2026 BFCC Community Outreach Schedule

2025 BFCC Community Outreach Partners & Projects

  • We are honored to partner with IOYS in support of the important work they do for the LBGTQIA2+ youth in our community. In 2025, we collected food and clothing donations, attended local school board meetings to show solidarity, donated clothing and accessories for the June Queer Prom and donated to their Christmas Market. IOYS also provided a class for our congregation on inclusive language and allyship. We also sponsore and attended the AllyUp Breakfast Fundraiser Event.

  • Fresh Start Center visited our church early in the year to speak about the food insecurity in our community and the work they do to address it. In response, our congregation held several food drives and participated in the annual Falcon citywide food drive, volunteering to help sort donated food.

  • Tri-Lakes-Cares visited our church early in the year to discuss the challenges facing the Monument and surrounding communities, including food insecurity, rising housing costs and employment barriers, as well as the ways they are working to address these needs. In response, our congregation orgaized a food drive, collected pies for Thanksgiving meals and funded three months of their Adopt-A-Shelf Program.

  • We had the pleasure of meeting the individuals who founded Food Trucks Against Homelessness and Monument Women Against Homelessness during our annual garage sale. In addition to providing donated goods for their clients, we offered small grants to support their work serving individuals experiencing homelessness in our community.

  • We supported the Stable Strides Walk-A-Thon by serving as a sponsor and through individual members of our congregation also raising funds to support their work.

Pikes Peak Library DistricT

The PPLD Mobile Library has been parking in the BFCC lot for several years now and is one of the most used mobile libraries in the district. We also started partnering with them to host different events they provide for the community. In 2023, they presented Shakespeare’s Pericles to the community.

In March, 2024, the Colorado Springs Astrological Society talked about the upcoming April solar eclipse and passed out eclipse glasses. We look forward to partnering with them on more projects.

In May we were able to provide them with several boxes of books and DVD’s from our annual garage sale to use; thanks PPLD Mobile Library Staff for picking those up!

StableStrides

We are excited to be partnering StableStrides who provide Health and Healing through horses! Two people from our congregation are very active volunteers there and led us on a project in July to get an arena ready for a photo session. Yes, even StableStrides depends on community donations as a non-profit to be able to do all the wonderful things they offer to the community. They also provided a class to our church earlier in the year about what they do. Thank you for letting us partner with you; we look forward to more projects!

Westside Cares

Our congregation voted to work with three organizations in 2024 (out of 15) and partnering with an organization who helped our unhoused and hungry in Colorado Springs was another issue we decided we really wanted to support. We are grateful to Westside Cares for all they do for our community! We helped them organize and repackage food and wipes for the unhoused in March 2024. On Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, we gathered food items from the congregation for them to pass out to those in need. In May, we were able to provide them with socks and shoes that they are always in need of after our annual garage sale. Thanks Nancy Briley for gathering that for them! In August, we donated water bottles and a case of water for them to hand out to their clients as it has been a hot summer.