A Church for Littleton on South Broadway
South Fellowship Church sits just off South Broadway and Arapahoe in Littleton, Colorado, behind the Genesis of Littleton car dealership at 6560 S Broadway. From the outside it looks like a busy shared shopping center, but step inside and the building becomes the center of a remarkably active community of faith. Sundays, weekday evenings, and Saturday mornings all carry their own rhythms of worship, recovery meetings, youth gatherings, and a Food Bank that opens its doors to neighbors in need.
The church describes itself as a non-denominational community made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds and at different places in their faith. Its tagline, repeated often by its pastors, is a simple one: living in the way of Jesus with the heart of Jesus. That phrase is more than a slogan. It shapes the way South Fellowship talks about its mission, designs its ministries, and partners with people across the city and around the world.
Sundays at 9:00 and 10:45
South Fellowship gathers for worship on Sunday mornings at 9:00 and 10:45am. Each gathering lasts about seventy-five minutes. The format is straightforward and welcoming. Coffee is available as people arrive, a Welcome Team is on hand to answer questions, and the service moves through a mix of music, prayer, scripture reading, and a sermon rooted in a specific passage of the Bible.
Worship at South is a blend of contemporary and timeless. The church sings a mix of newer songs and traditional hymns, with a Spotify playlist called "South Fellowship Heart Songs" that anyone can listen to before visiting. The musicians and singers lead from the front of the Worship Center, and worshipers are invited to engage in whatever way feels comfortable to them. After the service, regulars and newcomers alike gather at the "New Here" wall in the lobby for a chance to say hello and learn more about how to get connected.
For those who cannot make it in person, the 10:45am gathering is livestreamed on the church's YouTube channel. A full sermon library is also available online, searchable by series, topic, speaker, and scripture.
Kids from Infants Through Fifth Grade
South Fellowship takes seriously its call to partner with families. The South Kids ministry serves infants through fifth graders during both Sunday gatherings. When families arrive, signage directs them to the New Family Check-In area, where volunteers gather basic contact information and any special instructions such as allergies or special needs before walking parents and children to their classrooms.
The rooms are age-specific. The nursery is warm and nurturing. Toddler rooms include short stories, worship, and playtime. Elementary-age classrooms offer interactive worship, Bible lessons, and hands-on activities. Parents can speed up their first visit by pre-registering their child online.
South Kids is led by Kathy Pachal, Pastor of Kids Formation, alongside Associate Director Amy Weaver. Parents often speak about the intentional care of the staff and volunteers, with several highlighting specific teachers by name. The Early Learning Center, a preschool connected to the church, is directed by Rebecca Bell.
Students from Sixth Grade Through High School
Middle school and high school students have their own ministry at South called South Students, led by Pastor of Student Formation Sean Switzer and Associate Director Nathan Holmes. The ministry exists to be a place where sixth through twelfth graders can explore, experience, and grow with Jesus in community with one another.
The weekly rhythm includes Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights. On Sunday mornings, students begin by worshiping in the front right section of the 9:00am gathering, then head to the Student Center from 9:20 to 10:15am for a Breakfast Bible Study. On Wednesday nights, youth group runs from 6:30 to 8:30pm in the Student Center, with time for worship, teaching, and the kind of friendships that shape a teenager's faith. Students are also encouraged to attend or jump in and serve at the 10:45am service.
South Students maintains an active Instagram presence, and parents consistently speak about the welcoming, well-organized environment the leaders have created.
Young Adults Ages 18 to 30
The Young Adults Ministry at South is designed for adults between 18 and 30, a stage of life that often resists one more weekly commitment. To honor that reality, the ministry gathers once or twice a month rather than weekly, offering shared meals, discussions, game nights, movie nights, hikes, and serving opportunities throughout the year.
The community is led by David and Lisa Rickman, and new participants can join the group directly through Church Center.
Groups, Formation, and Midweek
South Fellowship places a high value on spiritual formation that happens in the company of others. The church's Connect and Grow pathway offers several on-ramps: small groups, men's and women's formation, midweek gatherings, and a full calendar of events.
Small groups meet in homes around the region and provide a setting for prayer, scripture study, and mutual support. Women's groups include Bible studies, Sisterhood gatherings, MomCo, and Mom's Night Out, with options that meet in the morning or evening. Men's groups include Bible studies, discussion groups, prayer, coffee meetups, and community groups. South Midweek offers an additional midweek touchpoint for those looking to keep their week anchored.
For newcomers specifically, the church hosts Newcomer's Lunches after Sunday services on a quarterly basis, providing a meal, an introduction to the vision of South, and time to ask questions of staff and fellow newcomers.
The Food Bank: Rescuing Food, Knowing Names
If there is one ministry that defines South Fellowship in the wider Littleton community, it is the Food Bank. The church describes it as "a different kind of food bank," and a feature in Sacred Place helped spread that reputation. The Food Bank is open for shopping Wednesdays from 5:00 to 6:15pm, Saturdays from 8:00 to 10:30am, and on Sunday mornings from 10:20 to 10:40am and 12:00 to 12:30pm. The entrance and parking are off East Panama Drive on the northeast corner of the building.
