These are both one-time and ongoing opportunities to get involved and serve in our church, our community, and beyond. To submit a service opportunity, please click here.
Foundation for His Ministry
Foundation for His Ministry (FFHM) is a Christian charitable ministry that has served the poorest of the poor in Mexico for over 40 years by providing homes for needy children and other outreach services to people bound in poverty. They are a non-profit, non-denominational organization with a volunteer missionary staff of over 150 and a fully volunteer board. http://www.ffhm.org
There are two immediate needs:
The warehouse, which is right around the corner from 'shoreline’s offices on Calle Recodo, needs help sorting and organizing. They could probably use three or four people a few hours a week. They could really use someone to take charge and lead the effort.
Most of the food for the mission is purchased in the US and driven into Mexico. It takes about three large pickup loads a week to supply the mission. The mission feeds about three hundred orphans, workers and locals per meal. The food is crossed at Otay Mesa, clears Mexican Customs, the Aduana, and then gets dropped at the mission’s college house and loaded into a larger truck for transport to the mission. Each pickup load requires about 6-7 hours start to finish. The mission supplies the pick up and gas, but is in need of trained drivers.
If you have any questions about the ministry, please contact John Alvarez at (949) 369-5520 or call FFHM
Safe Families for Children When a crisis strikes, many of us rely on relatives and friends for support. But for some families, there is no safety net. Often, a straightforward problem such as postpartum depression or unemployment can be debilitating. Children in these situations often suffer neglect or abuse; some eventually are removed from their homes and placed in state custody. But now, thanks to an exciting program offered through Olive Crest, parents experiencing a temporary crisis can arrange for their children to stay with a Christian family while they address the issues that led to their situation. Safe Families is becoming a national model for communities that want to expand their safety net for at-risk children.
Please let us know how you'd like to help! Just call the church office at (949) 369-7283. Ways to help:
Provide a safe, loving, temporary home for an at-risk child
Lend a hand to a host family by preparing a meal, providing transportation, babysitting, or homework help
Offer services to a crisis family (doctors, mechanics, handymen, hair stylists, etc.)
Donate, locate, or organize needed items (cribs, strollers, diapers, etc.)
Share God-given wisdom as a life coach or mentor to a crisis parent
Commit to regular prayer on behalf of the crisis and host families
YoungLife Female Leaders Needed We need more female leaders to walk life alongside some of our Downtown girls, offering them hope & God's love.
If you or someone you know is interested, please let us know ASAP by emailing markthrash@hotmail.com.
Help Families in Need at our Church We have a Care Fund to help people in need within our church body. Once funds are given out, more funds are
needed to replenish it. Feel free to give above & beyond your regular tithe for this fund. Just mail a check or drop
it in the offering w/ “Care Fund” in the memo.
Sponsor a Home Repair at a Local Shelter Gilchrist House is run by Family Assistance Ministries (FAM) and is a safe haven for homeless women & their
kids. The house is in need of repairs, and FAM’s funds are limited! If you’d like to sponsor a repair, which in turn
will help these families get back on their feet, please contact FAM at (949) 492-8477.
Birth Choice Volunteer Training
Birth Choice Health Clinics ministers to young women and men who are facing unplanned pregnancies, many of whom are contemplating abortion. This summer we are also launching our mobile unit and are looking for volunteers to travel throughout OrangeCounty as we bring our services to the streets.
We are looking for volunteers to counsel clients, run our parenting classes and serve as male mentors for our "Dad's Project" program. As a licensed community care clinic, we also need registered nurses, nurse practitioners, RDMS-certified sonographers and medical doctors willing to donate their time and skills to provide services for our clients.
The volunteer training is a 3 day intensive course, running August 3rd through August 5th from 10am to 5pm. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Jennifer Irving 949-364-3928 or jennifer@birthchoiceclinic.org
Serve the Seniors
We’re partnering with Casa de Seniors here in San Clemente (105 Avenida Presidio) to serve the seniors in a variety of ways. Adopt a grandparent, lead a Bible study, wash cars, clean apartments, or help with events…they need our love and care and it's a joy to be with them! Contact Kathy Sutton for more info at (949) 498-6949 or theredrope@live.com.
