Mission - St Andrew Presbyterian Church, Boulder, CO

A Congregation for Peace and Justice

Truly, I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters, you did it to me. (Matthew 25.40)

Carol and Laurie built a floor in Alamosa...

...while their kids were fixing a playground in Ethete, WY!

Mission and Service

Our Mission Committee plays an active role in putting our words and financial resources into action around the country and around the world. From the shipment of fifteen cartons of supplies to wounded U.S. soldiers recovering in Germany from the war in Iraq to well building projects in Malawi, mission and service are at the heart of what St. Andrew Church is about.

Our Board of Deacons serves the needs of our local community. Numerous opportunities for hands on service abound such as serving at Community Table (Boulder's meal program for homeless families), the annual Church World Service CROP Walk in Boulder (the largest in Colorado), serving food to the students at United Ministries in Higher Education, and other work planned and directed by our Board of Deacons, can be learned about by reading our Sunday worship bulletin or our newsletter, In Touch. To get on the In Touch mailing list, call the office.

Upcoming Mission Projects

St. Andrew offers ongoing support to Emergencey Family Assistance Association. You can offer food every Sunday, or grow your own in the community garden.

The Youth Group will be serving for the homeless Sunday Soup Program on January 11. Youth, be ready to leave worship after the sermon, to go to Trinity Lutheran downtown. Wear clothes that can get dirty or wet. Parents, we'll return after clean-up around 2:15.

For the eighth year in a row, St. Andrew will support the Souper Bowl of Caring! Bring a can of soup any Sunday from January 11 through February 1 -- look for the football field set up in the atrium. On game day, February 1, youth will hold soup pots at the sanctuary exit. Please help us set our fifth consecutive record for monetary giving!

February 8, St. Andrew will host a Mission Faire, including booths for PCUSA Hunger Fund, PCUSA Disaster Assistance, Church World Service's Crop Walk, our Synod and Presbytery, Highlands Camp, Marian Project, Forman College, Ghost Ranch, Dorcus Project, Zambia AIDS Project, St. Andrew Youth Missions, and many more! Stop by between services, or after the later worship service.

Summer '09 the High School Youth Group will serve for two days at Skyline Camp, preparing it for Wyoming children and youth to spend a summer learning about the joy and love of God. The Middle School Youth Group will join an intergenerational mission team at Alamosa Christian Community Services for four days, helping fix folks' homes. For more information about either of these trips, contact Hansen.

Youth Group Mission Trip!!!

Six young people and one Hansen traveled to Skyline Camp in southern Wyoming! We beat mattresses, swept up bugs, mopped cabins, washed sheets, cut grass, and generally got camp ready for the dozens of kids who will come closer to Christ this summer. With the generosity of St. Andrew, we also made a good donation to the Encampment Presbyterian Food Bank, and a clothing donation to the local religious Thrift Store. On the trip, we saw all variety of wildlife, from fields of brilliant lupine, to funny looking sage chickens, bright mountain bluebirds and imposing moose. Smore's were enjoyed to the sound of crackling fire and distant coyotes. And then we moved back to Highlands for the first annual Youth Re-Creation: five days of powerful worship with Revs. Gayle Parker and J. Herbert Nelson! The cabin might have had the odor of teenage boy, but it was a fantastic week!

DJ and Alex #1 beating mattresses, so that one hyperallergenic kid won't have to cough at camp this summer!

Youth Mission Projects!!!

The Youth Group is all about service! Respite Care in Fort Collins, the Boulder Lunch program, the Souper Bowl of Caring... Check out a couple of last year's pictures below.

For 22 years, St. Andrew Presbyterian has walked in the CROP Walk, a national fundraiser to fight hunger around the world. This October, St. Andrew walkers braved the elements, with 20 or so folks coming out to show their strident support with the 100's of other Boulderites. Over the past decades 401 St. Andrew walkers have raised $77,510 for CROP. That has truly helped make a difference here in Boulder and around the world.

Youth and Deacons Thanksgiving Baskets

Youth Mission Project -- A handful of youth joined with the Deacons for the Thanksgiving Basket project. The four young people built their idea of a perfect Thanksgiving experience, and the deacons delivered baskets to three families. This is the second year that the youth have had fun with this project.

San Luis Valley Mission Trip! For the fourth year in a row, St. Andrew sent a mission team to Alamosa, CO in July, 2009, to work with Christian Community Service Projects. Seven adults and six children and youth scraped, painted, dug, dumped, cleaned, pulled weeds, mounted handrails and sweated for three families. Outside of working for the Lord's service, the group laughed, dined, sang, and praised God on this fun trip. Contact the church to inquire about joining the next summer mission trip!

