Families Forward
families-forward.org
IPC Contacts: Debbie Regele at Families Forward
Jacquie Boslet at 949-843-7589
Yvonne Gordon at 949-786-8210
Families Forward is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving low-income and homeless families in South Orange County. Currently IPC participates in hosting food drives at IPC, "City Wide Food Drives" grocery stores, furnishing a new 2 bedroom condo for a family, school supplies for children, Thanksgiving food baskets, and "Adopt a Family" at Christmas We are currently seeking assistance with car repairs, medical/dental/ optometry care for families in need.
View the Food Drive Brochure.
Pizza Friday
www.irvinepres.org/highschool/
IPC Contact: Sandra Smith, 1-949-559-1563, 1ssmith@cox.net
Pizza Friday is an outreach ministry to the kids at Woodbridge High School. We offer an inexpensive pizza lunch each Friday from 12noon to 1:15pm that school is in session. Many of these kids have never been to a church, and this gives us a chance to role model God's love, kindness and servant attitude. You can sign up weekly, biweekly or monthly as your schedule allows. This is definitely a mission on our doorstep!
Have Stitches, Will Travel
Visit the Stiches page for more information
IPC Contact: Mimi Laue at 949-551-2077
Friends at the Point
www.irvinepres.org
Contact the church office for more information.
This ministry offers an opportunity to be a friend to someone living at Regents Point--a continuing care community. Spend time with an individual(s) in an independent, assisted care or nursery home situation. Your time commitment is based on you with an opportunity to have a longterm relationship on a one-on-one basis or with different people.
Meals on Wheels
www.irvinemealsonwheels.com
Contact: 949-786-6870
Needs dedicated volunteer drivers willing to give an hour of their time to deliver meals to the elderly and disabled in Irvine. Volunteers can choose routes, dates and frequency of drives to suit their schedules. Drivers pick up the meals for delivery at the Lakeside Senior Center across the street from IPC.
Samaritan's Purse/Christmas Shoe Box
www.samaritan.org
Need Lead Person on this project. Please contact Tim Avazian
Ministry Contact: Jennifer Trevithick at 714-432-7030
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God's love. In November of each year, IPC participates in filling shoe boxes and helping in the Orange County Processing Center to carefully inspect and prepare each box for overseas shipment.
Shadetree Partnership
www.shadetreepartnership.org
Contact: Leslie at 949-453-5312 for questions
Shadetree Partnership invites you to come to the UCI campus on Saturday mornings to weed, propogate groundcover, rake, water and upsize trees into larger containers. No age requirement. Go to website, Volunteer, Register for a future event. Fun project for families and small group.
KidWorks
www.kidworksonline.org
IPC Contact: Wendy Huntley at 949-729-1042
Ministry Contact: Cole Ng at 714-834-9400, Ext. 107
Kidworks is a nonprofit organization that was established to transform challenged neighborhoods within central Santa Ana by building on the strengths and potential in the community through education, character formation and personal development. Volunteer opportunities include afterschool tutoring, computer lab assistant, library aide, preschool helper, teen mentoring, creative arts instructor and administrative assistance.
Veritas Sandwich Project
www.experienceveritas.org
IPC Contact: Kirk Winslow
Once a month, as a part of the worship experience at our Veritas service (Sunday mornings at 10:30am) attendees are invited to prepare sack lunches and then deliver them to the Southwest Community Center. You can help by attending Veritas and making the sack lunches, by offering to purchase food, recruiting volunteers to help organize the sandwich making or delivery of food to the Mission.
Habitat for Humanity
www.habitatoc.org
IPC Contacts: Miles Pellazar at 949-559-6193
Andy Kameya at 949-737-5535
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. IPC members have participated in building houses in the local area.
Our most recent project was the San Juan Capistrano Build Project for military families. The project build of 27 homes took place in San Juan Capistrano and the homes that were built were for combat disabled military veterans and/or their surviving families.
If you are interested in volunteering for future building projects, please contact Miles.
Orange County Rescue Mission
www.rescuemission.org
IPC Contact: Rick Caille at 714-669-1884
Ministry Contact: Brandi Schlechter at 714-247-4300
The Orange County Rescue Mission is a Christian, faith-based, non-profit organization that exists solely to share the ove of God with the Orange County homeless population. Our Men’s Ministry currently serves meals to the Men’s Shelter on a regular basis.
