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Goal: Minister to San Francisco's Asian community
This is an outreach to the Asian community of San Francisco with a close partnership with the Presbyterian Church of Chinatown.
Goal: Harbor House emphasizes holistic ministry as the way to provide opportunities for people to fulfull their potential.
This organization is a regional, multi-denominational, multi-ethnic nonprofit agency in the San Antonio district of Oakland with a focus on service to children, youth, families and seniors.
Goal: Foster Service to the Community in Middle School Youth
Our program is designed to foster civic-mindedness in middle school students. Open to church members and the greater Marin community, the group engages in activities that challenge the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders to get to know each other, become aware of the needs of others, take responsibility, and Leave it better than you found it, whether it be a friendship, a community, the nation, or the planet.
Goal: We are called to serve as a witness to the love of Jesus Christ, so that lives can be changed.
Calvin Crest has served as a mission and ministry since 1954. Tens of thousands of children, youth and adults have made life-changing decisions to give their lives to the Lord during camps, conferences and retreats. Calvin Crest also nurtures tomorrow's leaders. Thousands of pastors, youth leaders, and missionaries have responded to the call to servant leadership as campers of staff at Calvin Crest.
Goal: Lift more gang members from the streets to the American mainstream.
Begun by the Rev. Roger Minassian, Hope Now For Youth targets gang members who have criminal records and are school dropouts. Working out of churches, the Hope Now staff share their faith in Christ and offer work site and after hours Bible studies, as well as marriage, family, and parenting classes. Hope Now has worked to place at-risk and gang youth into permanent jobs with 210 businesses with an 85% success rate and only an 8% recidivism rate. Hope Now has won national and state awards. Contributions help to pay salaries for the Hope Now staff, such as Rev. Roger Feenstra, the current director.
Goal: $2,750 and volunteer labor
Funding this grant will allow for the following: An opportunity for volunteers both Presbyterian and non Presbyterian, natives and non natives to work towards a common goal of expanding the cemetery and beautifying it at the same time.
Bringing religious leaders and members of various faith communities together for study and celebration throughout the year. We discuss issues that concern all of us. Participants feel that faith and conscience compel us to make real a world where all people are valued, safe, fed, housed, and respected.
Goal: Provide clean water systems around the world.
Clean Water U (CWU) is the training school of Living Waters for the World. Located high in the Sierra Nevada mountains a Calvin Crest Camp and Conference Center in Oakhurst, California, Clean Water U is a simulation experience designed to equip mission teams with the skills necessary to form partnerships with communities in need of clean water, equip local leaders to lead ongoing health, hygiene and spiritual education and install the Living Waters for the World clean water system.
The Woods' is a well equipped camp located in a redwood forest in western Sonoma County six miles from the Pacific Ocean. Summer camps, adult programs, youth weekends and retreats are offered.
Goal: More healthy children
Nuevo Amanecer a New Church Development helps to provide health insurance for the children of poor farm workers, in their congregation, who cannot afford it on their own. When these children become sick, they often go without medical care, sometimes leading to serious and life-long complications.
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