Be a Hero, Become a Donor!
Below is an opportunity to get involved in a local organiztion known as "Be a Hero, Become a Donor". It is a great volunteer opportunity for families and will help raise awareness in our community about the importance of bone marrow donation. Check out the letter below if you feel called to be a part of this. There is contact info as well...Thanks for taking the time to check this out....Click here for details.
Serve Meals to People in Need in North San Diego County
Bread of Life Rescue Mission is a Christian organization devoted to meeting the needs of the working poor and homeless in North San Diego County. We operate an overnight shelter and case management services during the winter months, and provide food, supplies, clothing and referrals for the working poor and homeless throughout the year. We also conduct a Sunday Chapel Service for our guests. Our organization depends on a large number of volunteers who graciously donate time and money to support our mission. We invite you to join our diverse and growing team! Click here for more information on how to get involved.
Canning Hunger :: Boxes of Love www.canninghunger.org
"Boxes of Love" is an opportunity for you to help the hungry and the homeless, the widows and the orphans, the lost and forgotten. Your gift of a complete meal for a family of 6-8 people, wrapped up in a simple cardboard box, will provide a ray of hope and the warm feeling of being loved, something they may have almost forgotten. Along with food items, we also include an English/Spanish Bible, kids coloring book, and The Four Spiritual Laws, and every box of love is hand delivered by someone who has been trained to share the Gospel. Over the years, an average of one out of every three boxes we deliver has resulted in a first time or significant decision for Jesus Christ. If you, your small group, or your family would like to commit to fill a few boxes, Canning Hunger will give you everything you need...for free! Just contact them at (714) 990-9234 or rocky@boxoflove.org
Baby Shower for Military Moms www.impactingmilitaryfamilies.org
Hello! My name is Cynthia Sieloff and I help plan baby showers for pregnant Military Moms. If you would like to participate or have any questions, please do not hesitate to give me a call at 949 244-7920. We do this so that through our efforts, these families can feel God's breath on their face. Would you prayerfully consider joining us? If nothing else, a couple of weeks before, we need gals to help wrap. Children LOVE to help so it might be a great project for the Sunday Schoolers, Jr and High kids!
Shop @ Lighthouse Thrift Store!
Lighthouse Thrift Store's proceeds help support projects in Eastern Europe & Africa, and Victory House, a local Christian Men's Recovery Home. They are in need of more shoppers and are always accepting donations (they will even pick up your stuff!). Please visit their location at 34073 Doheny Park Road in Capistrano Beach or call Craig at (949) 201-9300 with any questions.
Be a YoungLife Leader www.younglife.org
The harvest is plentiful and YoungLife needs more workers! They have many kids involved that have a hunger for God and the desire to grow in their faith. There are also many more kids that have yet to be reached with the love and good news of Jesus. They need more leaders that love God and are excited about walking life alongside kids! Their goal is to have 10 leaders for each of their 3 ministries (San Clemente High, SC Downtown, and San Juan Hills High School).
Please do the following: 1. Watch their 4-minute video. 2. Think and pray about who you know that could be a potential YoungLife leader (including yourself). 3. Email the video to anybody you think might be interested. 4. Email Mark Thrash with names and contact information and he will begin to pray for them, and follow-up with you on how to follow-up with them.
Serve at a Local Food Bank www.family-assistance.org
Family Assistance Ministries operates a local food bank that serves thousands of needy people in our community every year. They are in need of some extra volunteers for the summer and would greatly appreciate help from a few willing folks on Mondays (9am-6pm), Tuesday-Thursday (9am-3pm), and Fridays (9am-12pm). If you can help at all, please contact Jan Cleaves at (949) 492-8477.
