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By Carrie Johnson, Director of The Unreached Initiative CityServe ----------- We have seen the desperation of the Afghan people trying to escape as Taliban forces take over Kabul. The US Air Force C-17 plane was packed with 640 precious lives as countless others clung...

Download PDF The Addicted is one of CityServe's 10 initiatives--compassion templates addressed in scripture for how the church can engage and help those who are hurting. Drug addiction is killing people just like you and me: fellow image bearers of God who are moms,...

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 1, 2021) Since the United States Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program launched in May 2020, the Faith-Based Community for Farmers to Families, facilitated by CityServe, has distributed over 17.3 million food...

View PDF The ALL IN for FOSTER ADOPTION Challenge: The Goal and Strategies to Care for Waiting Kids Today there are approximately over 400,000 young people in the foster care system and 122,000 youth in foster care currently eligible for permanency and adoption. Many...

Providing tangible ways Christians can be of influence   BAKERSFIELD, CA, May 13, 2021 - CityServe announced today it has launched season two of The Influencers Podcast, www.cityserve.us/podcast. With co-hosts Dave Donaldson and Scott Young, the podcast provides...

A California Church Models Compassion in Action By Christina Quick This article first appeared in Influence Magazine. ----------- When Jason LeFaive and his team planted Seven Oaks Church (AG) three years ago in Visalia, California, they were intentional about getting...

By Steve Kramer, U.S. Missionary to CityServe Initiative, The Vulnerable ----------- If you have watched the news at all this past year, then you know Portland, Oregon has made national headlines several times over...and not for good reason. Riots, clashes with...

A responsibility of the local church to care for abused and neglected children In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, CityServe, along with churches around the nation will be observing a National Day of Prayer, referred to as Blue Sunday, this April 25th. This day...

By Steve Strang This article first appeared in Charisma Magazine. ----------- A family whose main breadwinner's income has been cut in half. Children whose only nutritious meals are those their school supplies. A couple near retirement age who have both lost their...

As we approach the first anniversary of the original stay-at-home order, the emerging story is one that the church has known all along; that more profound than our human differences are God-given commonalities, like the need for food, water, shelter – and hope....