VOLUNTEERS OF ALL FAITHS CHANGING LIVES
Family Promise’s shelter program relies on a partnership of interfaith congregations and other volunteer groups to help local families facing homelessness. Our host sites provide lodging, meals, and hospitality to families in need. For families in the program, each day begins with breakfast at a host site with volunteers, followed by a ride to our Resource Center. In the evening, guests return to the host site, where volunteers provide dinner and spend some quality time. The evening hours are for homework, relaxing, and family fun time. Each day ends with the family all together, under one roof.
HOST CONGREGATIONS
Local houses of worship provide temporary overnight lodging in otherwise unused spaces in their buildings. A host congregation team of volunteers may be involved with the following:
Cooking and hosting dinner
Spending the evening with families, talking, tutoring kids, or playing games
Sleeping overnight in the congregation
Coordinating children’s crafts & activities
Donating necessary supplies for the hosting week
Setting up and breaking down guest families’ rooms
MANAGEABLE COMMITMENT
Families stay overnight, not 24 hours a day
Each congregation hosts families for just one week, four times a year
Guests consist of up to 4 families at a time (14 people max)
Family Promise runs criminal background checks and drug screenings on all program participants
We need your help! Can your faith group become a host or support congregation?
Become A Host Congregation
WE THANK OUR CURRENT CONGREGATIONS!
Host Congregations
- Central United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Lodi
- First Presbyterian Church
- First Unitarian Universalist Church
- Holy Cross United Methodist Church
- Hope Church
- Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church
- St. Paul's Methodist Church (Manteca)
- St. Paul Lutheran Church (Lodi)
- Stockton Covenant Church
- Temple Israel
- United Lutheran Church (Manteca)
Support Congregations
- Cathedral of the Annunciation Catholic
- Church of the Presentation
- Crosstown Community Church
- Faith Community Church (Lodi)
- First Congregational Church
- LDS Northland Ward (Manteca)
- Shiloh Delta Valley Church
- St. Anne's Episcopal Church
- St. Anthony's Catholic Church (Manteca)
- St. Bernadette's Catholic Church/St. Vincent De Paul
- St. Gertrude's Catholic Church
- St. John's Episcopal (Lodi)
- The Open Door House of Prayer
- Transformed Through Hope Ministries (Manteca)
- Trinity Presbyterian Church
- Zion Lutheran Church