Haircuts For The Holidays - Thanksgiving Edition

On November 16, from 10am to 3pm we will hold our 2nd Thanksgiving Haircuts for the Holidays! This event was a big success last year when we had 3 professional hair stylists, a mobile shower unit, unhoused resources, clothing giveaway, and a full Thanksgiving Luncheon! This year will look very similar!

As you can guess it is a very big task and there are several ways you can help on that day!
Sign up here to volunteer: 11/16 Volunteer Sign Up

Also needed:
-Donate tents, tarps, sleeping bags, solar chargers, solar lamps
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-Donate gift cards ($5 to $10 local fast food, grocery, etc.), and bottles of water
-Donate money toward the event
-Print some fliers to post around the neighborhood
-Print (double sided) Handouts - Have some on hand in your car to give to people you may come across that could use some help

Any assistance you can give would be great! Come and be in fellowship with our church and our community on this special day!

Global Holiday Faire Coming

The 27th annual Global Holiday Faire will be here soon on Saturday, December 7th, from 9-2. This will be our third year back in person after the pandemic and we look forward to this being the biggest Faire yet! Like last year, we are back to normal with several tables and items for sale along with our traditional hotdog / chili / lumpia lunch. In addition to multiple tables with merchandise, we will have our Alternative Giving table where we will raise money for Heifer International and Arbor Day Foundation. Plus, we will have what we call the Big 4 tables with crafts, gift baskets, baked goods and regifted items raising money for 4 charities - Amador St. Hope Center, dePaul Women’s Center, Genesis House and World Central Kitchen. We will also be collecting donations at the cash table for one of our important mission partners, Vallejo Together.

There are lots of ways that you can help. We are looking for volunteers. Please think about volunteering at the Faire or setting up the night before. If you can contribute a donation for one of the Big 4 tables, it would be greatly appreciated! Start crafting now. Think about a gift basket you could put together. Think about gifts you have been given that you’ve never used, that someone might buy to regift (not looking for garage sale items). Also, please help spread the word about the actual Faire, as well as our virtual marketplace which is still open at globalholidayfaire.org. Flyers have already been emailed out, so please help us get those out to the people. Print them out or share them electronically with your friends, neighbors, coworkers or strangers on the street. If you know a place where you can post a flyer, please do so. If you can’t print them out, we will have physical copies in church soon.

The Global Holiday Faire is our biggest Mission Action effort of the year. It has been great to be back in person these last two years, and last year we did better than the year before. But, we haven’t been able to reach the amounts raised that we did before the pandemic. This year, let’s do even better! With your help volunteering, donating and spreading the word, there is no reason why this can’t be our biggest Faire ever!