Mean Street Ministry's Client Needs

Our clients require meals, and various other items such as diapers, toys, children’s books, Bibles, blankets, coats, caps, gloves, school supplies; and many daily supplies we take for granted. Please contact Betty Fry about donations, 303-237-0443

In the near future we will be teaming up with Whiz Kids, a program where 25 children of homeless families are tutored per week. They will be receiving personalized attention beginning in October, 2006, at the Civic Center downtown. This program is being sponsored by the mayor’s office. We will refer children to them and help feed these children and their families during the tutoring program. They will also be allowed to enjoy shower facilities there.

Mean Street volunteers talk with each individual or family about their needs, gives them sandwiches/burritos, and encouragement. They can also call the Mean Street staff during the week for follow-up help, such as large food baskets, clothes, delivered to them, and mentoring & prayer (if requested).

Mean Street also passes out hundreds of copies of a comprehensive, up-to-date resource guide containing contact information for numerous agencies and ministries that help with the many different needs of the homeless and poor.

For families meeting certain criteria, the goal of the Ministry is to synergize with other missions to supply first-month’s rent and deposit, and help them find and furnish an apartment from the Ministry’s food, clothing, and furniture banks. The Ministry also assigns them trained family mentors to help with the transition and encourage a successful, long-lasting transfer to an apartment.

Try A Little Kindness

If you see your brother standing by the road
With a heavy load from the seeds he's sowed
And if you see your sister falling by the way
Just stop and stay you're going the wrong way

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

Don't walk around the down and out
Lend a helping hand instead of doubt
And the kindness that you show every day
Will help someone along their way

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

You got to try a little kindness
Yes show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets

Try A Little Kindness
Glen Campbell,
All The Best