If you would like to give to the Lenten Benevolence offering online, please click the link below under the organization you would like to give to and write in the organization's name in the memo line when donating online. You will need to submit a separate online offering for each organization you would like to donate to. Please remember to write the organization's name in the memo line  for each online donation!

If you would like to give to the Lenten Benevolence offering via check or cash, please make one check out to St. John's Lutheran Church, write in the memo line "Lenten Benevolence", and fill out a "Lenten Benevolence Choices" document, found here, hard copies available in the St. John's office. Please send one check with your total benevolence offering.

Downtown Streets Team Sacramento

Downtown Streets Team Sacramento was launched in 2018 as a four-month pilot sponsored by the City of Sacramento. They currently support 40+ Team Members in Sacramento with intensive, opt-in case management and employment services, and a true sense of community.

Family Promise of Sacramento

Family Promise of Sacramento began helping families in April 2005 and is a program who works with four families at a time. Family Promise has two goals for each family: gaining permanent housing and gaining the skills required to make homelessness less likely to reoccur.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization that seeks to put love into action by building homes, communities and hope. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions.

Central Downtown Food Basket

Central Downtown Food Basket reliably provides healthy and fresh groceries with Dignity and Respect to the food insecure at mobile sites throughout Sacramento. They do this by being hands on with their distribution.

Sacramento Loaves and Fishes

Loaves & Fishes is an organization dedicated to providing warm meals, essential survival supplies and services for nearly 1,000 adults and children daily. To keep our services barrier-free, we do not solicit or accept government funds and are supported instead, by the investment of individual and private donations from the greater Sacramento community.

Saint John’s Program for Real Change

Saint John’s Program for Real Change, located in Sacramento, California, supports women in crisis and their children through a comprehensive 12-18 month residential program developed to help them build a successful new life for themselves and their families.

California Lutheran University

Founded in 1959 and formally recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution since 2016, California Lutheran University is home to 2,377 undergraduate and 1,033 graduate students. Our students come from 59 countries and represent a wide spectrum of faith and spirituality.

The Belfry Campus Ministry

The Belfry is a joint campus ministry at the University of California, Davis, of the Sierra Pacific Synod and the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California, as well as a member of the Interfaith Campus Council at U.C. Davis.

The Lutheran World Federation

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is a global communion of churches in the Lutheran tradition, living and working together for a just, peaceful, and reconciled world. LWF strives to put our Christian faith into action through humanitarian and development work, advocacy, shared witness, and dialogue.

The Rwanda School Project

Following the Rwandan Genocide, the Rwanda School Project launched in response to the country’s need for secondary education. The Rwamagana Leaders’ School opened in 2010 to offer a secure and nurturing school environment that transforms vulnerable youth into future leaders and problem solvers who champion environmental sustainability and social change.

Reconciling Works

Since 1974, ReconcilingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation has advocated for the full welcome, inclusion, and equity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual/aromantic (LGBTQIA+) Lutherans in all aspects of the life of their Church, congregations, and community.

ELCA World Hunger

Working with and through our congregations, ELCA World Hunger is uniquely positioned to reach communities in need. From health clinics to microloans, water wells to animal husbandry, community meals to advocacy, your gifts to ELCA World Hunger make it possible for the ELCA to respond, supporting sustainable solutions that get at the root causes of hunger and poverty.

Lutheran Peace Fellowship

Lutheran Peace Fellowship (LPF) is a non-profit organization with a rich history of providing expertise and support to peacemakers and justice seekers. LPF offers a wealth of unique resources that anyone can use to create Shalom, a world with peace and justice.