Service in the Community
We are proud of our culture that encourages community involvement by our congregants. Individually, our members donate their time, money, and talents to a large number of worthy causes on a local, national, and international level.
PUC, as a community, chooses to support a variety of local organizations through our Split-Plate collections held twice each month. In this process, we share half of the non-pledge portion of our Sunday collections and share half with a different worthy cause each time.
PUC members have helped build homes with Habitat for Humanity, including joining the South Coast Interfaith Council in Long Beach, September 2010.
In addition, PUC has special relationships with the four local organizations listed below. We honor them via additional donations and the volunteer involvement of many of our members.
If you are interested in supporting any of them, either click on their link below or contact the Church Administrator in the church office by calling (310) 378-9499.
Harbor Interfaith Services
Harbor
Interfaith Services serves the homeless and working poor in the South Bay area
by empowering their clients with
the self esteem necessary to build successful lives and achieve self-sufficiency. Services provided
include:
- provides emergency shelter
- food
- job placement
- advocacy
- transitional housing
- childcare
- support services to the homeless and working poor
HIS empowers clients with the self-esteem necessary to build success and achieve self-sufficiency.
House of Hope
Founded
in 1955, House of Hope Foundation, Inc., provides a safe,
clean and sober, nurturing environment for substance abusing
and substance dependent women. Their mission is to help them
regain their self awareness, spirituality, dignity,
integrity and learn how to live life without alcohol and
drugs. They also seek to help them become financially responsible, re-establish family ties
and be reunited with their children when possible.
Women begin their stay in primary care, a 6 month structured residential program. Clients are to participate in all program activities, including:
- Group Counseling
- Individual Counseling
- 12-Step Meetings
- Relapse Prevention
- Anger Management
- Disease Concept
- Parenting Classes
- Domestic Violence
- Community Activities
- Recreational Activities
- Spirituality
- Family Reunification
Rainbow Services
Rainbow Services
seeks to end the cycle of family domestic by offering a helping hand as they provide the following services:
- emergency shelter for up to 30 days
- transitional shelter for up to 1 year
- counseling
- case management
- parenting skills
- life-skills classes
- several programs for children
These services are provided to all survivors of domestic violence and their children regardless of race, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or residence status.
Toberman Neighborhood Center
The mission of
Toberman Neighborhood Center is a non-profit, multi-purpose
neighborhood center that provides various social service programs to low-income individuals and families living in the South Bay, moving
them from poverty to self-sufficiency. Their mission is to provide individuals, families and their neighboring communities with educational
tools and real life opportunities that empower people to grow toward moral, spiritual and economic independence. Their nine core areas of
programming include:
- Family Development Network
- State Licensed Child Care
- Toberman Learning Center
- Gang Prevention - Bridges I
- Gang Prevention - Bridges II
- City of Angels High School
- Toberman's Senior Club
- Family Welfare/Emergency Assistance
- Community Organization - BHNO
- Toberman Auxiliary
