Community Outreach

• We make our facility available to community organizations, for 12-step group meetings, music lessons, and more.
• We serve the community by offering First Lutheran as a polling place for elections.
• We support a sister parish, Rios de Agua Viva in El Salvador, and have exchanged visits and made mutual friends.
• We provide a concert venue for the best in Bay Area chamber music groups, including a series by the San Francisco Early Music Society, Soli Deo Gloria, Magnificat, and the early-music ensemble Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble.

Benevolences

• The Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA encompasses 48 counties in Northern California and 13 counties in Northern Nevada. Our contributions are used to fund Synod operations and worldwide relief funds through the ELCA.
• InnVision seeks to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing free hot meals, bags of groceries, and nightly housing through a rotating emergency shelter program.
• Ecumenical Hunger Program works with families to eliminate their hunger and to break the cycle of poverty. EHP provides food, clothing, household essentials, social advocacy, and referral services.
• Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary is one of eight ELCA seminaries preparing future pastors and other church leaders for ministry throughout the church and around the world.
• Mount Cross Lutheran Camp is a heavenly place for camping, retreats, and summer camps, located in the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains of Coastal California.
• South Bay Sanctuary is an ecumenical group of churches, religious groups and concerned individuals from Redwood City to Los Gatos that advocates for better local and federal policies to improve conditions for refugees located here and in Central American countries.
• Reconciling-in-Christ/ Lutherans Concerned is a program for Lutheran communities of faith to answer the inclusive call of the gospel by welcoming gay and lesbian believers.
• African Cradle is a non-profit adoption agency licensed in California, specializing in adoption counseling and post-adoption support for children of African descent.
• Doctors Without Borders/Mèdecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.
• Food for the Poor raises funds and provides direct relief assistance to the poor, usually by purchasing specifically requested materials and distributing them through the churches and charity organizations already operating in areas of need.