Serve the Community

Denver Rescue Mission

We are committed to helping change the lives of Denver men, women and children who are experiencing homelessness or addiction in our city. Thanks to the support of friends like you, we meet their needs through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach.

Family Promise

Assistance for families in need of stable housing-Transforming the lives of homeless families. Because every child deserves a home.

Habitat for Humanity Metro Denver

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver is a nonprofit organization that brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS)

Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS) provides basic human services and enrichment programs to low-income people, using community resources. IFCS fosters self-sufficiency and respects the dignity of each client. It serves the people of Centennial, Englewood, Glendale, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Lone Tree, Sheridan, and unincorporated Arapahoe County.

Lutheran Family Services

Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains is a faith based, non-profit human services agency providing adoption, foster care, older adult & caregiver, prevention, and refugee services since 1948. We provide help and support to children and families during their most challenging times regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or age. At LFSRM, we believe that all people, from the newborn to the most elderly, are valued members of our community.

Metro Caring

As Denver’s frontline anti-hunger organization, Metro Caring works with our community to meet people’s immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. Metro Caring offers innovative programming in Healthy Foods Access, Nutrition Education and Cooking Classes, ID Procurement, Urban Gardening, and Community Activation.

New Beginnings

New Beginnings is a worshipping community of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) that meets inside the walls of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, a prison for women in Denver, Colorado.

Project C.U.R.E.

Thousands of people die every day in the developing world because local hospitals & clinics don’t have the medical supplies and equipment needed to save lives in their communities. Children are missing the chance to get an education and live a full life due to illnesses that would be treatable if they had access to proper health services. It’s Project C.U.R.E.’s mission to change that. Together we will deliver health & hope to the world.

Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp

Rainbow Trail is a year round ministry that offers an extensive summer camping program that includes on-site programs for all ages as well as Compass Points outdoor adventure program for Junior High and Senior High youth, and Bridging Borders mission trips designed for Senior High youth. In addition, Rainbow Trail offers retreating opportunities for the other nine months of the year including sponsored confirmation retreats, men’s Fly Fishing retreats, church worker training events, and family weekends amongst other retreat opportunities.

Sky Ranch Lutheran Camp

At Sky Ranch, We Provide Christian Camps, Retreats, & School Programs For All Ages. Financial assistance for summer staff and continued ministry.

Urban Peak

Founded in 1988, Urban Peak is the only non-profit organization in Denver that provides a full convergence of services for youth ages 15 through 24 experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Our goal is to help these youth overcome real life challenges and become self-sufficient adults.

Urban Servant Corps

Urban Servant Corps is a faith-based, intentional community of full-time volunteers who seek to live simply while serving and accompanying those most in need at non-profit partner agencies in the heart of Denver.

Veteran Servant Corps Project

Mission:

The Rocky Mountain Synod Veteran Servant Corps Project partners with ELCA faith communities to recognize and support veterans.  Below are the major initiatives that the Veteran Servant Corps Project is currently supporting. These include:

•  providing (and supporting financially) monthly worship services, as well as occasional meals/entertainment at Colorado Veterans homes in Denver, Florence, and Rifle. Currently, the Veteran Servant Corps Project is paying about $500 a month for the worship services, and about $100 for occasional meals/entertainment at Colorado Veterans homes.
  
•  introducing new ministries to RMS congregations, such as congregants regularly distributing "food bags" (see picture in separate email) in their neighborhood(s) that benefit homeless veterans, as well as other homeless people.
• Supports Military chaplains in their important and ongoing ministry to active duty military.  Click here and here for more information about that work.

Each week at the end of worship at Bethany, we say "Respond to the needs of the world through generosity and action." Our country's homeless Veterans are waiting for and need your help!

Give to VSCP!

To make a donation, click the button, scroll to the button of the page and click the green give button, then select "Veteran Servant Corps Project" in the dropdown list.  If you prefer to mail your donation, make a check out to "Rocky Mountain Synod" and include "Veteran Servant Corps Project" in the note. 

