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Adopt a School

Adopt a School Book Drive

Join us in supporting the new Adopt a School program, a local long-term mission opportunity for the St. Andrew congregation to work with a high-needs school in the Littleton Public School system.  East Elementary is an ESL (English as a Second Language) magnet school with over 80% of its children qualifying for free and reduced lunches.  We are collecting new and gently used books requested by the East Elementary teachers to support their new literacy program.  Any book on the teachers’ list, or any Caldecott or Newberry books, will be utilized by the teachers as they work with their students to experience the joys of reading!  Bring your book donations to Base Camp any time in July.  Call Jeri Dwyer at 303-468-6838 with questions.

Caldecott
Newberry
Teacher's

VBS Book Drive Sign Up

Outreach & Mission Service

As you reach out you'll meet interesting people...
see different places... and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Vision To engage everyone in our congregation in ministry beyond St. Andrew to meet critical needs and instill hope in others so that they grow in self-sufficiency and we grow in discipleship.

Mission To lead the congregation to greater awareness of human needs and social inequities and to engage St. Andrew in ministry in God's world.

Team Purpose The Ministry Area Leadership Team (MALT) exists to lead, orchestrate and manage the outreach ministries of St. Andrew United Methodist Church.

Social Justice Committee - Learn about current and vital social justice issues and actions you can take to address the root causes of injustice. All are welcome to attend our regular meetings on the 2nd Sunday of each month, 4:30–6:30pm. For information, please contact Leigh Murray.

50th Anniversary Outreach Challenge

Some folks seem to be born wanting to go out and help the less fortunate.  Others are just starting to think about what that might look like.  Some people volunteer on a weekly basis; others pitch in when they are asked; others are looking for a way to become involved. Wherever you are, I invite you to join us as we encourage each other to “pick just one” way of helping others during this 50th anniversary year at St. Andrew.

To celebrate St. Andrew’s 50th Anniversary the Outreach Team has developed a list of 50 Outreach Opportunities.  Pick up our materials at Base Camp, or check out the list with full descriptions on the website.

Pick Just One - 50 Ways to get “Out of the Pews and Into the World”

Some folks seem to be born wanting to go out and help the less fortunate. Others are just starting to think about what that might look like for them. Some people volunteer on a weekly basis; others pitch in when and where ever they are needed; others are looking for a way to become involved. Wherever you are, we invite you to join the Outreach Ministries’ 50th Anniversary Campaign and “Pick Just One” as a way of helping others in need. (By the way… it’s OK to pick two!)

Pick up materials at Base Camp and check out the list with full descriptions of each opportunity on the St. Andrew website and then Pick Just One 

  1. Abrahamic Initiative
  2. Afghan Refugee Relief Association
  3. Bread for the World
  4. Bridgeway Home
  5. CASA - Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
  6. Colorado AIDS Project
  7. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
  8. Colorado Interfaith Power and Light
  9. Dalit Freedom Network
  10. DenUM (Denver Urban Ministries)
  11. Denver Children’s Advocacy Center
  12. Denver – Nairobi Sister City Program
  13. The Denver Hospice
  14. Denver Rescue Mission,  Family Rescue Ministry
  15. Douglas County Libraries
  16. El Centro Humanitario
  17. Ethiopian Mission Trip
  18. Fair Trade Products at St. Andrew
  19. Family Homestead
  20. Food Bank of the Rockies
  21. The Gathering Place
  22. Grant Avenue Street Reach
  23. The Green Team Project
  24. Habitat for Humanity
  25. Heifer International
  26. Interfaith Community Services
  27. Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN)
  28. Jeffco Action Center 
  29. Just Faith Ministries
  30. Kibera Sanitation Education
  31. Kids Against Hunger
  32. Kiva.org
  33. Littleton Immigrant Integration Initiative
  34. Love, Inc.
  35. Motown Mission Experience
  36. New Beginnings Church
  37. No More Deaths/ No Mas Muertes Mission Trip
  38. The ONE Campaign
  39. Project Angel Tree
  40. Project CURE
  41. Project Glean with COMPA Ministries
  42. Reconciling Ministries
  43. St. Paul's Soup Kitchen
  44. Third Way Center 
  45. TLC Meals on Wheels
  46. Urban Peak
  47. Warren Village 
  48. Women’s Bean Project
  49. Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach Center of Douglas County
  50. Youth Mission Trips

Outreach Challenge Activities

Challenge Opportunities by Type

Challenge Opportunities by Volunteer type.

