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Our Fellowship Dinner is held each spring. We would love for you to attend and hear more about the exciting things God is doing in Los Angeles.
For more information, email losangeles.innercity@cru.org.
Our annual holiday food outreach takes place every November, with the training happening on a Saturday early in the month.
This outreach is an opportunity for the family to participate in helping fill 2,500 food boxes for inner-city families that are given through our network of churches for a Thanksgiving outreach.
If you are interested in learning how you could fill a Thanksgiving Box of Love® or help donate for a meat product, Bible, JESUS DVD please email Cody Montgomery.
Our annual Easter outreach for children — we will be giving out 2,000 bags filled with candy, a piece of fruit, a toy, and a gospel-bead bracelet through our partner ministries. The mandatory training/planning time will be held a few weeks in advance of the Easter outreach. The packing party where our partners and volunteers all work together to assemble the bags will take place shortly before Easter.
For more information and to request bags for your ministry, please email Nate Wood.
We provide a tour of a local university campus sometime in the spring. This is for current high school students, and they will participate in a fun scavenger hunt, receive lunch, get a campus tour from current students, and also hear testimonies from current students who are growing in their relationship with God during their college years. The date will be sometime in the spring.
For more information, email Cody Montgomery.
Each year we will be giving out at least 1500-1800 backpacks full of school supplies and gospel material in each pack for the new school year. The packing party for the PowerPacks will take place on a Saturday in early August.
To request PowerPacks for your church/ministry, email Tom Norris.
S.A.Y. Yes!® youth centers are always needing additional volunteers to come and work with their students in homework help and spiritual development. There are over 18 centers around the greater L.A. area, and several more that are interested in starting.
If you are interested in learning more about this need, email David Urquhart.
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