Pershing Park Movement
***On May 10th at 8:30am to noon, we will be having a visioning meeting to talk about the future of the Pershing Park movement. If you would like to join us, email me and I will let you know details.***
In June 2006 we began a friendship movement with men and women without homes. It began at the public library with meal sharing, spiraled off to Alameda Park (where it still happens as well), and now has multiplied itself to our community at Pershing Park. We meet there at 5:30pm on Wednesday nights.
The inspiring thing about it is that no one owns Pershing Park, so anyone is invited. It is a wonderful, motley crew. It all swirls around the person of Jesus with conversations, prayers, and visionary human embraces - and meal sharing. We have had jazz bands and flowers from Trader Joes, regular visits from Doctors without Walls, new socks and sleeping bags.
The dream is to live the holistic gospel - to inspire the desire for eternal life, while also helping our friends find work and housing and warmth. What we are beginning to see is the reality that this is possible, person by person.
You can join the friendship movement. Come and join us on Wednesday nights. We always need new friends to provide meals, plates, cups, silverware, clothing, sleeping bags… you name it. Get involved as the Lord leads. Please email me if you have any questions or can help in any way.
Soon we hope to develop a housing fund, so that we may help men and women find housing while they look for work. When this happens, I will publish information on this website. If you have ideas, let me know!