There’s room for you this holiday season.
The holidays can hold a lot at once: gratitude and grief, celebration and stress, generosity and need.
This season, Community Care is creating ways for our Soul City community to care for one another and our city. Whether you could use some extra support, want to show up for our neighbors, or simply need a little space for what this season holds, there’s a place for you here.
Receive Care
You don’t have to carry everything on your own.
Sometimes the holidays come with a little more than we have capacity for. If some practical support would make this season lighter for you or your family, we’d love to come alongside you.
Thanksgiving
Neighbor to Neighbor Thanksgiving
As we approach Thanksgiving, Community Care is helping provide practical support for neighbor families during the holiday season.
December 12
Christmas Store
Christmas Store is designed to create a joyful, dignifying Christmas experience for families in our community. Participating families are invited to choose gifts for their children, while kids get the chance to choose something special for the adults they love, too.
Give Care
There are so many ways to show up.
You don’t have to solve everything to make a meaningful difference. Sometimes care looks like packing a box, welcoming a family, serving alongside one of our partners, wrapping a gift, or simply helping someone feel seen.
November 15–21
Gratitude Week
Help us fill Thanksgiving week with generosity throughout our city.
Opportunities will include preparing and distributing Thanksgiving support for families as well as serving alongside Community Care partners across Chicago.
Explore Gratitude Week serving opportunities by day:
December 12
Christmas Store
It takes a whole community to make Christmas Store happen.
Join us as we create an experience full of hospitality, dignity, joy, and a little Christmas magic for our neighbor families. There will be opportunities to serve before, during, and around Christmas Store.
Make Space
Christmas can be both.
Beautiful and difficult. Joyful and complicated. Full and lonely. Hopeful and heavy.
You don’t have to choose one.
December 18
Both/And Christmas
Both/And Christmas is a gentle, low-pressure gathering for whatever this season holds.
Through worship, reflection, prayer, and moments of response, we’ll make room for the joy and grief, hope and disappointment, celebration and longing that can exist side by side at Christmas.
Come exactly as you are. There’s nothing you need to prepare, explain, or fix.
More details coming soon
Not sure where to begin?
That’s okay.
You might receive care in one part of this season and give it in another. You might come ready to serve and discover that you need some care yourself. You might simply need somewhere to bring what you’re carrying.
All of it belongs here.
If you’re not sure what your next step is, House of Hope would be glad to help you find it.
