and jim emmson, the pastor of the presbyterian church received a call from church world service. they wanted to help them that were displaced by the earthquake. they made it clear to the pastor that they wanted to give money to everybody so jim formed another ad hoc interfaith committee. and to nobody's particular surprise, the same people that served on that committee as well. and we decided we could not keep starting committees every time there was a problem. we decided to start the san francisco interfaith council and we've been in business ever since. >> what is the mandate or mission, mike snell. >> driving mission continues to be disaster preparedness and homelessness. what was once the emergency winter shelter is now the interfaith winter shelter. and it's the palm springs of shelters in the eyes of the city. and we have 40 congregations that are serving meals at host site congregations and it is a wonderful experiment and interfaith work and we continue to do work with disaster preparedness. and every other year we've run workshops for help with response so disasters. the