The post came from someone who described themselves as acting out of empathy, not expertise, which is its own kind of credential. The community they're trying to help has been growing in pockets across the Bay Area since 2022 — in church basements, in apartment buildings where a neighbor vouched for someone, in the orbit of whatever institutions were willing to make space. The infrastructure for that kind of reception is almost always improvised, almost always dependent on a small number of people who showed up and didn't stop showing up.

The thread drew a handful of useful responses. Someone pointed toward the Junior League of San Francisco, which runs a committee specifically for building community partnerships and might have volunteer capacity to offer, depending on where they are in their annual cycle. Another commenter, writing from outside the area, offered something simpler: gratitude that a congregation was doing this at all.

"This is the sort of thing churches should be doing," they wrote. "Maybe then more of us would respect organized religion."

The Junior League contact page is at sanfrancisco.jl.org if you have hours and want to point them somewhere. The parish, for now, is managing on word of mouth and goodwill — which is to say, on fumes.

For anyone walking past whatever building this is happening in, nothing would look different from the outside. That's sort of the point.