The San Francisco Bay Area commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay in Northern California. It consists of nine counties that includes waterfront towns, dramatic beaches, fine wines and home to tech-savvy Silicon Valley (where Google, Facebook and Apple reside).
San Francisco is famous for its restaurants, Golden Gate Bridge, Ghirardelli chocolate, seafood and cable cars. The Bay Area has many National Parks, Redwood Trees, a gorgeous coastline along the Pacific Ocean and so many cultural neighborhoods that have THE BEST food ever!
Gold was discovered here and so was sourdough bread!
The Bay Area is home to 5 major league sports franchises:
NFL 49ers;
MLB Oakland Athletics, SF Giants;
NBA Golden State Warriors and San Jose Sharks (Hockey)
Colleges are all around as well: Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and San Jose State University
The Bay Area has vibrant energy in both life and ministry.
Diverse communities, faith, economics, education makes this place where God makes a difference in the lives of those we serve.
Your heart will be broken & healed as you serve here.
You will meet incredible people with stories that will amaze you.
This area is one of the toughest “mission fields” on our planet, YET GOD does amazing miracles through the love of Jesus reaching their hearts.
There’s a good chance you will leave your heart in San Francisco!
Ministry Opportunities:
● Service in painting, landscaping, repurposing rooms & buildings.
● Prayer while on public transport (giving out water to start conversations) and in neighborhood, cities and churches for communities
● Rescue Missions that shelter kids/women and mens through providing childcare while parents are in classes; creating food & clothing closets. Also opportunities to prep and serve food; and in warehouse receiving of donations and then giving out donations to local families
● Homeless ministries to those under our overpasses and roadways by providing food/hygiene kits, haircuts, and wellness checks with mobile showers while assisting in their “encamped” clean-up, sitting down & playing board games. We also assist thrift stores by sorting donations & displaying them in stores for the homeless to gather essentials.
● Outreaches with local anti sex-trafficking organizations; Celebrate Recovery, Teen Challenge, Food Banks, Local schools, After-school city community programs, Churches in both urban & rural settings.
Area Coordinator: Linda Vannoy-Castillo
A teacher, pastor, missionary, storyteller, author, conference speaker, life coach and adventurer who is passionate about glorifying God and helping people find purpose in Him. She’s a California Bay Area native who enjoys sporting colorful hair and riding motorcycles. Her heart for her “backyard” and the world was placed inside her as a young child by her single mom. She loves to say YES to Jesus to go anywhere at any time so that she can share the love and hope of Jesus to the “one” who is right in front of her. Come on an adventure with her as she shares her heart for those living in her community.
Come to California...and then maybe anywhere else in the world, too!
She lives life without borders!
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