July 2026 2nd Mile Giving Partner

It’s July. We are halfway through the year and it’s once again an opportunity to

celebrate and learn more about San Francisco Night Ministry. SF Night Ministry is the

ministry partner for July in the All Saints Lutheran Second Mile Giving program.

We will have a special guest to help us. Ben Deshazo-Couchot, our former choir

director and current Care Lines Director for SF Night Ministry, will visit with us on July

19. Ben will be our guest preacher on this Sunday and will stay afterwards for an

informative presentation after worship. July 19 is the third Sunday in the month, and we

will do our Second Mile offering on that Sunday as well.

SF Ministry is the church’s “Night Shift” in San Francisco. Every night, a San

Francisco night minister goes out and makes contact with people on the streets, offering

comfort, hope, and a listening ear. This all started in 1964, when the San Francisco

Council of Churches first started night walks on the streets. Five years later, San

Francisco Night Ministry was born, and has been on the streets ever since (that's over

22,000 nights)!

Not long after starting the program, SF night ministry offered the same service

through a Care Line, in which people in crisis or perhaps having suicide thoughts or just

being lonely could call and share feelings, and receive conversation and support with a

nonjudgmental person. It is estimated that in the last year, between the night visits on

the street and the conversations on the telephone, they were over 34,000 significant

spiritual and emotional care contacts.

This is an important ministry in the Bay area (the Care Lines received calls from

persons far outside of the city of San Francisco). Please join us in supporting this

significant ministry.