Who We Are

The Homeless Church is an Assemblies of God Church in San Francisco California.  Early in 1994, Evan Prosser felt the Lord wanted him to resign the House of Prayer in Orland California where he was Pastor and move to San Francisco to begin a church of homeless people to be called The Homeless Church.  He and his wife April began to go to the city on weekends meeting homeless people and pastors who worked with them there.  The people living in vans and busses were receptive and the Prossers held Bible studies where they were living.  About this time, it became clear that a "commuter ministry", ministering to the homeless by day and returning to a comfortable apartment by night, was not going to work.  Besides, they couldn't afford an apartment!  A street lady sold them her bus which they lived and ministered in for all but two years since they came. 

Meanwhile, houses became available very cheaply through a wonderful sister of the Lord, Phyllis Edwinson, used  for Christians who need healing and want a home with four walls.   14 people live in Grace Healing Home now, and one mother and three children, after a year of living together for the first time in years, has moved from Morning Star home to a larger place on Treasure Island.

THE BUS

We are out on the street where the people are.  One bus is used as a kitchen in our outdoor service Sunday afternoon; we'll be back in full use in the winter.

HEALING

Not everyone wants to stay on the street - it is pretty rough out there and most street people are addicted to drugs and alcohol.  We have a house for men, Grace Healing Home, where people come to find health and shelter in Jesus Christ.

MORNING COFFEE

 Three mornings a week, church members go out in the early morning to serve coffee and pastries to people just stirring from their doorways.  It's welcome on cold mornings and a good way to get to know each other. 

EMBARCADERO

 Sunday morning at 10:30, in the park opposite the Ferry Building, we have a service for the homeless people living in or near the park.  Besides singing, preaching, and praying for people, there is a full breakfast served afterward.

NIGHT STRIKES

Every Thursday night, between nine and midnight, a caravan of cars winds its way through the city.  Near the Embarcadero and Market, in parks and on porches, are little bundles of blankets that on closer examination prove to be people.   Lugging a big cooler full of hot soup, members of the Homeless Church go from person to person, giving out food, praying, talking with our friends.  All in the Name of Jesus.

LA RAZA PARK

After two years there, we have moved our Sunday afternoon service from Warmwater Cove to La Raza Park, where Agustin oversees a service in our blue bus behind a lovely park setting.  This is just the latest activity in La Raza.   Our outreach to La Raza Park began with a youth group from Connecticut looking for somewhere to hold a barbecue.  More youth groups followed.  We kept it up on Wednesdays at sunset for a few months, and then decided to quit--SOME of us decided, that is.  Joyce from the May Rose Home couldn't let it go--all alone she cooked, carried food on the bus and served every Wednesday.  Now May Rose is closed, Joyce has moved on and.....we're still doing it.  Because of a year of Wednesday barbecues, the Sunday service has been well attended.  God bless all the people we meet there.