Royal Family Kids Camp
standrewsnewport.rfkc.org
IPC Contacts:
Randy German at 949-294-8526
Jan Armando at 949-380-7746
Candy Baylis at 949-453-0118
Royal Family Kids Camp is a time for creating positive memories for abused children ages 7–11 in a one week camp experience. Many volunteers will extend Christian love and care to several abused and neglected children. The kids are sure to have a fun time! Contact the church office for more information.
Second Harvest Food Bank/Orange County
www.feedoc.org
Contact Second Harvest directly or contact Local Missions Committee to organize an event The Food Bank currently serves 390 member charities that reach the hungry. Have fun with family and friends while ‘gleaning’ food that will supply the food bank. No age requirement. Fun project for families or small groups.
Serve Day Orange County
www.serveday.org
Currently looking for a Lead Person on this project. Please contact Tim Avazian.
Each year, churches from Orange and Los Angeles Counties join together to plan and implement over 200 service projects that serve at organizations, businesses, beaches and parks in practical and tangible ways. Contact the church office for information on the next Serve Day.
Sign-up by going to the Serve Day website and choosing a project that you would like to do and then get out and serve!
Southwest Community Center
IPC Contact: Toby Weissert at 949-642-2448
Ministry Contact: Connie Jones, 1601 West 2nd Street, Santa Ana, CA 92703, 714-547-4073
The Southwest Community Center had a fire in December 2009 that destroyed the building and almost all of their food supplies at their ministry location.
Meals are currently provided for the needy at a nearby location. Please contact Toby Weissert for information on how you can help this ministry with your time or donations.
YoungLife - Irvine
www.younglife.org
IPC Contact: Bud Thoreen at 949-246-8743
Eric Rah is the Young Life Area Director for Irvine. Young Life is a Christ-centered relational ministry to the jr. high and high school students on various campuses throughout the city of Irvine.
OC AIDS Walk
www.aidswalk.org/oc
IPC Contact: Melinda Harvey
There are currently more than 1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV/Aids with an estimated 8,000 in Orange County. This fundraising event was organized to assist local organizations that support and educate those diagnosed with HIV/Aids and their families. We walked approximately 3.2 miles around Angel Stadium and around the stadium field with 8,000+ other participants. Many of the teams represented at the Walk were local church groups and businesses. It was a special time of sharing and exercise for all. Contact the church office for more information.
Saturday Service Project IPC
IPC Contact: Van Partible
Jeff Austin or 714-832-1232
Saturday Service Project gives our church members an opportunity to fellowship and help others in need every 3rd Saturday of the month in the Fellowship Hall. Past projects have included assembling hygiene kits for the homeless and for El Nino backpacks. Please bring your family and friends to this fun, monthly event. Potluck dinner starts at 5:30pm.
Center for Student Missions
www.csm.org/
IPC Contacts: Tim Avazian
Michelle Drever
Each summer our Jr. High students partner with the Center for Student Mission in an urban area of the United States. They have served in Los Angeles and San Francisco partnering with ministries and learning about life in these multi-ethnic and economically diverse cities.
Each year the students and leaders live in the city for a week long experience. While living in the city, they begin to understand the needs of the working poor and homeless by going on a "Prayer Tour" of the city, doing a "Scavenger Hunt" in the inner-city, traveling by public transportation, cooking a meal on a VERY limited budget, and by finding a homeless person, taking them to breakfast and asking them about their lives. They have served a variety of ministries, in a variety of settings The Los Angeles Food Bank, The Midnight Mission on Los Angeles' Skid Row, The Long Beach Rescue Mission, The Light House Church of God in Christ in Watts, The Salvation Army's Preschool in South Central Los Angeles, The Salvation Army in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Project Open Hand serving meals to those with HIV/AIDS.
Through this week long experience God has opened our student's minds and hearts to a world much different from their own.
Search Ministries
www.searchnational.org/index.htm
Ministry Contact: Don Barkley at (949) 600-8205
Don Barkley has served as the Orange County Area Director for Search Ministries since 1984. Don enjoys teaching and conducting open forums, both of which serve as a framework for his ministry.
Prior to joining Search, Don was a ranch hand at Lost Valley Ranch in Colorado, and on the pastoral staff of a church in Wyoming. In 1984, Don received his Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary.
Don and his wife Ann currently live in Mission Viejo, CA. with their three sons and daughter. Don is an active member of IPC and teaches several classes each year. Many in our congregation have hosted Open Forums at their homes, a gathering of friends for the purpose of interacting on significant life and God issues.
If you would like to know more about how you can support Don and his ministry, go to the web link listed above.