Hope's Corner is a joint program of Los Altos and Trinity United Methodist Churches to provide comfort and assistance to people in need by providing a free breakfast and sack lunch. The location of the service is at Trinity United Methodist Church, 748 Mercy Street, at the corner of Hope and Mercy Streets. The existing facilities and rooms are used, mainly the social hall, which can accommodate up to 125 persons, and the kitchen.
According to Second Harvest Food Bank, 1 in 4 people in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are facing hunger. In Mountain View, the Community Services Agency operates a Food Pantry on Monday–Friday (closed to clients on Tuesday), but there is only one free meals program in Mountain View, the Sunday "Breakfast with Friends" program at the Seventh Day Adventist Church at 1425 Springer Road. The other nearest meal programs are the Breaking Bread program in Palo Alto/Menlo Park and other programs in Sunnyvale.
In Phase I of the program, Hope's Corner provides a simple "continental style" breakfast and a bag lunch on Saturday mornings between 8:30–10:30am. Phase 1 of the program also includes occasional (up to 4 per year) holiday meals to be "catered" with food preparation at LAUMC and then transported and served at Trinity.
Phase 2 of the program will include a new kitchen and restrooms to enable cooking up to 6 hot meals per week at Trinity United Methodist Church. A new kitchen will also open other possibilities, such as a non-profit bakery to provide food service training and employment. You can help us raise the funds needed for the new kitchen and restrooms by making a donation. Donations by check should be made out to LAUMC and note "Hope's Corner" on the memo line. You can also donate online.
In developing this program, the organizers from Trinity UMC and LAUMC built on their belief that looking after persons in need is not only a communal responsibility, but also a way to live out Jesus' instruction to "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Here are the steps for opening the Google Docs registration form and adding your name to a date to volunteer at Hope's Corner.
- Access the Google Doc sign up sheet by clicking here.
- You do not need a Google account in order to add your name to the sign up sheet.
- Dates are listed along the tabs at the bottom. Choose a date and identify a job you would like to perform that still has openings.
- Enter your name in the space indicated next to the number. NOTE: Please ensure you don't type on top of the header rows or leftmost columns. If you happen to do this, click on the Edit menu and select Undo.
- No need to save when you are finished—the document saves automatically.
- Please do not make changes to the document's design or layout. Only edit your own sign-up. If you accidentally made a change, click on the Edit menu and select Undo.
After signing up to volunteer, be sure to read our Instructions for Volunteers. We thank you!
