St. Paul's United Methodist Church has been at the downtown location across the street from San Jose State University since 1958, doing ministry on justice. This church stands at the crossroad of homelessness, mental health issues, and violence. For generations, it served to find solutions: advocating for justice and delivering kindness. 

The church suffered a two-alarm arson fire and is working with its insurance to rebuild. In the meantime, we are continuing to serve through our ministries where we can. We ask for donations to go towards the following:

We have started a community vegetable garden on the church grounds to alleviate the shortage of fresh food in the community. We plan to use this fund for six garden beds, soil, seeds, and other supplies.

Our tenant partner, Front Door Communities, also lost all of its service items. The organization continues its service from the outdoor space. This funding will supplement their ability to continue serving the homeless and fragile community in downtown San Jose.

This funding will also allow us to be mobile for worship until we can clean up the asbestos contamination and restore power in the usable 20% of our building.