Together L.A.

08/21/2026

08/19/2026

Meet With Love Market & Cafe — where fresh food, good jobs, and community all live under one roof. 🫶🥦

Over 10 years ago, a pastor moved to South LA and started noticing something painful: 4x higher rates of obesity and hypertension — driven by a lack of access to fresh, affordable food. After 5½ years of prayer, vision-casting, and partnership-building, With Love Market & Cafe opened in 2016 as a community-owned answer to that need.

And it's been feeding South LA ever since.

Here's what they do:

🛒 Community Grocery — locally-sourced fresh produce with SNAP/EBT programs and California-grown discounts
🚜 Farm Fresh LA — weekly produce distribution to three neighborhood markets, free with every $5 EBT transaction
☕ Café & Gathering Space — a safe third space for daily life, events, meetings, and celebrations
📚 Community Programs — financial literacy for kids, breathwork sessions, care boxes for families, and small business resources
🥗 Meal-Kits & Nutritional Education — partnering with schools and orgs to bring healthy food and education to the community

But what makes With Love truly different? They are community-owned and employee-owned — powered by the very people they serve.

Of the community. For the community. With love.

100,000+ neighbors served every year. And they are just getting started.

Together LA is honored to champion With Love Market & Cafe.

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🌐 withlovela.com

08/07/2026

✨ COMING SOON: NEW STORY SERIES ✨

Behind every meaningful mission are leaders who faithfully use their gifts to serve others. 💡

Leader Spotlight introduces the people whose passion, character, and God-given abilities are making a difference in their churches, organizations, and communities.

Through their stories, we’ll learn more about their journey, the heart behind their leadership, and the lessons they have gained along the way.

Join us as we honor and learn from leaders who are helping others flourish.

08/07/2026

✨ COMING SOON: NEW STORY SERIES ✨

Greater impact becomes possible when we work together. 🤝

Stories of Collaboration celebrates the churches, organizations, and community members who are joining forces to address shared challenges and serve others well.

Each story will show how partnership allows us to combine our gifts, resources, and experience to accomplish more than any one person or organization could achieve alone.

Together, we can build stronger communities and create lasting change.

08/07/2026

✨ COMING SOON: NEW STORY SERIES ✨

Every life has a story 🌱

Stories of Change shares powerful testimonies of lives transformed by the Gospel. Through these stories, we’ll see how God’s grace brings healing, renewal, freedom, and a new sense of purpose through Jesus Christ.

These are stories of hope. Stories of faith. Stories that remind us that no life is beyond the transforming love of God.

Follow along and be encouraged by what God can do when a life is placed in His hands.

08/05/2026

Olive Crest is caring for over 300,000 children and families — and there are real, tangible ways you can be part of that. 🌿

Here's what they need right now:
🧴 Everyday Essentials Drive — Happening Now
They are collecting full-sized hygiene products for families and youth in their programs — shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste, and more. Drop them off or reach out to get involved.

🏠 Become a Foster Parent
Olive Crest will walk alongside you through every step of the licensing process. You don't have to figure it out alone.

🤝 Start or Join a Care Team
Gather 6–8 people from your church to come alongside a foster or adoptive family with consistent, practical, relational support. Meals. Errands. Prayer. Showing up.

📬 Join the Monthly Newsletter
Get updates every month on how to volunteer, donate, and meet current needs directly from Kendra.
→ [email protected]

🏠Join the Hosting Program
Parents experiencing a temporary crisis can arrange for their children to stay with Olive Crest volunteers

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🌐 olivecrest.org

07/29/2026

Meet Olive Crest — 50 years of showing up for children and families in crisis, and they are just getting started. 🌿

What began as a Foster Family Agency has grown into one of the most comprehensive child welfare organizations in the country — serving over 300,000 children and families to date across six regions in the US, with a goal to reach 1.2 million by 2030.

And they do it all as the hands and feet of Jesus.

Their programs in LA reach some of the most vulnerable people imaginable:
🏠 Foster Care — guiding families through licensing with support every step
🤝 Care Teams — 6–8 church volunteers walking alongside foster & adoptive families with meals, errands, prayer, and real relationship
🏘️ Transitional Housing — preventing homelessness for youth aging out of the system
🛡️ PROMiSE Initiative — a daily drop-in center in South LA for minors ages 12–24 impacted by s*xual exploitation
🌸 Sisterhood Sanctuary — housing for young women rescued from s*x trafficking
📚 Bellflower Resource Center — a safe space, food pantry, and daily programs for youth ages 12–24
And just recently — their Transforming Lives Campaign hit its financial goal, breaking ground on new transitional housing for youth aging out of foster care. 🏗️

We are so honored to champion Olive Crest through Together LA.

Email Kendra for donations and sign up for the newsletter:
[email protected]

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🌐 olivecrest.org

07/24/2026

Every partnership has a story worth telling.

We're excited to shine a light on the incredible work of the South Bay Care Collaboration and the people behind it. Through collaboration, compassion, and a shared commitment to serving their community, they're making a meaningful difference every day.

This is just a preview—stay tuned as we take you behind the scenes to share more about their mission, their impact, and why we're proud to partner with them.

07/22/2026

Foster the City has one primary ask — and it might be simpler than you think. 🏠

⛪ Connect your church
Know a pastor or church leader with a heart for foster care? Connect them to Foster the City Regional Director Dave Darjany → [email protected]. Everything Foster the City provides to churches is completely free. All they need is a church willing to say yes.

🏠 Become a foster family
Say yes to opening your home. Foster the City will connect you to a church community that will walk alongside you with practical and spiritual support every step of the way.

❤️ Give
Foster the City runs entirely on the generosity of donors who believe in "A Church for Every Child." Your gift helps them reach more churches, raise up more families, and place more children in loving homes.

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🌐 fosterthecity.org/give

07/17/2026

Meet Foster the City — a movement born from one pastor asking one simple question. 🏠
"What can our church do?"

A social worker's reply changed everything: "This problem is bigger than one church. Do you know others who would get involved?"

That question sparked a national movement. And today, Foster the City is equipping churches across LA and Orange County — completely free — with the proven model, resources, and technology to raise up foster families and surround them with real, ongoing support from their church community.

Because DCFS has said it themselves: they cannot meet the need alone. The church is the answer. And Foster the City is building the bridge.

The numbers tell the story:
🏠 527 foster families raised up
🤝 1,874 support friends mobilized
👶 1,117 children placed in loving homes
⛪ 368 church partners nationwide

And one single foster mom recently adopted her 13th infant in 4 years — loved and celebrated every step of the way by her church family.

We are praying for the day when there is a waiting list of churches ready to care for a child — rather than a waiting list of children hoping for a family.

Think your church would be a great foster care ministry?
Connect your church pastor or church leader to Dave Darjany — [email protected]

Together LA is honored to champion Foster the City.

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🌐 fosterthecity.org