Happy Advent to you all!

In celebration of the end of the year coming up I (Claire) decided to try

and count up all the fun SFOC statistics for this year that I could and share them with you! I used my calendar and our guest book and was amazed and what we came up

with! Especially considering we were a team of three and then two full time staff this year! The Lord has truly blessed our work.

I stuck to the numbers I could prove,

so some say "over" or "more then" cuz the number is actually way higher but I couldn't prove it on paper. I hope you enjoy this list and we are so grateful for your partnership and friendships this year!

San Francisco Outer Circle 2014 Statistics:

This year we have:

Served over 1680 people pancakes in golden gate park
Trained 3 new Bible study facilitators
Served thousands of pancakes at the Rainbow Gathering and created a partnership with 3 other Christian kitchens
Helped 4 friends into rehab
Hosted and trained 9 short term interns
Assisted 9 friends in transitioning into housing
15 friends began to get to know Jesus, started attending church and coming to bible studies and small groups.
1 local leader came on staff
5 local pastors began to partner with us in serving our homeless friends
3 friends radically committed their lives to Jesus
Celebrated birthdays, sobriety anniversaries, memorials and holidays together with homeless friends
Housed over 75 guests at our house for short term and emergency stays
1 hair stylist came to the park and cut hair
3+ friends chose not to commit suicide
We baptized 1 friend
Helped 5 homeless friends reconnect with their family and move back home
Let at least 98 people borrow a cell phone to call home for the first time in a very long time.
Mediated complicated dynamics between 3 homeless friends and their family members.
Visited 3 friends in the Hospital
Shared way over 100 home cooked meals in our living room with homeless friends
Visited 1 friend in jail
Helped create 2 new videos- http://www.innerchange.org/category/tags/photo-video
Hosted InnerChange’s Apprenticeship and SummerXChange Orientations
Collected 98 surveys on homeless issues
Began a new prayer and worship time in the park and a new Bible study at a Christ Church which is hospitable to and led by both housed and our un housed friends.
Took lots of fun new pictures- https://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-Outer-Circle-InnerChange/63915111179
Connected with three families who were willing to host homeless friends in transition and disciple them!
And had thousands of conversations with homeless friends old and new!

We are so grateful to the Lord for such an incredible year and excited for the one to come!!!