East Village Community Church in downtown San Diego holds IRS tax-exempt recognition dating to 1993 and occupies 1374 Island Avenue, steps from Petco Park in the heart of the East Village. The congregation was founded with homeless outreach as its central mission, a commitment that persists in weekly programming and parallels the street-level food ministry that Living Water Church of the Nazarene runs from 16th and Market. Affiliated with the San Diego Southern Baptist Association while maintaining a non-denominational worship style, EVCC draws attendees from the surrounding mix of residential towers and single-room-occupancy hotels that define the East Village's housing landscape. The Island Avenue address places the church within the Petco Park event corridor, where Padres-season foot traffic from April through October brings thousands of passersby past the front entrance. The church supplements its worship calendar with food-distribution programming for both housed and unhoused residents, operating within a broader East Village network anchored by the Alpha Project - Food Distribution Center. The congregation's most intensive annual effort remains coordinating holiday meal services and winter-shelter overflow — multi-day logistics requiring volunteer mobilization, health-code compliance, and coordination with San Diego's regional continuum-of-care system.