Outreach

O.U.R. (Outreach United Resource) Center in Longmont welcomes individuals and families within our service area who need support with food, housing, or essential needs.  Residency within the St. Vrain Valley School District is verified to ensure our programs serve local community members.

Sister Carmen Community Center in Lafayette – For many years Niwot UMC has provided food and financial assistance to Sister Carmen CC at Thanksgiving.  We will collect food again this year and donate $100.00 to Sister Carmen CC to purchase turkeys and/or other needed food items.

Kiva, an international micro-lending organization – Niwot UMC has participated in this organization since 2012.  It provides hope to those in need around the world, for those who are not able to obtain a loan through normal banking channels.  During 2024 through donations of $512.00 and client loan repayments, we were able to make 39 loans totaling $2,710.00.  Since joining Kiva, we have made 356 loans totaling $24,135.00 to those in 72 countries.  Loans were made to provide wholistic health, buy farming equipment, construct hygienic toilets, buy produce to sell, purchase animals to raise and sell, medical expenses, higher education tuition and fees, serve those in need, supply clean drinking water, help refugees and those in conflict areas, and to improve the quality of life, to name a few reasons for the loans. 

The church for several years has supported the JET (Jail Education and Transition) program at the Jail.  The program benefits qualifying inmates, preparing them to re-enter the community safely as productive members of society.  So far, in 2024 $472.20 worth of items have been donated to the JET program (coffee, tea, sugar packets, deodorant, lotion, hair ties, emery boards, hot chocolate, shampoo, conditioner and toothpaste).

We have donated $100.00 from the Outreach fund to the last of the six special offerings at the Mountain Sky Conference supporting the United Methodist Student Day.  Student Day supports scholarships “for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs for United Methodist students”, educating “a new generation of leaders for the United Methodist Church”.

We provide funds for the United Methodist Committee On Relief.  The organization focuses on disaster relief.

Peopleweaver was established to provide educational and economic assistance to help girls and women escape extreme poverty and have more fulfilling lives.  Peopleweaver has focused on Congolese women and girls living in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  They have also partnered there locally to start an adult education school.  Niwot UMC has helped Peopleweaver for many years; this year with a donation of $625.00. provide funds for the United Methodist Committee On Relief.