ShareFest Santa Cruz County
Previous Years
2005
Sentinel Article Regarding 2005 ShareFest
On Saturday, October 23, twenty-three local churches banded together to volunteer and take part in various community improvement projects across our county. The Sentinel ran an article featuring several of those projects: Volunteers Give Time To Help Those In Need.
2006
Food Drive
The food drive coordinated by Twin Lakes Church in connection with ShareFest Santa Cruz County 2006 elicited more than one favorable response from local media. The Santa Cruz Sentinel described how 50,000 pounds of food was collected in the effort. The Register-Pajaronian noted the comments of Second Harvest Director Willy Elliott-McCrea: “This is truly faith made manifest and a miraculous quantity of food.”
Letter to the Editor From Harbor High School Principal
As one of its projects for ShareFest Santa Cruz County 2006, Twin Lakes Church chose to adopt Harbor High School. After ShareFest, Harbor High’s principal, Nancy Tocchini wrote this letter of thanks to the Sentinel.
Photo Gallery
We have compiled a photo gallery of images from ShareFest Santa Cruz County 2006. Click here to view the gallery.
2007
The Numbers Tell A Story
In the 2007 ShareFest Santa Cruz County:
- 1,000 volunteers from 17 churches and 2 schools provided 4,000 man hours of work,
- 300,000 lbs of food were gathered for Second Harvest in the food drive coordinated by Twin Lakes Church,
- 600 sets of pajamas were donated for children,
- $3500 given to Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center & New Horizons School,
- 63 pints of blood were given,
- 32 vehicles were serviced in the Car Care Clinic.
People shared, as God has inspired acts of service & giving. The numbers tell a story.
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In the 2008 ShareFest Santa Cruz County volunteers
Served in nine schools within seven school districts.
LIVE OAK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Green Acres Elementary School: Life Lab Clean-up
LOMA PRIETA JOINT UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
Loma Prieta School: Light maintenance, painting & yard work
PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Mar Vista School: Landscape, Yard Work
SLV UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
San Lorenzo Middle School: Clean-up & Paint
SANTA CRUZ CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Westlake Elementary School: Clean up
Gault School: Life Lab Built & Repaired
Gault School: Fall Carnival Food & Spin Booth
Mission Hills Jr. High School
Transported usable school furniture to nearby Goodwill.
SCOTTS VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Scotts Valley Middle School
Clean-up, Paint signs, basketball hoops, scoreboard, planter boxes, two rooms; installed garden drip system & tune up kids’ bicycles.
SOQUEL UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT
New Brighton Middle School: Clean-up
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CITY OF CAPITOLA
Capitola City Hall: Paint Bathrooms
CITY OF SANTA CRUZ
Barson Street: Clean up Tree Stake Removal
Natural History Museum: Weeding & Planting
San Lorenzo Park: Lawn Bowling Painting
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SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER PROJECTS
El Dorado Residency Center Yard Work
Pioneer House: Painting and Cleaning
River Street Shelter: Clean-up, Buff Floors, Yard Clean-up
Transition Home: Yard Work.
Watsonville Head Start: Landscaping & Garden Needs
FEED THE COUNTY FOOD DRIVE
Twin Lakes Churches hosted the 2nd Harvest Food drive at TLC.
FREEDOM WOMEN’S CENTER
Removed wallpaper. Installed a sliding glass door. Other household odd jobs.
WALNUT STREET WOMEN’S SHELTER
Moved office furniture into storage container& painted two small rooms.
PAJAMA DRIVE
Project Pajamas: Purchased, sorted, organized, & delivered new pajamas to needy families!
FIRE VICTIM ASSISTANCE
Nearly 35 homes were lost in the Summit Road fire...about half had no insurance.
Help the fire victims with clean up & throw them a BBQ.
MONTEREY BAY THERAPEUTIC CENTER
Painted, gardened, cleaned up, removed debris, concrete patching, carpentry, electrical, & horse paddock winter preparation (lots of raking & shoveling).
DRAGON SLAYERS: Replaced Deck, Cleaned Animal Pens
VALLEY CHURCHES UNITED: Sorting & Clean-up
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2008 ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT JOB FAIR
Hosted at Santa Cruz Bible Church
MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY PROJECTS
Graffiti Removal: Painted Over Graffiti!
Graffiti “Awareness” Help: Distributed Graffiti Removal Program brochures to pre-arranged neighborhoods that were unaware of the removal service.
Youthserve Arts and Crafts Preparation
Assisted “Youthserve Arts & Crafts,” prepared crafts for children of incarcerated parents and made Christmas cards for the inmates.
