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has been given away to compassion and kingdom causes
To hear more about where we are unleashing compassion one neighborhood at a time, choose a location on the map or click on one of the stories below. We strive to inspire people to collectively influence transformational life change for themselves and those around them. We hope these stories inspire you to take the next step on your spiritual journey even when that leads to go beyond borders.
My Journey Towards Hope And Redemption
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Read MoreLooking For A Newly Marrieds Small Group
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Read MoreNot Just Another Small Group
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Read MoreFrom Boys To Men: A Catalyst For Change
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Read MoreIn Oceans Deep My Faith Will Stand
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Read MoreWhat Does Compassion Look Like
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Read MoreCrossing the border to meet our sponsored child
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Read MoreFrom Desperation To Finding Hope
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Read MoreWhat if Christ does not want me?
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Read MoreThinking about getting baptized?
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Read MoreYou Are Never Alone
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Read MoreDivorcecare Surviving The Holidays
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Read MoreOne Million Meals
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Read MoreRIP Medical Debt
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Read MoreGod Leaves The 99
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Read MoreI Found God At The Lowest Point Of My Life
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Read MoreGetting Plugged In
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Read MoreHelping Ukraine Refugees
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Read MoreHearing The Word Cancer
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Read MoreA Place To Call Home
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Read MoreOutreach In Thailand A Ripple Effect
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Read MoreJourney To Motherhood And Recovery
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Read MoreFollow The Meals To Baja Mexico
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Read MorePractical Tips For Dealing With Anxiety And Depression
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Read MoreLearning My True Identity
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Read MoreInfertility Birthed Uniquely Knitted
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Read MoreI am a cycle breaker
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Read MoreReckless Love And ASL
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Read MoreIsabel’s Story
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Read MoreChild Sponsorship Get The App Now
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Read MoreCrossing The Bridge To Find Freedom And Recovery
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Read MoreChild Sponsorship App
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Read MoreJoy Jars Inspired By The Jessie Rees Foundation
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Read MoreHealing After Loss
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Read MoreI feel like I’m broken
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Read MoreMedical Debt Forgiveness
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Read MoreHow Can Shoes Show God’s Love
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Read MoreFreedom Isn’t Free
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Read MoreYour Generosity is Changing Lives
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Read MoreAn Unlikely Road to Fatherhood
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Read MoreChange Maker // Meet Katie
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Read MoreThe Benefit of Buying at Eastside
Scrip is a program that enables you to purchase gift cards to hundreds of the stores, restaurants and gas stations that you frequent, with a percentage of each purchase going back into Eastside’s Compassion Department to help families in need.
Read MoreDanny’s Story Going Beyond Borders
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Read MoreBEYOND BORDERS SERIES // Ariel’s Story
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Read MoreBEYOND BORDERS SERIES // A Trip Abroad That Changed Perspective-Amity’s Story
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Read MoreLet’s Talk About Poverty
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Read MoreChange Maker: Mark Buttrey
“I see souls and I love people, that’s all I do well,” claims Mark. This passionate Eastsider began serving in his home of Orange County upon returning from living abroad in Romania at age 24.
Read MoreBravely Forward: Officer Jesse’s Story
Growing up, Jesse was taught by his parents to respect the local Police Officers they’d pass by on the street. That respect grew to admiration as TV shows like SWAT and Adam 12 enhanced his perception of the officers protecting his city. “That’s what I wanted,” Jesse explained, “and that’s what the majority of cops want as they enter the force: to do good, to be the heros we grew up thinking so highly of.”
Read MoreHidden Joy
When Cindy and Danny came across Eastside for the first time, they were amazed at how friendly everyone was. The big smiles and the heartfelt greetings made a big church feel amazingly small in just the blink of an eye. They couldn’t believe the energy and passion that was all around.
Read MoreBeing a Voice for a Child Without One A look into Foster Care And CASA
May is National Foster Care Month, a time set aside originally in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan to offer appreciation to foster parents. Since being initiated, the National Foster Care Coalition has worked to expand the goals of this month to focus on awareness of the issues at hand and to encourage willing citizens to get involved with the foster system.
Read MoreJust Let Go
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Read MoreLife Together
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Read MoreAn Embrace that Crossed Cultures: A Sponsorship Story
We’re both named Sam, I guess that’s what initially drew me to her sweet face in the sea of Sponsorship Cards I was looking over. I had had this small and steady feeling on my heart for awhile to step up and join the many compassionate Eastsiders in taking a sponsorship child under my financial and prayerful wing.
Read MoreA Community in Support of Our Officers
On a Tuesday morning this past February, two policemen responded to a typical traffic accident call in Whittier, California; but when they appeared on the scene they were faced with much more than that. A man known to have gang affiliation had stolen the vehicle responsible for the crash that morning and opened fire on the officers as they approached him at the site of the collision. What was supposed to be standard procedure, turned into a day filled with emotion as the gunman took the life of one of the officers and injured the other.
Read MoreUnpacking the Suitcase
Mike explained that it was rare for addicts to be honest when in critical need, but honest they were as they spoke that day. Leaving no stone unturned, they expounded on their situation, saying they were not married, not members of the church and currently on the verge of eviction from their motel.
