- Flood Church
- creating environments where people are transformed by the living God
Below is an up to date list of all the current Impact Teams that exist through Flood. Check the calendar and the Impact Blog for current opportunities. Don't see your interest or skill on the list? Start a team.
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There is a wide variety of ways to make an impact right here at Flood by serving on Sundays, or with our various life-stage ministries. Contact the staff/leader listed to find out more about serving in the following areas:
SERVE ON SUNDAYS
Sunday Connections (Welcome Tent, Greeters, & Cafe): KairaVerhoff@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Security: EricLehman@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Setup Team: Setup@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Tech/Production (lights, sound, media): TimEagerton@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Creative (creative planning for upcoming message series): Creative@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Dance: MindiHopper@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
FloodKids: AmieBement@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Frippleville (monthly family event): AmieBement@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Media (web, graphic design): KairaVerhoff@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Prayer: LinseyWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Video: TimEagerton@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
LIFE STAGE MINISTRIES
Middle School: NoelMusicha@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
High School: NoelMusicha@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
College: AdamK@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Post College/Career: AndyKelly@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Engaged/Marrieds: ScottWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Men's Growth Group Facilitators:EricLehman@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Women's Growth Group Facilitators:MindiHopper@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Our local impact teams focus their influence on Kearny High School, the Linda Vista community, the city of San Diego, and Tijuana, Mexico.
In addition to our Local Impact Teams, Flood is participating in a city-wide movement called Season of Service. Click here to find out more about how you can join us as we serve San Diego in its greatest areas of need.
FloodECO Team: FloodECO seeks to honor God's creation in our daily lives as individuals, church family, and communities by becoming good stewards of the environment through waste reduction, resource conservation, utilizing sustainable resources, and food and water justice. Our goal is to create a culture of consciousness and conservation at Flood through: 1) becoming a sustainability resource for Flood's services, and 2) reducing individual waste by collecting recyclables. Contact us to find out how you can bring your recyclables to Flood.
FloodECO@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Flood Love Team (Downtown Homeless Outreach): Build relationships with the homeless of San Diego by offering them a bite to eat, and some friendly conversation. Meet Mondays at 6:45pm in front of Smart & Final (Map). Contact leaders to confirm we are meeting this week.
FloodLove@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Soul Food Team: Provide food for the families of students at Kearny High School that are struggling financially. Sign up to bring a $5 food item once a month, on the first Sunday of each month. It's only a 4-month commitment!
Food@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sports Impact Teams: Use your love for sports to build community and create outreach opportunities. Activities range from weekly running group (meets Saturday mornings, contact leader for location) to annual sports tournaments (watch the calendar for dates).
- Sports@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
- Running@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
MEXICO IMPACT TEAMS
TJ House Building Team: Serve the Tijuana community by taking a day-trip to help build a house for a family in need. Once a month a trips. Cost: $52. Watch the calendar for dates.
TJHouseBuilding@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
TJ Orphanage Team: Experience the joy of teaching, serving and playing with kids at the El Faro orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. Once a month trips. Cost: $40. Watch the calendar for dates.
TJOrphanage@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Ensenada Orphanage Team: Take a day trip to Ensenada, three hours South of the US/Mexico border, and minister to 40 teenagers who live permanently at Rancho El Faro, a sister orphanage of the one in Tijuana. There are many ways in which to serve: organize a cooking class, teach an arts & crafts project, help with Spanish translation, lead worship or Bible study... you can even serve locally in San Diego! First trip will take place at the beginning of June.
ENSOrphanage@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Flood's global impact efforts are focused on the nations of Malawi and Uganda in Africa.
COTN Impact Team: This team works to support the efforts of COTN San Diego. We facilitate events, which mobilize people in the San Diego area to serve the children of COTN in Malawi, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Each event gives people the opportunity to carry out their innate desires of compassion, evangelism, and leadership development.Events range from meal packaging events, resource gathering, child sponsorships, and fundraisers.
COTN@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Microfinance Team: Our goal is to promote the value of microfinance in alleviating global poverty, and to fundraise for microfinance projects on behalf of the church. Microfinance involves providing basic financial services to the poorest of the poor in developing countries, allowing them to work their way out of poverty. It preserves the dignity of the human spirit and empowers the poor by giving them a hand up out of poverty rather than a hand out.
Microfinance@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Africa Trips & Opportunities: Opportunities to serve in Malawi & Uganda range from short-term trips with a narrow focus to summer internships with a range of activities. Applications for trips during summer 2010 have CLOSED.
- Interested in leading a future team:AdamK@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Church Plants: AdamK@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
If you need to reach a staff member, please contact MawiPatten@DIVEintoFLOOD.com regarding local & global opportunities.
In addition to our Impact Teams, Flood partners with organizations that do work locally in the San Diego area and globally throughout the world.
African Bible Colleges currently operates three accredited campuses in the countries of Liberia, Malawi, and Uganda. The curriculum focuses on biblical studies. The vision of African Bible College is to offer quality, university-level education with a Christian emphasis to the people of Africa. African Bible Colleges also operates the ABC Christian Academy in Malawi. The school has over 300 children from some 30 countries. The academy is dependent on volunteer/missionary teachers to keep its operating cost affordable for both missionary and African families.
For more info: Visit the African Bible College website.
