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Action, Reflection... Transformation!

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For more than twenty years, Mile High Ministries has invited people from all walks of life to join God's transforming work on the margins of our communities. We are followers of Jesus from a variety of traditions, who value the holistic transformation — spiritual, social, economic — of both people and places.

Most of us have been drawn into this movement because we want to do something – we are people of action! We’ve put our shared values to work in the form of transitional housing, legal aid, small business development, leadership training, and other endeavors in lower-income urban neighborhoods.

Along the way, we’re learning that productive and lasting efforts come from a blend of action and reflection – pausing in the middle of our work for conversation, study, walking the streets and listening to our neighbors. Prayer is central to the life of MHM. So is theological reflection, which we try to do “from below” – informed by the voices of people too often ignored in our world or even our churches. And we are constantly seeking “best practices” in community development and empowerment with our poorest neighbors.

We’re convinced that this “dance” of action and reflection leads to transformation – perhaps for the communities where we serve, but certainly within our own lives. If transformation is what you’d like to experience, then I invite you to join us at Mile High Ministries!

Jeff Johnsen, Executive Director
 

Our Mission:

Mile High Ministries invites and equips people from all walks of life to join God’s transforming work on the margins of their communities.
 
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February 18, 2010

Just Like Us

For the last six weeks, the young leaders at the Issachar Community have been studying immigration and immigration reform. It’s a complex social, moral, theological and political topic. We’ve taken a look from those angles, but mostly we’ve been trying to get inside the human dimension. We’ve had a number of young leaders who are immigrants (including current and past members of Issachar) share their stories with us – stories of coming to the US with documents, and without. Some of our closest friends live in the anxious shadows of life because they are not authorized to be in this country, even though they’ve lived here almost all of their lives.

Speaking of the human dimension, this Tuesday we hosted Helen Thorpe, author of Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, which was selected by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of 2009. (Helen also happens to be married to Denver mayor, John Hickenlooper.) Helen’s book, and our delightful evening with the author, really connects us to the experience of young adults who were brought to the US by their parents and now struggle to live in a kind of “no man’s land” between two countries.

I hope you’ll join me in praying for our young friends for whom this issue is not primarily political, but deeply, and daily, personal and painful.

Peace in Christ,

Jeff Johnsen

Executive Director