Thousands of volunteers are at an East Bay church for a weekend of service to the Bay Area.
Volunteers, ages 15 to 85, began showing up before 9 a.m. at the Community Presbyterian Church in Danville to help put together meal kits, bicycles and hygiene kits for the homeless.
"We basically cancel our in-person services for the weekend and send a couple thousand people out to do service projects all over the Bay Area and beyond," said Senior Pastor Tyler Scott.
He explained that they’re packing food for the needy to let their community know that they support them.
"It’s all dry product and it’s high protein value and so as it goes down the line people add the rice, the protein and all kinds of other things and then it gets sealed and every bag has five meals in it," event organizer Deana Dickerson told KCBS Radio. "All they have to do is add water."
"This year we have about 30 projects coordinated and a little under 2,000 volunteers mobilized to go out and they do service projects because we want our community to know that we're for them because we believe that being for others like God is for us can really change the world," Scott said.
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