Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter of Davis

A Calling of Faith

"My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours. 
We say, 'A person is a person through other persons. 
I am human because I belong. I participate, I share.'"
                                                                       -Desmond Tutu

The Interfaith Rotating Wenter Shelter (IRWS) is a community-based effort enabling member congregations to provide cold-weather shelter and hospitatlity to a rotating basis to persons who are living homeless in the Davis community. Davis Community Church is one of the participating congregations.  Shelter in our Fellowship Hall and meals are provided for three weeks of each winter.  

Guests are referred to our local intake center, located at 345 L Street, Davis.  IRWS provides transportation to each host site.  Guests are escorted into the shelter.  They remain inside for the duration of the night, except for supervised smoking breaks in a designated location.

During the winter, each congregation hosts the program for one or more weeks.  The congregation is expected to shelter a maximum of 25 people each evening.  The winter of 2008-09, the IRWS provided a total of 2,083 beds to 102 different guests hosted by 627 volunteers from 21 congregations and community organizations. For more information and to voluteer please visit the shelter website.