RELATED LINKS
Why We Serve
Ministry Overview
Ongoing Service Opportunities
Thanks and Testimonies
MacArthur Park reports and photos >
More Ministry reports and photos >
MINISTRIES
Ministry to the Homeless and
Under-resourced Families
We can help you team up with churches and agencies who serve the homeless. ACTION partners with a number of different ministries and agencies to help serve the homeless population and under-resourced families. Besides helping to provide basic needs such as food and clothing, this ministry also seeks to expand the supply of available housing-shelter
for those in need.
Contact
Rob Orth or Kathy Donofrio to participate in this ministry.
Ministry Partners
• Catholic Charities
• Dove Ministries, Oxnard
• Harbor Community Church, Ventura
• Lutheran Social Services
• Mercy Ministries, Oxnard
Ongoing Ministry Opportunities
MacArthur Park Ministry
Once a month, Sunday, 3:00pm
Ten different Ventura County Churches and ministries are partnering
with this
outreach ministry to the extreme poor and homeless.
Through partnership with World Impact and their Love in Action program,
we have developed an ongoing relationship with La Luz Church in MacArthur
Park, Los Angeles. This is a great local urban ministry serving opportunity,
available for volunteers each Sunday afternoon. Excellent training ground
for urban street ministry, missions service, preaching pastors and Spanish
translators. Ministry time is from 3:00PM until dark. We have a DVD of the MacArthur
Park Video available.
A few of the churches participating are Vineyard (Newbury
Park, Camarillo), Church of the Hills Agoura, Simi Pres, and Calvary Community
Westlake.
Read
a Focus on the Family article about Pastor Hector,
who ministers in MacArthur
Park >
See reports and photos from our visits >
Oxnard Park Ministry
Every Saturday, 9:00am
Similar to the MacArthur Park ministry, this weekly outreach
to the poor is located in Oxnard Community Park. World for Christ
oversees this wonderful community outreach ministry. Each Saturday
morning at 9:00AM, volunteers representing churches all over West
Ventura county come together to feed, clothe and give the word
of God to those in extreme need. For more details or to participate
in this ministry, please contact the ACTION Ministry Center.
See reports
and photos from our visits >
World for Christ contact info:
Joseph Carrillo, 805-795-0028
Winston Sanders, 805-791-8217
General contact |
Prayer hotline
El Rio Food Pantry & Tutoring Center
Every Saturday, 8:00am-1:00pm
We serve the people of El Rio and Nyeland Acres (unincorporated
sections of Oxnard) each Saturday. We operate under the direction of
Mercy Ministries International and are hosted by Bethany Chapel, Assembly
of God Church in El Rio. We provide food for approximately 40 families
weekly. You can volunteer to help box up the food in the morning or
help us love our neighbors when they arrive from 10am to 1pm. Spanish
and Mixtecan language proficiency is appreciated.
Contacts:
Steve & Kathy Tanner 805-228-4894
Mercy Ministries International