Mission/Cultural Tours
215th General Assembly

Mission/cultural tours of Denver and the surrounding area will be available Monday through Thursday of the 215th General Assembly next month. The tours range from full or short daytrips to lunch tours to walking tours to hands-on experiences. The following is a description of two of the tours that will be available. For the complete list of tours, go to www.denverga.org.

The Central Visitation Program, Central Presbyterian Church, Denver, is a program that was started ten years ago to give non-custodial parents a chance to see their children in a safe and protected environment. It is one of a handful of programs of its kind in the city of Denver. The program offers one-hour supervised visits in rooms with toys and activities in a 3rd floor setting provided by the church. The court system provides referrals for parents who are deemed eligible for a visit. Many families are gradually moved to non-supervised visits, a move that is decided by the GAL, the director of the program, and the parents. Everyone involved considers the program to be very successful.

Capitol Hill United Ministries program: For about fifteen years, one grocery store has given the opportunity to customers to turn in their store coupons and donate the money to the different ministries in the downtown area of Denver. A group meets every Monday morning to cut, sort, and fold hundreds of coupons that people donate. Another group goes to the grocery store at 6 a.m. on a specific day and attaches the coupons to the products matching them. To date, these hundreds of mainly 25-cent coupons have generated over $46,000 for the ministries.