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Contact us via phone: 831.429.1162, x232 Contact us via fax: 831.429.9575 Contact us via postal mail: 440 Frederick Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
If you have a project which you would like included in the list of ShareFest projects from which churches and ministries choose an activity, please fill out our Project Request Form and send it to us via one of the following methods:
Via Email
Email your form toVia Fax
Fax your form to 831.429.9575, attention Michelle WhitingVia Postal Mail
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Mail your form to ShareFest, Attn. Michelle Whiting, 440 Frederick Street Santa Cruz, CA 95062
If you are interested in serving on a ShareFest project, or you would like to suggest a project,
please call Michelle at 429-1162 x232 or her & ask what’s available.
BLOOD DRIVE - American Red Cross
SANTA CRUZ CITY PARKS & RECREATION
Civic Auditorium
Painting the rest of the Civic
Teen Center -
Painting and cleaning the front of the building
Museum of Natural History
Finishing demonstration painting program
SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER
Pioneer House
Painting the exterior of building
Head Start
* Finish outside playground & family area with landscaping
* Build a small playhouse, boat or other structure
Hermanas Residential Recovery
Painting: Kitchen, Living room, Dinning area, and entry way.
LIVE OAK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Green Acres Elementary School Life Lab
Clean up garden Life Lab area
PAJAMA DRIVE
We have joined together with the Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s office and other churches to
provide a new pair of jammies for every child in our county that are homeless or living in a shelter.
If you would like to get more information about this Project, call Paul at 465-3380 for more info.
FEED THE COUNTY FOOD DRIVE
Twin Lakes Churches hosted the 2nd Harvest Food drive.
JOB FAIR
We worked with Access to Employment team to help allow the 2008 Job Fair to happen.
http://www.access2employment.com.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY PROJECTS
Youthserve Arts and Crafts Preparation
The Graffiti Removal Clean-up
Restore Native Habitat at Natural Bridges State Park
Bulletin Inserts
Created inserts are available in a 2-up format. Just to ask for the files.
Work Project Signs:
We have signs to put at each project site that say: “Work Site (the logo) ShareFest Santa
Cruz County”. They are GREAT. If you would like a sign for your project, please call
Larry Holser at 684-9031 or Michelle Whiting at 429-1162x232.
In Santa Cruz County last year there were nearly one thousand individuals who took part in the first ShareFest Santa Cruz. These individuals cleaned up and help make improvements on 21 different project (schools, parks, beaches, homeless shelter, museum, river clean up, baseball parks and missions). During this one-day event, nearly two dozen churches throughout the community came together and put their faith to work by showing the love of Jesus.
As ShareFest quickly approaches, you may have questions or need additional information. If so, please feel free to call Michelle at 831.429.1162 ext. 232, , or download forms and media information at this website.
Please review the information on this website for further information on ShareFest, and send in your Partnering Church Signup Form as soon as possible. Mark your Church Calendar today for Saturday, October 24, 2009.
Let’s challenge our churches to jointly let our lights shine for Christ in our county!
Resources
Partnering Church Signup Form
In 2009 eighteen churches, a school, & an organization worked at thirty-six project sites throughout Santa Cruz County.
Santa Cruz Bible Church
Vintage Faith Church
Mountain Bible Church
Shorelife Community Church
Twin Lakes Church
Gateway Bible Church
Felton Presbyterian Church
Aptos Christian Fellowship
Coast Chapel
Messiah Lutheran Church
Christian Life Center
Faith Community Church
Elevation
Felton Bible Church
High Street Community Church
Gathering By The Bay
Genesis
Santa Cruz Revival Ministries
International Students, Inc.
