NCC Closed | How We Started | What We Do | Funding/Donations
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NCC Closed
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The Neighborhood Care Center has been closed indefinitely due to budget constraints and City of San Diego permitting requirements. We hope to clear up both the legal and budgetary issues and be able to reopen next year. The information below describing the NCC ministry remains unedited for historical reasons and as a reminder of the ministry we desire to restart as soon as we are able.
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How We Started
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| As a result of a study of our neighborhood, the CABC Board realized that the area was changing rapidly, and that there were large segments of the community that we were not addressing. In the spring of 1994, they directed that a storefront facility should be established to address the needs of unchurched people who come looking for assistance. After several months of preparation, we opened on September 24, 1994. |
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What We Do
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| We have been open every week day morning, providing food, hygiene supplies, showers, clothing, Bibles, information and friendship. We provide telephone access, an address that people can list on a job application, and a place to receive mail, messages, or disability checks. We also do a limited amount of laundry for clients, and provide a limited number of bus tokens when necessary.
We have now served over 5,700 households an average of five times each. |
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Funding/Donations
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The funding for the Center is minimal, since all workers are volunteers. Our annual budget comes only from direct donations and from our fund raising activities. Donations can be made by checks to C.A.B.C., with "N.C.C." written on the memo line, or put in a church envelope, marking "N.C.C." on the line for "other."
We also need donations of:
Clean clothes, especially jeans and other washable
clothes for work or school
Shoes and belts
Blankets or bedrolls
Basic pots & pans, and other kitchen ware
Used books (not magazines or textbooks)
Diapers
Nonperishable food
Hygiene items: soap, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, combs, etc
Recyclable aluminum cans or plastic beverage containers.
Large paper shopping bags, both grocery store type and clothing store type.
These items can be left behind your car in the parking lot on Sunday mornings, or brought to the Care Center between 9 and noon during the week.
The need for volunteers fluctuates.
If you have some mornings free and would be willing to learn how to be a substitute, please call 582-7222, ext. 295 mornings.
"If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, your night will be as noonday. The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your bones. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never run dry." Isaiah 58:10, 11.
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