Our team of dedicated staff work tirelessly to serve our guests who are looking for hope during their difficult experience with homelessness. Together with you, we are making a difference in our community.

Seth Forwood

Senior Director of Fort Collins Rescue Mission
Contact Seth
303.297.1815

Jason Bryant

Director of Operations, Northern Colorado
Contact Jason
970.799.9569

Paula Ordaz

Director of Fort Collins Rescue Mission
Contact Paula
970.492.6225

Susan Stewart

Director of Development Northern Colorado
Contact Susan
970.305.0641

Senior Leadership Team

Fort Collins Rescue Mission operates locally under Denver Rescue Mission’s senior leadership team.

Brad Meuli

President/CEO

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
– John 15:12-13

Tracy Brooks

Vice President, Homelessness Resolution

“Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.”
– Psalm 143:8 (ESV)

Griff Freyschlag

Vice President, Development

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
– Matthew 6:21

Josh Geppelt

Vice President, Programs

“He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?”
– Micah 6:8 (NKJV)

Chris Jorgensen

CFO/VP of Finance & Administration

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”
– Philippians 2: 1-4 (NIV)

Sherri Heronema

Vice President, Human Resources

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
– Proverbs 3:5-6

John Morarie

Vice President, Operations

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
– Ephesians 3:16-19

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors includes business and community leaders who are dedicated to ensuring that Denver Rescue Mission continues to serve our community well and steward the donations that are given to us in the best way possible.

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