Serve at a Home for Homeless Women & Their Kids www.family-assistance.org
Gilchrist House, which is owned and operated by Family Assistance Ministries, is looking for a few new volunteers to help bless the women and children there. They are just about at maximum capacity (only 1 adult bed + 1 child's bed are available!). There are several things you, your family, or your small group can do to help. Please contact Jan Cleaves at (949) 492-8477 if you'd like to help with any of the following things:
* Car wash for the ladies
* Donate cleaning supplies
* Donate bedding & pillows for twin size beds
* Babysitting (4-5 kids total) - 1st Tuesday of every month from 6-7pm (mandatory house meeting, women can't go if they don't have a babysitter) OR every Thursday from 7-8:30pm (women are in Life Skills meeting)
Donate Food & Other Items to FAM’s Food Pantry Anytime
Family Assistance Ministries is always looking for donations of non-perishable items, toiletries, and diapers for their food pantry. Every day, many people in need stop by the pantry to get food and other necessities that they otherwise couldn’t afford, and the pantry’s supply occasionally gets depleted. Please consider serving FAM and their clients by bringing these items to FAM at 929 Calle Negocio, Suite G, San Clemente. For questions, you may contact them at (949) 492-8477.
Visit Residents of a Local Nursing Home Anytime
Patricia is the Activities Director for Palm Terrace Skilled Nursing in Laguna Hills on Moulton Pkwy. She is a believer and would love to have people from our church come to visit the lonely residents they have there. If this is something the Lord puts on your heart, please call Patricia at (949) 587-9000 x248 for details.
Mom's Night Out Second Wednesday of each month
Host a night out for mothers-to-be residing at a local crisis pregnancy shelter. These are young girls in need of women to offer guidance, support and love. It is so simple...grab a few friends, pick the girls up at 6pm - take them to dinner - home by 9pm. As simple as it seems this can be a life-changing event for both the girls and the women. Reserve your month early - fills up quickly. Contact Kathy Sutton @ (949) 498-6949 or theredrope@live.com.
Food & Fellowship Times and dates TBA
This outreach is great for small groups or just groups of girlfriends. Feast with women and children at a local shelter. The women at this shelter are actively devoting their lives to Jesus Christ through intense Bible study, worship and prayer. In fact, this is all they do for the first two months of their stay - WE CAN HELP! Again, this is very simple. Prepare a meal with some friends, bring it to the shelter in SJC and break bread together. God works in mysterious ways at these gatherings so be prepared to be amazed. We would appreciate an email from those interested so we can see how often to book this. Contact Kathy Sutton @ (949) 498-6949 or theredrope@live.com.
Donate Money to Our Church by Surfing the Internet! www.GoodSearch.com www.GoodShop.com
What if 'the shoreline' earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can! GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up! GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause. Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Shoreline Church of San Clemente as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!
Nuru International :: Ending Extreme Poverty Together, One Community at a Time http://www.nuruinternational.org
The World Bank defines extreme poverty as any individual living on less than $1 a day. But that is only an economic understanding of the term. In order to better understand what extreme poverty feels, smells, and sounds like, imagine the look on a mother’s face as she decides which of her starving children will not eat that day. Imagine the hot sun, pouring sweat, blistered feet and aching back of an 8-year-old girl walking one hour to fetch water. She fills up her 5-gallon jug with water that might not even be clean, heaves it to her head, turns, and walks the hour back home. Imagine lying on the dirt floor of a mud hut at night, dreaming of attending primary school, learning to read, or having a future other than being a 12-year old bride married to a middle-aged man. Imagine running your fingers over your son’s chest as he lies gasping in bed from tuberculosis compounded by HIV/AIDS. You gave him the disease, but your husband spread it to you, and now he has died. Extreme poverty isn't necessary. Nuru is fighting to see an end to extreme poverty in our lifetimes. Thankfully we’re not in this fight alone. Thousands of humanitarian organizations, multi-lateral institutions, Fortune 500 companies and impassioned individuals are working alongside us to end extreme poverty. We can end extreme poverty together, one community at a time.
