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Prayers
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Please remember those whom we serve and our staff of volunteers and Night Ministers in your personal prayers and in your congregation’s prayers for the Church.
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Financial Support
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Your financial support is vital in keeping our phone system operating and our Night Ministers on the streets. In 2009, volunteer Crisis Line Counselors received 5,162 calls and Night Ministers engaged in 13,914 significant conversations.
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Our income in 2009 came in the following ways:
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35 % - Individual donations
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20 % - Fall Benefit (primary fundraising activity)
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20 % - Grants and matching gifts
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15 % - Other sources (community fundraising etc.)
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10 % - Congregations
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Volunteer
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Consider becoming a Crisis Line Counselor or a member of our “Daytime Volunteer Corps” which assists with mailings, promotions, Fall Benefit set up, and at other times as needed. (E-mail us for more information –
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Advocate
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Become involved with advocacy efforts in your community around the issues of homelessness, rent control, affordable housing, mental health, addiction, needs of the disabled, and rights of the poor, among others.
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Hospitality
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Organize a group and provide lunch after Open Cathedral – Civic Center. We currently gather 40 to 60 for worship and feed roughly 60 to 100 people each week.
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Donate
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We provide night-time distribution of certain items if/when we have them. Consider organizing a drive in your congregation or club for: socks (new white cotton), hats, gloves, scarves, coats (men’s mostly), blankets, sleeping bags, toiletries, nutrition bars, bottles of water and bibles. Also useful are gift certificates to McDonald’s, Burger King, coffee shops, Walgreens etc.
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Community Thrift Store
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We are a partner with Community Thrift (623 Valencia St. @ 18th St. in San Francisco). Donations made in our name (Code # 194) benefit us directly. (Call 415-861-4910 or see communitythrift.org for more info.)
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“Walk-Arounds”
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Come and join the Night Ministers for an evening and experience firsthand the ministry to our lonely, anxious and forgotten sisters and brothers in Christ. (Call 415-441-0123 in advance to schedule a night walk.)
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Promote
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Help us share the word about Night Ministry so that everyone who needs a word of comfort and hope at night knows how to reach us.
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Invite
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Invite one of our staff members, Governing Board members, or volunteers to lead an adult forum, to preach or preside in your congregation, or to speak to your civic organization or group.
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Planned Giving
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Consider a lasting gift by remembering Night Ministry in your estate planning and long-range financial planning.
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