Mission & Outreach

We share Christ’s love with our city in our daily lives and as a church. 

In our daily lives we are teachers, nurses, social workers, doctors, attorneys, little league coaches, girl scout leaders, therapists, and public servants. We volunteer throughout the city. We come to Bethany to rest and refuel for our daily work of love. This is a place that nurtures folks who love Tacoma. 

As a church we love our city both tangibly and financially. Our building hosts 12 step meetings every day, an affordable preschool co-op, and a community garden. We volunteer at the food bank and Pride and many other places. We give away tens of thousands of dollars each year to nonprofit organizations in Tacoma that fight homelessness, advocate for immigrant rights, care for children, and support the LGBTQ communities in our city. Learn more about all of our mission partners and how you can volunteer here!

We’re a church that loves our city.

Local Organizations supported by Bethany are:

Nourish Pierce County: Food Banks for Healthier Futures - Providing nutritious food to our neighbors in need for 50 years.  https://nourishpc.org

St Leo’s Food Connection: Affirm Our Shared Dignity - A world in which there is enough food for everyone, if only we are willing to share. https://foodconnection.org 

AIDNW: Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest - Supporting Immigrants with Dignity in Detention and Upon Release. https://aidnw.org/

Tacoma Community House: Promoting Social Justice through Equity Building Programs.  Their mission as a community -based service center for immigrants, refuges and long-time South Sound residents seeking a pathway to self sufficiency. https://www.tacomacommunityhouse.org/

Neighborhood Clinic: Neighborhood Clinic is grounded on the belief that healing occurs where physical and medical care is accompanied by consistent emotional support and a regard for the whole person. https://neighborhoodclinictacoma.org/

Peace Community Center: We give youth educational tools for their future success and sustainability. https://peacecommunitycenter.org/

Trinity Presbyterian - Bryant Neighborhood Center: We envision a diverse, connected, and empowered Bryant Neighborhood, with neighbors actively participating in the development of a healthy, just and sustainable community. https://www.bryantneighborhoodcenter.org/

Hager’s Church: Hagar's Community Church exists to give incarcerated individuals at the Washington Corrections Center for Women at safe Christian community through which they might explore their spirituality and encounter the proclamation and experience of God's love. https:/www.olypres.org/hagarscc

Faith Action Network: A statewide, multifaith partnership striving for just, compassionate, and sustainable communities through courageous advocacy and public action. https://fanwa.org/

Nativity House: Catholic Housing Center Serving People of all Beliefs. https://ccsww.org/get-help/housing/permanent-housing/nativity-house-apartments/nativity-house-dayandovernight-shelters/

Associated Ministries: Working Together to Serve our Community. Associated Ministries is an organization that works with interfaith partners who are deeply engaged in transforming our communities. We work together toward lasting solutionsto homelessness. https://assocaitedministries.org/

Oasis Youth Outreach: Oasis Youth Center "Where Queer Youth Thrive. Oasis is Pierce County's only LGBTQ+ youth center. Founded in 1985, Oasis is a drop-in, resource, and support center. Oasis is a safe space for Queer youth to learn, connect, and thrive. Oasis envisions a world where Queer youth are valued as strong, creative leaders." https://www.oasisyouthcenter.org/

Rainbow Center: Through education, advocacy, and celebration, Rainbow Center expands resources and safe space for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, two-spirit and allied (LGBTQ2SA) community. https://www.rainbowcenter.org/

More Light Presbyterians: More Light Presbyterians is a non-profit organization dedicated to allowing the full participation of LGBTQIA+ people in life, ministry, and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and in society. You are welcome here, and you are loved. https://mlp.org/

Special Offerings: The Special Offerings of the PC(USA) offer the whole Church a way to embody Jesus’ words in Matthew 25 through the Spirit-inspired stories and gifts that place us in partnership with those who have least. For the church to be the Church it must be actively engaged in relationship with those in need — an understanding that can readily be drawn from Matthew 25. Through gifts to the Special Offerings, we support ministries of compassion, justice, alleviation of hunger, Christian formation, education, peacemaking and global witness.

Bethany participates in collecting and distributing the four annual Special Offerings: