Nancy Wilcox, who is the co-chair of the South Bay Coalition to End Homelessness, describes the conditions of the homeless people in Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan, and El Segundo. She provides demographic profiles and headcounts for the last five years for each of the four cities. She explains various actions being taken to help our homeless populations, including County Measure H and efforts by church groups and volunteer groups like Family Promise.

Around the world, there is a wide variety of ways in which people perceive God. Our speaker, Rev. Jim Burklo, senior associate dean of religious and spiritual life at USC, describes fifteen different concepts that humans have of God. Seven of these fit into the broad category of a supernatural God, four are versions of a natural God, and the final four are some variation of a transcendental God.