Are you interested in finding out how you can serve God’s Kingdom this holiday season? Then this special gathering is for you! Come join us to learn about the different service projects and events we will be doing as a church and with our Community Outreach team this holiday season! This includes ministries such as Operation Christmas Child, Angel Tree, the Family Shelter Christmas Party, the Convalescent Christmas Party, and other projects & opportunities. It’s easy to distracted with all the craziness and stress of shopping and decorations and food — let’s not forget to give the gift of ourselves to Christ, by serving His people! Come find out where you can get plugged in – don’t miss this exciting event!
We will be meeting in the Fellowship Center (room 1108) at 9am and will be done around 12pm. If you’d like to come early to help set up the room, meet us there around 8:30-45, we will be happy to have your help!
If you have any further questions, please call Veronica Alexander at (831) 641-0118.
Hope to see you there!
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th
“The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job” By Elisabeth Harney-Sanders Park & Debra Angel MacDougall
Are you an employer seeking hard-working, committed, potential employees? Are you a job-seeker looking for work? You won’t want to miss this event! Join Elisabeth Harney Sanders-Park (the sister of our very own pastor, Kevin Harney) and Angel MacDougall on their national book tour as they deliver a workshop based on their new book, The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job. The Employment Workshop will be from 8a.m.-1p.m., including a free lunch to those who attend. The Job Resource Fair will be from 1-4p.m., and the first 200 guests will receive a free book. Additional books will be available for a donation of $15. For more information on The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job and to register today, please visit www.the6reasons.com. If you are an employer and are interested in hosting a table to meet possible employees, if you have any further questions, or would like to RSVP, contact Sharon Burwell or call the church at 655.0100 ×302.
Please join us as we outreach to our community in this wonderful event!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
PACIFIC GROVE TRIATHLON – SEPTEMBER 10-12
Thank you again to everyone who has signed up already for the Triathlon – it is very exciting to know that we will have quite a good number of Shoreline’s faithful servants out there showing Christ’s love through community outreach! But, we still have about 20 spots left! They are asking for about 60 volunteers to each work a five-hour shift. If we are able to do this, Community Outreach will also receive a donation from the Triathlon towards our ministry. This is such a wonderful opportunity. If you are still interesting in volunteering this weekend, please call the church to find out how you can sign-up for a shift.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOE BOX WRAPPING PARTY – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH
In the last couple of years, the Operation Christmas Child facilitators have provided us with pre-wrapped shoeboxes, so that the members of our congregation can take them and fill them with supplies. This year, however, they are unable to do so. As a result, our Operation Christmas Child coordinators, Ray and Sharon Basset, are organizing a shoebox wrapping party so we can still hand out pre-wrapped shoeboxes to our congregation when the time comes to fill the shoeboxes with supplies and presents for the OCC children! Join us in this great service event on Saturday, September 25th, from 9am-2pm. Lunch will be provided!
In the meantime, we are preparing by collecting supplies!
- Christmas Wrapping Paper
- Rubber Bands
- Scotch Tape
You can drop off any donations at the Community Outreach Booth Sunday from now until September 19th, and sign at the booth starting this Sunday if you are interested in joining us on the 25th. Please contact Sharon Basset (831.647.0808 / lucyandus@att.net) with any questions.
EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOP/RESOURCE FAIR – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th
Join Elisabeth Harney Sanders-Park and Debra Angel MacDougall on their national book tour, The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job. The book launch starts at 9a.m.-12p.m., Employment Resource Fair will be from 1-4p.m. The first 200 guests will receive a free book! Lunch will be provided. Visit www.the6reasons.com for complete details. Questions? Contact Deb Federico or Sharon Burwell or call the church at 831.655.0100 x302
SEPTEMBER BOOTH COVERAGE
Again, thank you to everyone who has stepped up and said “yes!” to helping out with this seemingly small, but crucial part of this ministry! We have the first two Sundays in September covered, but the 19th and the 26th are still in need of volunteers! If you haven’t ever worked the Community Outreach Booth on Sundays, please consider doing so. It is a great way to meet and fellowship with other members of our church who are involved and interested in Community Outreach. Please consider this opportunity to serve!
