Pastor LaVelle Gates

Providing Resources to Those Living on the Edge

Faith and Hope Church Partners with 211 LA County to Aid Homeless  Homelessness may be rising in South Los Angeles, but Faith and Hope Community Church is battling to decrease it with the assistance of 211 LA County, a local non-profit agency. 211, popularly known as a 24/7 resource for social services, recently partnered with Faith and Hope’s Pastor LaVelle Gates to provide care coordination for five homeless families and three individual adults in his church and four senior citizens in the community. The relationship expanded to using his facility as an entry point for people seeking other support with situations such as