Local outreach

Local Outreach is striving to make an impact in the Truckee Meadows by providing opportunities for individuals and groups to serve others. Many, many opportunities are available. See where you can make a difference today!

Sun Valley Community

Summit continues to nurture partnerships with area schools, governmental organizations, and churches. We are blessed to build our relationships in the community. Volunteers can serve at schools and special events.

Foster the City

A coalition of churches providing loving homes for children in foster care, Foster the City recognizes there’s a shortage of foster homes in Washoe County. If even a fraction of churches in northern Nevada raise up one Foster Family with a team of Support Friends, there will be more than enough families to meet the need. Together, we are working toward the day when the list of children waiting for a home will be replaced with a list of families waiting to share their homes.

Homeless Outreach

We partner with local churches to serve our unsheltered friends by providing a warm meal and sharing the love of Jesus. We gather the last Saturday of each month.

Hosanna Home

Hosanna Home is a transitional housing program supporting women as they break the cycles of instability, and homelessness, through pressing into the love of Jesus Christ. Hosanna Home has a partner ministry called Leah’s House where women and their children can find emergency housing together. Esther’s Closet Thrift Store is a retail thrift boutique, open to the public. All funds earned go to support Hosanna Home and Leah’s House. Volunteer your time sorting donations at Esther’s Closet, leading Bible study at Hosanna Home, or dozens of other opportunities.

Scarlet Hope

Scarlet Hope is a national organization that seeks to share the hope and love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry. Scarlet Hope Reno volunteers participate in weekly outreach to Reno's strip clubs and seek to develop discipleship relationships with the women they meet. Impact teams are stable Christian women (over 21) willing to offer friendship and support to those they meet. Opportunities are also available in food preparation, one time events, and on a dedicated prayer team. 

Teen Challenge

Teen Challenge of Northern Nevada serves boys 18 and under who are dealing with addiction and behavioral and familial struggles. Young men are given the opportunity to catch up in school, receive discipleship training, and develop personal skills to lead healthier lives. Serve by providing meals, leading Bible studies, and becoming mentors.

International Students

Motivated by Jesus' love for people of all nations, International Students aims to serve those who come from abroad to be educated in the Reno area with their practical needs and help Reno’s Christian community to become globally minded. Volunteers serve by offering assistance with airport pickups, shopping trips, invitations to share holiday meals, Bible studies, and become a surrogate family to the student during their time in the US.