Join other Saint Paul volunteers to participate in these service opportunities in our community. We offer several ongoing projects as well as activities that we do once a year.

Click on the Outreach you are interested in:

• Assistance to people who come to our door
• Feeding Our Hungry Neighbors in Denver
• Weekly Monday supper
• Music education for our neighborhood school
• Feeding Our Hungry Neighbors and responding to disasters throughout the world
• Advocacy on behalf of the poor and powerless
• Helping Homeless Teenagers
• Walk together to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday
• Walk to support Denver's gay community in the Gay Pride Parade
• Walk to raise funds for HIV/AIDS in the Colorado AIDS Walk

ST. PAUL LOCAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

A team of volunteers listens and provides emergency assistance to people who come to the door asking for help. Members' offerings are disbursed for emergency travel, housing, medical/prescription and other needs. The mission statement of our Local Assistance Ministry describes their work: "Supporting St. Paul's core commitment to diversity and inclusiveness, the local assistance ministry works to serve the material and spiritual needs of the most vulnerable members of our community: the poor, homeless, elderly and differently-abled. Our focus is on meeting basic needs, hospitality, advocacy, providing hope and building relationships."

GRANT AVENUE STREET REACH

Volunteers serve a free hot meal every Monday (even holidays) for people in our neighborhood. Organized 15 years ago, the group began serving meals at St. Paul in June 2003. They serve 500-900 people each week, from 1-6 pm. You can volunteer by just showing up! Work begins at 11:00 am and cleanup is done by about 7 or 7:30pm. We can use help any of those hours.

ST. PAUL MUSIC FOR CHILDREN

This ministry is an outreach to the children in our community through Cristo Rey Lutheran Church, 501 Stuart. Our Cantor teaches vocal and instrumental music classes in their after–school program. And we are working with the congregation to provide a summer Music and Art Camp, Monday-Friday, August 8-12.

GROCERY/TOILETRIES WISH LIST

Our church-supported neighborhood food bank, Metro CareRing, serves over 10,000 children each year. Bring these items and place them in the baskets in the narthex and Community Room:

Package of dried pasta  -    Spaghetti sauce   -  Can of tuna fish   -  Jar of peanut butter
Can fruit (pineapple, etc)  -  Can of corn  -  Can of chili  -   Can of soup  -  Can of green beans
Lb of pinto beans/other dry beans   -  Lb bag of rice  -    Box of crackers  -  Bar of soap
Powdered milk  -  Sugar  -   Flour  -   Toothpaste   -  Toothbrush  -  Deodorant  -  Toilet paper
Diapers   -  Shampoo  -   Laundry detergent (powder) 
New or like new baby or children’s clothes

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Metro CareRing also depends on volunteers from the community to serve as volunteers. Most of our volunteers come from area churches. We operate with over 120 volunteers and 4 paid staff. Come join us. It’s very fulfilling, and lots of fun! Time Commitment:

• Preferred - 1 day per week (9:00 am - 3:00 pm)
• Minimum ½ day every other week (either 9:00 am - 12:00 pm or 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm)
• Tuesday evenings

These are the positions we need most:

• Pantry volunteer - put together food orders in the clients, stock shelves, receive donations, etc.
• Front desk volunteer - greet clients, type in-take records, answer telephones, multi-task (fast paced position)
• Volunteer counselors - work one-on-one with counselors, access their needs with them, listen
• Food sack preparers (off-site) - put together food sacks with a group of volunteers on Wednesday mornings

Call Metro CareRing: 303-860-7200

Lutheran World Hunger Appeal, Lutheran Disaster Response, Lutheran World Federation and Lutheran World Relief

Join with Lutherans all over the world  to help alleviate suffering from  natural disasters (such as floods, hurricanes and tornadoes), famine, poverty, refugee displacement (such as in Africa and in Kosovo), and human tragedies (such as the Columbine High School shootings). We collect contributions for three Lutheran agencies that work in cooperation with other humanitarian groups to provide food, temporary housing, development projects and crisis counselors here in the United States and around the world. Give to the Lutheran World Hunger Appeal and visit web sites for Lutheran World Relief, Lutheran Disaster Response, and Lutheran World Federation to learn how we are helping.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MARADE

Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Come with a group from St. Paul's to march with about 10,000 others in Denver to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and show support for improved race relations. The Marade is on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, on the Monday nearest his birthday, January 18. Call 303-839-1432 for times and meet at the church.

GAY PRIDE PARADE

Walk with a group from St. Paul to show our support for the gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual community in Denver. Join us to walk with our St. Paul banner, and decorated car. The parade is on a Sunday at the end of June; in 2003 we had 30 walkers.

COLORADO AIDS WALK

Walk with the St. Paul team to raise funds to support AIDS outreach and research. The walk is on a Sunday at the end of August. In 2003 the St. Paul team raised $3560.

URBAN PEAK

Help provide supper each Monday for this shelter for homeless teens. We prepare meals at the church and you can provide financial support, September through June. During July and August members bring prepared food for 40 and we deliver the meal to Urban Peak.

THANKSGIVING DINNER & PICNIC FOR CHRONICALLY MENTALLY ILL NEIGHBORS

In November and August
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Help us extend hospitality to our neighbors with chronic mental illness in Capitol Hill. The Mental Health Corporation of Denver and CHARG Resource Center invite their clients for a Thanksgiving dinner on the Friday before Thanksgiving. In the summer, we also host a picnic lunch.