Christian Outreach in Action

Hot Meals and Social Services is COAs core program. Through this program COA provides warm meals, a food bank, clothing, and furniture to the homeless and poor. Warm meals are provided free of charge, twice daily, seven days a week, and lunch is provided the last Sunday of each month. The meals are prepared in COAs commercial kitchen, and served in COAs dining room. Groceries are provided five days a week while clothing is available once a week and furniture is provided upon availability. With approximately 170,000 hot meals served and over 400 meals delivered to low-income motel clients in fiscal year 2022, COA is the largest provider of free, warm meals in downtown Long Beach. As part of its social services program COA provides its community with many needed services including the following: oa mens transitional housing program which includes case management, olow-income housing units,oa weekly free legal clinic run to assist COAs community with legal needs,oa daily warm blanket distribution at 6:00pm, oLong Beachs only restrooms for the homeless, andorefrigeration and drop-off space for Project Angel Food.

Our Community Outreach program is geared toward improving the quality of life for any Long Beach resident in need. It includes various projects such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Senior activities, and several health and nutritional fairs such as vaccination clinics and a water station that provides ice cold water during hot weather along with inside shelter from challenging weather.