Pregnancy Resource Center www.sanclementepregnancy.com
If you would like to help care for women in crisis pregnancy, then we invite you to consider one of the following serving opportunities: donate maternity items and/or baby items, organize a baby bottle drive to raise funds for the center, become a volunteer counselor, or pray at the center once a week or once a month. If you'd like to help, please contact Julie Kelsay at julie@coastlineconcepts.com or call 949-218-5777.
Need a Haircut? First Monday of every month
Contact: Lauren Scholle (714) 702-9971
A hairdresser who attends ‘shoreline’ would like to donate all of the proceeds and gratuity from her haircuts on the 1st Monday of every month to our church! If you are in need of a haircut, would you consider going to Lauren Scholle on the first Monday of the month? She works at the Euro Day Spa located at 27281 La Paz Road in Laguna Niguel. Men’s cuts are $35, women’s cuts are $50, and kids’ cuts are $30 (includes cut, wash, & blowdry). You can make out your checks to ‘the shoreline’.
eBay & MissionFish www.missionfish.com
Have an item listed on eBay? Want to donate the winnings to 'the shoreline?' MissionFish makes it possible.
Birth Choice & Toby's House www.birthchoiceclinic.org
Birth Choice Health Clinics ministers to young women and men who are facing unplanned pregnancies, many of whom are contemplating abortion. We are looking for volunteers to counsel clients, or provide office support, or even clean our clinics. We are also looking for male mentors for our "Dad's Project" program. As a licensed community care clinic, we also need registered nurses, nurse practitioners, RDMS-certified sonographers and medical doctors willing to donate their time and skills to provide services for our clients. If you'd like to partner with this wonderful organization to reach out to women in crisis pregnancy, there are many ways to help: giving opportunities, prenatal vitamin donations, doing a diaper drive, donating baby items, volunteer training, or their "Adopt a Mom" or "Dad's Project" programs. If you, your family, or your small group are interested in any of these opportunities, please feel free to contact Jennifer Irving at (949) 364-3928 or jennifer@birthchoiceclinic.org. She will be happy to answer any other questions or get you started.
The Red Rope Ongoing Opportunities www.theredropeinc.com
Contact: Kathy Sutton at theredrope@live.com or (949) 498-6949
The Red Rope’s mission is to reach out to our community and lend an ongoing helping hand. Please visit their website to view their calendar of upcoming events.
Meals on Wheels Ongoing Opportunities
Contact: Carol Gates at (949) 498-3322
Substitute drivers are needed to drive meals to elderly folks in San Clemente. Time commitment is about an hour and a half. The program runs Monday-Friday and drivers meet at the San Clemente Senior Center at 10:30am to unload the food truck, count food into bags, and then drive their routes! You MUST fill out an application before you begin serving.
Donate a Vehicle Ongoing Opportunities www.abcdonate.com
ABC Donate is a charity service provided by CARS Remarketing, Inc., a company that assists people with vehicle donations as a way to exercise their corporate conscience to give back. This process is fast and compliments the new tax laws. So if you are considering a donation to your favorite charity -- think vehicle donation! By donating it, you retain a tax deduction, and can benefit your charity at the same time.
Loan Money to Someone in Poverty Ongoing Opportunities www.kiva.org
Kiva.org allows individuals to make loans as low as $25 to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world (microfinance). By doing so, individuals like you provide affordable working capital for the poor (money to buy a sewing machine, livestock, etc.), empowering them to earn their way out of poverty. You choose the recipient, you choose the amount, and you make a connection across the globe that will change lives today, and for the future. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back to reinvest in another business.
Office: 1062 Calle Negocio, Suite A, San Clemente, CA 92673 949.369.7283
Office: 1062 Calle Negocio, Suite A, San Clemente, CA 92673 949.369.7283