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Arvada Stake Joins City, Other Faith Leaders in Creating Supports for Homeless Population
By Denver Region Media Specialist Corey Christiansen For the past year, members of the Arvada Stake Communication Council have participated with a coalition of churches in Arvada to discuss how to provide more support for people experiencing homelessness in their area. City Councilman Randy Moorman has organized multiple meetings to garner support from the faith…
Read MoreArvada Seniors Honor Favorite Teachers
On Tuesday April 18 nineteen graduating high school seniors from the Arvada Colorado Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered with family and friends to honor teachers who have made a difference in their lives. Each senior had the opportunity to stand with their teacher in front of the audience and…
Read MoreLDS Church Paints Mural, Removes Weeds and Fences at Majestic View Park
The drizzly weather on Saturday, September 10 didn’t stop 140 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from completing three large service projects at Majestic View Nature Center. Families with toddlers, youngsters, and teenagers filed a thirty-yard dumpster of noxious weeds. Other families removed wire fencing and posts in a deep thicket…
Read MoreArvada Churches Come Together to Feed Neighbors in Need
On Saturday July 16, five Arvada church congregations came together to gather food and supplies to help community members in need. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Arvada, Arvada United Methodist Church, King of Glory Lutheran Church, Simpson United Methodist Church, and the Arvada Baha’i Community worked together to plan…
Read MoreEagle Scout Project: Community Fire Pit Upgrade
In 2019 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced an end to a very long relationship with the Boy Scouts of America. While a large number of young men in the church decided to not continue their path to Eagle Scout that wasn’t the case for Micah Andersen in Arvada. Micah joined Troop…
Read MoreMissionaries Volunteer at Arvada Community Garden
On Saturday, July 10th 12 energetic missionaries volunteered at the Rose Roots Community Garden in Arvada CO. The group of missionaries turned a horse manure pile and weeded common areas. According to Patricia Sacks, “They approached these mundane but necessary tasks with a positive attitude, cheerfully tossing manure and pulling our pernicious weeds with vigor.”…
Read MoreArvada Stake Builds “Walk Through Nativity”
In Arvada on 72nd avenue is a church building which sits directly across from the City’s APEX center. On the front lawn of that church building is a beautiful and well lit nativity scene. As local leaders of the church considered what activity or gathering could be planned during a year of a global pandemic…
Read MoreReader’s Digest Highlights Arvada Youth
In a recent article published to RD.com, Bailey Noall, 12, is featured for the creative and charitable work she is doing to make headbands for nurses. You can read about this and other meaningful ways people are helping nurses during the pandemic in this wonderful article:
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