Santa Fe's
Interfaith Community Shelter
Homeless deaths from hypothermia were reduced to zero in 2008-2011
Interfaith Community Shelter Group P.O. Box 22653 Santa Fe, NM 87502
Your assistance makes a
Difference
An initiative of the Santa Fe Faith Communities
Faith Communities and Participating
Organizations
AmeriCorps
Capital High School
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Center for Spiritual Living
Cerrillos Masonic Lodge #19
Christ Church
Christ Lutheran Church
Christian Church/Disciples of Christ
Church of the Holy Faith
Eastern Star
Extension Homemakers of Santa Fe County
Faith at Work Community Outreach
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Habitat for Humanity
HaMakom Jewish Congregation
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
The Humanist Society
Interfaith Leadership Alliance
Light at Mission Viejo
Montezuma Lodge # 1
Rodeo Road Baptist Church
Capital High School
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Center for Spiritual Living
Cerrillos Masonic Lodge #19
Christ Church
Christ Lutheran Church
Christian Church/Disciples of Christ
Church of the Holy Faith
Eastern Star
Extension Homemakers of Santa Fe County
Faith at Work Community Outreach
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Habitat for Humanity
HaMakom Jewish Congregation
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
The Humanist Society
Interfaith Leadership Alliance
Light at Mission Viejo
Montezuma Lodge # 1
Rodeo Road Baptist Church
R. S. V. P. (Retired Senior Volunteer Program)
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
St. John’s United Methodist Church
Santa Fe Street Ministries
Sathya Sai Baba Center
San Isidro-San José Parish
Santa Fe Friends Meeting
Santa Fe Preparatory School
Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community
TaHa Mosque and Islamic Center
Temple Beth Shalom
Thubten Norbu Ling
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
United Church of Santa Fe
Unity Church of Santa Fe
Upaya Zen Center
Venture Crew # 53 (Boy Scouts of America)
Veterans for Peace
Waldorf School
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Zia United Methodist Church
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
St. John’s United Methodist Church
Santa Fe Street Ministries
Sathya Sai Baba Center
San Isidro-San José Parish
Santa Fe Friends Meeting
Santa Fe Preparatory School
Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community
TaHa Mosque and Islamic Center
Temple Beth Shalom
Thubten Norbu Ling
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
United Church of Santa Fe
Unity Church of Santa Fe
Upaya Zen Center
Venture Crew # 53 (Boy Scouts of America)
Veterans for Peace
Waldorf School
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Zia United Methodist Church
Following a successful 2009-10 winter
season in the former Pete's Pets at 2801 Cerrillos Road, the City of
Santa Fe purchased the building to establish the Santa Fe Resource and
Opportunity Center, which will be the permanent location of the
Interfaith Shelter.
Faith and secular community volunteers prepare meals offsite and bring them ready to serve at the shelter before 5:30 p.m. Guests are welcomed by the Intake Team beginning at 6 p.m., and, following a security check, are given a place to check their belongings and shown to their sleeping areas.
After dinner, conversations, card playing, chess, checkers, and dominoes abound in the lounge area. Most of the guests, some of whom may be employed and are tired from a day of hard work, will make their way to bed by 9 p.m., when the paid night staff relieves the volunteers. A light breakfast is provided the next morning before the Shelter closes for the day at 7 a.m.
Some volunteers appreciate the opportunity to live out their faith by reaching out to help their fellow man and woman. Others express gratitude at having their stereotypes about homelessness dispelled. Some begin to see our guests as people not so different than themselves...with intelligence, humor, interests in the world around them, concern for others, and a desire to be contributing members of society.
Faith and secular community volunteers prepare meals offsite and bring them ready to serve at the shelter before 5:30 p.m. Guests are welcomed by the Intake Team beginning at 6 p.m., and, following a security check, are given a place to check their belongings and shown to their sleeping areas.
After dinner, conversations, card playing, chess, checkers, and dominoes abound in the lounge area. Most of the guests, some of whom may be employed and are tired from a day of hard work, will make their way to bed by 9 p.m., when the paid night staff relieves the volunteers. A light breakfast is provided the next morning before the Shelter closes for the day at 7 a.m.
Some volunteers appreciate the opportunity to live out their faith by reaching out to help their fellow man and woman. Others express gratitude at having their stereotypes about homelessness dispelled. Some begin to see our guests as people not so different than themselves...with intelligence, humor, interests in the world around them, concern for others, and a desire to be contributing members of society.