIGHBORS MEETING HOUSE, LLC, ID 20171339764.
- Detail: articles list Russ Ware as person forming the LLC; they do not name Mobolade.
- Source posture: public filing / public record; official city and campaign bios separately describe Mobolade as co-founder.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-colorado-sos-business-records
- Event: COSILoveYou says its nonprofit organization was founded in
2017, with Mobolade becoming board chair after he moved to the Chamber.
- Event: IWU says Mobolade became a naturalized U.S. citizen in
2017.
- Event: IWU says he became vice president of business retention and expansion at the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC in
2017.
- Source posture: official city bio / institutional alumni profile / official organization self-description.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade biography, formation, and civic network source cluster
- Event: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer lists
Cos I Love You as a 501(c)(3) with a ruling date of 2018-07.
- Event: COSILoveYou's retained
2021 Form 990 lists year of formation as 2018.
- Event: COSILoveYou says Stu Davis became executive director in
2018.
- Source posture: nonprofit public record / official organization self-description.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-nonprofit-public-records-propublica, 2026-04-16T124600-0600 cosiloveyou-governance-and-990-source-pass
- Event: Older
yemi.city biography says Mobolade was a member of the 2020 class of Colorado Governor's Fellows.
- Source posture: campaign / self-description biography.
- Source basis: 2026-04-06T003651-0600 full-bio-yemi-mobolade-2903d8da
- Event: Colorado Springs Indy reporting says Michael Smith filed a wage complaint and that Wild Goose / Good Neighbors workers presented grievances to Russ Ware and Mobolade.
- Source posture: archived independent reporting; direct CDLE complaint not captured.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-csindy-labor-source-archive-captures
- Event: CS Indy reporting says two employees/managers, Charlie Claus and Ian Williams, were fired after grievances were presented; workers alleged retaliation, while Ware disputed that characterization and said personnel issues predated the grievances.
- Source posture: archived independent reporting, allegation / response.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-csindy-labor-source-archive-captures
- Event: CS Indy reporting says about 50 picketers organized outside Wild Goose with Wild Neighbors Workers Association and labor groups.
- Source posture: archived independent reporting.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-csindy-labor-source-archive-captures
- Event: CS Indy reporting says Ware had 35 days from this date to appeal the Colorado Department of Labor ruling in Smith's wage complaint.
- Detail: The article reports wages, penalties, fines, and Ware liability; the direct CDLE determination and appeal record remain missing.
- Source posture: archived independent reporting about agency determination.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-csindy-labor-source-archive-captures
- Event: City bio says Mobolade stepped down from the city small-business role in March
2022 to launch his mayoral campaign.
- Source posture: official city bio.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: IWU profile says Mobolade began his independent mayoral campaign in April
2022.
- Source posture: institutional alumni profile.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Archived campaign
Leadership Resume says Permit Partner was officially released to the public on this date.
- Source posture: campaign self-description.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-campaign-archive-and-speech-source-pass
- Event: Colorado Springs regular municipal election produced a runoff between Mobolade and Wayne Williams.
- Detail: CPR reported Mobolade led the first-round field with
29.81% and Williams had 19.22%.
- Source posture: independent reporting; official first-round statement not captured in this pass.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade public records, campaign, and controversy source cluster
- Event: Colorado Springs mayoral runoff election.
- Official result: Mobolade
71,491 votes, 57.51%; Williams 52,812, 42.49%.
- Source posture: official statement of votes.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-election-and-court-records
- Event: City certified the
2023-05-16 mayoral runoff election results.
- Source posture: official statement of votes / city certification notice.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-election-and-court-records
- Event: Mobolade was sworn in as the 42nd mayor of Colorado Springs.
- Detail: official city inauguration page preserves his speech text and First 100 Days reference.
- Source posture: official city speech page / official city bio / local reporting.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade public records, campaign, and controversy source cluster, 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-campaign-archive-and-speech-source-pass
- Event: Mobolade spoke at the Fire and Glory tent revival in Colorado Springs.
- Relationship label: event appearance / worship-service remarks.
- Source posture: retained Colorado Times Recorder reporting.
- Source basis: 2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-55168-co-springs-mayor-speaks-at-fire-and-glory-tent-revival
- Event: CPR / Colorado Matters published an interview in which Mobolade discussed the American Dream, early college isolation, and encouragement from Brandi Miller and Vicky Garrett.
- Source posture: interview transcript.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Retained CTR reporting covers Mobolade's Facebook livestream response to migrant arrivals, including a statement that Colorado Springs was not in crisis mode.
- Source posture: independent reporting of mayoral statement.
- Source basis: 2026-04-11T155513-0600 ctr-59547-co-springs-mayor-addresses-migrant-arrivals-were-not-in-crisis-mode
- Event: Mobolade / Good Neighbors filed an answer, affirmative defenses, and crossclaims in Shamrock Foods v. Good Neighbors, Case No.
2024CV30274.
- Source posture: court filing.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-election-and-court-records
- Event: Gazette / Colorado Politics reporting described Shamrock Foods lawsuits involving Wild Goose, Good Neighbors, Mobolade, and Russ Ware.
- Detail: the follow-up identified the parallel Wild Goose case number as
2024CV30022.
