Stories from Denver
IVC Denver Service Profile: Ann and the SAME Café
One of the founding IVC Denver service corps members, Ann has served as Development and Internship Coordinator at So All May Eat / SAME Cafe for the past four years. Beginning her service in the SAME Cafe, Ann experienced how this innovative participation-based...
IVC Denver Member Profile: Molly Smolen
St. Rose of Lima Catholic Academy’s vision is for all of our students to go to college and get to heaven. This small poster greets everyone who enters St. Rose of Lima Catholic Academy. St. Rose is a pre-K through eighth-grade school serving 26 zip codes throughout...
Keeping a Room for Christ
In Denver, Colorado, you can see God’s glory at work at a Safe Outdoor Spaces (SOS) site, an initiative started in December 2020 by the Colorado Village Collaborative (CVC). CVC was founded in 2017 by a group of young people committed to justice along with members of the Denver homeless community. Together they have developed a model — providing insulated tents, privacy, safety, and services for people experiencing homelessness — that is being considered in cities across the country.
For when I was hungry…
In the midst of the civic unrest and anxiety about the coronavirus, we can lose sight of the ongoing crisis of food insecurity. Defined as “the disruption of food intake or eating patterns because of lack of money and other resources,” Katie Fitzgerald, Chief...
Waiting for Pentecost: The Key to the Next Door – Rev. Kevin Burke, SJ
We ponder Pentecost, the coming of Spirit, in a time of global pandemic, of Eucharistic hunger and fasting. The days of waiting between Ascension and Pentecost recall “Holy Saturday.” That day of silence between the cry from the cross and the cry of Resurrection...
Finding Consolation in God’s Forgiveness
by Erin Benson I was recently asked to give a talk on the issue of simplicity. The topic is close to my heart and usually brings a lot of energy and joy when I share with others how simplicity can be applied as a matter of faith in our lives. But as I was preparing...
How I Followed Two Fathers to a Life of Service
by Al Rowley Faith of our fathers, holy faith. It’s a refrain that echoes in my life, where two fathers — my dad, Allan Rowley, Sr., Esq., and my uncle, Father James Colford, S.J. — handed down to me a living faith. My uncle was insightful and funny and always ready...
Denver Cafe Upends Soup Kitchen Stereotype
At Denver’s SAME Café, no day is ever the same. The menu changes almost daily, depending on what’s come in fresh from local organic growers. Prices aren’t set on the menu, either. As for the clientele — it’s typical to see a business-suited customer lunching next to...