+++ ISRV Refugee Project Naveed Royeen, a recent refugee from Afghanistan is living at San Damiano Retreat Center in Danville. He is fluent in English with a BA in business administration and a job in the Reutlinger Home, Danville business office. We have created a sign up genius account to provide rides to and from [...]
+++ The Northern California Family Center. NCFC provides five services: (1) Youth Outreach services for run aways, primarily through the Safe Place Program in Contra Costa and Solano Counties, including an emergency telephone hotline. (2) 24-hour accessible short-term shelter for runaway and home¬less youth. (3) Crisis counseling and family mediation with runaway and homeless youth. [...]
+++ Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Opportunities: Speakers Bureau: Are you interested in speaking about Habitat to your congregation or other faith communities? Or, do you feel shy in front of groups, but like tabling and talking to people one-on-one? Do you love to talk about Habitat, but want to brush up your knowledge or learn more [...]
Mt. View House Shelter has opportunities for Congregations to share meals with their homeless Clients. (Updated dates available to serve.) The shelter is one of only two family shelters in Contra Costa that is for men, women and children. Please contact Martie Steinmetz, Site Coordinator of the Mt. View House Shelter (1391 Shell Avenue, Martinez, CA 94553) at (925) [...]
Monument Crisis Center Volunteer and Donation Needs Hello Friends! Happy New Year! We would love to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your generosity throughout this past year and especially this holiday season. Thank you for supporting Monument Crisis Center and for remembering us in your faith communities. From volunteering to food boxes [...]
Contra Costa Interfaith Housing CCIH Opportunities for Involvement We need your help. Interested in helping run a summer day camp for one week? We are currently putting together summer programming for kids (toddler through middle school), and we need your help. Many of these kids are formerly homeless or very low-income. In the past, volunteers (teens and [...]
YEZIDIS AND ASSYRIANS. Efforts on behalf of the Yezidis, Assyrians, and other religious minorities who are currently being forced from their homes, their women and girls kidnapped and raped. Thousands have been murdered and more thousands now live in refugee camps. The Yezidis are a Kurdish people who share an ancient religious tradition, while the Assyrian [...]
+++ Help Trinity Center House up to 50 people this Winter! We are writing to ask for your support. This year we're using SignUp.com to organize our SignUps for our Evening Program at the Walnut Creek Armory. We are seeking volunteers to cook, drive, work a shift as a floor monitor, prepare weekend lunch bags. Here's how it [...]
Looking for a place to volunteer and serve? Look no further than JustServe.org! Many of our congregations and clusters of friends have expressed a desire of finding a way to serve together and to serve locally. Members of the LDS community have created a program called Just Serve that was being rolled out that was just for [...]
Helping our New Afghan Neighbors in Contra Costa A very important issue is hitting home in Contra Costa County, and we at JFCS/East Bay are appealing to you for your help and involvement. You may have heard about Afghans who worked as translators for U.S. forces during the past decade, whose lives and those of their families are now being threatened by [...]
