Why

Mission Statement
We are inspired by the love of God to serve those who are poor and marginalized with dignity while providing opportunities for young adults to serve our community, build relationships with those we serve and connect with one another.

When we pass them on the street, we pretend they don’t exist. They are the people on the building steps, under the overpass, in the alleyway, under the blanket. They are people who are homeless, and they are essentially nameless and faceless.

We exist to change that.

The Crescent City Café serves people who are homeless with dignity. We greet them, seat them and request their food and beverage order. We demonstrate respect. We transfer hope. And we hope that through our actions, homeless stops being a brand and starts being a circumstance – a real crisis that a real person is currently experiencing.

 To learn more or get involved, e-mail Kim Thompson.

“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.” - John F. Kennedy