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Denver Connections

Other Denver Ministries and Our Connections

Here I’m hoping to add a list of the many Denver (and some national) ministries that we work with in various ways with a brief description of what they do and how we connect to them. I know that our list will be far from exhaustive and may expose the limited reach of our relationships. Please know that this small list is a starting point that we can then have others in our ministry add to and refine it for new staff members and others to connect to other related ministries as needed.

JCOC: (No website) Jesus Christ Our Church – meets on Saturday at our church building. 8:30 am they serve breakfast, 10 am they have a Bible Study, 11 am they have their worship service. They also host a prayer room (in our nursery) and handout clothing and other donations. They hold a Tuesday night Bible Study that starts around 6:30 pm (also at 1567 Marion).

Christ Body Ministries: (No website) 850 Lincoln Street. Serve breakfast and lunch each weekday. They serve lunch and distribute groceries at our location on Saturday and connect strongly with JCOC to do that. John Moorehead is the director and Pastor Bruce usually is the one overseeing the Saturday ministries. They also have a Sunday evening service and a meal at 6:30 pm. They specialize in clothing and food distribution and recently renovated 4 bedrooms to provide post-hospital recovery care for indigent folks who need more recovery time.

The ACS Medical Van: (www.acslift.org) The ACS van comes to our location every Tuesday night at 7 pm and leaves about 9 pm (ish). They feed nearly 100 meals and have between 30 and 35 client appointments each Tuesday. They do distribute prescription medication in small volumes (a week’s supply) and have full medical evaluations by their licensed doctors and nurses. Their organization has a medical clinic, outreaches to immigrant communities and more. Their ministry in our area is just one small piece of their ministries.

CHM and Inner City Health Clinic: (www.innercityhealth.com/ichc)
Congregational Health Ministry “started 12 years ago with vision to introduce and sustain congregation-based health services to uninsured and underserved populations who lack access to primary health care.” Open Door Fellowship is associated with CHM and has been for most of those 12 years. Inner City Health Center has been providing quality medical and dental care for the poor and uninsured since December 1983. They recently moved to 3600 York Street from their location on Downing near 34th Ave.

WINN ministries (www.winnministries.org)
WINN has a warehouse full of donated stuff. They are trying to help people who have stuff get it to the people who need stuff. We have used them to find desks, filing cabinets and such. Their website shows they have a lot more going on than this, but this is our interface to them. Pastor Bob at JCOC has done some things with them recently.

Baley, Buds Warehouse, Baby Buds, and Freedom Cleaning (www.belay.org)
Baley is the founding or unbrella ministry of several businesses that employ difficult to employ people around the Denver Metro area. Many of our congregants and folks we minister to in our housing ministries have worked for one or several of these businesses. Good Neighbor Garage is also a Baley upstart. Baley is continuing to create, develop, and spin off both non-profit and for-profit enterprizes that specifically work with harder to employ people.

Urban Servants Corps: (www.servantcorps.org)
This organization provides service opportunities for individuals (for long periods of time) or groups (for shorter times). They opperate a couple of communal living environments for people interested in dedicating about a year to serving the poor in urban Denver. One home is just North of us on Ogden just a few blocks away. At this time (March 2009) one of their volunteers is working with our Preschool. They have an impressive list of connections das well (with URLs for most), are specificly Christain in their mission and purpose, and appear to be more connected with mainline faith based non-profits, but appear not to be restrictive in whom they volunteer with. Their short term groups look to do what CSM or our Urban Missions does.

Bo Matthews Center for Excellence (www.matthewscenters.com)

COMPA (www.compa.org)

Food Bank of the Rockies (www.foodbankrockies.org)

Denver Street School and National Street School Association (www.denverstreetschool.com)

Here’s Life Inner City (www.hlic.org)

Americorp (www.americorps.org) and TechMission (www.techmission.org)

Mile High Ministries (www.milehighmin.org)

Dry Bones (drybonesdenver.org)

Sox Place (www.soxplace.com)

Center for Student Mission or CSM (www.csm.org)

DOOR (www.doornetwork.org)

Youth Partners Net (www.youthpartnersnet.org)