There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
(Proverbs 19:24)
DECEMBER 2024
Community Feeding and Gift Wrapping
Feeding & Giftwrapping for Elementary Schools, Emmanuel-HM Turner, So. L.A. – December 21, 2024
Big Christmas Giveaway
Christmas Gift & Resource Giveaway, F.A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles – December 21, 2024
Community Christmas Celebration
Community Christmas Celebration, Faithful St Mark MBC, Figueroa Corridor, L.A. – December 14, 2024
Evangelistic Park Outreach
Outdoor Evangelism, Library Park, Monrovia, CA – December 13, 2024
NOVEMBER 2024
Thanksgiving Dinner Giveaway
Thanksgiving Dinner Giveaway, Foothill Unity Center, Monrovia, CA – November 27, 2024
Christmas Box Donation Collection
Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child, Calvary Chapel Monrovia – November 23, 2024
Figueroa Corridor Neighborhood Meeting
Human Trafficking Safety Meeting, Faithful St. Mark MBC, South L.A. – November 19, 2024
LAPD Newton Division Community Meeting
LAPD Newton Division Community Police Advisory Board, South L.A. – November 14, 2024
Controversial Appointment of New Chief of Police
City Council Meeting, City Hall, Downtown Los Angeles, CA – November, 2024
OCTOBER 2024
SPA 6 Annual Homeless Connect Day
HOPICS, South Los Angeles, CA – October 25, 2024
LAM Homeless Task Force Graduation Cohort 1
Trinity Baptist Church, South Los Angeles, CA – October 24, 2024
LAPD Human Trafficking Resource & Action Collaborative
Los Angeles County Fire Dept. Station 14, Southeast Los Angeles, CA – October 24, 2024
LAPD Southwest Division Clergy Council Faith in Blue
St. Bernadette Catholic Church, View Park, Los Angeles, CA – October 12, 2024
LAPD Southeast Division Clergy Council Faith in Blue
Faithful St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, So. Figueroa Corridor, Los Angeles, CA – October 12, 2024
Latinas Leading Change
Los Angeles Theater, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA – October 8, 2024
Christian Community Development Association Conference
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR – October 2-5, 2024
SEPTEMBER 2024
Quarterback Daddy
Greater Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, Compton, CA – September 28, 2024
Praise in the Park
St. Andrews Park, Los Angeles, CA – September 28, 2024
Champions of Caring Connections Appreciation Brunch
Light & Life West Ministry, Long Beach, CA – September 28, 2024
2nd Annual Faith Summit
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA – September 26, 2024
Spiritual Leaders Roundtable & Breakfast
LA Voice, Holman United Methodist Church, West Adams, Los Angeles, CA – September 20, 2024
The Figueroa Corridor Human Trafficking Initiative
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA – September 4, 2024
AUGUST 2024
The CD 8 Navigation Center is the premier Access Center in SPA 6 (South L.A., Compton, Lynwood, and Paramount). It is designed to meet the immediate needs of those deeply affected by homelessness and living on the street. It provides, fully enclosed showers, restrooms, locked & numbered storage bins, fresh clothing, and intake personnel ready to assist our people with access to housing, trauma recovery, and a wealth of other stabilizing services.
During the last week of August 2024, we shut down the usual Wednesday morning online Faith-Based Conference and instead gave a live introductory tour during the Annual Open House on Tuesday, August 27th, at the CD 8 Navigation Center which is located at 729 W. Manchester Ave., in the midst of the notorious red light district (a.k.a. the South Figueroa Corridor), here in the heart of South Los Angeles. In other words, where such an access center is needed the most.
We are blessed by this opportunity and others to continue strengthening the prayerful and utterly committed work of our local faith centers who alone can so powerfully provide the missing link to this fight to end homelessness…
Community! Community! Community!
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
JULY 2024
Featured guest speaker at the UNNC (United Neighbors Neighborhood Council) which is a Governing Board consisting of 23 Board seats. 12 board seats are designated for residents of the six region areas within the neighborhood council boundaries (see map page) and 11 seats are for non-resident stakeholders such as business, education, non-profit, cultural heritage, and at-large interests.
