Central Lutheran Church-Van Nuys responded to the pandemic in May 2020 by moving our bimonthly food distribution to weekly, by planning, recruiting volunteers and funds, and implementing a drip irrigation system for our community garden, and by stepping up our recruitment of volunteers to support these programs. Food Security was already a big issue for…

Written by Leslie Gold, coach of the Strides in Recovery team at Beacon House, and Executive Director of Strides in Recovery For nearly two months during Fall 2020, the first words out of Derek’s mouth, as we began our weekly training run, were always the same. “I almost left the program this week.” Derek was one…