If you have any questions or would like more information about any of the above listed events, or any other Community Outreach activities, please stop by the booth this Sunday, shoot us an email, or call us at the church. Thank you for your service to the Lord in coming alongside us and taking a part in the Community Outreach Ministry!
The month of July has been quite an exciting and busy month in Community Outreach! We have helped out at Spirit West Coast while enjoying some amazing teaching, inspiring music, and great fellowship. We’ve visited the Convalescent Home and the Women’s Shelter, and have been able to provide the Shelter with serious necessities that they use daily (and they are extremely grateful)! This week, we are in the middle of VBS in which the Community Outreach team has taken on a huge role of teaching our Shoreline kids about what it means to be the hands, feet, mouth and heart of Jesus by loving and serving others. Yet, the biggest even for the month of July was our annual Back-To-School Backpack and School Supplies drive, another outreach event which both the children and the parents of our Shoreline Church community were able to participate in together. Our wonderful Community Outreach volunteers, Tina-Marie Morales and Mary Hennessey worked together tirelessly to make this event not only run smoothly, but make a huge impact, not only on those who are receiving the backpacks but also those who have donated, volunteered time and finances, and just everyone involved. Tina-Marie wrote a wonderful testimony of her own experience with this event. I hope you are blessed in reading about how God totally took this event and used it for His glory!
“Wow is what I will say about the back pack drive. God showed up and blew us away. On Wednesday the 7th we only had about 40 backpacks. So, Mary Hennessy called and ordered 200 backpacks for $4.50 each. That was a blessing, but the big obstacle was getting the money together to fill the backpacks. So I got together our bible study members and our friends.
I asked everyone to branch out and try to get a least 136 people to give $6.00. God’s grace was sprinkled on us… just a little grace like a saltshaker, which is why we are the salt of the world. So, we all just started asking. Our bible study leader works for Costco and went right to work asking people to donate $6.00 – he got a wonderful response. The total money collected was $330, and Costco then donated 200 backpacks on top of the cash raised.
I was so thankful when I got the call, but also worried because now we had more backpacks to fill. So now we needed 336 people to give $6.00 to fill the backpacks! My husband Ricardo looked at me on Friday morning (the day before we would have everyone show up to start stuffing the back packs) and reminded me, ‘God will provide’. I said, ‘YES, you’re right. God will.’ Oddly enough, I had not yet looked in the backpacks we got from Costco… so I went and looked inside simply to see what kind of quality backpacks they were. GOD IS SO GOOD — each back pack had a ruler, two folders, scissors, pencil holder, eraser, glue stick and a glue bottle. I started jumping up and down, screaming ‘Praise God!!’ My kids came running in the room and we asking, ‘What happened? Did we win the lottery?!?’ I said no, but showed them – they know how much I have been working on the backpack drive – and they were so excited to see the way God came through.
Friday night my husband and I set out to buy all the supplies for the backpacks. We kept praying that God would touch the heart of managers at Target, Walmart and Kmart. Target was so amazing – they gave us tax-free supplies. Walmart had a lot of what we needed: 400 binders, 400 crayons, 200 scissors, 275 glue sticks, 400 spiral note books, 375 comp. books, 325 packs of pencils, 400 packs of loose leaf paper. And because of all this, we were absolutely able to share the love of Jesus through this backpack drive. Not only that, but we came in $20.00 under the amount donated! Praise God!! And, the donations keep coming in. The amazing thing is now we have 4 needy teachers that attend Shoreline that we are giving the leftover supplies to. These teacher pay for supplies for their classrooms out of their own packets, and we are now able to help them provide supplies for the children in their classes.”
Tina-Marie
(edited by Megan Koontz)
—> check our flickr for more pictures of the Backpack Assembly on July 10th HERE!
2010 Back to School Backpack Drive
Thank so much for all of your donations for the Backpack Drive. Your contributions will help many local children in our community go back to school prepared. Thank you so much for making this blessing happen.
You can now join us for the second part of making this project a success. Help us stuff backpacks with all the school supplies that we collected.
Join us this Saturday, July 10th at 9a.m-2p.m. in Room 1108.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this or other Community Outreach Opportunities to serve. Call us at 831.655.0100 x338 or e-mail us at Megan Koontz or Deb Federico.
