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ABOUT US
Our mission as an outreach of Open Door Fellowship Church
is to embrace needy and
broken people in urban Denver with the heart and hands of
Jesus.
Open Door Ministries exists to provide practical help and
hope to people in Denver’s
inner city who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless.
Specifically, we
provide transitional homes for young mothers and their children,
as well as for single
women who do not have children with them. We also provide
a high-quality
preschool, child care and before-and-after school program,
primarily for children from
families in poverty. Open Door reaches out to disabled people
through our TRYAD
program and Cornerstone Home. In addition, we offer free
weekly meals and provide
a resource center that includes job skill training, counseling
and food.
Through these unique programs, we supply tangible needs
like food, clothing and
shelter, as well as intangible needs such as friendship,
hope and Christian spiritual
guidance.
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HISTORY
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Open
Door Ministries has grown over the years
as an extension of Open
Door Fellowship Church. Open Door Fellowship
was started in 1984 for the express purpose of reaching
the low income populations in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
The church has always had a desire to help people with
basic needs such as housing, food, clothing, education,
job opportunities, etc. With these goals, it wasn’t
long before specific people in the church were starting
programs that helped people in these ways. In the early
90’s a ministry to at-risk youth developed. Tutoring
and mentoring were key components of the youth ministry.
TRYAD, a ministry to the disabled, started around this
time as well. In 1996, the Treasure House, a home for
single moms, and Teen House, a home for girls living
on the streets began. In 1997, a weekly meal for the
neighborhood began to be served. With all of these programs
starting in a grass roots fashion, the church realized
they needed a structure to manage them, so in May of
1997 Open Door Ministries was created. A board was constituted
in December 1997 and the new organization received its
501c3 in 1999.
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