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Health Fairs

BMI at the Health Fair

In response to growing health problems facing families they serve, pastors of local congregations have identified church-based health fairs as an important expression of ministry in their neighborhoods. Grace Urban Ministries has come alongside such congregations to provide coordination, logistical support, and the leveraging of institutional resources to help realize their health ministry goals.

Blood screening at the Health Fair

Glucose screening

Mission Street Health Fair

The Mission Street Health Fair, in the Excelsior District near Daly City, reaches a multi-ethnic neighborhood, with outreach carried out in Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and English. SF Christian Center, an African-American Pentacostal Church, hosts the fair in partnership with Cumberland Presbyterian Church Daly City, Grace Fellowship Community Church, Redeemer Community Church, and other congregations. California Pacific Medical Center, the SF Hospital Council, SF General Hospital, and the UC Berkeley School of Optometry, are among its many critical community partners.

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Taking a blood sample at the Health Fair

Diabetes testing

Mission Church Health Fair

The Mission Church Health Fair, in San Francisco’s Mission District, was initiated by Iglesia Presbiteriana de la Mision and worked in partnership with Grace Fellowship Community Church, and other congregations, to address the high incidence of diabetes among the Latino immigrant community and, in particular, the Mayan-speaking community with roots in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Hundreds of visitors underwent basic screening, and then, based on need, met with a physician and diabetes educators.

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From our latest newsletter…

"During Lent and Eastertide, I reflect on Luke 15, Jesus our Good Shepherd, who instructs how I care for kids in our church, as the kids in the neighborhood where God has called our congregation…Our dental screening at Willie Brown Academy has been one of the ways we have see our good Lord shepherd us into this neighborhood and join Him in his good work."

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