THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS MEAL OUTREACH
CCV Thanksgiving and Christmas Outreach 2008
Purpose: To love on the poor of our community, and to open up opportunities to share the love of Christ (Mt.25:40).
Objectives:
- To feed 700-1000 individuals on Thanksgiving.
- To provide clothes to those families in need.
- To target one specific need among the homeless in at least one city of the San Gabriel Valley.
- To mobilize 14 CCV teams to accomplish the task.
- To network with San Dimas City officials, local markets, San Dimas Sheriffs, businesses, and schools for this “Missional” project.
- To raise the awareness of our church family about the church’s role in the community.
- To create a sincere and genuine passion for the lost.
Ministry opportunities for Thanksgiving:
- Leadership Team – planning, organizing, and leading the events.
- Street team – Distribute “goods” on Thanksgiving Day,
- Wednesday community team – deliver turkeys directly to neighborhood homes.
- Transportation team – Help with transporting tables and equipment to outreach site.
- Pick up/ Delivery teams – pick up donated turkeys from community organizations prior to the event, and pick up meals on Thanksgiving Day and deliver them to the homes.
- Logistics team- set up contacts list of families, who need a meal; prepare maps and directions for the delivery teams on Thanksgiving Day and at other times.
- Set up/tear down team – Help transportation team with the set up and tear down of tables, boxes of food and clothes.
- Clothes and Canned food team – Receive and organized items for distribution before the event.
- Kitchen and Cooking team – Receive baked turkeys, prepare and package meals.
- Storage team – Coordinate with transportation team to make sure the canned food and clothing is taken to the sites for distribution.
- Music team – provides sound and worship at event sites.
- Publicity team – Help with the promotion of the event.
- Creativity and Special activity team – Create special presentation for event sites.
- Public Relations team – Network with local schools, supermarkets, City officials for donations.
- Homeless projects team – Think through specific ways to meet the needs of the homeless other than simply feeding them on Thanksgiving Day.
Christmas Outreach: This is our “Adopt a Family” project. Families from the community are selected by one our local High Schools and CCV members will call on the family and become acquainted with the members of the family. The CCV family will then purchase and wrap gifts for the children in the family and delivered them on the 20th of December. CCV serves as liaison between the local High School and the families they have selected. These families are the families of the students who attend the High School. CCV will also receive references of other families in the community who are in need of being loved in this way during the Christmas season.
Event dates:
Thanksgiving Outreach: November 26-27
Christmas: December 20
For more information: Pastor Jose Fernandez Jr., 626.859.0161 x 151 or email: josef@ccvnow.com
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