We’re excited to launch our annual Spring Into Caring generosity event! Our goal is to raise $90,000 for Joshua Station by April 10. Can I share a bit about why, and invite your participation in giving?

To put it simply, we have an extraordinarily beautiful community. We have thirty beautiful families among us—the face of each resident shines. What light every day!

Our residents arrive with many-faceted beauty to share, which is all the more remarkable given the challenges and traumas of their homelessness experience. As they heal and grow during their time with us, the beauty grows.

We delight also in the beauty of our facility—a repurposed motel—likewise all the more remarkable given what it has weathered through many decades. Do you know it survived the great flood of 1965, one of the worst natural disasters in Denver’s history, with water up to our windows? Did you know that it was built in the exact architectural style as the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968?

Both our building and our families need a big boost of extra support and attention this year.

For our building, there’s an enormous safety project that can’t wait: replacing our rusting exterior walkways and stairs. We’ll need to find alternative housing for JS families during three phases of this expensive and complicated project. We’re all rolling up our sleeves for the extra challenge for us—and our families—this year!

For our programs, with your support we’ll add highly-qualified staff to expand our mental health services: A peer addiction recovery program, and psychotherapy in Spanish for our resident children and adults.

There are many ways you support this community, finances being just one way. But if you’re able to give a generous gift now for these needs, it will have a timely impact.

Blessings and Peace,

Amy Jackson, MSW

Deputy Director, Mile High Ministries

Program Director, Joshua Station