Faith-Based Church Partnerships

Church Partnerships

For the past 33 years BRI has been serving low-income seniors and disabled persons by meeting their home maintenance and repair needs.

BRI has its roots in the church. Former President, Joe Giron, and a Mennonite minister, a Lutheran minister, and a Catholic layperson founded BRI in 1971. They saw the home repair needs of the widows in the northwest part of Denver and together they gave birth to what is now a helping agency that severs over 1,000 clients a year.

Through our new Church Partnership Program we feel we are returning to our roots. Needs are best met when people are part of the same community. Your church is living and worshipping in a neighborhood where you have spent years developing meaningful relationships. It is through these relationships that BRI hopes to partner with your church to meet the physical needs of painting a home, repairing a fence, replacing a storm door, etc. It is our hope that your neighbors will feel the love of God as your partner with us in meeting these needs. See the Volunteer Opportnities section of our site for more information..

These are a few ways BRI can support your church’s efforts to serve:

• Partnerships can take shape by joining us at our annual Paint-A-Thon, which is always held on the third Saturday in August. Here you can elect homes of seniors in your church and put together a team of volunteers to paint the homes. BRI will supply the supervision and paint.
• You may want to start a small volunteer handyman program. BRI can supply technical support, names of needy seniors and disabled in your church community looking for assistance, and BRI wills end an experienced professional to make a home visit and assess the needs before your church makes any commitment to meeting the needs.

It’s Your Neighborhood

Over the past 33 years BRI has grown steadily better. The one thing we seem to have lost, however, is a sense of being a part of any particular community in the Denver metro area. We serve everyone but feel as if we belong to no one specifically. That is where a partnership with the church becomes so vital. The low-income seniors and disabled people whom we serve live in your neighborhood and need more than just a BRI handyman or volunteer – they need the love of their neighbors. Because the neighborhood belongs to you who live and serve there everyday, we want to be a facilitator in bringing you together with those in need. We do not want to compete with but to compliment the work you are doing in your neighborhood.

What Can We Do Together

What we would like is for you to invite a representative from BRI to the appropriate Board of Committee meeting to share with you the various ways we may be able to partner together. We do not want to influence the way you worship or believe; we just want to offer our resources and ask you to share your volunteer resources in reaching out to your local community. If this is of interest, please call (303) 202-6340 and ask for Rhonda. She will give you more information and can set up a meeting with our volunteer supervisor, who will come to your church and share the possibilities for partnership.