NightShift Street Ministries
10635 King George Blvd V3T 2X6 Surrey, BC, Canada

Vulnerable people on the street need our help now more than ever, as they face poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic, an affordable housing shortage, and the overdose crisis. With your help, NightShift can continue to reach out with hope, a hot meal and outreach services throughout this difficult time in history, and beyond. When you watch the video below , you will hear some of our friends on the street tell us, in their own words, what NightShift means to them. You will hear hear...tfelt comments like: They provide meals and help me with my loneliness. I don’t know what I’d do if I was homeless without NightShift. They provide me with food, clothing and moral support. The way I look at NightShift, they are my best friends. NightShift got me through the hardest part of my life. NightShift’s goal is to fundraise $200,000 during November’s The Show Must Go On campaign (in lieu of our annual in-person fundraising Gala). With your help, we can raise the funds necessary to continue reaching out to people in need on the streets. For five great ways you can help, click here https://nightshiftministries.org/gala/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sCPG0zDbsZc

Because of pandemic restrictions, NightShift is forgoing our in-person Gala fundraising event this year. Instead, we are offering you the opportunity to participate in a different kind of fundraising initiative, The Show Must Go On, an online campaign during the month of November. Poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic and the overdose crisis all mean people on the street need our help and hope more than ever. ... Your generosity helps ensure NightShift’s outreach care and services continues for these vulnerable friends, who are battling homelessness, poverty, addiction and mental illness. Find out five great ways to help here: https://nightshiftministries.org/gala/ And check out this video messsge from NightShift Founder and President MaryAnne Connor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=XgGVmCBDahw

Still feeling grateful for NightShift’s Thanksgiving Dinner. With the help of our sponsors and an amazing volunteer team, we served over 135 full turkey dinners to our friends in need on the street, along with gift bags, clothing and gratitude leaves. It’s an honour to share a celebration meal with our friends struggling with homelessness, poverty and addiction. Along with nutritious food, we serve up unconditional love, hope and purpose ... which are needed in great measur...e during these pandemic times. For more photos of our special dinner click here https://nightshiftministries.org/giving-thanks-during-the-/ Big gratitude to Lanstone Homes Ltd Shadow Group of Companies Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing JD Farms Specialty Turkey Store #thanksgiving #gratitude #outreach #lovehopepurpose #feedinghungryhearts

Happy Thanksgiving to our NightShift community! We are grateful for every one of you the humble volunteer, the generous donor, the tireless advocate, and of course, the beloved friend on the street. May you all taste and see that the Lord is good this weekend. Blessings and thanks from the NightShift team. ... #thanksgiving #lovehopepurpose #feedinghungryhearts

When community members pull together to help people in need, we are all Winners! NightShift is grateful for the generous staff at the Surrey Central Winners, who took it upon themselves to do a food drive for to help cover some basic food needs for people struggling with homelessness, poverty and addiction. We love community partnerships and the great example that Winners is in stewardship and giving back, shares NightShift staff member Kirsten.... #outreach #surreyoutreach #langleyoutreach #lovehopepurpose #community #communitypartnerships #feedinghungryhearts

Huge thanks to Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Services Fund and Surrey Cares Community Foundation for a $55,000 grant for our Mobile Outreach Unit (MOU)! Christina Buttkus of Surrey Cares and Surrey Councillor Linda Annis stopped by to present the cheque to NightShift Founder and President MaryAnne Connor, and our MOU Manager Brianna Kowalski. NightShift is thrilled to soon launch our MOU, which will provide basic nursing care and crisis counselling, along w...ith clothing, blankets and hygiene items to our friends struggling with homelessness, addiction and mental illness. It’s the generosity of individuals, and this grant from #ECSFund that made our MOU possible. Feeling the gratitude this Thanksgiving. #lovehopepurpose #mobileoutreachunit #carebus #outreach #surreyoutreach #surreycares

We love this message from our Taste of Heaven food truck about serving people in need, three nights a week in Langley. #feedinghungryhearts We couldn’t do it without the help of local church teams, individuals and corporate serving groups! We are also so grateful for the support of Langley Food Bank a fantastic organization dedicated to keeping the flow of healthy food going to people who need it most. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, send a mess...age to our Taste of Heaven manager Kirsten at [email protected] #outreach #langleyoutreach #communitypartnerships #wecandoittogether #tasteofheaven

Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. In July 2020, there were 175 overdose deaths in BC, an average of almost 6 people per day. At NightShift, we are all too familiar with the indiscriminate tragedy of overdose. That’s why all our staff and many of our volunteers are trained to administer Naloxone, a drug that blocks opiate receptors in the nervous system and most often revives a person experiencing an overdose. Just last week, a staff member administered Naloxone ...to a friend outside our building who had overdosed. She stayed with the man until paramedics arrived to give further care. He is an important part of our community in Whalley, and his bright and friendly face often greets us outside as we arrive to work at NightShift. We are so glad he is still with us, and we are here for him to provide care and referrals when he is ready to start his recovery journey. In the last few years, we have lost many friends to overdose in the NightShift neighbourhood. Friends like Denis, who had been joining us for our outreach meal and volunteering to help set up and clean up since our earliest days as a ministry. Denis loved to smile, to serve alongside our volunteers, and to share love and hope (especially with students visiting NightShift). Denis passed away over a year ago in his tiny apartment, alone, not wanting people to know he was still struggling with addiction. We miss him dearly. Do you have a story about overdose you want to share? Do you have a story about surviving overdose and starting the recovery journey? Please feel free to share your grief or your encouragement in the comments below or email [email protected] Let’s end the shame and stigma surrounding addiction and help stop the plague of overdose. Let’s share love, hope and purpose, and help bear each other’s burdens along the way. #lovehopepurpose #outreach #internationaloverdoseawarenessday #endthestigma #sonsanddaughters #findingfreedom #recoveryisreal

They came, they golfed, they raised much needed funds for the outreach work of NightShift Street Ministries! Thank you to all sponsors, golfers, donors, volunteers and committee members who came together to make our 13th Annual Charity Golf Classic such a beautiful day. We will announce our fundraising total next week! Check out the photos and sponsors here: https://nightshiftministries.org/golf/... Our Golf Classic is one of NightShift’s biggest fundraisers of the year. This event helps ensure we can continue to reach out to people in need on the street with hope and a hot meal, 365 nights a year, in addition to access to clean clothes, nursing care, counselling and advocacy. #lovehopepurpose #hopeandahotmeal #outreach #surreyoutreach #langleyoutreach #fundraising #homebuilderscare #community

Our 13th Annual Charity Golf Classic is well under way - glorious day Redwoods Golf Course - with foursomes arriving throughout the morning in support of this new format fundraiser. With gratitude to our Platinum Event Sponsors: LMS Reinforcing Steel Group Gramercy Homes Lakewood Homes And Silver Event Sponsors: Spartan Exteriors #Raicon As well as Cart sponsor: Infinity Properties Dinner sponsor: Park Ridge Homes and all the others: #energyelectric Wesmont Group L...td. Dawson + Sawyer Trail Appliances BC Woodbridge Homes Stor-More Closet & Blinds #caliberprojects #completeutility Country Lumber Ltd. CREW H Properties Inc @DesignLightingLangley West Central Building Supplies Breakside Real Estate Group Stapleton Sausage Co. B.C. LeaderBoard Corp. and all the individual golfers, supporters, volunteers and donors, too numerous to mention! #lovehopepurpose #nightshiftstreetministries #charityevent #whalley #surreybc #langleybc #homelessnothopeless #NightShiftGolf2020

A socially-distanced hug at NightShift! On either side of the photo are NightShift’s dear friends George and Wes, who faithfully clean our outreach lot after almost every meal. We are so grateful for these amazing guys who love and serve their community. In the centre is Ric, one of our Thursday night volunteer leaders, who often shares that NightShift ministers to his own heart as much as it does to the hearts of the friends we serve. ... By the way, it’s Ric’s birthday today! He would never make a big fuss about that ... but we will! HAPPY BIRTHDAY @ricricerie Thank you for your big heart for our NightShift community! #lovehopepurpose #outreach #surreyoutreach #volunteers #feedinghungryhearts #communitylove

NightShift loves serving in Langley, and we are honoured to have the privilege of sharing an additional hot meal Tuesday nights at a new temporary housing site. It’s good to be part of the Langley community of service providers, who have pulled together to serve folks struggling with homelessness, poverty, addictions and mental illness. Together these groups provide emergency shelter, nutritious meals, access to health care and harm reduction, and of course, hope. ... #outreach #langleyoutreach #lovehopepurpose #feedinghungryhearts Lookout Housing & Health Society Langley Vineyard Kimz Angels Taste of Heaven

LAST CALL golfers! Tonight, Aug. 6, at midnight is your last chance to register for NightShift’s Annual Charity Golf Classic, at Redwoods Golf Course, Aug. 18. One of our biggest fundraisers of the year, this day is all about a great 18 holes of golf, good food, fun, and cool prizes. So go on, register your foursome or sponsorship RIGHT NOW, and swing into a good cause! REGISTRATION LINK HERE https://nightshiftministries.org/golf/... Our Charity Golf Classic raises funds to help NightShift continue outreach services, 365 nights a year, to our vulnerable friends struggling with homeless, poverty, addiction and mental illness.

