Restoration Outreach Programs

Restoration Outreach Programs (ROP) was launched in January 2008 to bring two existing programs under one organization in order to provide a more cohesive, holistic service to people living in poverty along East Colfax Avenue in Denver and Aurora, Colorado. The first program was Prodigal Gatherings, which began in 1995 as a coffee house for homeless and at-risk teens and then grew into an outreach for both children and teens. It started under the direction of Open Door Ministries in 2004 as a counseling program for single mothers and grew to include a food bank, GED tutoring, and parenting classes. The two programs naturally started working together, as they were operating out of the same facility and sometimes worked with adults and children from the same families. In 2008, they came together to constitute Restoration Outreach Programs (ROP). The names of the individual programs were changed in 2010 to ROP Youth Ministries and ROP Resource Ministries.