AfterHours Denver

AfterHours Denver is a bar church and homeless ministry that believes in putting more love into the world by providing basic necessities and creating places for authentic relationship. Since 2010 AfterHours has gathered in bars to discuss the deep stuff of life together, celebrate each other, and offer support to one another. When we gather, we make sack lunches and serve them to people experiencing homelessness and poverty the very next day. AfterHours provides necessities like lunch, water, and socks so our homeless neighbors have increased capacity to access providers and resources they need to get off the street for good.

We know Jesus would not have us convert the poor to Christ, he’d have us be converted to the poor who *are* Christ. Through relationships with people society has pushed to the side, we've learned to value some things: 

1. relationship over charity
2. conversation over conversion
3. curiosity over judgment

We believe in loving boldly and offering ourselves in service. Because in the end you gotta share your life to receive it. AfterHours is a community of individuals from across the socio-economic spectrum with various beliefs, sexual orientations, genders, and backgrounds, Sharing life can happen anywhere and it seems that when we break bread together, serve one another, or sit down at a table with a drink, this kind of sharing comes naturally. Turns out Jesus wants to be there too, so we meet him where he already is: at the bar and on the street.