Mission Projects

Funded from 2004 to Date

Boulder County, National & Presbytery

$1,000 to help rebuild Presbyterian churches damaged by hurricanes in Florida

$1,000 for the Gilmore's New York City project – ministry to international students

$1,000 to Menaul School (affiliated with PCUSA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.manaulschool.com

$500 to the Health Ministry of (PCUSA) Frontero de Cristo in Douglas, Arizona

$4,596.50 designated as a donation to the Presbytery

$1,000 to Street's Hope, a ministry in Denver to assist women desiring to leave sexually oriented businesses http://www.streetshope.org

$2,000 to Plains and Peaks Presbytery for the new church development effort in Windsor, Colorado

$1,000 to Boulder County Cares, the outreach project of the Boulder Homeless Shelter to aid the homeless

$1,000 to Chinook Clubhouse, a branch of Boulder Mental Health, for the internship program that helps clients return to gainful employment

$1,000 to Compass House to help troubled young people

$1,200 to UMHE to cover roof replacement payments for one year.

$1,500 to Flatirons Habitat for Humanity to build kitchen cabinets.

$1,000 to Highlands Camp and Retreat Center (www.highlandscamp.org) in Allenspark, Colorado, for the youth summer program.

$1,000 to Evaristo Ramirez-Aguilar, one of our Deacons, to support the San Luis Valley mission trip in July, 2005

$500 to Stand Up For Kids; thereby qualifying that organization for a matching grant from the Presbytery

$1,000 to Native American Connections, an organization that collects clothes, food and other essentials for American Indian reservations in North and South Dakota

$200 to the Family Learning Center at the San Juan Low Income Housing Project for school supplies

$1,000 to Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFFA)

$1,000 to the Boulder Homeless Shelter

$1,000 to Cook College and Theological School in Tempe, Arizona to support the GED assistance program for Native Americans

$1,000 to Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN), formerly known as the Boulder County Safehouse

$1,000 to Carriage House, a daytime homeless community center

$1,000 to Evaristo Ramirez-Aguilar to support the San Luis Valley Mission trip

$750 to the Church World Service CROP Walk

$1,000 to U.S. Hurricane relief efforts

$500 to the Denver Rescue Mission

Current Total: $28,746.50

International

$1000 to the Maranatha Christian Center in Juarez, Mexico

$1000 to Wheels for the World that sends wheel chairs to developing countries http://www.joniandfriends.org/outreach/wftw/wftw.shtml

$1000 to the library at Forman Christian College (a Presbyterian College in Pakistan)

$1000 to Marion Medical Mission in Malawi http://marionmedical.org/

$1000 to the Dorcas Children's Home in Uganda for school fees, food and malaria medicine for its first aid kit http://www.dorcaskids.org/

$1000 to the Stove Project in Gualete, Dominican Republic to provide stoves for poor families that do not produce smoke and use much less firewood

$1000 to the Sangli Industrial School in India (a Presbyterian Mission School)

$1000 to Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, India for "low-cost effective care units" (rural clinics)

$1000 to the clean water project in Jalapa, Nicaragua through the Boulder Friendship City Project

$1000 for clean water for hospitals, schools and towns in Vietnam through Church World Service

$500 to the Health Ministry of (PCUSA) Frontero de Cristo in Aqua Prieto, Mexico

$1000 to the Slum Development Society in Chennai, India for skill development and education for untouchable women

$1000 for medication for kits for Aids patients in Malawi and Kenya through Plains & Peaks Presbytery

$500 to BUMPP to purchase medicine and baby scales for a mission trip to Bolivia that Janet Holdsworth is participating in

$1000 to the BECT Tsunami Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Trust to help build 50 homes in Sri Lanka http://www.bectbuildingavillage.org

$1000 to Siloam Eye Hospital in Seoul, Korea, a ministry serving the visually impaired. http://siloam.co.kr/english/english.html

$1000 to Sam Mutabazzi for the Dorcas Children’s Home in Uganda to purchase timber, iron sheets, cement and sand. Photos

$1000 to Jose Barrios, Pastor of the Asamblea Cristiana Church in Mexico for his work with indigent people

$1000 to Pakistan earthquake relief through the Presbyterian Church (USA)

$1000 to Pakistan Schools through the Presbyterian Church (USA)

$500 to the Church World Service “School Safe Zones” in Kenya

$1000 to Engineers Without Borders, working with Rachel and Bear Zelaya to solve a water problem in Kamma Sende, Mali.

$1000 to aid displaced persons in Columbia through the Presbyterian Church (USA) ECO #047871

$700 to the Dorcas Children’s Home in Uganda

$1000 to Forman Christian College in Pakistan

$500 to Rev Talon Windwalker for cleft palate and other surgery in the Phillippines

$700 to the Dorcas Children’s Home in Uganda

$1000 to International Peacemaking

$500 to church project in Mexico through Evaristo

Current Total $26,400

Permissions/Photo Credits
-Wheelchair photo used with permission of Joni and Friends
-Boys playing at the Dorcas Children's Home obtained with permission from photographer Geoff Pakiam (http://www.midnighttales.net/)