providence network
Providence Network is an urban, transformational housing organization that helps impoverished men, women and families heal from addictions, abuse and homelessness to become self-sufficient, productive members of the community. Its mission is to heal broken lives from the inside out through faith-based transformational housing communities.
Learn more about its program and Silver Lining, a new house for homeless young adults.
Contact: Janie Peterson or Steve Peterson
Here is how you can help:
There are many ways you can be a part of this ministry: join in a small group that cooks a meal and eats with the residents, drop off a meal, help with landscaping in the summer, or help prepare a room for a new resident. Contact Janie Peterson to get connected.
2/14/22 Update
Valentines Day . . . the season for love . . .
Jesus said, “Love one another.” How do we as Christians show our love to one another, and especially to those who feel rejected by society because of suffering and brokenness?
“You can spend a lifetime feeing pushed out, cut off, abandoned—inexplicably alone.”
(Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way)
Did you know that Denver’s first-time homeless population has doubled just between the years of 2020 and 2021? And that approximately 1000 young people under the age of 24 are living on Denver’s streets today?
Providence Network (PN) is an outreach partner of Christ Church with which Steve and Janie Peterson have personally been involved for more than three decades. Several reasons why the Petersons are so committed to this ministry stems from the important work of transforming lives from hopelessness to new identity in Christ. PN has six operational homes which minister to people coming out of addiction, homelessness, domestic abuse, PTSD, and other debilitating situations. With their two-year holistic programs of living in community, which includes spiritual and mental/emotional mentoring, people heal and are able to achieve economic self-sufficiency, to engage in healthy supportive relationships, and have a restored sense of identity and purpose.
One of Christ Church’s small groups has been actively involved for the past three years, bringing meals monthly to one of the houses, the Silver Lining house. This group has made a commitment, before Covid, to not only provide meals but to eat with and get to know the young residents, ages 18-24, thereby having a personal connection with them on an ongoing basis. There are many opportunities such as this for volunteerism within our church’s outreach to Providence Network.
To read some of the residents’ own personal testimonies, you can go to their blog at https://providencenetwork.org/blog/ which will provide soul-stirring stories of the courageous journeys of life changes as a result of this amazing organization.
Here is something we should all have on our bucket lists:
“Live for something worth dying for. Let love break into you and mess with you and loosen you up and make you laugh and cry and give and hurt because this is the only way to really live.” (Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way.)
