. >> 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. these have been wonderful opportunities. we saw it with katrina. it was a faith community that was there before the federal government was there. and having ton new orleans recently, the faith community continues to be there. so we know the role that we have to play in the event of a disaster here. what we're seeing too is we're looking at the fact here's and opportunity to get congregations speaking to each other in neighborhoods and in this way we're doing interfaith work as we prepare for the inevitable. but in the process, we're doing interfaith work and that is