Denver
Members of the LDS Church Join with Fellow Christians in Denver to Observe Good Friday
On a bright, sunny afternoon this past Friday, April 14th, members of the LDS Church joined nearly 200 hundred clergy and lay members of seven local Christian churches for an annual interfaith Good Friday service at Observatory Park in Denver. Following nearly twenty years of observance, the interfaith Stations of the Cross service brought…
Read MoreBringing Hope to Families through Easter Baskets for Families First Colorado
Holidays can be a time of special heartache for children who have been removed from their homes due to child abuse. To ease the burdens of children displaced from their homes this Easter, members of the Denver Colorado Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) worked to collect 57 Easter baskets…
Read MoreJustServe Volunteers from the LDS Church: Ready to Serve on Short Notice
Earlier this month (April 2017), Birthline, a Denver-based nonprofit pregnancy counseling service, faced a critical shortage of volunteers to sort through more than 10,000 donated clothing items. The thousands of clothing items were graciously donated to Birthline by Denver’s largest children’s consignment sale called Just Between Friends (JBF). While immensely grateful for JBF’s generous donations,…
Read MoreLDS Church Builds Unity in Christ through Participation in a Catholic-Lutheran Sponsored Common Prayer Service
In contrast with the political and religious divisiveness of our times, Christians of many different faiths gathered this past Sunday, March 19th, in a Common Prayer Service at the Bethany Lutheran Church in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. The Common Prayer Service focused on commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation begun by Martin Luther.…
Read MoreMormon Missionaries Deliver 2,912 Turkeys to Catholic Charities
Today (Nov.18th, 2016) – On a crisp Friday morning, just after Denver’s first snow, dozens of Mormon missionaries serving around the Denver area gathered at The Samaritan House and unloaded a truck full of nearly 3,000 turkeys. The turkeys will be sent to Catholic parishes throughout Colorado and used to serve dinners at The Samaritan House.…
Read MoreInterfaith Messiah sing along brings faiths together in a new tradition.
George Frideric Handel said at the first London performance of his masterpiece Messiah that he didn’t just wish to entertain his audience, but that he wished “to make them better.” *(Burrows, 28) In the spirit of Handel’s aspirations, the faith communities from Hope United Methodist and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)…
Read MoreFamily Search and Blair Caldwell library host event for the Freedmens Bureau.
On September 12, 2015 – The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Black Genealogy Search Group, and FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world hosted an exclusive VIP event in Denver, CO announcing the digital release of 4 million Freedmen’s Bureau historical records and the launch of a nationwide volunteer indexing effort. About 100 people…
Read MorePress Release: Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records Released:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2015 HISTORIC FREEDMEN’S BUREAU RECORDS RELEASED: Event launches volunteer indexing effort of 4 million freed slave records DENVER, CO — The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Black Genealogy Search Group, and FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world are partnering on an exclusive VIP event in Denver, CO on…
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