- Source posture: independent reporting.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade public records, campaign, and controversy source cluster, 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: Boettcher Foundation published / distributed the
Mayor Yemi Mobolade: Mentorship Matters podcast episode.
- Detail: public page and RSS metadata describe mentorship as the episode theme, but do not name individual mentors.
- Source posture: institutional PR / podcast metadata.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T193337-0600 yemi-mobolade-post-bethel-mentor-sponsor-source-pass
- Event: New Life Men published the episode
Mayor Yemi Mobolade on Faith and Leadership, Overcoming the Fear of Failure, Making Difficult Decisions and More...
- Detail: retrieved YouTube auto-captions and manual audio verification support Kirk Humphreys, former Oklahoma City mayor, as a campaign-process mentor; Don Overton as practical campaign-family advisor; and Thomas Thompson as introducer / campaign-team / faith-neighborhood initiatives colleague.
- Source posture: podcast/video event metadata plus automated captions, with manual audio verification of the Humphreys and Overton names on
2026-04-17.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade post-Bethel mentor and sponsor source cluster, 2026-04-16T193337-0600 yemi-mobolade-post-bethel-mentor-sponsor-source-pass
- Event: Federal indictment filed in
United States v. Derrick Patrick Bernard, Jr., Ashley Danielle Blackcloud, and Deanna Crystal West, Criminal Case No. 24-cr-320-RMR.
- Source posture: federal court filing.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: DOJ announced indictments against Derrick Bernard Jr., Ashley Blackcloud, and Deanna West related to the cross-burning hoax.
- Source posture: DOJ press release.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: CPR reported Mobolade denied allegations that he lied to the FBI in the cross-burning hoax investigation and said he had no knowledge, warning, or involvement in the crime.
- Source posture: independent reporting of allegations and response.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: KKTV published an interview article for Black History Month quoting Mobolade on former Denver mayor Michael Hancock.
- Detail: Mobolade said Hancock had become a friend and, in many ways, a mentor after office.
- Source posture: independent reporting / interview.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade post-Bethel mentor and sponsor source cluster, 2026-04-16T193337-0600 yemi-mobolade-post-bethel-mentor-sponsor-source-pass
- Event: Federal court order later says Deanna West entered a guilty plea to Count 1 of the indictment.
- Source posture: federal court order.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: Colorado SOS Statement of Dissolution filed for
The Wild Goose Meeting House, LLC.
- Source posture: public filing / public record.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-colorado-sos-business-records
- Event: Colorado SOS periodic report filed for
GOOD NEIGHBORS MEETING HOUSE, LLC, listing Michael D Gemm as registered agent.
- Source posture: public filing / public record.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-colorado-sos-business-records
- Event: GovInfo federal suppression order in
24-cr-00320-RMR granted Derrick Bernard's suppression motion only as to a camcorder and denied remaining arguments.
- Source posture: federal court order.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: Federal court order denied Blackcloud and Bernard motions to dismiss and granted Blackcloud's motion to strike.
- Source posture: federal court order.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: CPR reported Derrick Bernard Jr. and Ashley Blackcloud were found guilty on charges tied to the cross-burning hoax.
- Source posture: independent reporting.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: DOJ announced Bernard and Blackcloud were convicted by a federal jury.
- Source posture: DOJ press release.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: UCHealth profile says Mobolade was hospitalized with double pneumonia and doctors discovered severe coronary blockages, leading to stent treatment.
- Source posture: institutional health-system profile / interview.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: DOJ announced Ashley Blackcloud was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison after conviction in the cross-burning hoax case.
- Source posture: DOJ press release.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: DOJ announced Derrick Bernard was sentenced to
46 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and a $200 special assessment.
- Detail: AP also reported the jury rejected Bernard's claim that Mobolade knew about the plan.
- Source posture: DOJ press release / independent wire reporting.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass, 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: UCHealth published a long profile on Mobolade's
2025 heart-health crisis and changed leadership style.
- Source posture: institutional health-system profile / interview.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T112300-0600 yemi-mobolade-current-source-web-pass
- Event: Records-first follow-up captured selected Colorado SOS records, COSILoveYou governance/990 records, campaign archive pages, CS Indy labor archive articles, and retained federal court PDFs.
- Detail: El Paso County docket/hearing searches returned no results in the available six-month public search window, leaving full Shamrock dockets unresolved.
- Source posture: repository maintenance/source-capture event.
- Source basis: 2026-04-16T124600-0600 yemi-mobolade-court-and-federal-records-source-pass
- Event: Post-Bethel mentor and sponsor pass captured the New Life Men caption lead, KKTV Michael Hancock source, Kristen Boss executive-coaching page, City Lifestyle / Afrik Digest support-structure sources, Boettcher podcast metadata, and a campaign-finance disclosure CSV export.
- Detail: the pass separates direct mentor, executive coach, advisor, institutional advocate, and funder lanes.
- Source posture: repository maintenance/source-capture event.
- Source basis: Yemi Mobolade post-Bethel mentor and sponsor source cluster, 2026-04-16T193337-0600 yemi-mobolade-post-bethel-mentor-sponsor-source-pass