During today’s meeting, access to an abundance of resources were shared as well as the CES (Coordinated Entry System) “the network that aligns homeless services in the County together to ensure that resources are efficiently and equitably distributed to support people experiencing homelesness.”
We are excited about this commenced partnership with the UNNC. Hallelujah! Our city continues to rise.
UNNC, Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, CA – July 25, 2024
Assisted in conducting the Veterans & Family Community Appreciation Day, hosted by Rev. Henry Brown, Community Outreach Coordinator for Veterans at the Southeast Los Angeles WorkSource Center, based at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC).
For over 60 years, WLCAC has been providing an array of human services to the residents of Watts. Realizing the need for skills training and employment opportunities lead to the creation of their Job Training and Employment Division. Specifically, its WorkSource and YouthSource Centers provide these services free of charge to employer and job seekers. Their Workforce Development Department manages 6 grants that focus on providing job placement, reentry specific services and programs, employment retention, and vocational training for their clients.
Rev. Brown, who leads this effort, remains one of the most outspoken and dedicated advocates for Veterans Services. We are truly blessed to partner with this dear brother in serving those who have bravely served to protect our freedom.
The Historic WLCAC Phoenix Hall, Watts, South Los Angeles, CA – July 18, 2024
JUNE 2024
Men’s Fellowship is a continuous, fervent call for men in our community to partner with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in effectively administering Foster Youth Family Mediation, serving as Cultural Brokers.
This is a vital role in bridging gaps between diverse cultural perspectives within foster families. This approach helps to mediate conflicts, enhance understanding, and create more harmonious relationships by respecting and integrating the cultural backgrounds of both the youth and their families.
Under the leadership of Senior Pastor Orlando Hadnot, Holy Tabernacle MBC stands as one of the strongest forces for lasting social improvement in Los Angeles, particularly in the prominent area of Ladera Heights.
Holy Tabernacle of God Missionary Baptist Church, Southwest Los Angeles – June 8, 2024
MAY 2024
Spearheaded the founding and launch of the inaugural Mayor of Compton’s Clergy Breakfast, hosted by Mayor Emma Sharif and supported by pastors and congregational leaders from across the City of Compton. Hallelujah! This collaboration has powerfully advanced our unified efforts toward community improvement under God’s guidance!
Dollarhide Community Center, Compton, CA – National Day of Prayer, May 2, 2024
APRIL 2024
Faith Leaders, as your fellow servants to the people of God, please allow us to humbly encourage your occasional participation in the decision-making process for your local community. As regularly stated in the “Code of Conduct” audio recording played at the beginning of each session of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, “Members of the public, it is your right to participate in today’s board hearing and the Board encourages such participation.”
Again, please, at the minimum, schedule once or twice a year on your calendar to respectfully attend these and other sessions conducted by your elected officials… and let your voice be heard.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Meetings – take place weekly on Tuesday at 9:30 am. (The meeting in the above video took place on April 23, 2024.)
The Measure H: Citizens’ Oversight Advisory Board Meeting – takes place quarterly throughout the year. (The meeting in the above image took place on March 7, 2024.)
Board Hearing Room (381B), Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, Downtown L.A. – April 23, 2024
MARCH 2024
Participated in the local National Hispanic Pastors Alliance Meeting. This is the fastest-growing Hispanic Pastors organization in the nation. They work to represent, educate and equip leaders in the following areas: Religious Freedom, Family, Human Life & Dignity, Pastoral and Congregational Development, and Education.
Sunnyside Church, South Los Angeles, CA – March 23, 2024
Helped to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of the N.O.W. Church and the 34th Pastoral Anniversary of Two-Time U.S. Presidential Awardee, the Founder and Senior Teacher of the N.O.W. Church of California, the Founder of Provoked to Purpose Ministries, Executive Director of P2P Community Development Inc., and Co-Chair of the Department of Mental Health’s Salt 6 Leadership Team, Dr. Edward “Pastor E” Hamilton.
