Reach: Local
Calvary has formed strategic partnerships with non-profit organizations in our community that meet the 3 C's: they are CLOSE to Calvary, they have CONSISTENT volunteer opportunities that allow for ongoing relationships to be developed, and CHRIST can be shared through their organization. The opportunities listed below line up with these values as we do our part to REACH Orange County and the World for Jesus Christ.
LifeGroups and Local Outreach – Summer 2009
There is something so powerful about a LifeGroup serving together to meet the needs of others! This summer, we have several opportunities for your LifeGroup to serve our community in the name of Jesus. Pick one or several and go out and serve.
Serve Day Orange County – Saturday, July 25th (*Family Friendly)
Over 40 Orange County Churches will join together on this day to serve our county. Each Church creates individual service opportunities and places these opportunities on the Serve Day website (www.serveday.org)
Calvary Church is sponsoring several local projects. We need your LifeGroup to get involved for this day to happen! Sign up your group at the Local Reach Table on Sunday’s in June and July or contact Janice Fitzgerald at 714.550.2310 or jfitzgerald@calvarylife.org
Friday’s at the Fair – Fri. July 17th, Fri. July 24th, Fri. July 31st
Calvary Church will be hosting the “Kids Chapel at the Fair” on each Friday of the Orange County Fair. The Chapel is an interactive booth where kids can hear the story of the Gospel and sign up to receive a year’s subscription to a Children’s Devotional Magazine (sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship).
Volunteers are needed in 3 hour increments from Noon to 11pm each Friday.
Volunteers will be greeters at the door of the Chapel and story tellers inside the chapel. A brief 1 hour training will take place before your selected day.
Many of the kids who stop by the Chapel have never heard the story of Jesus before. Your LifeGroup will have the opportunity to make an eternal difference in the life of a Child! Sign your group up by contacting Matt Doan at 714.550.2378 or mdoan@calvarylife.org
Serve a Summer meal at the
Orange County Rescue Mission's "Village of Hope"
Is your LifeGroup looking for a more hands-on way to serve?
Volunteer at the Orange County Rescue Mission serving a meal to the residents of the Village of Hope. Meal times are:
Breakfast: 6:30 AM to 8:30 AM
Lunch: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Dinner: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
To Volunteer Contact The Orange County Rescue Mission at (714) 247-4300 go on-line and register to volunteer at www.rescuemission.org
Serve at the Sheepfold Women's Shelter's
The Sheepfold is a local outreach partner of Calvary Church and aims to serve woman with children who have faced abandonment or abuse. Sheepfold's program gives these families an opportunity to recover, have a safe place to live, receive counseling, obtain job skills and education. Want to Serve a meal on a Saturday Night or Volunteer on a Saturday at the Sheepfold Thrift Store? Contact DeAnne Molina at DeAnne@thesheepfold.org or 714.237.1444 between 9:00am and 4:00pm. Click here for Sheepfold volunteer opportunities
Olive Crest Foster Homes Craft and Supplies Nights (*Family Friendly)
Each month Olive Crest hosts a night where volunteers can come together to create gifts, baskets and crafts for the kids of Olive Crest. We are offering 3 opportunities this summer where your LifeGroup can come make a difference in the life of a child living in a foster home.
When: Monday, June 2nd (7pm to 9pm); Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 (7pm to 9pm); Thursday, August 13, 2009 (7pm to 9pm)
Where: Olive Crest Santa Ana Headquarters 2130 E. Fourth St. Santa Ana, CA 92705
Who: Any LifeGroup or individual from Calvary, this is a family friendly service opportunity!
Contact: Tamara Koch (Tamara-Koch@olivecrest.org or 714.543.5437, ext. 1144)
Young Life’s Capernaum Ministry to Disabled Orange County Teenagers
Young Life Tustin has launched a new ministry to disabled teenagers living here in central Orange County. Calvary Church is hosting 2 summer events for students on Friday, July 3rd and Friday, August 7th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in the Fellowship Hall. At least 1-2 LifeGroupa are needed to help run these events. Contact Kara Kawanami at kara.kawanami@gmail.com or 408-489-3635 for more info or to sign up.
