Welcome to the Grant Ave UMC website
On November 7, 1890, Rev. Oscar Louis Fisher and a group of faithful friends embarked on the establishment a Methodist church in the sparsely settled area known as South Denver. Originally, the congregation held services in a tent located on South Sherman and Maple Street. After 18 years of growth and planning, on January 12, 1908, Opening Services were held at the newly constructed Grant Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 216 South Grant. This historic 30,000-square-foot facility includes a beautiful Sanctuary with the capacity to seat 350 people. It also includes an adjoining Community Center consisting of three stories and a basement.
Grant Avenue United Methodist is a Church for all God’s people—regardless of age, class, religious background, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, and physical or mental ability. We welcome all people into this community of joy, prayer, worship, outreach, discipleship, and care. With our faith in Christ, we seek to grow in, learn about, and fully embrace the beautiful diversity of God’s creation. As a Reconciling Congregation, we honor God’s presence in our history, our current community, and the future to which God calls us. Together, at Grant Avenue Church, we pledge ourselves to lives of reconciliation with God and one another, with creativity, boldness, acceptance, and joy.
Our service is at 9:10 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Join us for fellowship in the parlour after the service.
The Bright Field
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is turning
aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but it is the eternity that awaits you.
... R.S. Thomas
Ken Berve, Pastor