Mail checks to:

Rocky Mountain Synod

7375 Samuel Drive

Denver, CO 80221

Global Partners Supported

by Global Missions Ministry

Bright Stars of Bethlehem

Bright Stars of Bethlehem is a US-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that promotes peace and justice; unlocking hope for Palestinian youth living under occupation through the ministry of Dar al-Kalima Lutheran University of Culture and Arts in Bethlehem, Palestine.

ELCA Disaster Relief 

Providing hope, healing and renewal, short and long term, to people whose lives have been disrupted by disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, etc. in the United States and around the globe.

ELCA World Hunger

Working with and through our congregations, in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Lutheran churches overseas and other partners, ELCA World Hunger is uniquely positioned to reach communities in need. ELCA World Hunger makes it possible for the ELCA to respond, supporting sustainable solutions that get at the root causes of hunger and poverty.

God’s Garden – Zimbabwe Africa

Davison Zhou, who attended Denver Seminary & Bethany in 1998, returned to Zimbabwe and founded God’s Garden. This school for children in need focuses on religious and academic orientation and provides meals, uniforms, and Bibles in the Shona language, among other supplies. Currently, children can be sponsored for $40/month through Vision Trust International. Please click the link below for more information.

Kibera Girls Soccer Academy- Kenya

Globally, there are 60 million adolescent girls out of school. Girls’ education is one of the smartest investments we can make in creating change in the developing world. An educated girl will delay marriage and pregnancy. She is more likely to earn higher wages, invest her earnings in her family, and send her own children to school. When we invest in women and girls, we invest in the people who invest in everyone else. Because women and girls have the power to change the world, we are partnering with KGSA to educate over 100 young women living in poverty.

Lutheran World Relief

Since 1945, Lutheran World Relief has been at the forefront of effective, transformational global development. We break the cycle of poverty so families and communities can thrive.

Reconciliation Lutheran Church & Clinic Juba- South Sudan

Pastors Mawien Ariik & Waluot Reat, are 2 Lost Boys of Sudan who fled the war, made it to the US, eventually went to Seminary, then returned to become the pastors of the new Reconciliation Lutheran Church & Clinic in Juba, S. Sudan, a joint mission of the ELCA & Episcopal Church in Sudan. Besides teaching about God, they teach reconciliation to the traumatized people of Sudan. The clinic provides maternal and pediatric care & immunizations to the women & children, who have the highest rate of neonatal deaths in the world.

Tartu Academy of Theology and Home of Hope in Estonia

Tartu Academy of Theology, started in ‘92 by Pastor Enok Hammer, after 50 years of atheistic Soviet occupation dropped Christianity from about 80% to 15% in Estonia. After 27 years Pr. Hammer, and 3 of his pastor sons established Home of Hope, run by Pr Siimon Haamer. In 1 year, they have established Bible studies with 90 students, BA & MA degree studies jointly with Tartu Academy of Theology & the Lutheran Seminary, various events attended by 50 youth, a 24/7 pastoral care telephone line for the public financed by the Estonian government, & other seminars.

Redeemed Hope- Liberia

Redeemed Hope International School focuses on Christian education for girls and boys, health and a community garden for feeding the students in the rural counties of Nambia and Cape Mount, Liberia.

St Paul Lutheran Church – Vladivostok, Russia

The Siberian area of Russia has 8 Lutheran congregations spread over a huge area, and only 2 pastors, one of whom is Pr. Manfred Brockmann, a missionary from Germany, who is now officially retired but still serving. Their challenges are people moving from Siberia, the churches not being allowed to talk about religion outside the church, the pastors, organists, & other church workers having to support themselves. They are exhausted, but “rely on God’s word & the faithfulness of our people”.

Women’s Development Association

Focusing on Pakistani Christian women who are often victims of discrimination and violence due to their religion. WDA provides those women and their children education in reading, writing, math and reproductive health so they can improve their lives.

StARS (St Andrew’s Refugee Services)-Cairo, Egypt

In 1979, StARS began serving refugees through English language instruction and community support. Founded by St. Andrew’s United Church of Cairo, StARS was one of the first organizations in Egypt whose “purpose is twofold: to provide high-quality services meeting unaddressed needs of refugees, and to provide a safe and inclusive space for displaced people to come together as a community.” The ELCA also provides support and pastors to St. Andrews.