Monday, December 28, 2009
No. 1 down!
No. 1 down! Last Sunday was the one year anniversary of Afterhours. We have handed out 2600 lunches to the great guys at El Centro and then in the last four months given out 750+ lunches to the homeless folks down at Civic Center park....and I gotta say we have had a pretty good time doin it. This does not even include the pasta, diapers, water bottles, clothes, Ramen noodles, and and and....What an amazing this community has turned into in the last 12 months. AfterHours is a weird bird, no doubt about it, but I think there are a lot of people out there that like weird birds and still want to connect to God. I can't help but think there are people that want to wrestle with trying to figure out life/God/themselves but traditional church just ain't cutting it for them. Hope we helped fill that void this year.Who knows what the next year will bring, but I sure am thankful for the chance to serve/love/laugh with all of you this way, this year. Here's to more love, more laughs, & less judgment. See ya in 2010!
Monday, December 14, 2009
A lot can happen in three months...
Well, Civic Center park is up and running. Afterhours is handing out food & water and socks and communion there on Tues @ 1:30. Fridays, the FOUNDATION from DU is in the park at noon and Rusty Butler w/Arvada UMC are feeding the folks in the park on Mondays.
We have people from as far away as Cleavland, California and Florida asking how they can do the same type program in their cities. Very, very cool.
Christmas is going to be awesome here in Denver. As of now we have dozens and dozens of sleeping bags (thanks to Carolyn Waters and her crew at Christ Church), we have 50 box lunches donated by MiMi's Cafe in Broomfield (eat there when you can!), we have people who have donated hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of clothes. A couple people pitched in and bought over $300 worth of gloves. The gift bags that will have the clothes and such in them are all handmade and reuseable. It is amazing to me what happens when you let the spirit loose!
In my last post I mentioned that we didn't do "Communion"...but we did communion. We are doing "Communion" now twice a week. About 60%-80% of the people I offer it to accept. Some get down on there knees. Some won't touch it so I have to put it in there mouth. Some folks come every week ONLY for the communion.
By the end of this month, we will have feed over 600 people in Civic Center park.
Funny, when I started AfterHours, I thought we were starting a worship service that had an outreach element. I am starting to wonder if we have started an Outreach with a worship service element.
Time will tell...
We have people from as far away as Cleavland, California and Florida asking how they can do the same type program in their cities. Very, very cool.
Christmas is going to be awesome here in Denver. As of now we have dozens and dozens of sleeping bags (thanks to Carolyn Waters and her crew at Christ Church), we have 50 box lunches donated by MiMi's Cafe in Broomfield (eat there when you can!), we have people who have donated hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of clothes. A couple people pitched in and bought over $300 worth of gloves. The gift bags that will have the clothes and such in them are all handmade and reuseable. It is amazing to me what happens when you let the spirit loose!
In my last post I mentioned that we didn't do "Communion"...but we did communion. We are doing "Communion" now twice a week. About 60%-80% of the people I offer it to accept. Some get down on there knees. Some won't touch it so I have to put it in there mouth. Some folks come every week ONLY for the communion.
By the end of this month, we will have feed over 600 people in Civic Center park.
Funny, when I started AfterHours, I thought we were starting a worship service that had an outreach element. I am starting to wonder if we have started an Outreach with a worship service element.
Time will tell...
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