Southridge Church

About Southridge Community Church
We’re a Jesus-centred multi-site missional community, seeking to foster lives that are fully devoted to Jesus across the Niagara Region.

Our goal is to increasingly practice and embody—both personally and collectively—the kind of love Jesus modeled. We emphasize a way of life that’s about more than just attending a weekly church service, but extends to all 168 hours of the week. And we’re committed to being difference-makers where God has placed us.

We do this by fostering a lifestyle of full devotion to Jesus, meaning we serve our surrounding society with the love of Jesus by growing and engaging our people in the way of life of Jesus to a greater degree. There are three primary ways we’re seeking to foster this way of life, expressed and stimulated by our three primary programs: Sunday services, Life Groups and Anchor Causes.

We have three locations across Niagara, each with a unique Anchor Cause of compassion and justice. In St. Catharines, serving people experiencing homelessness or needing housing. In Welland, meeting needs and building relationships with people experiencing food insecurity. In Vineland, connecting with and providing social services to Caribbean migrant farm workers.

About Our Homelessness Services

As a practical way to serve our community, we also operate a complement of practical support services to people along the continuum of homelessness. This includes staff supporting community outreach through NASO, our regional After Hours Shelter Placement Line, a 24/7, 55 bed housing focused emergency shelter, Housing First and Home for Good programming for clients living independently throughout Niagara.

We believe that it takes more than the support of a social service to break the cycle of homelessness. It takes a community of people working together and in authentic friendship to complement this excellence in service.