When shoppers arrive, they are welcomed and checked in by name. Volunteers offer to pray with them if they wish. Shoppers receive a clean cart and choose what their household needs from an ever-changing selection of fresh produce, dairy and non-dairy items, deli products, eggs, meat, vegan items, and bread, along with a rotating assortment of non-perishables such as flour, coffee, cereal, peanut butter, pasta, and toilet paper. Most of the food is donated by local grocery stores when it is damaged or near expiration; South Fellowship sorts and rescues what it can, and local businesses turn the rest into jam and pork so almost nothing is wasted.
The Food Bank operates in both English and Spanish, and the description of its hours and procedures is presented in both languages. It serves one hundred to one hundred twenty-five households each week. For shoppers whose needs extend beyond food, the church's Benevolence Team can be reached through the church office at 303-797-1500. Love, Inc. of Littleton is recommended as an additional local resource.
Volunteers pick up donations from local stores, sort food, serve shoppers, and keep the operation running. The church accepts fresh and non-perishable donations on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays between 9:00 and 10:00am. Non-perishable donations can also be dropped off at the church office (Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 4:00pm). Shoppers who use King Soopers or City Market can also support the Food Bank by enrolling those stores in their Community Rewards program and selecting South Fellowship Church, a program that brings in over three thousand dollars a year for non-perishable purchases.
Celebrate Recovery on Tuesday Nights
Tuesday nights at South Fellowship belong to Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-centered, twelve-step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, pain, or addiction of any kind. The program meets from 6:30 to 8:30pm in the Worship Center, and no registration is necessary. All are welcome to join at any time.
Celebrate Recovery at South addresses a wide range of struggles: food, alcohol, drugs, love and relationship issues, sexual addiction, gambling, codependency, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, eating disorders, and anger. The leadership team includes a long-term member named Nicole, who has become a steady presence for those walking through hard seasons. Several people have shared publicly about how the program led them to faith in Jesus and to a broader involvement with the church.
Pastoral Counseling and Prayer Support
Pastors at South Fellowship are available to meet one-on-one for prayer, processing, and pastoral counseling. Requests can be submitted through a counseling request form, and a separate general request form exists for practical needs such as meal trains, lawn care, minor home repairs, or pastoral visits.
A Prayer Team is available in the Worship Center after Sunday gatherings, and prayer requests can also be submitted through the Church Center app. Two prayer newsletters are offered: one general and one specifically for Food Bank prayer support.
Local Outreach Beyond the Food Bank
South Fellowship identifies as an outward-facing church. In addition to the Food Bank, it partners with several local organizations to serve Littleton and the surrounding area.
- Love, Inc. mobilizes local churches to transform lives and communities in the name of Christ.
- North Littleton Promise builds life-giving relationships with immigrant kids and their families through after-school programs, soccer, summer programs, English classes, and a mom's Bible study.
- Whiz Kids offers one-to-one tutoring, positive mentoring, and spiritual nurture to students below the literacy and poverty lines.
South also encourages members to propose their own outreach projects through "Together Teams," small initiatives that might serve the homeless, immigrants, refugees, neighborhood schools, or local nonprofits. The church provides a Project Kickoff Form for anyone interested in launching one.
Global Outreach: Twenty Plus Ministry Partners
South Fellowship's Global Outreach (GO) Team partially funds more than twenty full-time ministry partners in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The team cares for missionaries financially, prayerfully, through regular communication, and by hosting partners when they visit Littleton. A separate group of Missions Advocacy Teams (MAT) meets regularly to pray for these missionaries.
Current ministry partners include the Araya Family in Costa Rica, who plant churches and train disciple-makers in Latin America; the Chris and Joi Copeland family in Galway, Ireland, who support church planting in the West of Ireland; the Hammersmith Family in Luxembourg, who are launching Young Life there; the Daniel and Kimberly Shugert family in Ogden, Utah, who serve in a uniquely Latter-day Saints cultural context; Ali and Pervin, involved in church planting and leadership development in Turkey; Bob Andrews, a science professor at African Bible College University in Liberia; the Maxwell Family in Kenya, who serve street children; Mark and Sandy, commissioned by South Fellowship in 1988 to work among Muslims of Greater Central Asia; and many others in places as varied as Nepal, India, the Philippines, and the Middle East.
JOY International, based in Conifer, CO, is also a partner; it works to prevent child trafficking and bring healing to women and children in Nepal, Uganda, and Belize.
What South Believes
South Fellowship grounds its faith in Scripture and in the historic Christian creeds. The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are both honored as summaries of the essentials of the Christian faith.
The church's short statement of faith affirms belief in one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It teaches that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died on the cross as a sacrifice for sin, rose bodily from the dead, ascended to the Father's right hand, and now intercedes for believers. The Holy Spirit is described as a divine person who convicts the world of sin, regenerates and seals believers, baptizes them into the body of Christ, and permanently indwells them.
