rebuild their lives and thrive.
Volunteer at Joshua Station
Service, Reflection, and Transformation. Every volunteer opportunity starts with a few minutes of reflection and conversation about the deeper realities of homelessness, unaffordable housing, and social isolation in Denver. We invite our volunteers not only engage at Joshua Station, but also become part of a larger movement of kindness in our city. Each volunteer job requires prior arrangements, so please contact us for more information.
Thursday Night Community Dinner is a weekly Joshua Station tradition where volunteers and families join together for a big family meal.
Help transform a hotel room into a home for a new Joshua Station family. Ideal for groups of volunteers with interior design skills and a passion for making spaces warm and hospitable. Volunteers purchase new or like-new furniture and decor and help paint and decorate the room. Depending on the size, availability, and skill of a volunteer group, a room can be renovated in a weekend or a couple weeks.
Every school year we partner with Whiz Kids to provide after school tutoring for students living at Joshua Station. Whiz Kids includes one hour of tutoring, followed by an optional 30-minute club time where kids learn about God.
Joshua Station hosts a variety of classes for our residents, and we always need a team of trustworthy and background-checked volunteers to help provide childcare. Classes are usually in the evening or on weekends.
Can you or your group bring unskilled but care-filled labor for cleaning (interior and exterior), gardening, landscaping, organizing (shed, closets, storage areas), and painting over graffiti in our alley?
Resident volunteers live at Joshua Station and share community life. They share kitchen and laundry facilities, chores, gatherings, and events. They share their own life stories, hopes, and struggles with fellow residents in mutual friendship. They contribute 10-15 hours per month in relationship-building and service, usually while employed or in school. They are humble, eager learners with open minds and hearts—embodying the mission and values of Mile High Ministries.
Do you have skills as a handyperson (general repair and maintenance), or in trades such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical, irrigation systems, gutters, parking lot resurfacing and line painting, fence repair and construction, gutters, stucco? Come show some love to Joshua Station facilities.
Volunteer Spotlight
Peter and Pat Holwerda were restless.”We were in Evergreen, CO, with beautiful surroundings and comfort. Neighbors were nice,” Peter reflects. But there were stirrings. Peter and Pat began asking people, both locally and nationally, who might best connect them with people challenged with poverty, undocumented status, homelessness, or other obstacles. Hearing of Mile High Ministries, Peter and Pat visited Joshua Station to learn more. Seeing the family residences, the community spaces, the chapel, the playground, and the family atmosphere, they grew excited. Their first Thursday night family dinner at Joshua Station, they knew. “It was the ‘aha’ moment,” Peter shares. “There was a great energy in the mix of residents, staff, and volunteers. But the sense of belonging pulled us into the community from the start. The belonging didn’t depend on appearances or status—in fact the opposite. There was brokenness and transparency and openness. We realized how hungry we were for that.” Well, you never know where things will lead. In time, Peter and Pat made the decision to become resident volunteers. They moved into Joshua Station, sharing daily life with our community of people healing and transitioning from homelessness. “After decades of other leadership and responsibilities,” they say, it’s a great joy to just hang out, love people, and serve in practical, everyday ways.”