YWAM SF Community Night, A free event for all

Doors open at 6:30 pm, Event begins at 7 pm
Light refreshments provided

The Tenderloin neighborhood has been a pain point for San Francisco for many years. It’s known, even around the world, for the many problems and struggles its residents face. Join us for a night of hearing from Del Seymour, known locally as the “Mayor of the Tenderloin.” Del will share some of the problems in the neighborhood, and bring us into new dreams for the Tenderloin’s future.

Del Seymour is known by many as the “Mayor of the Tenderloin,” he has been a member of the community for over 30 years. Del works closely with many non-profits serving both residents and unhoused neighbors alike. He is the founder of Code Tenderloin, which is a job training non-profit looking to address economic inequality. Del also founded Tenderloin Walking Tours which educates people on the diversity and beauty of this neighborhood.

Read more about Del:
Code Tenderloin Bio
PBS News Hour Feature
NY Times Article (2020)

Join two of our neighborhood ministers online as they chat about recent happenings in our neighborhood and update you on new things coming up.

A special focus for this conversation will be four ways to connect with unhoused neighbors in your neighborhood.

Come with questions and ready to participate in the conversation!

YWAM San Francisco Community Night

FREE EVENT 7 pm

Doors open at 6:30 pm, light refreshments provided

San Francisco is a unique space to walk out faith. As a church community, engagement is key to both understanding and impacting our city. But what does it mean for the church to be salt and light in a city that is unsure of the church community? How do we engage the city as a liturgical sacrament through our workplaces and neighborhoods so that worship is not a Sunday-only experience?

Join us for community night with local pastor and thought leader Toby Kurth as we explore the future of the church and how we can be salt and light.

About our speaker:

Toby Kurth
Lead Pastor | Christ Church San Francisco

Toby planted Christ Church in San Francisco in 2009. Prior to that, he worked for over 13 years as an entrepreneur and environmental consultant while pursuing a Masters in Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary and a Ph.D. in history at Stony Brook University in New York. During his time in New York, Toby helped plant a church in Brooklyn and God used that experience to give him a passion for church planting and communicating the gospel in cities.

Toby currently serves as the Director of the Multiply Initiative for Transforming the Bay with Christ (TBC). Toby is also actively engaged in church-based community relief work in rural Malawi and marketplace ministry. He and his wife Rebekah have three sons and live in San Francisco.

Join us online on August 31st for a conversation with volunteers! Hear about what brought them to volunteer at YWAM San Francisco and how that choice has impacted their lives and those they served. Mother Teresa said, “We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” For many of us, it feels small to serve a cup of cocoa on the streets or show up on a Sunday morning and pray with people. For many of our neighbors, these acts of kindness, done with Christ’s love, can change their whole day or future!

FREE EVENT | Online via Zoom

Let’s celebrate together what God is doing here in the Tenderloin, register today!

https://genesis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrdO-vqj4qGtIsfbdCTKo--9jxgtUWjIAS

Free event!
Doors open at 6:30 pm, for light refreshments and networking
Program will begin at 7 pm

Join us in celebrating the platform of women in ministry past, present, and future. Together we can redefine the perspective of women in ministry in urban communities, and explore how this can change the way we do ministry? Don’t miss this night highlighting the important impact women have in ministry.

Sylvia Kamande serves with Because Justice Matters in San Francisco, she hails from Kenya and found her way to the Bay Area via a ministry season in Chile. Sylvia is the Families Director at Because Justice Matters, working with immigrant and low-income moms and their families in the Tenderloin neighborhood. 

Community night is a time for the Christian faith community in the San Francisco Bay Area to gather and hear from a special speaker about various topics. YWAM San Francisco hosts these about 4 times a year, as a way to strengthen and encourage the greater faith community in San Francisco. If you have a topic or speaker you would like to suggest you can email events(at)ywamsanfrancisco.org!

Help us kick off our year-end season of fundraising!

Come and hear some of the stories you make possible through your generous donations. Everyday lives are changed through relationship, dignity, service, and presence because of donors like you.

Noel will share with us what Shalom means and it’s impact on community development. What does it mean to "love our neighbor”? What would it look like for Shalom, a holistic peace, to infiltrate all of our neighborhood?

Guests will have the opportunity to contribute to the work of  YWAM San Francisco during the event.

NOEL CASTELLANOS has worked in full-time ministry in urban communities since 1982. He has served in youth ministry, church planting, and community development in San Francisco, San Jose, and Chicago. Noel is a highly sought after speaker, motivator, and mentor to young leaders throughout the USA, and has a deep passion to serve and invest in the lives of emerging leaders.

After serving on the Board of the Christian Community Development Association for many years, he has established the new CCDA Institute, which is working to equip emerging church leaders in the philosophy of Christian Community Development, previously served as the Associate Executive Director of CCDA.

Currently Noel is the President of Camino Alliance, a group with the mission to build alliances across the Americas that unleash to power of generosity to create the world that God intended.

He and his wife, Marianne, have three children, Noel Luis, Stefan, and Anna, and make their home in the barrio of La Villita in Chicago.