City Hope Grocery Delivery
Tuesday Mornings | 10 - 11:30 AM
The Tenderloin
City Church member Bethany Gaudet leads this grocery delivery program, which is a partnership between SF Marin Food Bank and City Hope. Each Tuesday the Food Bank delivers boxes of food to City Hope. Volunteers sort, bag and deliver bags of groceries to people living in the Tenderloin who have mobility issues or who are homebound. Volunteers can serve once or on a regular basis. If you’d like to join in and help bag (or even deliver) groceries, sign up through the City Hope website: REGISTER HERE.

Immigration Court Vigils
Weekly: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays | 2 hour daytime shifts available (8-10, 9:45-11:45, OR 11:45-2:00)
Downtown SF and Concord
Led by the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (IM4HI), Immigration Court Vigils provide presence, support, and community outside of the SF and Concord immigration courthouses. This is a great way to show up for our immigrant neighbors - and a late morning shift (9:45-11:45am) has just been added to expand our coverage! You'd be joining a small group of volunteers who offer hot coffee, snacks, prayer, and rapid response cards to people waiting in long outdoor lines. On rainy days, we seek to offer the shelter of an umbrella or poncho as well. Volunteers sign up for a 2-hour shift on the day and place of their choosing. I (Amelia Hamiter) am the City Church point person for these vigils - let me know if you'd like to find a time to go together! Learn more and sign up here.

(These vigils are part of the Public Witness Team's Invitation to Action. In addition to these vigils, we invite you to pray, practice awareness, and speak to a member of the Public Witness Team if you're interested in taking further action on immigration.)  

The Beatles Choir
Saturday, December 13 | 9:30 - 12:00 PM
Laguna Honda Hospital
Come join the Beatles Choir as we sing and bring cheer to the residents of Laguna Honda Hospital! Laguna Honda Hospital is a long-term, skilled nursing and rehabilitation center, committed to serving the elderly or indigent populations of San Francisco. The Beatles Choir, led by worship team member Christie Chew, brightens the day of residents and staff through the easily recognizable & multi-generational songs of the Beatles. This is a spontaneous choir - no rehearsals or auditions needed! REGISTER at this link to receive more details.

EXCLUSIVE DECEMBER EVENTS: 

Annual Vigil for Unhoused and Unstably Housed San Franciscans
Thursday, December 18 | 5:00 PM
Civic Center Plaza
This event is organized by SF Night Ministry. Join us — people of all faiths, or no faith — to remember our neighbors who have died this year while living on the streets and on the margins of San Francisco. In silence, in prayer, in song we'll remember them, honor them, mourn our loss, reach out to each other for comfort and hope, and show our solidarity in working for change. The Vigil begins at 5:00 PM (Pacific) at Civic Center Plaza across Polk Street from City Hall. It will also be livestreamed on SF Night Ministry's Facebook page. (I (Amelia) will be there in person - come join me!)
See here for more details and to RSVP.

Cooking & Serving for a Community Dinner
Saturday, December 27
Old First Presbyterian Church (Sacramento & Van Ness)

This event is organized in partnership with Old First Presbyterian Church and SF Night Ministry. Are you in town the Saturday after Christmas, and looking for a way to serve some local SF neighbors? Sign up to help out with Old First's Community Dinner! This will be a hearty dinner and dessert that is served for neighbors living nearby, including those who are forced to live on the street. The meal is served at Old First Presbyterian Church at 1751 Sacramento Street (parking validation available).

This is a multi-church effort, and City Church is on duty for crowdsourcing 120 servings of Caesar salad! We also need a handful of volunteers to help serve the meal. You can sign up for one or both of the following:

1. Prepare a dish of Caesar salad and deliver it to Old First Pres Church between 3-5pm. Both premade and homemade salads are fine, but please keep the ingredients simple - lettuce, parmesan, croutons, tomatoes, and dressing. Please deliver the salad in a container that you don't need to get back afterwards (if you don't have one, let me (Amelia) know before December 20 and I can get one to you before Christmas!).

2. Serving and helping clean up after the meal at Old First Pres Church between 4:45-7:00pm. All ages welcome!

Sign up for the Community Dinner HERE.