To provide a time and space on a weekly basis where people who are homeless can come together to share their lived experience in the light of God’s word;
To provide an empowerment model which helps to develop and/or restore a belief in the dignity and self-worth of each person;
To provide those who attend the Base Christian Community gatherings, and those encountered within the shelters, with resource information and support toward making concrete steps to remove or lessen the personal, communal, and structural causes of homelessness;
To be a caring church presence within the shelters, drop-in-centers, drug recovery program, HIV/AIDS transitional residence, and street ministry;
To work together with people who are homeless, formerly homeless, and advocates to address the systems and structures that keep people oppressed and to work towards their transformation;
To promote leadership among people who are homeless and formerly homeless by sponsoring monthly groups: Leadership Study Days, Women’s Empowerment Groups, and Men’s Spiritual Development Groups.
