Glide Memorial Church is a San Francisco institution that has been known for its rousing Sunday services and its tireless commitment to charitable causes since 1963 when the Reverend Cecil Williams transformed the church.

Glide is less about creed than about diversity, and the church offers services that reach out to a wide range of people, attracting individuals from all walks of life.

Glide serves three nutritious free meals a day, seven days a week. In addition, it runs an extensive drug recovery program and operates a crisis center that offers temporary shelter referrals, clothing and other basic necessities.

Glide Church is spearheading an effort to assist survivors of Hurricane Katrina by assembling thousands of five-gallon flood buckets packed with cleaning supplies, and health kits filled with hygiene items, which Glide Executive Director Janice Mirikitani is calling “our Bucket Brigade”.

In addition to its efforts to ship emergency supplies to the Gulf States, Glide has established a Frontline Fund to directly assist those who have been displaced to the Bay Area as well as those that remain in the disaster area.

For more information on these efforts to assist Hurricane Katrina survivors and on Glide’s other programs, visit Glide's website.