Local Church Mission

The Local Church Mission includes participation and/or financial support of several important ministries: 

• Loaves & Fishes
  Loaves & Fishes (Ocean Beach Food Bank or Ocean Beach Emergency Food) has been serving the Ocean Beach and Point Loma community for almost 30 years. The primary purpose is to provide help on a temporary basis to persons having emergency food needs.
   
• Military Outreach Ministries (MOM)
  This ministry of the Presbytery of San Diego helps military families by providing food, baby items, children’s clothing, furniture, household goods, and transportation when possible. The ministry also cares for their spiritual and emotional well-being through personal home visits, activity classes (with free child care), referral services, prayer, and Bible studies.
   
• Ocean Beach Soup Kitchen
  This Community Outreach Dinner at Holy Trinity Parish in Ocean Beach provides a meal for those in need each Wednesday of the month via the combined efforts of several churches throughout the Ocean Beach community. Our church volunteers and youth groups provide the dinner the last Wednesday of the month. Earlier this year, the average attendance for the dinner was about 40 people. Now we serve over 100 hungry people each seating.  And we continue to do so for a cost per serving of only $1.25.
  
  The OBSK has a great group of volunteers who make this mission continue to happen.  Would you like to join us?  It's an investment of time of only 2 hours every other month.  For more information contact Wendy Hoke at (858) 442-6051.
   
• Peninsula Shepherd Senior Center
  This coalition of churches and service organizations provides a support system allowing seniors to live independently in their homes as long as possible, while also providing opportunities for them to socialize and serve. Transportation for medical services, shopping trips, classes, bible study, and luncheons is provided. More information is available at their website: http://www.peninsulashepherdseniorcenter.com
   
• Presbyterian Urban Ministries (PUM)
  PUM is a combined outreach of all Presbyterian churches in San Diego area to provide a coordinated response to emergency needs to the homeless and inner-city working poor by means of food, clothing, blankets, hygiene items, I.D. and Birth Certificates, transportation, medical prescription vouchers, work tools and boots. PUM helps to empower people by helping them back to work by providing various employment tools and resources. Read more about PUM at their website: http://www.pumsd.org
   
• Reality Changers
  The mission of Reality Changers is to provide inner-city youth from disadvantages backgrounds with the resources to become first generation college students by supplying academic support, financial assistance, and faith-based leadership training. They s end high school students to UCSD’S Academic Connections. While at UCSD, students take college-level classes, earn college credit, and become convinced that they can succeed at a four-year university. Reality Changers students have been offered full-ride scholarships by Harvard, Virginia, Northwestern, UCSD, UCSSB, and many other top-notch universities. Find out more about Reality Changers at their website: http://realitychangers.org
   
• UPLIFT
  UPLIFT is a faith-based organization working to improve the well being and quality of life of San Diego's inner city population by providing care, protection and education to more than three hundred children, senior citizens and homeless ex-offenders. Established in 1987, UPLIFT reaches out as an advocate to the poor to tackle some of the largest issues facing inner city residents to build a thriving San Diego community. UPLIFT focuses its resources into three significant programs: KIDS AT HEART, SENIORS PARTNERS PLUS and TRIPLE CROSS.  To volunteer, call (619) 234-4504 or visit their website: http://www.upliftsandiego.org