Category: Stories

L&I Gives Big Boost to Backpacks for Kids

L&I Gives Big Boost to Backpacks for Kids

L&I employees donated more than $3,000 in cash and school supplies to help send hundreds of kids to school this fall with brand new backpacks. The Special Events Committee organized the school supplies drive in July and delivered a vanload of goods to City Gates Ministries, which hands out backpacks and supplies every year to […]

Family Pulls Together For Youngest Child

Family Pulls Together For Youngest Child

 “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others,” – Mahatma Gandhi As we continue our mission to help people in need, because of you over 4000 people this year have received some kind of assistance through City Gates Ministries whether it be tangible items like furniture, clothes, food or […]

Power of Prayer

City Gates Ministries in Olympia, Washington is like none other that we have visited.  At 7:00 each Thursday night, two large vans, one smaller one, and various other vehicles pull onto a parking lot in the middle of the city, just across the street from a major transit center.  Out come tables, canopies, and a […]

Service Steel Aerospace Drive for City Gates Ministries

Every Thursday night a small army of volunteers meet on a vacant lot in downtown Olympia Washington for the purpose of providing hope to the homeless and needy.  We bring a caravan of vehicles that supply donated items of food, clothing, blankets, sleeping bags, hygiene products and baby supplies.  We call the event Street Lights […]