Mean Street

Mean Street is a multi-denominational Christian outreach ministry, with volunteers from a variety of churches and groups. Our mission is to care and assists the homeless and the poor. Our clients are the most desparate of the working poor. They are families stuck in the motel cycle or in housing projects increasingly riddled with drugs.

In any city, large or small, there are people who are homeless. Sometimes, however, these homeless are not in the streets or sleeping out in the open as most might imagine, but living in the crowded rooms of older motels that line our well-traveled urban streets, or in sprawling housing projects that attract a seedy element.

Over the course of each week, Mean Street deploys 40 to 50 volunteers to give out around 600 meals, and various other item such as diapers, toys, children’s books, Bibles, blankets, coats, caps, gloves, school supplies.

Mean Street also passes out hundreds of copies of a comprehensive, up-to-date resource guides containing contact information for numerous agencies and ministries that help with the many different needs of the homeless and poor.

Mean Street volunteers talk with each individual or family about their needs, gives them sandwiches/burritos, and encouragement. They also can call the Mean Street staff during the week for follow-up help, such as large food baskets, clothes, and mentoring & prayer (if requested), delivered to them.

Every Monday & Tuesday evening, since the year 2000, volunteers from Mean Street Ministry hit the motels, shelters, and housing projects along West Colfax Avenue and, since 2002, East Colfax on Thursdays or Mondays. Thursday is food day at a trailer park at 17th and DePew