Our most recent outreach had our teams at North and Central Concord, Martinez, and Vallejo. We distributed a total of 19 Bibles and two booklets on Freedom from Addiction. We were blessed with an abundance of food for both our volunteers to enjoy for breakfast as well as many lunches to distribute. This enabled many gospel seeds to be scattered. It's our prayer that much fruit will be harvested for God's good pleasure. 

During our last outreach the teams distributed a number of Bibles both in English and Spanish as well as a booklet on how to get freedom from addiction.

We were blessed to have a few Spanish speakers join our outreach which gives us the ability to share the gospel clearly with those who don't speak English. Salvation is a miracle of God and only He has the power to open the eyes of the blind. Please pray that many will turn and follow Christ as the fruit of our ministry. 

Thank you for your faithful prayers for our ministry. The Lord was kind to raise up new volunteers who graciously provided additional bagged lunches needed for us to distribute on this last outreach. Social media posts we've made have brought new people to serve alongside of us for which we are grateful. The food and coffee we are able to offer continue to open doors for gospel presentation to those who are cold and hungry. There were approximately 35 volunteers divided into six teams this last Saturday.

Save the date for our third annual Hope680 Walkathon. This year we'll be hosting the Walkathon on April 26th in a new location, at the Lafayette Reservoir. We are excited to be able to continue to grow this event and make it even more stroller-friendly than in past years. Registration will open on March 1st.

We had a great outreach on February 1st despite the rain. We are regularly humbled to have faithful volunteers who venture out with us in wet and muddy conditions.

We had a great start to 2025 with a packed house of volunteers and teams sent to six locations.  Teams were taken to: Central & North Concord, Martinez, Antioch, Vallejo, and an exploratory group to Fremont.

Our teams are grateful for the opportunity to serve God and worship him by ministering to the lost. We are very thankful for your support of our ministry through your prayers and finances enabling us to do this important outreach. We continue to be humbled as God uses us and desire to remain faithful in our efforts through 2025. 

We are praising the Lord for the many blessings of this past year!

During 2024 we are grateful for literally hundreds of prayers that were offered for many who we have come to know by name who live on the streets. Often, our gospel conversations were met with tearful eyes and moved hearts. We know the Lord uses the challenges of homelessness to soften folks to the gospel message.

Our last outreach of 2024 was very productive. We were able to distribute many gifts of food, hot coffee, and numerous Bibles and freedom from addiction booklets.  We identified a few folks who were in need of a warm jacket and the occasional tent.  It's our prayer, the Lord helps us to be discerning about when to hand out tents because we don't want to enable homelessness.

Happy Thanksgiving! The temperature has dropped and the rains have started but our faithful volunteers continue to show unwavering love and care for the homeless community. We are thankful to be able to show practical care by providing those we meet with food, hot coffee, and a warm jacket. But our main purpose in this ministry is to proclaim the gospel. The physical items provided have no eternal significance, but the word of God is eternal and has the power to transform lives. It is our desire to see many homeless saved. Thank you for your participation in this gospel-centered ministry. 

We are thankful that we have the freedom to share the gospel without fear and share it openly to the homeless of our area. We had a good turnout of volunteers who were willing to come out despite the rain the night before and the possibility of muddy conditions. We trust that God's word will not return void and we ask that the Lord would bless our efforts with many who would follow the Lord in repentance and faith.

We were thankful to have several from Berkeley who are with Imago Dei join us during this last outreach. A year ago, they sent several volunteers to observe how we conduct our homeless outreaches to get ideas for their ministry. It was a pleasure to have them join us again. We are blessed by their commitment to minister to the homeless in Berkeley as well as the homeless here in Contra Costa County.

We had another wonderful group of volunteers whose desire is to be a part of front line gospel ministry. God placed folks in our path who were open to gospel conversations and prayer. It's our prayer that those we encountered would consider what was shared and be moved to genuine saving faith. We are confident in God's word is powerful, that he does supernatural work in the hearts of the lost. Would you please join us in prayer that God would cause many that we spoke with to embrace saving faith and for those with addictive behavior to become free with the Lord's help?

It's our continuing prayer that more would come to know God personally and for those who say they are Christians would live out their faith.  By the grace of God as stewards of what He provides we trust the Lord our efforts aren't wasted. We know that God through his word has the power to transform lives. We praise the Lord that our team distributed seven English language Bibles, one Spanish Bible, and eight "Freedom from Addiction" books during this last outreach.

We had a packed house last Saturday when five staff members from Bay Area Rescue Mission joined us on our last outreach. With the addition of these brothers in Christ it enabled us to send five teams throughout the county which facilitated increased gospel conversations. Thank you for your prayers for our ministry!

This world is not our home but God blesses us greatly by providing us as individuals with homes. Even though the homeless in our area don't have traditional places to live, they often find a part of town that becomes familiar and where there is a sense of attachment. Many of our homeless friends are facing an order from various cities to vacate their spots this week. We pray for them as they are considering where to settle. We pray that in their fear, and uncertainty that they would turn to Jesus for help, first in repentance. We continually pray they find satisfaction in Christ rather than in substances. We pray for hearts of transformation by God's word. We pray that we will stay faithful to the gospel and faithful to serve the homeless with compassion and truth.

Temperatures are still high during our Saturday outreach events. We've kept on with our offer of cold brew coffee to folks rather than hot cups of coffee and it continues to be appreciated. On this last outreach we gave out: 9 English Bibles, 1 in Spanish, and 2 addiction books. Occasionally we have an outreach that is a little light on the photos and this last Saturday was one of those. But we are thankful for the depth of conversations that the Lord allowed and the connections made. We continue to be grateful that we can remain faithful to this gospel ministry. Although this report is short, we still appreciate your prayers for those named here. 

The ministry is still going strong and we are thankful for our faithful volunteers who continue to serve even on hot summer days. We sent teams into North and Central Concord, Martinez, and Vallejo and we had one Bible study participant, Mark who joined us for his second Bible study. We were able to distribute 14 English Bibles and 3 Addiction books: 'Cross Talking, a daily gospel for transforming addicts.' We are thankful for many extensive gospel conversations where the Word was shared. Praying for the Lord to bring clear fruit.

We are thankful for the efforts and time of a Sophmore Girl's Discipleship Group who made serving our ministry one of their summer outreach activities. Pictured here they are making lunches for the homeless that we distributed on this last outreach. They were sweet enough to prepare 40 lunches with 40 handwritten notes and Bible verses that were included.

Hope680 is moving forward with a plan to get several folks from our outreach team certified to be able to counsel people through their substance addiction. The program we will be using is called, Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor Training. It's a training program offered through 'The Addiction Connection.'

We are asking for a continued need for monthly packed lunches that are distributed during our outreaches. We know schedules change during the course of a year so we have an ebb and flow of lunch-packing volunteers. Of late there has been a larger gap in this area of our ministry.

We are continuing our format of highlighting a couple of key stories from our outreach. Nevertheless we are giving names of people we interacted with on Saturday and ask you to please lift them up in prayer. Those names can be found at the bottom of this report. Again, thank you for your continued prayer for all aspects of this ministry.