CityTeam, located just down the street in our neighborhood, is committed to providing support for folks experiencing houselessness and addiction.

Imago is grateful for their commitment to the people of Portland and grateful for our connections and our partnership with CityTeam. You can find more information about ways you can partner with our friends at CityTeam by sending an email to seth@idcpdx.com.

We seek to foster a face-to-face, heart-to-heart community with young people living on the streets. Our friendships often begin as odd, curious encounters: people who suddenly walk up with socks and smiles. Asking questions and waiting for answers. Patience with complex feelings or complaints. Lingering, sitting on sidewalks together, and sometimes, once in a while, it becomes not so much us and them, but only us.

Our Wednesday nights are spent walking, lots of walking, listening, encountering God in the kids, each other, and ourselves, the boundaries “us,” “them” and God sometimes blurring. Our desire is to embody the presence of Jesus and to encounter the presence of Jesus in unexpected places. Desired skills will include humility, respect, gratitude, learning, community, and prayer.

Join one of our weekly walks on Wednesday nights from 6-9pm to listen, love, and pray. For more information about getting involved, contact David Wilmoth at dwlmth@gmail.com.

On nights of severely cold weather, Imago Dei hosts an emergency warming shelter in the gym at Central City Campus. This shelter is initiated by the city and operated by Transition Projects when the temperature drops below a certain level.

To learn if/when the shelter will be open, find other warming shelters in the area, or access transportation to a shelter, contact 211info by calling 2-1-1 or visit 211info.org.

To learn more about donating needed items and other ways to get involved, visit the Transition Projects website at tprojects.org.