General Outreach Information

Ascension works hard to provide relief to those suffering and in need within and beyond our immediate neighborhood through partnering both financially and in service with various organizations and programs:

• Locally Haiti, a nonprofit focused on investing in Haitian leaders doing transformative work in education, girls’ empowerment, agriculture, and community health. As recent as September 2019, Ascension has sent work teams to perform services on site.

• Metro Caring, Denver's frontline anti-hunger organization, works with our community to meet people’s immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. Metro Caring offers innovative programming in Healthy Foods Access, Nutrition Education and Cooking Classes, ID Procurement, Urban Gardening, and Community Activation.

• St. Francis Center, a refuge for men and women who are homeless in the metro Denver area, providing shelter along with services that enable people to meet their basic needs for daily survival and to transition out of homelessness.

• Women’s Homelessness Initiative, a consortium of churches working through Capitol Hill United Ministries to give sanctuary and hospitality every night to women who would be on our streets. What WHI offers is a chance to have these women – our women – be known, heard and cared for with compassion, dignity, respect and presence of heart.

• We also have a ministry that provides meals upon request to ill or homebound parish members.

Please contact Chris Nazar if you would like to get more involved in outreach at Ascension.

“Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?” And the Lord said, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” -- Matthew 25:37-40