Today we as a church are going down to Cabrillo Park again to help with some renewal and restoration. We are in the middle of a series on Nehemiah and the city of Santa Ana wanted us to help fix and paint the wall surrounding the park. Crazy, huh? And awesome. I love that we have [...]

In the past, at our church, we’ve purchased Easter Lilies in memory/honor of loved ones and enjoyed a beautiful display of lilies on the platform in our Worship Services on Easter Sunday. This year, instead of decorating the Worship Center with lilies, we’re planning to reach out to our community. We have partnered with the [...]

So I was working yesterday at the OC ASF on a mailing to send to supporters and doing some help with an email about the OC AIDS Walk and in the office behind my little desk is the Housing Services Supervisor. While I’m working a man walks in to meet with the Housing Services man [...]

1. My first day at OC AIDS Services Foundation was good. I talked for a while with the head of volunteers and helped dispell some of his presuppositions about pastors. I helped make an email list for the AIDS Walk on May 12.2. Matt Doan, High School Pastor at Calvary Church, started a blog. It’s [...]

Today will be my first day volunteering at the Orange County AIDS Services Foundation. I will be there from 2-5pm today helping out in the office with whatever they need. It should be interesting. We talked at our Lighthouse (small group) last night about the awkwardness of “witnessing” or “evangelism.” I’m not going to talk here [...]

I wasn’t going to post about this for a while but Mike has forced my hand with this post about the OC AIDS Walk. Our church has been on a series that is casting vision to our people for being more involved in our community. These need to be consistent ministry relationships that are close [...]