Capitola Community Church 475-7484
Christian Life Center 426-7733
Coast Chapel 475-4351
EMF 423-4483
Faith Community Church 429-9000
Felton Bible Church 335-3418
Felton Presbyterian Church 335-6900
Gateway Bible 438-0646
High Street Community Church 426-0207
Messiah Lutheran Church 423-8330
Redwood Christian Center 464-0314
Santa Cruz Bible Church 429-1162
ShoreLife Community Church 462-7490
The Gathering by the Bay 479-7360
The San Jose Gathering
Twin Lakes Church 465-3300
To see this year’s projects go the PROJECTS page
2007 PROJECTS & PARTICIPANTS
Christian Life Center
Civic Auditorium (painting east wall and inside rooms)
Louden Nelson Community Center (painting and cleaning)
Coast Chapel
Rest home on eastside (clean up and repair)
Faith Community Church
Harvey West Kids Kottage (sand and seal back deck)
Felton Presbyterian
San Lorenzo Middle School (clean up & volleyball court)
First Baptist Church Watsonville
E.A. Hall Jr High (clean up)
Gateway Bible Church
Scotts Valley Middle School (clean up)
Harbor Fellowship
Louden Nelson Community Center (painting and cleaning)
Santa Cruz Wharf (painting)
New Earth Tribe
Working on a home in Felton (painting and cleaning)
Santa Cruz Bible Church
Louden Nelson Community Center (painting and cleaning)
Santa Cruz Bible Church
Gault School - Life Lab (fixing, building and repairing)
Gault School - Halloween Carnival (food & fun booth, band for parade)
Beach Flats (clean up, weeding and fence building)
Car Care Clinic at SCBC (fixing Cars for those in need)
New Life Center (cleaning, staining and powerwashing)
Garfield Park Bathrooms (roofing and painting)
Natural History Museum (weeding and planting)
Blood Drive (Red Cross blood collection)
Santa Cruz Teen Center (cabinets and carpet laying)
Santa Cruz Wharf (painting)
Project PJ (collecting pajamas)
Civic Auditorium (painting east wall and inside rooms)
Shorelife Community Church
New Brighton Middle School
The Coastlands
Aptos Beach Clean Up
The Gathering by the Bay — Soquel
Adrain House on Rancho (house repair and clean up)
The Gathering by the Bay — Felton
San Lorenzo Middle School (clean up and Volleyball court)
Twin Lakes Church
River Street Shelter
Louden Nelson Community Center (painting and cleaning)
Santa Cruz Wharf (painting)
Car Care Clinic at SCBC (fixing Cars for those in need)
Homeless Service Center
Love INC home in Watsonville
Paloma House
Project PJ (collecting pajamas)
Food Drive for Second Harvest (food collection for pick up)
New Horizons School
Freedom Women’s Center
Mar Vista School
Twin Lakes Church — GENESIS
Main Beach Clean Up
Capitola Community Church
City of Capitola Esplanade Bathrooms Painting
In the information that follows, we have attempted to answer some of the common questions which may arise regarding ShareFest Santa Cruz County.
ShareFest is an event sponsored by area churches to demonstrate God’s love by reaching out to those in need within Santa Cruz County with community service and giving.
The sponsoring organization for ShareFest is the Evangelical Ministers Fellowship of Santa Cruz County. The Evangelical Ministers Fellowship is comprised of leaders from a cross-section of Christian churches in the county.
The purpose of ShareFest is four-fold:
All people and churches in Santa Cruz County area are encouraged to participate in ShareFest. Individuals should inquire through their church or contact ShareFest staff.
ShareFest is dedicated to making a difference in Santa Cruz County. While projects vary from year to year, in the past, members have participated in county-wide projects such as providing school supplies to children, home repairs and painting, facility renovation, cleanup projects, donation drives, construction projects, senior citizen visitation, and making meals for public servants.
This year ShareFest Community Service Day is on Saturday, October 24. The Food Drive is during October, and the Blood Drive details will be announced.
The projects are intended to benefit those in our community who are the most in need. We provide a list of available projects to organizations who desire to be involved, or your organization may select projects on its own. Typical projects might include painting, cleaning, repairing, or generally sprucing up schools, nursing homes, or parks and playgrounds.
Check out our How Do We Get In page for more information on how to sign up as a partnering church.
By uniting with other Christian organizations in our community, your organization will be energized and catch a greater vision for reaching out to our county. Serving the community as a united church provides a powerful witness to the community of the love of Christ.
When your organization is engaged in its own community projects and ministries, much good is accomplished. However, these activities can often go unnoticed by the larger community. ShareFest represents an opportunity for your organization to visibly demonstrate the love of Jesus through the unified church, which provides double the impact — service and unity.
No. We do hope that organizations will choose to be involved in all four components of ShareFest, but each organization should determine which level of involvement is appropriate for them. You can choose to participate in one, two, three or all aspects of the ShareFest weekend.
We recommend each church identify a minimum of one person as their ShareFest Coordinator. Each church will be responsible to not only identify the projects they wish to work on, but will also need to organize all efforts and materials required for each project.
Please feel free to contact us by using one of the methods on our Contact Us page.
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ShareFest began as an event sponsored by many area churches to demonstrate God’s love by reaching out to those in need within Santa Cruz County during a weekend of service and giving. It’s developed into continuing activities during the year for volunteers from local churches to assist public schools, shelters, and others serving the community.
Each church will decide if they want to identify their own projects and focus within their immediate church neighborhood or do a “city reach” project in one of the cities of Santa Cruz County. If your church needs suggestions, we have some available. Typical projects could include painting, fixing, cleaning, or beautifying schools, senior homes; or perhaps sprucing up playgrounds in public parks or schools. In 2008 ShareFest volunteers helped with the logistics of the Access To Employment Job Fair.
You can be part of Food Drives and Blood Drives during the month.
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