Serving Our Community with Compassion

Providing Food, Support, and Hope to Those in Need

Agape Love is a community-based nonprofit committed to homeless outreach and food assistance for individuals and families facing hardship in Lodi and the surrounding areas. Through weekly community meals, free meals, and food box distributions, we work to meet immediate needs while fostering dignity and care. 

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Our Purpose

Bringing Hope, Help, and Human Connection

We are a local, church-based homeless outreach providing compassionate food assistance and community support for those in need. Located at Gravity Church, we host a weekly community meal every Monday morning, offering a free meal alongside a worship service, prayer, and a faith-centered message. This weekly church gathering creates space for meaningful fellowship, encouragement, and connection.

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In addition to serving hot meals and food boxes, we partner on site with multiple ministries to provide essential services including hot showers, clothing, care packages, medical assistance, addiction recovery support, housing resources, and access to vital social services. Together, we work to meet both immediate needs and long-term restoration with dignity, hope, and love.

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Monday Outreach

Food, Faith, and Community Support

We gather as a church community to serve our neighbors through hot meals, food assistance, and compassionate homeless outreach. Our weekly community meal offers a free meal, spiritual care through worship service, prayer, and a shared message, creating space for meaningful fellowship. Through strong community partnerships, we meet people where they are—offering dignity, hope, and support that extends beyond the meal.

Hot Meals

Every Monday, rain or shine, we serve hot meals prepared by our volunteers, in our kitchen and on site on our grills.

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Hot Meals

Every Monday, rain or shine, we serve hot meals prepared by our volunteers, in our kitchen and on site on our grills. We make our meals, as much as possible, from fresh and from scratch, ensuring our commitment to tasty and nutritious meals. Between 180 and 300 meals are served
on site, with to-go boxes of the remainders sent to the Lodi Access Center
during lunchtime. 

Food Boxes

With increasing food insecurity in our city, and especially in our neighborhood, we frequently have requests for food boxes.

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Food Boxes

With increasing food insecurity in our city, and especially in our neighborhood, we frequently have requests for food boxes. Usually able to fill up with frozen meat and single meals, mac n cheese, milk, bread and other staples, we give them away as needed, usually on Mondays and Saturdays.

Worship / Message

The physical food we provide only temporarily satisfies the needs of our guests, but what really satisfies is the spiritual food in the form of messages of faith, hope and love.

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Worship / Message

The physical food we provide only temporarily satisfies the needs of our guests, but what really satisfies is the spiritual food in the form of messages of faith, hope and love. This spiritual emphasis opens doors and builds trust to begin and sustain ongoing conversations about the deeper matters of life and how to achieve permanent changes for a stable and successful life.

Prayer Team

Our prayer team provides a more focused and intentional time of listening and praying through the deeper needs of our guests. Such conversations build over time, week after week. 

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Prayer Team

Often prayer doesn’t give closure or settle the most troubling and deep-seated matters of the heart. Prayer is most often just the beginning of a process of helping individuals untangle decades-old problems a little at a time. It’s the long term, compacted life struggles that require long term solutions. As our prayer team gets to spend time each week with our guests, God patiently and gently meets those deeper needs. Spaces of hope open up for people, leading to faith and strength to begin tackling practical concerns that we can help them with afterwards.

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Outreach ministries International: The Outreach Pipeline

A key feature of our success in helping individuals get off the streets, into recovery, and into safe, transitional living, is the interconnectedness of several ministries working seamlessly together. The core partners, under the umbrella of Outreach Ministries International, are Gravity Church, the Lodi Access Center, Agape Love and Second Step Living.

At any one of these points of access, people receive services in the form of new clothes, meals, food boxes, temporary shelter, social services, medical assistance, legal help, housing assistance and more, all in an atmosphere of compassion, competency, and commitment.

Some come to Gravity Church or the Lodi Access Center cold off the streets, get introduced to Agape Love on Mondays, and begin serving as a volunteer. They start coming to church. From there they start attending the extracurricular events: men’s or women’s events, Bible studies, recovery meetings, nursing home visitation, Agape birthday parties, etc. They eventually find work and housing, being firmly fitted into a healthy and stable way of life with others

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Community Collaboration

Monday Partner Ministries

Our partner ministries include Showered With Love Mobile Showers, Take a Chance with Christ Clothing, Body & Soul care packages, Sidewalk Angels, and Community Medical. In addition, social workers, recovery and detox clinics, counseling services, and other local agencies are often on site to provide support for a wide range of needs.

Each Monday morning, our time and location function as a central hub for homeless outreach and community assistance, bringing together food support, health services, recovery resources, and compassionate care in one place. Through these partnerships, we are able to serve our community in a comprehensive, coordinated, and dignified way—meeting immediate needs while helping individuals take meaningful next steps forward.

GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

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BECOME A VOLUNTEER

Join our volunteer team and take part in meaningful, hands-on service that meets real needs in our community. By sharing your time, skills, and heart to serve, you help make weekly homeless outreach, food assistance, and compassionate care possible. 

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LOCAL OUTREACH

LOCAL OUTREACH

Our local homeless outreach connects neighbors with essential resources, food assistance, and compassionate care. Through trusted partnerships with local organizations and consistent weekly on-site support, we meet people where they are—responding to real needs with dignity, hope, and meaningful community connection.

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BECOME A DONOR

BECOME A DONOR

By becoming a donor, you help sustain our weekly homeless outreach and food assistance efforts that address both immediate and long-term needs. Your generosity ensures that free meals are served, essential resources are shared, and hope continues to reach individuals and families who need it most.

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BECOME A VOLUNTEER

Join our volunteer team and be part of hands-on service that meets real needs in our community. Your time, skills, and willingness to help allow us to serve hundreds of neighbors each week with food, care, and compassion.

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BECOME A DONOR

By becoming a donor, you help sustain weekly outreach efforts that meet both immediate and long-term needs. Your support ensures that meals are served, resources are shared, and hope continues to reach those who need it most.

DONATE TODAY

LOCAL OUTREACH

Our local outreach connects neighbors with essential resources, supportive services, and compassionate care. Through partnerships with local organizations and weekly on-site support, we work to meet people where they are and respond to real needs in our community.

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