Building Trust – Cultivating Community – Renewing Hope
Dignity for our unhoused neighbors in St. Louis.
We are a Christian ministry providing mobile showers, clothing and personal care items, meals and fellowship, extreme cold weather support and a community of love and caring to unhoused individuals, families and veterans across St. Louis. We practice Patient Compassion, Intentional Respect, Unconditional Love and Dignity.
Four Programs. One journey.
Our programs aren’t separate services. They’re one continuous path, meeting our neighbors where they are and walking with them toward stability.
Dignity on Wheels
Hot showers, hygiene items, clean clothes and human connection delivered by mobile trailer to neighbors across St. Louis, April through November.
Community Fellowship (ComFe)
Saturdays (except the last Saturday of each month) at the Outreach Center providing meals, clothing and supplies, bus tickets, resources and referrals help and a welcome with love..
Winter Safe Haven
When winter turns dangerous (25°F and below), local motels keep unhoused families with children warm, safe, fed and together.
Discipleship
Voluntary spiritual and pastoral care and guidance offered in two settings.
When a neighbor moves into a home of their own, our Welcome Home crew helps furnish it.
We are thankful for the church and organization groups that serve alongside us.
We’d like your church or organization group on this calendar. Please join us.
In loving memory of Ray Hartmann.
We Alone Can Fix This-Ray Hartmann
For more than a year, I’ve had a first-hand education in the unhoused crisis in St. Louis through my fundraising work for a nonprofit called inExcelsis. It’s only one of many good organizations working on this crisis, and any of them is worth your support.
On Saturday mornings, inExcelsis hosts a weekly gathering called ComFe (Community Fellowship) at a location in the city. I’ve helped serve food there on occasion but nowhere near as often as the volunteers who show up every week without fail. But something happens nearly every time I do. One of our guests looks up and asks if I’m that guy from Channel 9. From Donnybrook.
Every time, my heart sinks a little.
Not because they recognized me. Because of what the question means. This person—living outside, without a shower, without a change of clothes—used to have a roof over their head, a couch to sit on and a television to watch. They had evenings. They had opinions about what we were yakking about.
They were us. They are us.
IN 2025
Showing up, every week.
Helping neighbors reach work and services.
Through ComFe and Dignity on Wheels
Winter Safe Haven, 2024-25 season
All of our programs are built by people who choose to show up.
Volunteer. Become a monthly sustainer. Or send the supplies that fill the trailer and boutique.