“I was a terrible speller,” remembers Rhiannon Middleton. I didn’t know how to make a sentence. I had no idea what punctuation was for. My math was even worse; I didn’t know how to multiply.” Rhiannon was 25 years old, and life had spiraled into homelessness and heartache. “When I decided to put my life […]
Wanting to know more about the lives of her students, a young Denver Public Schools teacher began walking neighborhoods. Most of her students lived in poverty, as she had experienced in her childhood back in Ohio. Her home was on Denver’s west side in the 1200 block of Lipan Street, not far from where Joshua […]
Dear friends, You’ll see a new logo and spiffy graphic designs around Mile High Ministries these days. We’re enjoying them and hope you do too. Our talented partners at Vybe Well Media listened deeply to what makes our hearts sing and our housing communities thrive. How to convey that simply—in just a few lines, shapes, […]
“Home.” It’s the most common way our residents refer to Joshua Station. It’s the most rewarding for us to hear, because we are a “ministry of presence and place.” Daily, we practice a way of the heart—invited but never forced—that weaves residents, volunteers, interns, partners, and staff together in belovedness. We delight in outcomes […]
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. —The Prayer of Óscar Romero Dear friend, Clara Brown Commons construction is underway, we haven’t stopped dreaming. Can I give you a peek at what we envision? We’ve […]
We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. —The Prayer of Óscar Romero Dear friend, Come with me to the Clara Brown Commons construction site, where you’ll see and hear… Nails nails nails. Wood framing’s going up fast, with the nonstop percussive […]
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom [of God’s love] is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. —The Prayer of Óscar Romero* Dear friends, Turning […]
Gratitude is a daily way of life at Mile High Ministries. We practice it aloud. We name blessings small and large. “Thank You,” can be heard at any moment between residents, volunteers, staff, and visitors—every hour. In gatherings, we voice it to God. As the year draws to a close, we are especially grateful […]
When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the […]
Finally rising! Like any tree knows, things happen below ground before anything can happen above ground. So it goes with Clara Brown Commons, our 61-unit apartment building under construction in Northeast Denver. But this month, it’s going up—an actual profile against the sky. Elevator shafts and stairwells rose fast last month, and stairs went in […]