Mission Statement
The Presbytery of Denver Matthew 25 encourages and supports Presbytery and congregational initiatives to build congregational vitality, dismantle structural racism, and eradicate systemic poverty.
The themes of the Matthew 25 invitation are grounded in the gospel. Jesus calls us to serve with and for “the least of these” — not as a group to be pitied, but as people who are deeply loved by Jesus. There are already PC(USA) congregations that identify themselves as Matthew 25 churches. We aim to help multiply this loving commitment to radical and fearless discipleship by partnering with mid councils and congregations to help them embrace one or more of these three focuses:
Building congregational vitality by challenging congregations and their members to deepen and energize their faith and grow as joyful leaders and disciples actively engaged with their community, seeing new disciples engaged in ministry and longstanding believers develop in faith as the gospel of Jesus Christ is shared in word and deed.
Dismantling structural racism by fearlessly applying our faith to advocate and break down the systems, practices and thinking that underlie discrimination, bias, prejudice and oppression of people of color.
Eradicating systemic poverty by acting on our beliefs and working to change laws, policies, plans and structures in our society that perpetuate economic exploitation of people who are poor.
Lead Presbyter, Rev. Dr. Dee Cooper shares what it means for our churches and our Presbytery to be a part of the Matthew 25 movement. Watch video below.
Matthew 25 Congregations in the Presbytery of Denver
Byers Community Church
Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church
Central Presbyterian Church
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
Grace Presbyterian Church
Green Mountain Presbyterian Church
Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church
Mountain View United Church
New Hope Presbyterian Church
Peoples Presbyterian Church
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
St. Paul Presbyterian Church
True Light Community Church
Wellshire Presbyterian Church
Wheat Ridge Presbyterian Church
We invite you to join the Presbytery Matthew 25 Team. Contact Dee Cooper to get involved.
The Matthew 25 Sub-Team of the Visionary Leadership Commission have put together a modified version of Dr. Yoo's presentation at the Summit.
The presentation was titled: “The Matthew 25 Church That Never Was; The Matthew 25 Church That Is Here Today,” and was recorded at the New Life Presbyterian Church in Fulton, Georgia.The original presentation slides are not available, so text and pictures were added to aid in viewing experience.
Dr. William Yoo
Matthew 25 Video
This version of Dr. Yoo’s presentation was created for the use of the Denver Presbytery to encourage its congregations and members as they seek to be faithful to the Matthew 25 movement of the PCUSA.
Our hope is you will share this with your faith communities and Matthew 25 Task Forces, have discussions and use the video and accompanying study guide to help each one of our faith communities think about the future of our church.
The original presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeratives 4.0 International License.
If you would like to watch the original recording, it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajbn1EMYVsQ
A synopsis of Dr. Yoo’s presentation is found here: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/the-rev-dr-william-yoo-explores-the-matthew-25-church-that-never-was-and-the-one-we-have-today/
This is the full presentation. Other versions with discussion questions are being created for class or group settings (Available in summer 2024)