The Bible is described as God's own word, inspired by the Holy Spirit, to be believed as God's instruction, obeyed as God's command, and embraced as God's promise. Salvation is presented as a gift of grace received by faith in Jesus Christ, not the result of human effort or merit. The church is described as one spiritual body of which Christ is the head, made up of all who have placed their faith in him, and is to be lived out in local assemblies for teaching, worship, prayer, fellowship, service, baptism, and the Lord's Supper.
South affirms the security of the believer in Christ, the discovery and use of spiritual gifts, the fruit of the Spirit as evidence of being filled by the Holy Spirit, and the personal, bodily, visible return of Christ. The statement of faith closes with belief in the bodily resurrection of all people, final judgment, and the New Heavens and New Earth as the eternal destiny of believers.
Mission and Values
The mission of South Fellowship is to help people live in the way of Jesus with the heart of Jesus. The church describes that mission through three expressions:
- Environments that feel like coming home. Conversations on Sunday mornings, summer barbecues, chili cook-offs, and tables where people are known.
- Experiences that help people encounter Jesus and take next steps. Small groups, Bible studies, support groups, classes, and spiritual formation opportunities.
- A church the city and world would miss if we were gone. The Food Bank, First Mile Initiative, local and global ministry partners, and a posture of asking what would happen if South Fellowship were gone tomorrow.
Six values shape the community: Presence, Practice, Wholeness, Renewal, Family, and Roots. Together they describe a church that seeks God's presence, embraces spiritual disciplines such as prayer, scripture reading, sabbath, generosity, silence, and solitude, pursues healing in every dimension of life, joins God in redemptive work in the world, values deeply shared relationships, and remembers the long stream of Christian history that has gone before.
Leadership Team and Elders
South Fellowship is led by a tight-knit team of pastors and a board of lay elders. Lead Pastor Alex Walton sets the tone of the congregation. He hosts the Red Couch Theology podcast with Associate Pastor Aaron Bjorklund and preaches most weekends. Executive Pastor Andrea Jones oversees operations alongside the elders.
The pastoral team includes Pastor of Kids Formation Kathy Pachal, Pastor of Student Formation Sean Switzer, Co-Pastors of Connection and Formation Angela Dunn and Jessica Rust, Community Care Pastor Dan Elliott, and Director of Outreach Erin Young. Supporting staff include Amy Weaver (Associate Director of Kids Formation), Nathan Holmes (Associate Director of Student Ministry), Kris Yahashi (Food Bank Manager), Teresa Egland (Communications Director), Kelly Belcher (Operations Manager), Mel Keys (Facilities Manager), and Rebecca Bell (Early Learning Center Director).
The Elder Board is chaired by Bill Wizeman and includes Chad Van Ryn, Dave Shugert, Jackson Morehead, Jonathan (JD) Dunn, Kevin Rayl, Lauren Zitek, Mike Galuzzi, and Peter Persson, with Alex Walton, Andrea Jones, and Dan Elliott also serving as elders. The elders oversee the church, pray for it, and discern God's direction for its future.
Generosity, Giving, and Transparency
South Fellowship is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), which provides external accountability for the church's finances. Giving can be done online through Church Center Giving, by cash or check in the giving boxes at the back of the Worship Center on Sundays, or by mail to the church office.
The church also offers giving through stock grants, IRA contributions, securities, and legacy estate planning. An endowment has been established to provide perpetual income for the church's ministry. The leadership team has stated that more than ten percent of operating income goes to missions (both local and global) and that the church allows seventy-five or more outside organizations to use its facility each year at no charge.
A Benevolence Ministry helps meet short-term financial or practical needs for church members and the wider community. Gifts to Benevolence can be designated when giving online or by writing "Benevolence" in the memo line of a check.
What Visiting Looks Like
Visitors can park in the church's free parking lot and follow signage to the main entrance. Coffee is available in the lobby. The Welcome Team is ready to answer questions, and families with children can head to the New Family Check-In area. The "New Here" wall in the lobby is the place to stop after the service for a personal introduction and information about getting connected. Visitors are encouraged to come as they are, whether they are exploring faith for the first time, returning to church after a long absence, or have been following Jesus for decades.
The church office is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00am to 4:00pm, and the staff can be reached at 303-797-1500 or through the contact form.
A Community Known for Welcome
What repeatedly comes through the voices of people who attend South Fellowship is a deep gratitude for being known. Worshipers describe the music as amazing, the sermons as relevant, the leadership as candid and vulnerable, and the community as warm and judgment-free. Parents speak of their children asking to come back. Food Bank shoppers speak of being welcomed by name and prayed for. Recovery participants speak of finding a foundation of faith in Tuesday nights. Volunteers speak of the joy of getting to know the youngest members of the church and the people who come through the Food Bank doors.
On any given week, the building at 6560 S Broadway hosts worship gatherings, youth group, recovery meetings, three Food Bank openings, small groups, women's and men's formation, and the steady rhythms of a congregation determined to live in the way of Jesus with the heart of Jesus, both within its own walls and far beyond them.