The Presa Community Center has been an active member of the Southside community since 1974- originally housed at the St. Paul Lutheran Schoolhouse on Roseborough Avenue. The agency was chartered when five local churches began to work together in response to changing needs in the South Presa area. The leadership of St. Paul Lutheran Church , St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church, Central Baptist Church , McKinley Avenue United Methodist Church , and Southeast Christian Church formed a nonprofit partnership to provide food and services to families who visited the offices of the newly-formed Presa Community Center , as well as delivering meals to elderly neighbors who were unable to leave their homes.