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An Urgent Invitation from Shalom's Board

For 32 years you have made sure Shalom Ministries Dining with Dignity has remained open to serve the most vulnerable in our city regardless of the hardships. Words are hard to express our deep gratitude for your efforts of pulling together your resources to provide radical hospitality to women, men, teens, and children who have found the necessary tools to rebuild their brokenness to a sense of worthiness. Thank you!


Your genuine concern for Shalom Ministries has authored this message of our current situation.  1. We need a new home to keep our door open.  New Community Church has put their church up for sale. If you know of a place, please let us know.

2. We hired 4 salaried staff to carry out our key responsibilities when our 3 key volunteers retired after 12 and 5 years.

3. Grants are harder to win as the economy suffers and so do non-profits such as ours.


We need you to help raise awareness of our current needs: Invite a friend to hear the emotional testimonies of our diners and Dining with Dignity’s celebratory year, March 14th at 9am at Rockwood South Retirement homes.  Provide financial support, prayers, volunteer, and share the stories of Shalom Ministries’ changed lives. Thank you!

Reserve your place at St. Lucy's Breakfast on March 14!

Shalom Ministries, Spokane, WA

Where We Are...

Where We Are...

Where We Are...

Lower Level

New Community Church
518 W Third Ave

Spokane, WA 99201


Downtown Spokane

at 3rd Ave & Howard St


Access by the 

Howard Street door.

Location Map

What We Do...

Where We Are...

Where We Are...

Dining with Dignity
Breakfast: Monday-Friday, 7:30-8:30am
Dinner: Monday, 4:30-5:30pm


Serving over 84,000 meals annually.


Pathways
Community Volunteers who accept admission to the program become core team members and receive benefits of job and life skill training, case management, mentoring, housing assistance, and a monthly stipend.

How to Serve

Who We Are...

Where We Are...

Who We Are...

In the 1970s and 1980's, Central United Methodist Church in downtown Spokane reached out to its homeless and hungry neighbors with a meal ministry. A nationwide effort, called Shalom, within the United Methodist Church to create effective ministries in urban settings inspired the church in 1994 to create a separate 501(c)3 in Spokane that

In the 1970s and 1980's, Central United Methodist Church in downtown Spokane reached out to its homeless and hungry neighbors with a meal ministry. A nationwide effort, called Shalom, within the United Methodist Church to create effective ministries in urban settings inspired the church in 1994 to create a separate 501(c)3 in Spokane that brought together religious, business, political, and social service communities to find solutions to poverty and homelessness. 


While Central UMC has now closed, Shalom Ministries is hosted in its old building by New Communities Church and retains a strong connection with other United Methodist Churches in the area, as well as with other churches from many traditions.


Shalom seeks to build relationships and community amongst people who are disenfranchised. By providing a safe, loving, and accepting environment the door can be opened for healing and renewal, creating a sense of belonging to something greater than one’s self.

Our Mission

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Can you volunteer?

Who Are Our Guests?

Who Are Our Guests?

YES! We are grateful you are considering being part of our ministry by participating in providing meals to our poor and vulnerable guests. It can be a profound and rewarding experience by doing something so simple as offering a hot meal to a hungry person, and at the same time it can mean the world to a person who hasn’t eaten nourishing 

YES! We are grateful you are considering being part of our ministry by participating in providing meals to our poor and vulnerable guests. It can be a profound and rewarding experience by doing something so simple as offering a hot meal to a hungry person, and at the same time it can mean the world to a person who hasn’t eaten nourishing food, sometimes for days.


Six meals are provided each week Monday through Friday (five breakfasts 7:30- 8:30 am), plus dinner on Monday (4:30-5:30pm).


CALL 509-455-9019

or Donate by clicking on the donate button!

Volunteer!

Who Are Our Guests?

Who Are Our Guests?

Who Are Our Guests?

“In most cases, to be homeless in America is not a sign of laziness or incapacity, but an indicator of people who struggle immensely, both physically and emotionally, to survive against the odds.” 


We  serve  all  who  come  to  us  seeking  to  be  fed:  young  and  old,  men  and  women  of  any  race  or  creed.  Most  are  homeless  or

“In most cases, to be homeless in America is not a sign of laziness or incapacity, but an indicator of people who struggle immensely, both physically and emotionally, to survive against the odds.” 


We  serve  all  who  come  to  us  seeking  to  be  fed:  young  and  old,  men  and  women  of  any  race  or  creed.  Most  are  homeless  or  underemployed;  some  are  fighting  addiction  or  illnesses,  and  all  struggle  immensely  to  survive  against  the  odds.

“Many people are hungry for bread that will satisfy their bodies, but they are just as hungry for love that will satisfy their soul.


Many people are naked and need clothes that will protect their bodies. Emotionally, these same people experience a nakedness of soul as they are slowly stripped of their human dignity.


Homelessness is more than just not having a home. Homelessness is being and feeling rejected, unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.


Most homeless people have forgotten how the human touch warms the soul and causes us to smile, and all people long for someone to recognize them and to wish them well.”

2025 St. Lucy breakfast special presentations

Beautiful Things

The 2025 St. Lucy Breakfast featured this moving presentation of the work of Shalom, with powerful pictures from this year.

Testimonial Video

Created by CHAS's Matt Grebe, this video features diners' testimonials to the importance of Shalom Ministries in their lives.

Shalom Ministries   |   Spokane, Washington

518 West 3rd Avenue, Spokane, Washington 99201, US   |  shalommeals@gmail.com   |   A 501(c)3 Corporation

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