Soth Church Mission & Outreach Initiatives

Our Mission: “Through faith in Christ, we actively serve and support others in our church, our community, and throughout the world.” The majority of our mission partners are in CO including 8 in our neighborhood of which two, Pillow Hugs and Adopt a Family, are “homegrown”. Most are Christian organizations and all have personal involvement from within our church community, some for over 20 years. Our international mission partners are supported also by our denomination with the exception of Uplift International, which was founded locally by a Wheat Ridge, CO doctor. We also serve people in need through intergenerational mission trips that we coordinate and help lead.

Please visit our Upcoming Events page for volunteer opportunities.

LOCAL MISSION INITIATIVES:

The Action Center
The Action Center’s Mission is to provide an immediate response to basic human needs and promote pathways to self-sufficiency for Jefferson County residents and the homeless. | theactioncenterco.org 

Alamosa Intergenerational Mission Trip
SOTH volunteers make an annual trip to Alamosa and partner with La Puente and the San Luis Valley Habitat for Humanity. Adults can help build a house for a family with Habitat. Families of all ages, singles and couples can serve La Puente by cooking for the community, gardening, interacting with children, helping in a clothing bank and more. | slvhabitat.org , lapuentehome.org

The Carpenters’ Helpers
SOTH is part of this faith coalition of 18 Presbyterian churches in the Denver metro area.  They work alongside Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver in building homes, raising funds, and creating awareness about the need for safe and affordable housing in our community. | habitatmetrodenver.org

Clinica Colorado
An established primary care practice, Clinica Color ado serves the uninsured in our community by providing low-cost medical and mental health services to clients who may not be eligible for health insurance. | clinicacolorado.org

Cross Cultural Covenant Community
SOTH is one of seven congregations in Denver Presbytery that have come together for the purpose of “Creating a strong connection between believers of different cultural backgrounds.”  Initiatives include English Language and Citizenship classes at Iglesia Valverde, a Flu Shot Clinic for uninsured members, a pulpit exchange for World Communion Sunday, and joint Good Friday worship. | denpres.org

Family Promise of Denver
SOTH is part of a church rotation that provides overnight shelter for homeless families. At the day site, the families receive help to get out of their current housing crisis. A fulltime program manager of a 2-year aftercare program, HOME, provides a follow–up with the families. A new program, “Prevention & Diversion,” helps families prevent being homeless. | familypromiseofgreaterdenver.org         

Family Tree
Family Tree provides innovative, life-changing services designed to end child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness. | thefamilytree.org         

Giving Tree (Adopt a Family)
Names of needy individuals and family members in the community are given Christmas gifts.

Hands of the Carpenter
A faith based nonprofit community that provides automobile repair and maintenance for single mothers and widows in an effort to relieve the financial burden that automobile repair puts on this population and their opportunity for economic self-sufficiency. | eHands.org

Highlands Presbyterian Camp
Provides programming and facilities for individuals and congregations of the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Also serves many other denominations and nonprofit groups. | highlandscamp.org 

Iglesia Presbiteriana de Valverde Presbyterian Church
SOTH is part of the Metro Saints Community with Valverde.  We worship together on Good Friday and we sometimes share Vacation Bible School with Valverde and Bethel churches. We also provide leadership and materials for the 6 English classes, 2 citizenship classes, and an educational children’s program at Valverde. | denpres.org

La Puente (Alamosa)
Provides emergency shelter, food assistance, transitional housing, self-sufficiency services and job training for the homeless and other St. Luis Valley community members in crisis. | lapuentehome.org          

Pillow Hugs
Women make pillowcases for travel size pillows that are distributed to help comfort children in local domestic violence and homeless shelters as well as to help comfort children in programs that deal with child protection.

Second Wind
Second Wind Fund believes that every child and youth at risk of suicide should have access to the mental health treatment they need.  We match children and youth at risk for suicide with licensed therapists in their communities. | secondwindfund.org 

Severe Weather Shelter
SWS works with local churches to provide sites to host emergency overnight shelter on life threatening winter nights for individuals living on the streets. | swshelternetwork.com 

Vivian – New Classical Academy at Vivian Elementary School
As a missional church, we have formed relationships with the principal and staff of Vivian, a school in our local community.  We at SOTH respond, mostly hands-on, to needs identified by the school principal. | viviannewclassical.org

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES:

Crop Walk (Church World Service)
CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by local congregations or groups to raise funds to end hunger at home and around the world. | crophungerwalk.org

Dustin and Sherri Ellington
Mission co-workers in Zambia, Africa. Dustin is a professor at Justo Mwale Theological University College teaching African’s to become pastors.  Sherri is the director of PCUSA’s Young Adult Volunteers in Zambia. To continue their mission, they must be self-supporting through donations. | pcusa.org

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
PDA is the emergency and refugee program of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.  They care for communities adversely affected by crises and catastrophic events, both domestically and internationally. | pcusa.org

Uplift International | upliftinternationale.org