Click Here to download a full list of Opportunities in PDF format

Outreach Opportunities

Blood Drive

Saturday, August 7, in the Children’s Wing downstairs, Rooms 110-112, 8am - 12:00pm. See the sign-up sheet at Base Camp, contact George Coon to reserve a time, or drop in and see what times are available. It's such an easy way to make a life-giving difference.

 

Grant Family Farms

Do you know your farmer? Mine is Andy Grant of Grant Family Farms! Every week he sends a truck full of fresh organic produce to us at St. Andrew. You are invited to participate in this Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program by purchasing in advance, your own personalized Summer Share of fruits, vegetables, Artisan breads, pastry, eggs, meats, mushrooms, flowers and more. Order by May 15 for the best deal, online at www.GrantFarms.com. Pick up a brochure at Base Camp, contact josh@grantfarms.com or 970-568-7654, or get questions answered by Martha Thompson at church.

 

Making Choices

Want to do more with your life?  Help women in prison make life-changing choices,  Are you looking for a meaningful ministry that is not a year long commitment? Here is a great opportunity. Making Choices is a program that REALLY is successful for women in prison. They learn  to love and respect self and others,  to develop the skills to return successfully to community,  to be more effective parents. We have heard several testimonies from incarcerated women who have completed the Making Choices 8-week course and it has changed their lives.  It also has the advantage of being only 8 weeks plus one weekend of training, so it can fit into a busy person's schedule. You can be a teacher, a mentor or a prayer sponsor.

Remember, Jesus endorsed prison ministry when he said, "Whatever you do for someone in prison,  you do it for me."  The training will take away any fear that you might have.  Making Choices is a team effort.  You don't do it alone without help.  Come and find out if this ministry is for you on Sunday, January 30, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm at Loretto Center, 4000 S Wadsworth Blvd,  Lakewood CO.

 

Great Rewards for You and the Woman You Support

RSVP TO:  Mary Kay Brannan Mkbrannan@lcdenver.org or 303-882-6642

 

Hearts Across The Miles is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization whose goal is to ensure deployed United States Service members from all branches of the military and their families are not forgotten. Hearts relies on community support in order to help lift morale and provide our deployed troops with a better quality of life while they serve to defend our country and freedom. Ways we can help:

Donations for postage
Volunteers to assist during inventory/packing days
Letter writing campaign
Donations of needed items (see website)
Hearts Across the Miles, P.O. Box 47129, Aurora, CO 80047, 303-575-1005, Reprice2357@cs.com, http://www.heartsacrossthemiles.org, or contact Jill Burbach at St. Andrew.

UMCOR Disaster Relief

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is one of the most effective ways of contributing to disaster relief both nationally and internationally. 100% of all designated contributions go directly to disaster relief, as the operating budget for UMCOR is covered under the operating budget of the UMC.

Some of the current projects include:
Hurricane Katrina - Advance #982523
Hurricane Rita - Advance #901323
Pakistani Earthquake - Advance #23200
Central America (flooding and mudslides) - Advance #501300

If you wish to contribute please make your check payable to St Andrew with UMCOR and the project # noted in the memo field.

The Agencies we serve

Inter-Faith Community Services

Assists adults and children in their struggles to attain, or maintain, a lifestyle that is self-sufficient and free of public or private support.

Inter-Faith Shed

Offers you an opportunity to deposit your “slightly used” clothing for distribution to IFCS (Closet is located in the outdoor storage building inside the walled area between the playground and the Youth Entrance. Please get the key in the Front Office.)

Denver Urban Ministries

DenUM offers resources, food, clothing, furniture and services to inner city individuals and families in crisis.

Family HomeStead

Supplies emergency and transitional housing as well as supportive case management to homeless families with children.

Urban Peak

Provides shelter, counseling, job training, schooling, medical care, food and family support to over 800 homeless youth (ages 13-20) each year.

Warren Village

Helps single-parent families break the cycle of poverty and government dependency by providing transitional housing and day care while parents attend school; and offers supportive case management.

Bridgeway

Provides education and support to pregnant and parenting teenagers to build new lives.

Street Reach

Offers meals to the homeless every Monday. Located at St. Paul’s Lutheran. St. Andrew provides desserts, plastic containers and clothing.

Colorado AIDS Project

Works to improve the lives of those affected by HIV and AIDS, and supports efforts to prevent HIV infection.

