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:
Sunday Connections Teams: Help create a welcoming environment at Flood and great first impressions for newcomers through our greeting team, cafe team, and welcome tent team.
Contact: KairaVerhoff@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Security Teams: Help maintain a safe environment for our Flood family to encounter God on Sundays. Serve once a month during one of the gatherings and participate in quarterly trainings.
Contact: EricLehman@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Parking Team: Help welcome people to Flood by directing them towards where to park on Sundays.
Contact: ScottMcGhee@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Setup Team: Help create the space where church happens. The set up team is looking for people to serve once or twice a month at 7am on Sunday mornings.
Contact: Setup@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Sunday Tech/Production Team: Help make the worship gatherings happen. Includes lights, sound, media.
Contact: TimEagerton@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Creative Team: Creative planning for upcoming message series
Contact: TimEagerton@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Dance Impact Team: This Impact Team choreographs and performs dances for Flood on Sundays and for events in the community. Contact Mindi for the next audition date!
Contact: MindiHopper@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
FloodKids Teams: Help plants seeds of God's love in the heart and mind of the next generation! Serve weekly during the 9am or 11am gathering, with any age group from newborns through 5th grade.
Contact: LinseyWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Media Team: Use your skills and gifts in graphic design to convey biblical truth in creative & compelling ways, help promote events and utilize social media for our church.
Contact: KairaVerhoff@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Prayer Team: Provide prayer support for people on Sundays by prayer counseling during one of the Sunday gatherings.
Contact: LinseyWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Video Team:
Contact: TimEagerton@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
LEAD A LIFE GROUP: We are always looking to start new groups and reach more people, both inside and outside our church family. Explore being a Life Group Leader by coming to one of the next 8-week Leadership Trainings, on different nights of the week.
Contact: EricLehman@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Middle School: NoelMusicha@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
High School: NoelMusicha@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
College: We are always looking for students or post-college adults to serve our College ministry. We have a weekly group that consists of numerous Life Groups that meets on Wednesdays and there are a variety of ways you can serve. We would love to have you join our team!
Contact: AdamWright@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Post College/Career: Are you willing to start a Life Group, interested in leadership within an existing Life Group or willing to offer your home to a new (or existing) Life Group? Remember, leadership includes service, hospitality, and connection. You can lead a men's, women's or coed group. Thank you!
Contact: AndyKelly@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Engaged/Marrieds:
Life Group Leaders: The marrieds demographic at Flood continues to grow, and we are in need of more life groups to help engraft people into our church. Leading Life Groups is a fun way to pour into Flood, and your marriage through serving and growing with one another.
To Become One Coaching: 2B1 is our premarital & newlywed class (7 weeks). The experience is designed to be relational, including mentor-like couples who can support young marrieds. Couples can also serve through: prayer, setup, and desserts.
Marrieds Enrichments: This is a great way to serve with your hosting and hospitality gifts by helping to setup and host.
Contact: ScottWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Men's Life Group Leaders: EricLehman@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Women's Life Group Leaders: 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.
FloodECO Team: We exist 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 or volunteer.
Contact: Jessica at FloodECO@DIVEintoFLOOD.com or find us on Facebook
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 7pm in front of Smart & Final (Map). Contact leaders to confirm we are meeting this week.
Contact: Chad at FloodLove@DIVEintoFLOOD.com, find us on Facebook, or visit our website.
Military Impact Team: Join this team and support those who serve our country! Our goal is to provide an outreach of love, support and encouragement to Flood families that are currently serving in the military by sending care packages during deployment to those overseas and their families at home.
Contact: Heather at Military@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Refugee Impact Team: We exist to serve the refugee population of City Heights in San Diego by teaching English, tutoring on schoolwork, helping them get acclimated to American culture, and being a catalyst in their relationship with God. We are seeking volunteers that can commit to meeting with a refugee family at least once a week for two hours as we grow this ministry.
Contact: Kyle at Refugee@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!
Contact: Denise at Food@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
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.
Contact: Joe at TJHouseBuilding@DIVEintoFLOOD.com or find us on Facebook.
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.
Contact: Maiko at TJOrphanage@DIVEintoFLOOD.com, find us on Facebook, or visit our website.
Flood's global impact efforts are focused on the nations of Malawi and Uganda in Africa, and the nation of Haiti in the Caribbean.
Global 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.
- Interested in leading a future team? Contact: 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. 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 information, please contact the Bethel Seminary San Diego Office of Admissions at 619.325.5200 or bssd-admit@bethel.edu.
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 Claudia Aldana at ClaudiaA@sdbigs.org or by calling 858.536.4900 x210.
Children of the Nations partners with nationals in the countries of Uganda, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Haiti and the Dominican Republic to provide holistic, Christ-centered care for orphaned and destitute children, enabling them to create positive and lasting change in their nations. By following this mission COTN provides opportunities for children to be transformed into the Christian leaders of tomorrow, serving in their home country. You can participate in the work of COTN by serving with COTN’s new San Diego office!
For more info: Visit the COTN website.
Contact: HollyCunningham@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.
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 SDRM website.
Contact: Emily Sernaker at ESernaker@sdrescue.org.
Young Life Capernaum in San Diego gives young people with mental and physical disabilities the chance to experience fun and adventure, to develop fulfilling friendships and to challenge their limits while building self-esteem through club, camp and other exciting activities. Young Life staff and volunteers model Christ’s unconditional love and acceptance as they walk alongside these young adults — filling their lives with love and support. Ways to get involved: (a) become a volunteer leader, (b) pray for San Diego Capernaum, (c) send a kid to camp, or (d) help us find ways to serve families with children with special needs.
Contact: Tobias Haglund at YLCapernaumSD@gmail.com or 951.897.1121.
