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First Pres JC offers a weekly community meal that acts as a catalyst for relationship building in our neighborhood and community. We have an Outreach Coordinator available to meet with individuals seeking assistance with obstacles in their lives. Our more than 25 community partners allow us to deliver our guests into capable, like-minded hands that deliver hope in despairing times to those in need.

We may only have one moment in time to help someone in need. The act of enveloping a person in need within a benevolent community empowers and embraces men, women, and children of all times, places, races, nations, ages, conditions, and stations of life; and is never content to enjoy the benefits of that community for itself alone.

A benevolent community seeks to alleviate the physical, emotional and spiritual hunger that causes neighborhoods to disparage their poor. There is capacity for both the giver and the given to experience transformation, whereby the ability to comprehend the needs of others restrains self-serving behaviors that may exist in lives lived without benevolence. A benevolent community offers safe and humane living, working and growing environments to anyone lacking or in need of these. The goal of the program is transformation of the person first and the neighborhood as a result of many transformations.