it's hard to believe that we are already at the end of January. We had a great group of volunteers and thankful to all those who braved the rain and mud to share the gospel with the homeless for our first outreach of 2024. May the seeds of the gospel find good soil. Please pray with us for good Bible study candidates for our RV ministry this year!

The Lord blessed us with a clear day for our last outreach of 2023. We were thankful to end the year with a strong time of ministry. As our morning concluded, we spent a little extra time reflecting on what the Lord has done this year. We give praise to the Lord for your ministry of prayer and support. Thank you for being an important part of this ministry.

Our teams report your faithful prayers have an impact on the spiritual battle for the souls within the homeless community. We continue to see the progression of hearts softened towards the gospel and are grateful to be a part of this front line ministry. It's our desire to see the fruit of the gospel and lives changed by the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for being a part of this ministry for the lost.

Thank you to all the people who came to NorthCreek Church this past Saturday to drop off your donations as part of Hope for the Holidays. We are grateful to God for His provision for our ministry. At the same time, our teams trudged through rain and mud on Saturday to offer hot coffee, food, and the gospel to all they encountered.

The cool weather seems to have finally come to stay and we have started switching out what we offer from t-shirts to jackets and sweaters. If you have jackets, sweaters, or blankets you want to donate to our ministry we have a special drop-off day and time during the 'Hope for the Holidays' event at NorthCreek Church on Saturday, November 18th. Click the link below for more information. We would greatly appreciate help restocking our winter supplies.

Thank you for your continued vitally important prayers on behalf of our ministry which enables us to sow gospel seed among the growing homeless population in Contra Costa County. Our hearts are burdened but hopeful as we trust God to prepare those we encounter during our outreaches. Please lift up these folks to the Lord with us, that God would open their eyes to His great love and desire for a relationship with Him.

On this particular outreach the Lord allowed us to give the gospel to 42 people. Through direct conversation, or a gospel tract in their blessing bag, much gospel seed was sown. 13 large print Bibles along with smaller New Testaments and other gospel materials were distributed.

Hope680 is very much a frontline ministry. We get special opportunities to share the gospel with people who have never heard it before and those who have heard the name Jesus but don't understand who he is or what he came to do.

We had a full house of volunteers on Saturday and the gospel was proclaimed nearly 50 times. Our four outreach teams distributed many Bibles to the homeless. We continue to trust God that the gospel seeds scattered will be sown where God has ordained and the people who received Bibles will be drawn to read them.

This ministry continues to be a ministry of relationships. It is important to us that we demonstrate the gospel while we preach it. We often times encounter familiar faces and we have the joy of seeing them go from unresponsive to open and friendly over several weeks of interactions. We know that our consistency is important to build trust with them.

We have an incredible praise report to share with you today. We want to tell the story of Glen. We are especially thankful for our faithful volunteers who provided a friendly and familiar face to build a relationship with Glen this year. We know that God used the faithfulness of our Martinez team for His glory in Glen's life.

It's been four weeks since our last outreach event, so we were extra thankful to go out this weekend and continue handing out sandwiches, water, blessings bags, and the gospel message to the homeless.

We have a significant praise to share! Below you will read an update about Glen, the focus of our RV Bible Study ministry. We are thrilled to report that the day following this outreach, Glen attended his first Sunday service at NorthCreek Church.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow! We had a wonderful outreach Saturday and had our very first in-depth Bible study in Martinez utilizing our new ministry RV!

We had a great outreach on Saturday, June 3rd. Thank you for your faithful prayers. God enabled us to be effective. The teams were sent out with the goal of identifying people who had previously received a gospel presentation who might be ready to have a more directed Bible study.

We are excited as we are getting closer to launching the use of our RV to offer Bible studies to those wanting to learn more about God. Several people, we have met with expressed an interest in that.  Please continue to be in prayer for the logistics and most especially for the wisdom needed for the gospel message to be proclaimed clearly in the lives of those truly seeking to know our Savior.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Our faithful volunteers ventured out in the rain to declare God's good news to the homeless of Contra Costa County on Saturday, May 6th.

We had a busy Hope680 weekend. This past Saturday was our morning of outreach followed by a great Sunday afternoon where a team packed blessing bags. We continue with gratitude to God for each and every person who are involved with this incredible ministry.

Your ministry of prayer makes a difference. Last week our teams noticed they were able to have deeper and more meaningful conversations with our homeless friends. The evidence of their engagement enabled the distribution of 20 English Bibles during this outreach.

What a fabulous outreach last Saturday. Our volunteers, including our friends at Clayton Valley Church, were abundantly generous last Saturday by making and helping us to have a substantial number of lunches for us to distribute. We were able to give several to each homeless person we met. Such kindness! No one we interacted with went hungry.