Christ Lutheran Church of Fairfax, CA
Service to Our World
Jesus healed the sick, embraced the outcaste, and bound up the brokenhearted. As those who have experienced his freeing love, we reach out our hands to others.
Local Service
We collect food each week during worship, which is distributed through the Marin Food Bank.
Our members volunteer at the weekly Fairfax Food Bank.
Several times a year we collect other kinds of offerings, such as
•book bags and school supplies for children returning to school in the fall;
•cleaning and household supplies in the spring for families transitioning out of homelessness;
•a Baby Shower for Jesus at Epiphany, for which we bring baby clothes and other essentials for families in need;
•and a special offering on Christmas Eve for the Mill Street Homeless Shelter.
We support a number of local agencies, such as Homeward Bound, the Ritter House, the Marin Food Bank, and Rainbow Kids of Fairfax.
We are currently collaborating with the Town of Fairfax to explore having senior housing built on our property, as a way of providing a much-needed resource in an area with a rapidly-aging population and extremely high housing costs.
For the last two winters we have participated in the Rotating Winter Shelter, providing shelter once a week for homeless women. This year, the women will be housed at the Health and Wellness Center in San Rafael, but we will continue to host and provide meals on Wednesday nights.
If you would like to help, please contact us!
Global Service
Our offerings to Lutheran Social Services, ELCA World Hunger, and Lutheran Disaster Response help provide desperately needed help to people in other parts of this nation, as well as around the world (see Links to learn more about these agencies). Most recently we took up a special offering toward ELCA World Hunger’s Life-Giving Water project, which helps to create clean, accessible water systems for villages in developing nations.
Other emphases in recent years have included tornado response in Greensburg, Kansas; Heifer International; and earthquake relief in Haiti and Japan.