Meg Arroyo

 

Hi there! Thank you for your consideration of giving a gift to support my position here at Open Door Ministries. I work as the Assistant Youth Director and spend my time serving our middle and high school students in our surrounding community by planning the programming for our after school and summer youth drop-in center. My hope is to fulfill the following vision I created to guide my every day decisions and actions: To know and be a cornerstone (Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22) in the lives of our students at Open Door; to try my best to consistently reflect Christ’s love, truth, joy, grace, humility, and service to them while modeling what it may look like to be in relationship with Him. To communicate to them their value & worth, because Christ Jesus has died for them!

 To break that down, I have found that I am especially passionate about communicating to students their value and worth.  At this age they are desperately searching for it in inadequate places—social media, their friends, the instability of their home situation, their parents’ approval.  Yet the only avenue that will satisfy and sustain their cravings to mean something, belong, be known, and be desired is the sacrificial and resurrected love of Jesus Christ. I can do this through the lessons I teach at youth group, the one-on-one conversations I have with them daily after school, the programming I create for after school, summer, and special events, the retreats and trips we provide, and through my daily interactions with the students.

The aspect of being a cornerstone ties into my philosophy that long-term relationships are the relationships that create transformational change.   We see that Jesus is prophesied as the cornerstone in the Old Testament, yet of course his earthly arrival happened in the New Testament.  It is Our God’s long term relationship with his people—his faithfulness to never forsake us—that has been transforming his people from the Israelites to us now. I want to model my relationship with our students after that of Our Almighty God. January 2020 will mark my sixth year as a staff member of Open Door Ministries, and I praise Him for bringing me to Open Door Ministries and providing me that time to foster long-term relationships with my students.

Thank you for partnering with me and joining in the work God is doing in urban Denver!

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My mentee, Tazia, and I at a Nugget's game. Open Door Youth partners with the ministry Save Our Youth to mentor youth in Urban Denver. Tazia is a junior at East High and is a leader at youth group and an excellent role model to our middle school stu…

My mentee, Tazia, and I at a Nugget's game. Open Door Youth partners with the ministry Save Our Youth to mentor youth in Urban Denver. Tazia is a junior at East High and is a leader at youth group and an excellent role model to our middle school students.

Karen, a senior at North High School, poses for a picture in Dillion, CO where we took our high school girls for a retreat Fall 2019.

Karen, a senior at North High School, poses for a picture in Dillion, CO where we took our high school girls for a retreat Fall 2019.

Our rafting and backpacking trip we took middle and high school students on with Noah's Ark in July 2019!

Our rafting and backpacking trip we took middle and high school students on with Noah's Ark in July 2019!

Each summer we take the middle schoolers on a Camping Trip and we force them to hike :) Mt Falcon Park, June 2019

Each summer we take the middle schoolers on a Camping Trip and we force them to hike :) Mt Falcon Park, June 2019

Twice a month my coworker Elijah and I bring our students to our church, Open Door Fellowship, and teach "Breakfast and Bible" after the service. We just finished the story of Joseph in Genesis, and are now moving on to the story of Moses in Exodus!

Twice a month my coworker Elijah and I bring our students to our church, Open Door Fellowship, and teach "Breakfast and Bible" after the service. We just finished the story of Joseph in Genesis, and are now moving on to the story of Moses in Exodus!

Molly, our director, and I dressed up for Halloween as Eleven and Max from the show, Stranger Things.

Molly, our director, and I dressed up for Halloween as Eleven and Max from the show, Stranger Things.

A photo from our annual Summer Road Trip, where we took six students all over South Dakota to see the Badlands and Mount Rushmore among other stops August 2019.

A photo from our annual Summer Road Trip, where we took six students all over South Dakota to see the Badlands and Mount Rushmore among other stops August 2019.

In the summer we provide programming for students Monday-Thursday from 8am-6pm. Here we partnered with Colorado River Schools, a non-profit, to have kayaking fun and water safety and comfortability programming for our students, June 2019.

In the summer we provide programming for students Monday-Thursday from 8am-6pm. Here we partnered with Colorado River Schools, a non-profit, to have kayaking fun and water safety and comfortability programming for our students, June 2019.

Quiana, Kelbie, Kyanna, and Keegan graduated last May 2019 and the three ladies have grown up in Open Door since they were pre-schoolers, Keegan since early elementary. We are so proud of all they have become and pray the will continue to grow close…

Quiana, Kelbie, Kyanna, and Keegan graduated last May 2019 and the three ladies have grown up in Open Door since they were pre-schoolers, Keegan since early elementary. We are so proud of all they have become and pray the will continue to grow closer to God in their next season of life!