Beyond Our Doors
Uptown Faith Community Service Center (UFCSC) provides assistance to the homeless, poor, and needy, without discrimination, to become self-supporting members of our community. Founded in 1984 with some key leadership from Reverend Jim Long who was, at the time, an Associate Minister at University Christian Church. UFCSC serves over 1200 men and women monthly. Services include phone and message outlets, food, mail, bus passes, California ID, birth certificate assistance, HIV testing, hygiene kits as well as partnering with San Diego Hospice to help terminally ill people to live out their days with dignity and support. Members and friends of University Christian Church are encouraged to shop for food and hygiene items to put it our UPTOWN shopping cart on our Third Sunday Outreach.
Third Sunday Outreach is our focus on assisting Uptown Faith Community Service Center, providing a free monthly Community Breakfast fellowship for over 100 church members and neighbors in our Friendship Hall. Anyone is welcome to drop in.
McDonald's Gift Card Ministry is an opportunity for members and friends to purchase McDonald's gift cards in $5 denominations to hand out to hungry people and those living on the street.
Heifer International is a nonprofit that alleviates hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation through gifts of food and income producing farm animals and training. These animals provide a source of protein, such as eggs and milk, for children and generate income for families through the sale of animal products. Since 1944 Heifer has helped over 4 million families in 125 countries become self-reliant. Each family "passes on the gift" by giving one or more of its animal's offspring to another family in need. To learn more about Heifer International, click here.
Tijuana Home Building is a twice yearly effort by 20 to 30 volunteers from University Christian Church in conjunction with Project Mercy who travel south of the border to build basic but sturdy houses for the poorest families in the outlying neighborhoods of Tijuana, Mexico. UCC has been participating in Tijuana Home Building for over 20 years. To learn more about Tijuana Home Building, contact the church office at 619-295-4146.
Disciples Mission Fund For over 40 years University Christian Church has participated in the Disciples Mission Fund, the common fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Disciples Mission Fund supports 72 ministries of wholeness as close as your local congregation and reaching around the globe. As a Global Mission church, we understand that equipping congregations for mission includes learning from, learning with and offer support our partners beyond the borders of the United States and Canada.
Honduran Scholarship targets females to empower them with financial resources to fund a college education. The scholarship's first recipient is about to complete her course of study to become an elementary teacher in Honduras.