Serve the City

Serve the City is almost here! On Saturday, May 16, hundreds of Grace members will join other churches to befriend and serve our neighbors in Long Beach. Activities include holding a massive party for foster families (Family Fun Day), organizing Precious Life shelter, sprucing up Hughes Middle School, painting a senior center, building portable vegetable plots, and more. We have activities for all ages. We'll end the day with a celebratory lunch picnic. Click here to sign up for an activity.

Welcome

Hope for Long Beach (HfLB) is a ministry of Grace Long Beach that serves our city. It exists to extend mercy and justice in Long Beach by mobilizing the church to serve, and by developing strategic partnerships. (Learn more)

"I'll be frank with my opinion. The larger world is not picking up the signals of compassion from the branch of Christianity of which I am a part. While Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times often applauds our movement for its far-flung programs in AIDS, home building, hospitals, and disaster response, we are not known as compassionate people as we do these things. All our good efforts are covered by the sense that we are proud, angry, and vindictive in our selective approaches to those needing some form of redemption.I don't want to be perceived as a hard person with an accusatory message who occasionally does good deeds. Much better to be perceived as the wounded healer who exchanges his bandages with the one who has none to offer back."

Gordon MacDonald
Editor at large of Leadership and chair of World Relief