Outreach & Social Services
Local Outreach and Social Services
Faith in Action Sunday
In May and November each year, our entire congregation is invited to participate in a day of mass service projects! Typical projects include putting together packages for military servicemen and servicewomen overseas, giving gifts to veterans, landscaping at a mobile home park, cleaning up a school, installing gutters at a home, and painting at a women's shelter. Project leaders and volunteers are always needed.
View Thank You Letters from the Community from our November 6, 2011 Faith in Action Event
Pictures from our rainy Faith in Action Sunday, November 6, 2011
Multi-Site Church
At Community, we believe that one strong way of reaching people is by going to where the people are! We have worship services on campus in Escondido, at Redwood Town Court, and in San Marcos. By branching out and away from our Escondido campus, we can bring God's love to people all around the North County.
Local Organizations
Our church partners with those organizations who are already serving the needs of our community in incredible ways. We serve meals once per month at Interfaith Community Services, pack sack lunches for the homeless, hold food drives, collect Christmas presents for children at shelters, and participate in fundraising events such as The Walk for Life hosted by Alternatives Women's Center.
World Missions
Mission Trips and Servant Events
Each summer, the senior high youth take two mission trips. To view photos of our past youth mission trips, visit the Youth Mission Trips Photo Gallery. This summer, the youth served in Puerto Rico and in San Francisco.
To follow the mission trips, read the blogs written by the youth while on the trips:
Puerto Rico Servant Event - July 16 - 25, 2011
San Francisco Servant Event - July 16 - 22, 2011
Overseas Missionary Support
Our congregation supports Rev. Glenn and Susan Fluegge as LCMS missionaries in Africa. The Fluegges and their five children have served with LCMS World Mission since 1998 in Togo, West Africa where Glenn taught at the Centre Luthérien d’Etudes Théologiques, a seminary that trains pastors for Lutheran churches throughout French-speaking Africa. In 2009, they accepted a call to continue serving as missionaries, but this time in South Africa where Glenn currently teaches at the Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTS) in Pretoria and works with Lutheran churches throughout Africa to help develop their pastoral training programs. To learn more about their ministries and their family on their blog, visit their family website. To support the Fluegge family, print their prayer card.
"Community Lutheran takes seriously Jesus' mandate to go and make disciples of all nations, but we sure have a lot of fun doing it! Through service projects, community organizations, and mission trips, our outreach ministries will stretch you beyond your comfort zone and allow God to shape you and mold you for His purposes. Our church is always looking for new ways to reach people with the love of Christ in our community and in our world, so please join us, and watch how your faith is strengthened and deepend in the process." - Kristen Beyer
