Serve

Deacon Mission: In the example of Jesus, we love by serving, both in and beyond the faith community. It is a ministry of caring; a ministry of love; a ministry of compassion; and a ministry of prayer, and community service. 

Serve in Our Community

Mission Life at Montview includes a variety of opportunities for service work alongside more than a dozen member-led and community partner organizations. Our members and friends spend thousands of hours volunteering within our building and throughout the Denver metro area with a variety of ministries, nonprofits and community programs. 

Member-Led Programs Within Montview

Afghan Women’s Collective volunteers teach sewing skills to Afghan women living in Denver and help them sell their handcrafts to earn money for their families.

Homeless Packet Program volunteers assemble and distribute packets with food and water, while others knit headbands and create notes that are added to the packets. 

Immigration Task Force members walk alongside families who are immigrants, whose members may be undocumented, and who may need financial or other assistance.

Prayer Shawl Knitters create warm and cozy prayer shawls, which are available for the pastors and the congregation to distribute to anyone in need of comfort and healing.

Quilters come together to make quilts that the clergy bring with them during various pastoral calls when additional support is warranted. This talented team has also created quilts upon request for organizations that support foster children and families with sick children, as well as Afghan and Venezuelan families who are new to the Denver community. They currently are creating isolette covers for babies in a local NICU.

Schools Task Force members lead Montview’s efforts to provide resources for Ashley and Stedman elementary schools, including school supply and food drives, as well as winter clothing and holiday gift donations.

Senior Support Services Sack Lunch Team assembles monthly sack lunches for distribution at this day center for hungry and homeless seniors.

Social Justice Ministry members advocate for systems change on behalf of struggling individuals and families.

Soul Food team members gather monthly to prepare home cooked meals for those recovering from hospitalizations, in difficult times, or in celebrating the arrival of a new baby. 

Local Community Partnerships

The Fax Partnership works to support residents and businesses along the East Colfax Corridor while advocating for equitable development. Their employees and volunteers provide support services and work for responsible growth that prioritizes affordable and attainable housing, community-serving redevelopment, and local employment opportunities so community members can remain in the community they love.

Guns to Gardens provides Metro Denver residents an opportunity to dismantle firearms they no longer want. Safe Surrender events are typically held on a Saturday morning in a church parking lot. Surrendered firearms are dismantled in the presence of the gun owner and later recycled into garden tools and art. 

Habitat for Humanity at Montview raises money to cover part of the cost of building materials and provides volunteers to work on the construction of a home. Planning is done by Montview’s Habitat for Humanity Steering Committee.

Heartland Mental Health supports culturally responsive mental health, wellness and recovery services for those living with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness, and severe or psychotic depression.

Hope Communities supports economically disadvantaged individuals and families in the metro area whose income is below the Denver Area Median Income. In addition to 278 affordable housing units, which provide stable housing for over 550 individuals, Hope provides housing financial assistance and wraparound services that include employment assistance, financial literacy and other resource navigation. The agency also hosts community events, offering diverse services and resources focused on health and wellness, food security, youth programs, digital literacy, and adult education and training — all free to residents and the broader community.

Metro Caring offers hunger-relief programs, including a fresh foods shopping market, teaching garden, healthy living and nutrition classes, and distributing food, baby items, and personal care products. You can volunteer weekly or participate in Montview’s food drives and beans/rice packaging activities throughout the year.

Opening Act uses theatre arts to promote and enhance the long-term opportunities and positive personal development of young Black women ages 6 to 17.

Rocky Mountain Refuge provides end-of-life care in a comfortable setting for those without a home. Staff and volunteers offer basic care like help with laundry, cleaning and companionship. The hospice agency partners provide skilled nursing and physician services, and medical equipment.

Women’s Homelessness Initiative volunteers support numerous agencies who serve Denver’s unhoused men and women with monthly donations of toiletries, clothing, cleaning supplies and food. Montview members and volunteers from other churches also provide sack lunches for daily distribution.

To serve in and around Denver, please contact askus@montview.org.