City Impact, the Tenderloin-based "Christ-centered" organization that provides the community's housed and homeless residents with a wide variety of relief programs, is hosting a community refuge center — dubbed TL Revive — at 136 Taylor St. this summer.
Tuesdays through Fridays, community members are welcome to join City Impact employees, interns and volunteers for hot meals, arts and crafts, board games, fingernail painting and a round of ping pong. Breakfast is served from 10:30am to 12:30pm and the doors reopen for dinner between 2:30 and 4:30pm.
Matt Krause, a City Impact summer intern, said they typically open the refuge during spring and summer breaks when the organization has a large number of interns on staff, and it gives them an opportunity to introduce community members to the ministry.
According to City Impact's 2014 financial report, the organization now owns 75 percent of the properties on the 100 block of Taylor Street. The ministry's Rescue Mission program also includes a year-round dining hall, health and wellness center and prayer service at 140 Turk St.