HOPE, HEALING AND FREEDOM are not cancelled! There is a very special recovery program, Re:act Centre Surrey that has been running in NighShift’s Education Room for more than a year. RE:ACT it is a community of people sharing and seeking recovery education from addictions and complex trauma. Lives are being transformed. Lives like Cheyenne’s. Cheyenne had been in and out of rehab for addiction since 2008. A few times, she found herself homeless . After experiencing a violent ...attack in March this year, Cheyenne was grasping for hope and healing, and she knew she wanted to live. She enrolled in the RE:ACT program. I’ve done so many rehab programs, I could have run my own group, but I still couldn’t get clean, Cheyenne shares. But RE:ACT is different. You go deeper. Cheyenne said she has found a safe place and a support network at RE:ACT, to work through the shame of addiction and trauma. I’ve learned so much here, Cheyenne says. This is about going deep. We are taught about shame, grief, anger and loss. And there is a huge support network. With the help of others in the program, and the support of one-on-one time with her coach Wendy, Cheyenne is finding freedom, and reaching forward into a healthy future with herself and her family. At RE:ACT, I can be totally transparent, Cheyenne shares. Like with (my coach) Wendy, she said. I can share anything with her and I’m not judged. RE:ACT has helped my whole family heal. It’s great ... Rehab is about fixing your drug use, but at RE:ACT it’s about inner healing. I could not have found that healing without God and RE:ACT. My whole family is doing better. We’re healing. To learn more about RE:ACT, to register or to donate to this wonderful program, click http://reactcentresurrey.ca Leave an encouraging word for Cheyenne here!

Happy Canada Day everyone! Hoping you all experience, and share with others, unconditional love, hope and purpose on this day and all days. As a Canadian ministry, we give thanks for the privilege of living in this beautiful country, and we remember to serve others, especially vulnerable people and those who have experienced hurt and injustice. At NightShift, we are proud to be Canadian and forever grateful for the honour of living here and serving one another in humil...ity. Share the love! #happycanadaday #lovehopepurpose #humility #service #freedom #justice #ohcanada #service

Hey you guys! Put some sizzle in your summer with Taste of Heaven food truck. Taste of Heaven is OPEN and ready to roll with catering your next special event, jobsite appreciation lunch or community event. Food trucks are a great way to feed a lot of people and have fun while maintaining physical distance. Taste of Heaven serves divinely delicious gourmet sausages in a bun, with all proceeds supporting NightShift’s outreach to people in need on the street. It’s all ...about feeding hungry hearts. To inquire, check https://tasteheaven.ca or call Taste of Heaven Manager Kirsten at 778-898-9615 #tasteofheavencatering #tasteofheavenfoodtruck #tasteofheaven #feedinghungryhearts #lovehopepurpose #outreach #langleyoutreach #surreyoutreach

A hot, healthy meal is essential to keep up good health, especially for our friends on the street who face food scarcity everyday. We are so thankful for our volunteer kitchen teams, like this faithful group from Surrey Alliance Church and for generous donations to our kitchen, like the few hundred pounds of top grade meat (wow!) from our friend Sid at Ocean Trailer . Thank you! On the menu Monday night was hearty beef vegetable soup. It’s because of kind community givin...g that NightShift can feed a hot meal, 365 nights a year to people in need on Surrey, and two nights a week in Langley. Together we are changing lives through hot meals and compassionate connections with people struggling with homelessness, poverty, addictions and mental illness. #hotmeals #outreach #surreyoutreach #langleyoutreach #lovehopepurpose #lifechanging #feedinghungryhearts

Talk about driving a good cause forward! Today, May 26, would have been NightShift’s 13th Annual Charity Golf Classic (our biggest fundraiser of the year), before global pandemic safety forced us to postpone due to large gatherings being prohibited. But that didn’t stop a small group of some our big-hearted donors from getting together on the links to honour and raise some much needed funds and encouragement for the street level outreach work of NightShift Street Ministries!... Here are two of these great guys, Stephan Luking of Gramercy Homes and Brad Hughes of Park Ridge Homes. These wonderful home builders have been essential to laying a strong foundation for NightShift to reach out to vulnerable people, 365 nights a year, with a hot meal, love, hope and purpose. Thank you to all who participated and surprised and encouraged us in this way today! We needed it and so did our friends on the street. NightShift’s outreach to people struggling with homelessness, poverty, addictions and mental illness operates without government funding and relies on the generous giving of individual and corporate friends. To help support vulnerable people, click https://nightshiftministries.org/donate/ #homebuilderscare #lovehopepurpose #love365 #outreach #surreyoutreach #langleyoutreach #foreagoodcause