Read MoreCelebrating a Year of Handwritten Love
Jody Masquefa and her husband, Yves, own a restaurant in Anaheim that’s now daily serving up hope in the form of pasta to families in dire need of support. February 2, 2017 marks a year of anonymous dinners being delivered to these families at CHOC hospital who are facing the devastation and hardship that illness has imposed on their children; this is the story of how they got here.
Read MoreOut of Sight, Out of Mind
January is the month devoted to creating awareness of the ever-present societal issue of Human Trafficking. US Homeland Security defines the term as a “modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.”
Read MoreHoliday Season
Making changes helped, but prayer is what got me through that dark period of my life. I remember feeling at times I couldn’t survive the hurt. I would get down on my knees and pray and cry out to God to get me through just one more day. He did.
Read MoreThe Domino Affect of Love
The result was overwhelming as the same people who surround her on a daily basis at work jumped at the opportunity to serve! They worked together to supply every request on the list so that someone else’s needs would be filled last Christmas.
Read MoreLow Income Kids – Abraham’s Story
“Thank you for the pencils and paper and backpack. I really like the shirt too! I don’t like it when I don’t have my stuff for school, I feel so dumb. Your pack makes me feel better. Thank you!”
Read MoreHomelessness – Brett’s Story
On the hunt for a shower each morning became a new part of that routine, hygiene kits given by Eastside helping when a source to get clean was nowhere to be found.
Read MoreA Love Like No Other
With the love and prayers from her teammates, Morgan became well enough to help and participate at the orphanage. God showed her that life is best lived when it is with others and she left Thailand experiencing a love she will never forget.
Read MoreWhere There’s A Will, There’s A Way
Eastside stepped in and was able to fund the remaining weeks of the family’s stay while their paperwork process was completed--allowing a huge weight to be lifted off this single mom’s shoulders.
Read MoreA Hike to Remember
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Read MoreHome for Good
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Read MoreRainbows in Mexico
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Read MoreIn Celebration of Survivors
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Read MoreCindy’s Story
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Read MoreLeadership
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Read MoreA Wealth of Knowledge
Worry-filled days and sleepless nights passed. Clint’s unemployment and increasing debt weighed heavily on his mind, body and soul. He was losing hope
Read MoreGiving from the Most Natural Place
Have you ever had the desire to plug your passions into helping the community that surrounds you, yet remained unsure on how to go about it? Read on to hear how one woman made a world of difference by simply realizing her natural capacity for connecting those in need with those in a position to fill those needs.
Read MoreVolunteer Spotlight – Mike
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Read MoreShow Me, God
“All these years of trying to understand religion! Reading, studying, questioning…… I didn’t need a religion, I needed a relationship.”
Read MoreBuilding A Foundation For Healing
One couple's story of transformation and how they're using their story to build into the lives of others.
Read MoreA Heart For Service
Savannah is continually inspired to serve through seeing the impact serving has made in her own life and in the lives of others. “When you see people’s faces light up, when you see people receive your services, it’s just a reminder that God has done so much more than that, and God does that every single day..."
Read MoreA Recipe for Faith
He has found that serving and getting involved in local compassion efforts at Eastside have helped turn a big church into a small church. Because of the community he’s built through serving, it’s rare for him to walk down a hallway without knowing someone.
Read MoreEastside has a Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministry
In the nearly three decades she’s worked with the deaf, both at church and as a professional interpreter in the school system, Nancy has gained deep insight. “The biggest struggle for the deaf is the lack of socialization with the hearing community. Isolation results when there is lack of communication with those who don’t know your language no matter what the language.”
Read MorePassage to Kenya
“I’ll pray about it for next year.” Famous last words. Last year quickly became this year and Paige Haddick was caught completely off-guard by a friend and leader of the College ministry in the hallway at Eastside.
Read MoreChange is possible
As we finished praying her husband came forward and accepted Jesus, called his daughter in the room for prayer, and they demanded we cut this rope off the woman’s neck and take it out to destroy it. They wanted it burned to declare wherever there is light there cannot be darkness, and wherever there is freedom, there cannot be bondage.
Read MoreLost and Found
Confident and wise beyond her years, 20-year-old Desiree has a singular focus. Her heart is fixed on the 27 million people, many just little girls, in bondage by the evils of the international human sex trade.
Read MorePutting The Gun Down
There was a hole in the middle of the garage where his wife’s things used to be. He sat there with a gun in one hand and a bullet in the other. The only thing he could hear were the thoughts of failure and loss screaming in his mind.
Read MoreFinding Healing in Depression
I felt I was never good enough for anything. I felt I wasn’t going anywhere with my life, and I did feel pathetic. That was the reality that I was living in.
Read MoreGOD SAVED ME FROM ABUSE AND SUICIDE
When I turned 18, I decided to step away from church. I wanted to explore a world of what I considered “fun”. Instead, I found myself filling up the areas of rejection and low self worth with sex, drugs and alcohol. I was in abusive relationships and became severely depressed.
Read MoreLiving Free
After just five months in Washington, everything fell apart. God revealed the truth about my husband’s deception, and I realized what a foolish mistake I had made.
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