Opportunities to Serve in the Community
Upcoming Local Community Partnership Highlights:
1. Renew: The Cabrillo Park Project (Santa Ana)
On Saturday, October 11th we will be gathering together as a church to renew Cabrillo Park. Meet in the Church parking lot (Fruit St. side) at 8:00am to sign-in. We will be parking at the church and walking down to the park.
Please wear comfortable clothes you can paint in and bring your own paintbrush or roller. We will provide all other necessary paint and yard equipment. The project will end at noon with a lunch at the park.
Sign ups begin Sunday, September 30th. Call Janice Fitzgerald at (714) 973-4800 ext. 310 for more info or e-mail her at 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