For many years Davis Community Church has provided a brown bag lunch to anyone in need who walks through the door. The meal is very basic but filling and available Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the church office. A faithful group of volunteers buy the food, pack the lunches and serve the meal five days a week.  Those who feel called to hospitality to people in need are welcome a regular basis or as a substitute server. It is simply a matter of greeting people warmly and offering a meal.   

On Monday and Wednesday, lunch is available on our campus at Grace House at the corner of 5th & D St, 441 D St.  Lunch is served from 12 - 2 p.m.

The staff liaison for Congregational Care is JoAnn Diel.  Please feel free to contact her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (530)753-2894 X106. 

Care Teams help individuals with the activities of daily living: gardening, home chores, transportation, outings, errands, etc.  To receive help from a Care Team or to be trained to be on a Care Team, contact JoAnn Diel This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (530) 753-2894 ext. 106.

Caregiver’s Support Group meets for monthly support of those who are caring for loved ones with dementia or other disabling diseases.  The group meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 10-11 a.m. in the office conference room.  Contact JoAnn Diel This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (530) 753-2894 ext. 106.

Compassionate Care Ministry visits homebound/isolated folks with cookies at Christmas, flowers on Easter Sunday, fruit baskets in the summer, and friendship at any time.  Contact Sharon Neilson This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (530) 908-6337.

Extended Communion serves communion to home bound members who are unable to attend communion services.  If you have been ordained as an elder in a Presbyterian church, the ministry would welcome your service.  Contact: Sharon Neilson   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (530) 908-6337.

Karing Kids – adult children caring about frail parents gather occasionally as a support group.  You’ll share with each other your joys and your struggles, your insights and your questions.  It can be so helpful to share the journey with others who understand your particular role in life.  Our next meeting will be Monday, April 12 at 7 p.m. in the office conference room.  If you have questions, please contact JoAnn Diel This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or 530-753-2894 ext. 106.

Just Feed One, food collection ministry.

The Stewards of God’s Creation group is starting a community garden.

The Davis Empowerment Project empowers individuals living homeless through social enterprise in conjunction with other congregations.
Ministries to those living homeless or in poverty. 

Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter provides shelter for people living homeless during the winter months on a rotating basis with other faith communities

Brown Bag Lunches in cooperation with Grace in Action Community Ministry is intended to provide one-on-one support to those most at-risk.  

The Yolo Interfaith Immigration Network offers vast array of programs in Yolo County. DCC is actively exploring involvement.

Deacon's Fund: Helping Our Neighbors in Need

On the first Sunday of each month, our church receives the "Deacons Fund: Helping Our Neighbors in Need" Offering.  This provides a direct link of support to those facing hard times in our community.  It provides funds for DCC's Brown Bag Lunch program which serves the hungry in our community.  DCC also provides financial support to those struggling in our community, working closely with Grace-in-Action, Davis Community Meals, Short-Term Emergency Aid Committee, and other churches and non-profits.

The Ministry of Church and Society invites you to consider contributing to this essential fund of the church.  There are envelopes in the pews if you wish to contibute, simply mark "Deacon's Fund." 

Let us live out together Christ's Words, "When you give to the least of these, you give to me."

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-Mother Teresa

 

The first Sunday of each month we encourage you to join us in providing food for people in our community who experience hunger.  Please bring a non-perishable food item with you to worship and place it in the baskets provided at the entrances.  We will donate the food to the STEAC (Short Term Emergency Aid Committee) food closet.  STEAC serves families that live in our community and greatly appreciates the donations. 

 

 

General Mission Giving

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has created four churchwide opportunities each year called Special Offerings to support specific causes. The focuses of the offerings correspond with the season of the liturgical year or special days of the church calendar: the Christmas Joy Offering is generally received the Sunday before Christmas; One Great Hour of Sharing on Easter Sunday; the Pentecost Offering on the Day of Pentecost; and the Peacemaking Offering on World Communion Sunday.  Davis Community Church participates in all four special offerings and in general mission giving as well. General Mission Support is used to strenghthen smaller congregations, support mission service personnel and provide leadership training and scholarships.

Since 1949 One Great Hour of Sharing has helped people in need around the world. The offering supports Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Self-Development of People and the Presbyterian Hunger Program.

Congregations are encouraged to retain 40 percent of the Pentecost Offering for local work with children at risk. The remaining 60 percent is shared among ministries with youth and young adults, young adult mission volunteers and child advocacy.

The Peacemaking Offering is distributed among local congregations (25 percent), presbyteries and synods (25 percent) and the General Assembly (50 percent) for peacemaking efforts. The offering is received on World Communion Sunday, the first Sunday in October.

The Christmas Joy Offering has been a Presbyterian tradition for more than 70 years. Its proceeds benefit active and retired workers of the church in times of need and also support the work of racial ethnic Presbyterian schools and colleges.

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.

 DCC working youth at the YCCC Farmhouse

Youth Mission Trip

Every summer, members of the DCC youth group take a summer service trip. Past trip locations have included Denver, Colorado, and Indian Valley, California.  In 2010, we will once again be traveling with Sierra Service Project, to do construction and home refurbishing work for families in need in the Los Angeles area.  All incoming 9th-12th graders, and graduated seniors, are invited to join us on the service trip.  We fund some of our costs by hosting an All-Church Brunch fundraiser on the first Sunday in May.  For more information contact Antonia at   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or Cailin at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

One way in which Davis Community Church’s vision, "Beloved of God, let us love," is carried out is through the Stephen Ministry program. It is a one-to-one ministry. Since 1994 DCC has had an active program. Lay persons are trained to become careful, loving listeners who bring Christ’s healing power to those who are hurting. They keep all conversations confidential. Stephen Ministers make a long-term commitment to walk alongside another who is going through a transition in their life such as divorce, loss of a loved one, depression, job loss, struggling with their faith, childbirth, terminal illness, surgery, legal problems and other difficulties for as long as needed. If you are interested in serving as a Stephen Minister, establishing a relationship with a Stephen Minister, or simply want more information about DCC's Stephen Ministry, please contact JoAnn Diel ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) at (530)753-2894.