Cleaning supplies are being collected for Family Homestead, an organization that provides temporary housing for unhoused families. Items needed are: all purpose household cleaners, glass cleaner, tub and tile cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner, liquid dishwasher detergent, mops, brooms, sponges, buckets, and toilet bowl brushes. To learn more, visit familyhomestead.org.
Ready for an upbeat concert that will leave you loving the earth? This May, the Denver Women’s Chorus raises awareness about climate change by singing the likes of Joni Mitchel, Jonathan Larson, Holly Near, and Frank Ticheli. Concerts are here at Wellshire.
Tickets at denverchoruses.org and at the door.
Join our Sanctuary Choir and the professional Wellshire Orchestra in a concert featuring Rutter’s Requiem as well as music by Eric Whitacre and Edward Grieg. Admission is free, net proceeds benefit Urban Peak, an organization supporting unhoused teens.
Throughout May, you can support the women and children who are patrons of The Gathering Place, Denver’s only daytime drop-in center for women and their children who are rebuilding their lives. We will be collecting personal hygiene items, both regular and travel sizes. Items needed are: toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, body lotion, and women’s personal hygiene products. Wellshire has been a partner agency with the Gathering Place for more than 30 years. To learn more, please visit their website.
Bring your gardening gloves, rakes, and trowels to the Wellshire spring garden cleanup! No gardening experience necessary, and children are very welcome. Contact Kathleen Eckert, keckert@wpcdenver.org, with questions.
Let’s move to bring hope to the orphans!
Team Zimbabwe is mobilizing once again to bring hope to over 600 orphans and vulnerable children at Heather Chimhoga Orphan Care in rural Zimbabwe. On Sunday, June 4, we will gather at Riverdale Regional Park in Adams County to ride, walk, or run as we travel “a mile” or more, in the shoes of an orphan in Zimbabwe. Register here. You may also join Team Zimbabwe as a virtual participant to raise donations.
April 9, 8:00am, 9:30am, and 11:00am
The 8:00 am contemporary service includes special Easter selections by the Celebration Singers, Confluence band and brass quintet.
The identical traditional 9:30 and 11 am services feature a festive Easter celebration for Bells, the Sanctuary Choir, Brass, percussion, organ and piano, including Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.
April 6, 7:00pm in the Sanctuary
Join us for a special service with music from our Sanctuary Choir and celebration of communion commemorating the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples.
Everyone is welcome at the Deacons’ Pancake Breakfast on April 16, between 8 and 11 am in the chapel and Fellowship 1. Deacons and youth will prepare and serve a pancake breakfast with sides and beverages. Donations will go toward the high schoolers’ serve and learn work trip to Memphis this summer.
For the month of March we’re collecting laundry and kitchen cleaning supplies for the LoVVe Project, a partner agency of the Hunger Task Force, which provides assistance to Ellis Elementary School families. Laundry and cleaning supplies are not covered by SNAP benefits.
The LoVVe Project provides these kits to their clients several times a year. Please buy the size(s) you would use for your family: laundry detergent, fabric softener, hand sanitizing wipes, liquid dishwashing detergent, sponges, general purpose cleaners in spray bottles and cleaning cloths.