PVC operates a Community Service Center in San Diego, California, that gave away more than 400,000 pounds of food and more than 25,000 articles of clothing in 2011. They also operate a Refugee Assimilation Project (RAP), offering ESL classes 5 days a week and a job skills training program. They operate a thrift store that doubles as a job training site and generates income to maintain their refugee ministries. In 2012 they opened a community garden and are expanding RAP to further serve the needs of the more than 90,000 refugees in San Diego County. They have refugees from Iraq, Rwanda, Chad, Ukraine, Columbia, Bhutan, and Nepal attending church each Sabbath, and their efforts have resulted in well over 100 baptisms in the past 24 months.