2023
Braid Mission Report
Submitted by: Rebecca Edwards, Co-founder/Co-director Braid Mission
Submitted to: the 174th Diocesan Convention
Braid continues the gospel work of living into the call of beloved community by providing support for vulnerable youth in foster care and kinship care, as well as their families. We do so by inviting, building, and nurturing community in the city of San Francisco and the larger Bay Area that transcends barriers of neighborhood, socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion. Relationship is not only the call of discipleship and the evidence-based practice that can alter the life outcomes for youth. Our 130 volunteers answer this call on a weekly basis and have borne much fruit for God’s beloved community.
In the past year, Braid received nonprofit status and now operates as a diocesan institution. Learn more at www.braidmission.org or follow @braidmission on Instagram & Facebook.
Braid volunteers work in teams to provide consistent support to vulnerable youth. Through their service, they form friendships and discover their God-given strengths.
Every week, 130 Braid volunteers spend an hour a week with their youth, living into our guiding principles of Hope, Presence, Recreation, and Communion.
