Grace Fellowship Community Church

I was blessed to stay at Grace Community Fellowship with my InterVarsity group visiting from Hawaii after our triennial Urbana Student Missions Conference. The hospitality and love from church members was truly outstanding, the facilities were beautiful, and it’s inspiring to see how the church lives out its faith in the city.
Grace is located in the San Francisco Mission district and is a church plant of Cumberland Presbyterian in Chinatown. Pastor Sharon is an excellent preacher with a holistic view of the gospel and speaks to issues relevant to the day and culture. She is not afraid to tackle difficult issues and does so with both truth and grace. The church is an intergenerational mix of elders and families and regularly welcomes friends from the streets for both services and meals.
I especially appreciated a presentation from Pastor Craig that puts the church’s current faith and social action in the context of history. For example, his grandmother was the beneficiary of love and advocacy from a church member while she was detained at Angel Island, and the church continues to seek to love and care for its neighbors to this day.
The community is kind and welcoming and is a diverse group of mostly Asian and White. It seems that the vast majority of church members live in San Francisco rather than commute from the suburbs, so they care deeply about the community both in and outside the church walls.

Just ran into an old friend from high school who has been going to Grace for years. Gospel is preached and Christ is glorified in San Francisco.