Serve
Montview believes all people are sacred in God’s sight and that we’re called to put our resources and energy toward building a better world. Mission Life at Montview means partnering with others to bring about peace, justice and compassion. Our perspectives are widened by the experiences we have and the people we meet, but we also know this work changes us as much or more than it changes those we seek to serve.
Montview Church offers enriching intergenerational service opportunities within our historic building, throughout Denver and around the world.
2025 Mission Life Grant Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
The Mission Life Committee (MLC) is chartered by the Montview Session to manage disbursements of funds for Montview’s mission contributions. Approximately $80,000 will be distributed via MLC grant-making to local and global organizations in 2025.
MLC Financial and Activity Report
Mission Impact Funds Update – July 2024
The Mission Life Committee and Montview Session are pleased to announce that $400,000 from the Montview Mission Impact Fund has been granted to three international organizations: the IPODERAC Children’s Home, Nepal Youth Foundation and DIG (Development in Gardening). This is the first half of Montview’s $800,000 Mission Impact Fund (MIF) grants from the recent Capital (building) Campaign. A second round of $400,000 will be awarded to local organizations in 2025. Learn more here.
View our MIF Guidelines here.
Montview Deacons
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 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.
These include:
Casa de Paz
Reunites families separated by immigrant detention. Volunteers provide hospitality to immigrants leaving the detention center and offer care for their families and those still detained.
Habitat for Humanity
Helps build homes for deserving families. We raise money to cover part of the cost of building materials and provide 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.
Homeless Packets
Few missions could be simpler: food, water and human contact. Volunteers assemble and distribute packets, while others knit headbands and create notes that are added to the packets.
Immigration Task Force
Walks alongside families who are immigrants, whose members may be undocumented, and who may need financial or other assistance.
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.
Montview Schools Task Force
Provides much-needed resources for Ashley, Stedman and Montclair elementary schools.
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.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Knits warm and cozy prayer shawls, which are available for the pastors and the congregation to distribute to anyone in need of comfort and healing.
Project Worthmore
Offers programs that foster community, self-sufficiency and increased quality of life for Denver-area refugees, migrants and asylees.
Senior Support Services
Serves three meals a day and provides comprehensive, individualized case management for hungry and homeless seniors.
Social Justice Ministry
Advocates for systems change on behalf of struggling individuals and families.
Soul Food
Provides home cooked meals for those recovering from hospitalizations, in difficult times, or in celebrating the arrival of a new baby. Volunteers also prepare and serve a warm meal for hungry and homeless seniors and assemble sack lunches.
To serve in and around Denver, please contact askus@montview.org.
Serve Globally
Montview has a long and rich history of working for peace, justice and prosperity around the world. From building a hospital and supporting small-plot farmers in Nepal to rescuing orphaned South Sudanese children from a refugee camp in Kenya and providing them with an education, food and clothing, we seek to be the hands and feet of God out in the world. Montview groups of adults and youth make trips to and support the work of the following global partner programs:
Haiti
Locally Haiti
Advocates for and invests in locally-led initiatives that support partner communities in rural Haiti.
Mexico
IPODERAC
Provides a home for abandoned children and ensures they get an education and training for jobs, combined with life skills.
Nepal
International Development Enterprises (iDE)
Focuses on improving income opportunities for small plot farmers.
Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF)
Serves severely malnourished children and trains their parents/ caregivers and nutritionists
South Sudan
Seeds of South Sudan
Educates refugee children to become the seeds of change. Consider sponsoring a child for a year of education, clothing and food.
Uganda
Musana Community Development Organization
Provides a primary school, secondary school, health center, café/guest house and women’s skill development center.
To serve globally with Montview, please get in touch.
Kenya, Uganda, Senegal
Development in Gardening (DIG)
Designs regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth and a sense of belonging for some of the world’s most uniquely marginalized people in eight African countries.
