Love Offerings
Each month we highlight a local or international ministry. Loose cash offerings and designated offerings are given to that ministry. An overview of these diverse ministries is provided below. Our 2023 Love Offering ministries are as follows:
JANUARY
Strong Cross Ministries is a ministry that helps missionaries. Founders Chris and Tonya Blessing opened a retreat facility for missionaries in Bennet Colorado in 2000. They are currently living in South Africa, about one hour from the Zimbabwe border. Some of their active partnerships in missions are located in Africa, Asia and a USA Indian Reservation called Pine Ridge Reservation in the Bad Lands of South Dakota & more.
FEBRUARY
LFS Refugees Program offers support to people who are forced to flee their countries of origin because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality or membership in a particular social or political group.
MARCH
Clear Creek Rock House provides area teens a safe, supervised place where they can recreate and receive life skills training from caring adults. The Rock House does this through mentoring, tutoring and after-school programs and events.
APRIL
Youth Scholarships is a LCC Helping Hands fund to help our youth attend youth activities. The purpose of this money will be to allow students to offer a “helping hand” to the church or any of its members in exchange for covering an event fee.
MAY
Capstone Ministry is a ministry to the street children of Western Kenya, specifically Kisumu and the surrounding areas. Capstone was founded in 2005 with the objective of restoring street children with their family. The ministry is founded upon the Scripture from Psalm 118:22 “The stone the builder’s rejected has become the capstone.” Capstone Ministries is a Recognized Service Organization of LC-MS.
JUNE
Joy International is dedicated to the rescue, restoration, and reintegration of children, teens and young women affected by human trafficking, and the prevention of child trafficking worldwide.
JULY
Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live.
AUGUST
Loaves & Fishes is a nonprofit, faith based organization, headquartered in Idaho Springs. They rely on donations to help feed those in need in the Evergreen/Idaho Springs area.
SEPTEMBER
Enlighten Foundation - Project Sparkle is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to educating and empowering women worldwide through walking with marginalized women and children to provide spiritual and practical tools for daily life. In Armenia they provide early education, both academic and spiritual, to Yezidi Kurdish children. This opens the door for Yezidi families to come to church, and mothers to become involved with health and parenting training as well as small business development. (also active in Rosebud Reservation, Zimbabwe)
OCTOBER
Life Options Pregnancy Center is an Evergreen based free and confidential service for women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy. They offer emotional support, medical referrals, financial assistance and more.
NOVEMBER
World Gospel Outreach, we have missionaries at LCC who partner with WGO annually, specifically serving in Belize and Honduras, as part of a medical ministry team. WGO’s vision statement is “Impacting the faith of Christ followers through serving and evangelizing children and the poor.”
DECEMBER
Mt Evans Hospice in Evergreen provides compassionate in-home health care and hospice services to Colorado mountain-area residents. We offer grief support to adults and children, including our award-winning children’s bereavement program, Camp Comfort.
