Address
811 N. Catalina Ave. Suite 2006 Redondo Beach, CA 90250
Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 9 am - 5 pm and by appointment. We work remotely on Fridays.
Your help is needed First Pres. Hollywood’s Winter Shelter Refuge from 5:30-7:30pm from now until March 31st. All churches are invited to volunteer.
What is the Winter Refuge Shelter? In case you’re not as familiar, First Pres. Hollywood takes the most disabled, most hopeless cases in Hollywood, and rehabilitates them, in partnership with the Department of Mental Health, to house them permanently. They are off the streets forever after coming to the Refuge. First Pres. Hollywood has had an incredible success rate of keeping these folks housed too, and just really bathe their ministry in the power of prayer and with the love of Jesus. They are now the model for LA County; in fact, the Department of Mental Health is trying to replicate this work all across the county.
The Winter Shelter Refuge is in First Pres. Hollywood’s Fellowship Hall, and they are asking for a small group from your church (4-7 people) to come and help serve a meal (your group can bring food if they want too in coordination with their hired cook) and then sit at table, talk to, and do various activities together with the 20-30 homeless guests (they do art, play a game, sing songs, have a Bible study, etc.), for a couple of hours, from about 5:30-7:30pm. It’s very, very simple, but it’s a powerful formative tool for our congregants to really act on our belief that everyone is an equally beloved child of God.
The Winter Refuge Shelter runs through March 31st, so it is also a great Lenten spiritual formation and act of service for a small group, a youth group, a deacons’ group, a mission committee, a worship team, etc. Volunteers are transformed by the experience, listening to homeless guests’ stories and connecting with them in this way.
First Pres. Hollywood’s calendar is wide open, so basically any night is free from now until March 31st. Let me know if you are at all interested and I’ll put you in touch with Amie! Please see attached flyer for more information.
Grateful for all of you.
Grace and Peace,
Heidi