Our Local Outreach group (The Church and Society committee) works to establish a peaceful and just society.

• We promote a sustainable environment through facilitating recycling and proper Hazardous Health Waste disposal and disseminating educational materials through Forum presentations and articles about local “green” activities.

• Each year we host homeless guests for two-weeks during the community-wide Interfaith Shelter Network, providing food and a place to sleep, while the Encinitas Community Resource Center provides case management services, working with the guests to address and solve underlying problems, and assist in obtaining work and permanent housing.   

  
  

  • Our Interfaith Shelter 2010 was from January 31 – February 14th 
  •  On Sunday, November 29, 2009,  the Union Tribune printed  Homeless Havens ,an article which discussed our North County Coastal Interfaith Shelter Network. 

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• Our congregation collects food and other items for the Community Resource Center each month on the third Sunday (known as Peanut Butter Sunday), and helps prepare holiday baskets. Follow this link for more information Community Resource Center Opportunities.

• Every other month a team from our church provides a meal for 100 low-income and homeless people at the Bread of Life Rescue Mission in Oceanside. 

Our committee members support the work of Faith-Based Federal Credit Union, which assists low-income clients with financial literacy and eventual home ownership; we support fair wages for workers and fair trade along with various other issues.

We are looking for new projects from congregants who feel called and committed to helping the most vulnerable people in our society