Contact: For information on opportunities to teach in Malawi, contact our San Diego Recruiter, Chuck Price, at wixim@cox.net, or email Laura Chinchen in Malawi at ChinchenTribe@hotmail.com.
Amor Ministries facilitates short-term mission trips in Mexico, South Africa, and the San Carlos Indian Reservation to build homes, schools, churches, and clinics for communities and families living in great poverty.
For more info: Visit the Amor website.
Contact: For information on how to go on an Amor Mission Trip, contact MissionServices@amor.org or call 619.662.1200.
Bethel Seminary and Flood Church are partnering to make the pursuit of a seminary education easier and more affordable. Staff and members of Flood Church are eligible for a scholarship set annually at approximately 30% of the price of 8 credits of tuition. For the 2010-2011 academic year, the scholarship will be equal to $840/quarter ($3,360/year). To be eligible, enrollment must be maintained at two 4-credit courses per quarter. In addition, applicants may qualify for a need-based Bethel grant.
As a world-class evangelical seminary with locations in St. Paul, San Diego, and the eastern seaboard, as well as a model distance learning program, Bethel Seminary offers nine master of arts degrees, a master of divinity degree, a doctor of ministry degree, five graduate-level certificates, and a post-graduate certificate. Accreditors have praised the seminary’s approach to developing whole and holy Christian leaders through three-part emphases on biblical/theological foundations, transformational leadership, and spiritual and personal formation.
For more info: visit the Bethel Seminary website.
Contact: Theola Campbell, Director of Admissions, at t-campbell@bethel.edu or 619.325.5219.
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County is to improve the lives of children by creating and supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships with proven results. Mentors must be over 18 years of age, have a valid Social Security number and be willing to commit for one year. Match interactions range from twice a month to once a week depending on the specific program.
For more info: Visit the Big Brothers Big Sisters website.
Contact: For information on how you can become a mentor, contact Michael Purcell at MichaelP@sdbigs.org or by calling 858.536.4900 x210.
Children of the Nations, an international relief organization, works in several countries, including the African nations of Uganda and Malawi, to provide food, shelter, and education for orphaned children. Our mission is to provide responsible care to orphaned and destitute children by the equipping of nationals, giving children every possible advantage available to grow in a stable, Christ-centered environment, empowering them to be the leaders of tomorrow.
For more info: Visit the COTN website.
Contact: SaraBooth@cotni.org.
CAPS is a life-affirming pregnancy medical clinic that seeks to speak the truth in love to women and men facing unplanned pregnancies. We offer lay counseling, pregnancy testing and ultrasound to show clients the truth about life and offer alternatives to abortion.
For more info: Visit the CAPS website.
Contact: For volunteer opportunities or other ways to help support the ministry, contact Monica Barnum at Monica@CAPSonline.org or visit www.FriendsofCAPS.org.
The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are STILL few. Converge Worldwide’s mission is to reproduce the life of Christ in disciples, leaders and congregations. The means of reproduction is by catalyzing movements of reproducing churches through long term incarnational ministry engagement.
For more info: Visit the Converge website.
Contact: Levi Velasco at leviv@convergeww.org.
The International Justice Mission exists to protect people from violent forms of injustice by securing rescue and restoration for victims and accountability for perpetrators, ensuring that public justice systems work for the poor. IJM works around the world to pursue social justice.
For more info: Visit the IJM website.
Invisible Children began as a documentary filmed by three college students about an unseen war in Northern Uganda. Invisible Children has since developed into a non-profit organization that seeks to use the power of stories to change lives around the world. Through a combination of development work in Uganda's war-affected areas, grassroots advocacy, and media-based awareness, Invisible Children continues to pursue creative but powerful avenues for change. The Invisible Children headquarters is located in San Diego.
For more info: Visit the Invisible Children website.
Contact: info@invisiblechildren.com.
Plant With Purpose, an initiative of Floresta, is a Christian nonprofit organization that reverses deforestation and poverty in the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. Recognizing that environmental degradation and poverty are closely linked, Plant With Purpose works to empower farmers through community development, discipleship, innovative agro-forestry techniques, and by providing access to savings and credit.
For more info: Visit the Plant With Purpose website.
Contact: Corbyn Small at Corbyn@PlantWithPurpose.org.
San Diego Rescue Mission exists to spread the good news of salvation through Christ by serving the needs of the poor, addicted, abused, and homeless, thus improving the quality of their lives. We believe in the inherent worth of every homeless man, woman, and child, and provide rehabilitation and discipleship programs that lead to permanent change and independent living.
For more info: Visit the SDRC website.
Contact: Karen Clark at KClark@sdrescue.org.
The Soul Care Project supports women affected by domestic violence and homelessness. We exist to remind these women of their beauty and strength and to create energy for change by inspiring hope and restoring dignity. We do that by offering a variety of events, classes and workshops focus on creative expression, physical health, psycho-education, relaxation, meditation and social interaction. We also do that by offering ourselves. These events, classes and workshops are lead by women (professionals in their fields or experienced volunteers), who share our perspective that whatever our life circumstances, we are more alike than we are different. We are mothers, wives, women, each with our own story and struggles. Our goal is to offer a safe, authentic community of supporters, who walk alongside, equipping and empowering women in need.
For more info: Visit the Soul Care Project website.
Contact: Elaine Hamilton at soulcareproject@gmail.com.
