The Outdoor Church Street Outreach

By

The Outdoor Church

Free

As part of our program, we hand out various combinations of sandwiches or bagged lunches, juice boxes, snacks, socks, some seasonal items, toiletry kits, and more to the community.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Program is free!

Location

  • In-person only.

Central Square

Between Prospect Street and Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

Neighborhood

Cambridgeport, Mid Cambridge, Riverside, and The Port

Harvard Square

Between Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Mid Cambridge, Neighborhood 9, Riverside, and West Cambridge

Porter Square

Between Massachusetts Avenue and White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140
United States

Neighborhood

Baldwin, Neighborhood 9, and North Cambridge

The Outdoor Church

P.O. Box 400945
Cambridge, MA 02140
United States

Neighborhood

Baldwin, Cambridgeport, Mid Cambridge, and Neighborhood 9

See our schedule to learn which days and times we are at each location.

Dates and Times

This is an ongoing program.

Lunch bags:

  • Porter Square on Sunday, 9-10:30 AM.
  • Harvard Square and Central Square on Sunday, 2:30-5:00 PM and Saturday, 1:30-4:30 PM. 

Snacks and water: Harvard Square and Central Square on Thursday 3:30-5:30 PM.

Additional information

Street outreach is one of the hallmarks of the Outdoor Church’s ministry. Several times throughout the week our ministry team walks the streets of Cambridge to meet with the unhoused, homeless, and street-involved people to offer them spiritual and material support. Our material support

We continue to gather for worship at Porter Square on Sunday mornings, providing donuts, coffee, sandwiches, and socks. Our steadfast Saturday and Sunday afternoon outreach provides sandwiches, water, snacks, and other sundry items such as socks and toiletries. We will also offer hats, gloves, and scarves in the coming cold weather. We continue to hand out water and snacks before gathering on Thursday in the Cambridge City shelter for an evening worship service. We cannot support these ministry events without the help of the many volunteers who make sandwiches, cookies, and muffins and provide water, juice, and snacks. These gifts and support are truly appreciated by the unhoused, homeless, and street-involved community as we help to bring goodwill to their lives.

Our street outreach program has a simple agenda: We want to meet homeless men and women where they are—physically, emotionally, and spiritually—and offer them whatever support we can.

Free

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Last updated October 22, 2024.