DENVER -- If none of us care, nothing will get better.

That's how Dennis Noble sees the world.

Angela Magnotta with the Denver Rescue Mission's Champa House calls Pastor Noble "a great man."

Former Champa House resident Kelly Emrick adds that Noble is "an angel. That’s what he is, an angel."

Dennis is a pastor in Denver's Five Points area of the inner city. He's also a man of action, volunteering at places like the Champa House, a transitional rehabilitation facility for single moms and their kids.

Many of the clients come from a lifetime of abuse, so Noble provides a positive male role model.

"He would do anything for anyone," Emrick said.

Rhonda Richmond has been a friend and neighbor of Pastor Noble for years.

"If he had not been in our lives, I really don't know where we would be right now. He has helped every step of the way, encouraging us," said Richmond.

Noble moved his family to the Five Points neighborhood in 1972 just so he could serve others. He started the Church of the Risen Lord at 27th and Champa in Denver. But it's his service outside the church that has perhaps been the biggest blessing to the area.

"Consider you have a white family in an all black neighborhood and he walks into that neighborhood without knowing anything about it and he just walks up and starts knocking on doors to get to know people," said Richmond.

Noble still walks the neighborhood today just to check on people.

It sounds so simple, but it has been extraordinarily powerful for hundreds of people.

"I did not even think at one point that I would get past high school, and when I went to college, Dennis was there. When I went to get my master's degree, Dennis was there. And when I got into doctoral school, Dennis was there," said Richmond.

Noble has been a father figure to many in the inner city.

"To be quite honest with you, I did not know my mom or dad and he has just been my father all the way," neighbor and friend Michael McClain said.

Noble said a lot of people helped him as he was growing up so he simply wants to return the favor.

"Volunteering, helping out, serving, when it is all said and done I think these are some of the most important things we can do in life," said Noble.

That's the true spirit of a 7Everyday Hero.