Denver, Colo., Sep 21, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Last evening, at the city’s Centro San Juan Diego center, two members of Denver’s Hispanic Catholic community were honored for their lives of service and self-sacrifice at the First Annual Archbishop Jose Gomez Amistad Awards.
Proceeds from the evening are going to support the groundbreaking Cantro San Juan Diego mission, a ministry founded in part by Archbishop Jose Gomez--now Archbishop of San Antonio--when he was in Denver, to provide the area’s Catholic Hispanic community with spiritual, educational and social services.
Centro San Juan Diego has received national recognition and is being talked about as a model for other centers of its kind around the country.
Last night’s awards went to Jim Garcia, a local man who founded the La Clinica Tepeyac--a medical clinic which serves the uninsured working poor in inner city Denver, and to Socorro Garcia (no relation), who organizes Hispanic activities and ministries for the growing immigrant community at St. Augustine’s parish in nearby Brighton.