Restore Native Habitat
BLOOD DRIVE - American Red Cross
2009 Projects
Most projects were in October. Some churches continue to do service projects through the year in public schools. 1Project Pajamas 2009
Together we collected 1,674 warm pajamas for children in need in our area. Many live in shelters, foster care, or transitional housing. We collected NEW pajamas, packaged them and will distribute them to these children. Twin Lakes Church
2All County Blood Drive
Santa Cruz Bible Church Together we collected 71 pints of blood (impacting up to 213 lives).
3Food Drive
Food Donations-off at Twin Lakes Church Starting October 24 (with ShareFest), ending Thursday, November 19. Our goal: Half a million meals! That's about 450,000 pounds of food for Second Harvest. . Food Sorting at Second Harvest, 800 Ohlone Parkway, Watsonville.
4Coat Drive
Together we collected 79 coats for those in need with the Girl Scouts at Santa Cruz Bible Church.
5Gault School Project
Santa Cruz Bible Church Painting railing, landscape front, painting doors, weeding, rebuild draineline, install, sundail, sand & paint, trash pickup
6Gault School Fall Carnival
Faith Community Church Organizing & Running food both at Halloween Carnival AND volunteer to help with parade and general carnival event. Put together food, sell food & do general volunteer work for the event
7Lakeside School
Mountain Bible Church Painting, clean-up, landscape (October 10)
8New Brighton Middle School Projects
Yard work Shorelife Community Church Twin Lakes Church
9Mar Vista Elementary School
Twin Lakes Church Yard work, painting, repairs and light construction.
10Scotts Valley Middle School
Gateway Bible Church Cleaning, painting, gardening.
11Vine Hill Elementary School
Twin Lakes Church General repair, light construction, painting, weeding, and general clean up.
12San Lorenzo Valley Middle/Elementary School
Clean-up and paint. Felton Presbyterian Church Felton Bible Church
13Green Acres Elementary School
Coast Chapel Science Garden - Renew compost bins, garden work & clean-up.
14Aptos High
Twin Lakes Church Disc Golf Course – General course upkeep, trails, cutting back brush & trimming trees. Aptos Christian Fellowship 'Campus Beautification Day' (October 10)
15La Familia Center
Messiah Lutheran Church Painting, Landscape & Clean up
16Homeless Shelter
Painting and yard work Christian Life Center Elevation Genesis
17Rebele Family Shelter
High Street Community Church Various projects
18Freedom Women's Center
Twin Lakes Church Painting Santa Cruz Bible Church Remodel kitchen, install new carpet, add new appliances & recessed lighting
19SC Residential Recovery Home
Faith Community Church Painting, carpet clean, clean up.
20Harvey West Park Project
Vintage Faith Church Harvey West Club House & Restrooms exterior painting
21Santa Cruz City Parks and Rec Office
Painting interior wall of the park’s shop Faith Community Church
22Louden Nelson Center
Paint Cafeteria, sand removal, replace chair railing, couch repair. Santa Cruz Bible Church International Students, Inc.
23Head Start of Watsonville
Twin Lakes Church Painting, flower box construction & potting new flowers.
24Mid County Children's Center
Twin Lakes Church Reseal their decks and put in new carpet in main room.
25Kid Quest
Twin Lakes Church General gardening clean up, removing old plants, working the soil & planting for the Fall.
26Monterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center
Twin Lakes Church Light repairs, painting, corral upkeep, yard work.
27Dragon Slayers
(Therapy for disabled via use of exotic animals) Twin Lakes Church Tree, bush trimming & corral and wheelchair path cleaning.
28Santa Cruz Art League
Twin Lakes Church Tree, bush trimming & corral & wheelchair path cleaning. Hedge trimming & painting.
Town of Soquel
Gathering By the Bay & Soquel Neighbor volunteers Meet at Lighthouse Church parking lot (4525 Soquel Dr., Soquel) 29) Retaining Wall Painting Project 30) Soquel Creek Clean-up - We need pick-up trucks & drivers for dump runs! 31) Soquel Curb Appeal Project - Weed, trash & debris removal.
32Access to Employment Job Fair
Coast Chapel created signs (For the October 7 job fair)
33Prayer for Santa Cruz County
Prayed for the residents of Santa Cruz County at Shorelife Community Church
34Free Veterinary Clinic for Pets of Homeless Children
Santa Cruz Revival Ministries Held October 23
35Homeless Chess Tournament
Gift Certificates for Outdoor world for the top three places. Sponsors: Santa Cruz Revival Ministries , Circle Church, & Victory Outreach Held at the Circle Church, 111 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz on October 31.
36Picnic in Park for Homeless
Santa Cruz Bible Church DONE