The N.O.W. Church of California, Long Beach, CA – March 17, 2024
Initiated and assisted in the collection of over 50 ballot signatures to allow local voters to consider continuing funding for thousands of services offered to those needing assistance throughout the Los Angeles County Area.
The church congregations who so ardently contributed to this cause today were Greater Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church and Calvary Resurrectional Missionary Baptist Church of Compton, Bel-Vue Community United Presbyterian Church of Watts, and the N.O.W. Church of California in Long Beach.
Compton, Watts, and Long Beach, CA – March 17, 2024
The 5th Episcopal District AME (African Methodist Episcopalian) Church Midyear Conference hosted by the First AME (FAME) Church of Los Angeles, with Bishop & Supervisor Fugh presiding. This was a season of praise, thanksgiving, and strengthening to continue their dedicated work for the Lord Jesus Christ.
It should be noted that the AME churches in Los Angeles lead the way in connecting their communities to available social services, with some of them conducting this outreach through strongly established community development centers.
Hilton LAX Hotel, Los Angeles – March 13, 2024
Canvassed the Entire South Figueroa Corridor and created a database of all churches, service agencies, and related businesses. This database has now been submitted to the LAPD Southeast Division Clergy Council. The project was conducted towards the advancement of an active collaborate between the local faith centers, secular businesses, and law enforcement agents to assist in bringing an end to the decades long stronghold of Human Trafficking that has continued to victimize the youth of our city for far too long
South Figueroa Corridor (Figueroa Street, between Gage Avenue & Imperial Highway), South Los Angeles – March 10, 2024
Participated in the Emergency Volunteer Ballot Blitz along with attendees from all SPA 6 service agencies. On this day, we worked to further ensure a sufficient collection of needed signatures in order to place a proposed replacement of Measure H (which is ending soon) before local voters.
HOPICS Crocker Offices, South Los Angeles – March 9, 2024
During our attendance at the LAPD Southeast Clergy Council’s Outdoor Coffee with a Cop event (held on the sidewalk in front of a 7-Eleven store notorious for being frequented by both victims and perpetrators of human trafficking along the South Figueroa Corridor), we had the opportunity to meet and assist a young man (whose face is hidden above to protect his privacy).
He had experienced financial hardship, which led to theft and subsequent incarceration. He was released from prison the day before and had spent his first night sleeping on the streets. He expected to do the same for his second night until he encountered us.
We were blessed to provide him with transportation to the nearby Council District 8 Homeless Navigation Center (CD 8 Nav Ctr), where he immediately gained access to fully enclosed showers, a complete laundromat, fresh clothing, secured storage for his belongings, and, most importantly, intake assistance for emergency housing, employment, trauma recovery, and other services. These resources will help guide him toward becoming a productive member of society, as love and care often do.
Hallelujah!
“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (1 John 3:17)
South Figueroa Corridor, South Los Angeles – March 6, 2024
FEBRUARY 2024
Community Listening Session where case managers, representatives, and those committed to supporting underserved populations came together to discuss and share insights on the growing issue of Latinx homelessness in our community.
HOPICS Crocker Offices, South Los Angeles – February 8, 2024
Participated in the Compton Farmer’s Market Art & Resource Fair, which was conducted in partnership with the Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County and District 1 Councilwoman Deidre Duhart.
This impactful public service event periodically takes place throughout the year in the rising City of Compton. It features arts & crafts, live music, housing and small business workshops, fresh produce, and other public services.
NHS Center for Sustainable Communities, Compton, CA – February, 3, 2024
JANUARY 2024
The 2024 Homeless Count was conducted throughout Los Angeles, including SPA 6 (Service Planning Area 6: South L.A., Compton, Lynwood, & Paramount). The results of the count confirmed that the number of people experiencing homelessness in L.A. County is continuing to decline.
The count was conducted by volunteers on January 25 – 27, 2024
The results were officially released by LAHSA on June 28, 2024
Funding What Will Work
"in every zip code..."
One church with a Community Outreach Hub in every zip code of every inner city of our nation, beginning with the 23 zip codes in Compton and South L.A.