Food Banks

The four food banks supported by Outreach Ministries (Colorado AIDS Project, DenUM, IFCS and Denver Inner City Parish) supply non-perishable food, personal care items, and paper goods to those in need. You may leave goods or monetary donations in the food shelves by the front doors. Shopping List

Holiday Alternative Gift Boutique

Unique and wonderful gifts are available from nonprofits around the world and your purchase provides assistance to people from Denver to far-flung countries. Among the twenty groups represented will be: Global Girlfriends, Women’s Bean Project, UNICEF, People of Hope, Logo Books, Pink Ribbon Creations and Girl Scouts. The craftsmanship from artisans is incredible to see, and the products include jewelry, spa products, fair-trade food, Christmas ornaments, handmade pillows, books, purses, food mixes, cards, water color paintings and more.

Denver Street School

Founded in 1979, The Denver Street School serves students within its system of four different academies. In order for the students to benefit from the quality education offered, it also provides career-counseling, childcare, mentoring and more.

St. Paul’s UMC Sunday Morning Meal

Offers breakfast to the homeless every Sunday; you have an opportunity to serve the breakfast on the second Sunday of the month.

Social Action

Engaging in activism that addresses the root causes of denial of the basic rights of all persons. (i.e. Bread for the World, letter writing campaigns, education on issues, etc.)

Interfaith Hospitality Network

Volunteer to assist with housing homeless families in our church for a week, four times a year. Opportunities: cooking, hosting, transportation, tutoring, playing games with children.

Blood Bank

Offers you a chance three times a year to give the "Gift of Life."

St. Andrew World Mission

Offers you a chance to participate in a work/mission project in either a foreign culture or here locally, thus, creating an opportunity not only for work but also for significant personal relationships with people from different walks of life.

PuraVida (Pure Life)

Located in rural Guatemala, they offer short-term mission trips several times each year. Your financial support aids this impoverished area by assisting the local orphanage and with educational scholarships.

Alternative Gift Market

Honor a friend or relative by giving an alternative gift in their name. Gifts of food, medicine, shelter or agriculture are sent to poverty areas in the United States & overseas. For each person you buy for, you receive a card that explains what you purchased and how it helps.

Holiday Baskets

Provides Christmas dinner and gifts for up to 80 families in our community; names are supplied by IFCS, Colorado AIDS Project and other groups.

Habitat for Humanity

Works in partnership with God and people from all walks of life to build simple, decent houses in which people can live and grow into all that God intended. Opportunities to participate in monthly builds. No experience necessary.

Doctors Care

A short-term program to give medical assistance to the uninsured in Arapahoe, Douglas and Elbert Counties.

Project Angel Tree

Prison Fellowship ministry. Offers Christmas gift baskets to children of prisoners.

More ways to serve

  • Clean up/fix-up projects
  • Foreign work teams
  • Holiday projects
  • Local work teams
  • Senior Citizens Luncheon
  • Transportation pool
  • Wesley Foundation

For more information on opportunities to serve please contact:

Jeri Dwyer, Outreach Director

Outreach Ministry Roles and Responsibilities

Ministry Team:  Outreach Ministries

Vision: To engage the people of St Andrew in ministry beyond the walls of our church to meet critical needs and instill hope in others in such a way that they grow in self sufficiency and we grow in discipleship.

Mission: To lead the people of St Andrew to greater awareness of human need and social inequity, to engage St Andrew in ministry to others with emphasis on serving the Denver Metropolitan area as well as underserved areas in need throughout the United States and the world.

Primary Responsibilities/Activites: The goals to accomplish this mission are 1. To provide information and learning experiences relating to Outreach ministries. 2. To recruit, guide and direct St Andrew volunteers in Outreach ministries. 3. To promote a tithe of the St Andrew budget to outreach ministries. 4. In addition to serving urban outreach agencies in the Denver metropolitan area, the Outreach MALT will support work teams and coordinate opportunities for individuals to volunteer in missions serving locally and throughout the United States and the world.

Ministry Activities

  • DenUM
  • InterFaith Community Services
  • Warren Village
  • Family HomeStead
  • Urban Peak
  • Denver Street School
  • Colorado AIDs Project
  • Doctor’s Care
  • Food Bank Support
  • 2nd Sunday Service
  • Alternative Giving Boutique
  • Christmas in July
  • Adopt-a-Family
  • Blood Drives
  • Street Reach
  • Project Angel Tree
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Alternative Gift Market

Ministry Programs

  • Social Justice
  • Mission Trips – local, US and International
  • InterFaith Hospitality Network

Members on Ministry Team: Erin Swyers (Chair); Jeri Dwyer (Outreach Director); Diane Smith (Staff Assistant); Carol Harr, Martha Thompson, Vince Long, Anne Purvis (Compassion Ministries); Chris Woodbury, Riggs Osborne (Interfaith Hospitality Co-Coordinators).

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