Casa Amistad/Friendship House is the center for a Friends' ministry in a multiracial, bilingual, inner-city neighborhood. It is a ministry of a loving, peaceful presence to a neighborhood known for violence, poverty, and drugs. Members of the ministry have helped the neighborhood reclaim a park from drug dealers and now are working with neighbors, school groups, city agencies, and organizations to make improvements in the park, sustain a community garden, create activities for local children, address neighborhood needs and crises, and build a supportive community. Our three-story row house is home to three adults and two children (part-time). We host regular neighborhood gatherings and have two weekly meetings for unprogrammed worship and prayer. Our community is also the home base for ministries to Quaker groups, a prison, AVP programs in Ecuador, and the wider world. Our life together provides both support and challenge to become more loving and authentic. We are attempting to live faithfully, prophetically, and with joy, testifying to the reality and power of God's active presence in the world and in our daily lives and at the same time calling/inviting others to transformed ways of thinking and living.