Ongoing Local Community Partnership Highlights:
1. The Cabrillo Park Project (Santa Ana)
On Saturday, October 11th we gathered together as a church to renew Cabrillo Park. You can view photos of a few of our all-church work days at the park in the galleries below:
April '07 - The Restoration Project
To learn more about Calvary's ongoing partnership with the City of Santa Ana and discover ways you can get involved - contat Janice Fitzgerald at (714) 973-4800 ext. 310 or jfitzgerald@calvarylife.org
2. KidWorks (Santa Ana)
Helping kids in central Santa Ana with after school tutoring, computer skills and leadership life skills. This neighborhood is slowly being transformed from a community of gangs, school drop-outs and poverty to being a community that lives with the hope found in Jesus Christ. You can help continue this transformation.
Contact volunteer coordinator Cole Ng at (714) 834.9400 ext. 107. for more info of how can join what God is doing at KidWorks!
3. Birth Choice (Santa Ana)
Birth Choice is a faith-based, pro-life, organization providing medical services and education to teens and adults. Birth Choice promotes abstinence and positive alternatives to abortion consistent with the inherent value of every human life.
Birth Choice offers free pregnancy tests, free ultrasounds, and free STD testing.
The clinic seeks to give truth and grace to women in crisis as Jesus would have us do.
To volunteer as a pregnancy counselor, mentor or to get involved if you are health care professional please contact Ma'May Fauchner in Santa Ana at 714.836.5447 or mamay@birthchoiceclinic.org.
4. Release Time Christian Education (Orange and Anaheim)
Serves the public school by providing IN-School bible studies for students with parent's permission. The ministry is always looking for individuals to help teach the morning and afternoon studies as well as groups to come on Saturday's and clean the chapels on wheels!
Contact Candy Kenney at rckenney1@att.net for more info.
5. The Orange County Rescue Mission (Tustin)
Serving the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our community through the provision of assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, clothing, health care and independent living communities.
If you're interested in finding out more about volunteering with the Orange County Rescue Mission, check out the volunteer page on their website or contact their Volunteer Manager at jmarino@rescuemission.org or call (714) 247-4334.
6. Olive Crest (Santa Ana, Orange, Riverside)
A local ministry that serves in Jesus name by serving foster kids and running group homes. There are a variety ways you can get involved with the kids at Olive Crest including pursuing foster care and adoption, supporting a group home to clean or bring gifts too or transporting kids from their group homes to youth group here at Calvary Church.
Contact 1-800-550-CHILD, ext. 1144 or e-mail info@olivecrest.org
7. Cabrillo Park Ongoing Renewal Project (Santa Ana)
Take an afternoon or a Saturday morning and go serve with your family, friends or LifeGroup in our neighborhood park. There are always needs for trash clean-up, graffiti removal, planting, trimming and painting.
Contact Matt Doan at (714) 973-4800 ext. 378 or at mdoan@calvarylife.org for more info or scheduling opportunities.
8. Project Hangout (Throughout Orange County)
Equips people with the skills to provide lifestyle mentoring to un-churched teens through the sharing of common activities (surfing, guitars, coffee, etc.).
E-mail Ryan Zuelner at rz@projecthangout.com for more info on how you can impact the next generation!
9.Young Life (Tustin)
Reaches out to un-churched adolescents by entering into their world through attending school events, games, school campuses etc. Young Life is committed to introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith. You can get involved by opening up your home for weekly club, sponsoring students to winter and summer camp or by joining the volunteer leadership team.
Contact Kristy Fox, Tustin Young Life area director at (714) 412-9826
10.Sheepfold (Orange)
Ministers to woman with children who have faced abandonment or abuse. Gives these families an opportunity to recover, have a safe place to live, receive counseling, obtain job skills and education.
Go to www.thesheepfold.org/volunteers for the latest volunteer opportunities.
We also have ongoing ministries to those who are homebound, in care facilities, in hospitals and to children without families:
Care Facility & Homebound Visitation
We reach out to those of our Church family who are homebound and to those who are in a care facility. We do this in two ways: by telephone calls and by personal visits. If you would like to participate in this loving and rewarding ministry, we are taking applications now for volunteer home callers. Your commitment will be to call a list of homebound people every week for one month. Also, we are taking applications for people to visit Care Facility residents once a month for four months. If you have questions or would like to participate, please call Pastor Fred Morse at ext. 367 or Janice at ext. 310.
Hospital Visitation
Each week the Calvary Church hospital visitation team visits our people in local hospitals. These visits are in response to prayer request cards turned in during the Sunday services as well as telephone calls that come in to the Church office. Please keep us informed of those in our Church and their immediate family as a need arises. Contact Janice in the Care and Concern Office on ext. 310.
Open Arms
This exciting new Calvary ministry seeks to embrace children who need a family. To find out more - Click Here to find out more