What is our mission to the community?

As a church, we are first a community of faithful people who rely on God's help to do the following:

    provide an environment for Christian growth and spiritual understanding,

    be a caring people who share each other's burdens and joys,

    provide a foundation in faith, in hope, in love from which are members are invited to reach out both to our community and our world.

Our mission, then, in Laramie is to be a people of possibility:

We help with Interfaith Good Samaritan:
by working with other churches to sponsor their annual walk,
by sharing in the ministry to persons in need.

Interfaith Good Samaritan: 710 Garfield, 742-4240

 We help with the Laramie Soup Kitchen: (see photo)
by sending volunteers to serve very hearty meals,
by lending our assistance to the fund-raiser on "Souper-Bowl Sunday."

Laramie Soup Kitchen at St. Matthews Cathedral, 721-4723

We do our part to provide affordable housing:
by sponsoring a HUD unit for over 29 years,
by lending monthly guidance to the direction of

Springbrook Apartments: 411 S. 26th, 745-3864.
For questions, please phone the managers: Deanna Johnson

 We provide for an appreciation of our local environment:
by working hard to cooperate with others each Earth day,
by sharing in the daily tasks of recycling at every level.

ARK Regional Services, 1150 N. 3rd, 742-6641

 We work with other churches to provide a ministry to kids:
by cooperating in the ecumenical Vacation Bible School,
by doing our best to support joint youth activities.

We are a committed partner to college students:
by lending full support to University Common Ministry,
by sharing expertise through Wyoming Ministries in Higher Education.

St. Paul's Newman Center

 We offer hope in social threat of violence:
by promoting the work of Alternatives to Violence of Wyoming,
by sponsoring workshops in peaceful ways to teenagers in our town.

Alternatives to Violence, Debbie Sanchez 745-8319

In a broken world, we have a mission, always,
to be instruments of God's peace.


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