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UNLEASH COMPASSION

This summer, let’s turn compassion into action! Join us as we partner with local organizations to serve our communities in meaningful ways. Whether you serve with your small group, your family, or on your own, there are plenty of ways to get involved. This summer, let’s live out our faith and unleash compassion.

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Celebrating Summer of Serve

Celebrating Summer of Serve 18,555 Acts of Compassion This summer, something incredible happened at Eastside. Whether you’re considering visiting or have been part of our church family for years, you’re invited to celebrate what God did through an initiative we called Summer of Serving. Together, our church set out with ...
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Eaton Fire Disaster Relief

Eaton Fire Disaster Relief

Eaton Fire Disaster Relief LA Fires While no one community can help every person affected by a tragedy like the LA Fires, we evaluated the resources we have available as a church and strategically partnered the best ways we could.  We’re focusing our compassion efforts in Alta Dena by partnering ...
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Instant Family

We we’re all inspired by the movie “Instant Family” with Mark Wahlberg.  Hear one family’s story about their adoption. My name is Peter and this is my wife, Jennifer. We’ve been attending Eastside Christian Church for about five or six years. We had one daughter and wanted more children. We ...
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Street Shaves

Street Shaves began as a small initiative, but its impact has grown quickly in the heart of Redlands, CA. near our Eastside Christian Church Redlands Campus. Street Shaves is a faith-based nonprofit organization started by Joshua Masih. He and a team of about seven to eight people meet and serve ...
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Olive Crest Helps Families In Crisis

Olive Crest helps families in crisis Seeing the world through the eyes of children is one of the many reasons the Davila family feels blessed to open their home as part of Strong Families. Strong Families, by Olive Crest, is designed for families in crisis. Through Strong Families, children whose ...
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Erik Rees Joy Jars

Your Generosity Provides Joy

the inspiration behind the Joy Jars Because of the tremendous generosity of so many Eastsiders we are able to support amazing organizations like NEGU (Never Ever Give Up). Recently, we were able to provide support in the way of gift cards for 500 families with children battling cancer. This is ...
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Mercy House

What Does Compassion Look Like

What does compassion look like at mercy house? My name is Jacob, and I’m the Development Director at Mercy House a non-profit organization that serves homeless individuals and families here in California and Arizona. Mercy House is involved in outreach to homeless communities and homeless encampments. We provide services to high-density areas ...
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One Million Meals

Eastside Christian Church, along with Mission of Hope packed one million meals to help those struggling with food insecurity. Thank you to everyone that helped pack meals for those struggling with food insecurity and malnutrition! Together we did it — we packed 1 MILLION MEALS! What do one million meals ...
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RIP medical debt forgiveness

RIP Medical Debt

RIP Medical Debt US MEDICAL DEBT CRISIS This year has been challenging for so many people and we wanted to spread a little hope this Christmas season!! Last year, about 75 million people had to choose between medical bills and basics like food, heating, or housing and about 60% of ...
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Infertility Birthed Uniquely Knitted

doug & jesse share their personal story and struggle with infertility https://vimeo.com/457146171 In 2013, after trying for a year, Doug & Jesse were unable to get pregnant.  Jesse had a sinking feeling that something was wrong. So they went to the doctor and discovered they both had issues which left ...
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Olive Crest

Olive Crest We were all inspired by the movie “Instant Family” with Mark Wahlberg.  Imagine growing up without the love and support of family to guide you through life. That’s the stark reality for approximately 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. Kids who, through no fault of ...
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Partnering With Olive Crest

We we’re all inspired by the “Instant Family” movie with Mark Wahlberg.  We’re partnering with Olive Crest a local organization that is making a huge impact for children in foster care. https://vimeo.com/534138556 Imagine growing up without the love and support of family to guide you through life. That’s the stark reality for ...
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Joy Jars Inspired By The Jessie Rees Foundation

erik rees explains the jessie rees foundation https://vimeo.com/521559794 My name is Erik Rees I get the honor of being the CEO of the Jessie Rees Foundation and, more proudly, I get to be Jessie’s father. The Jessie Rees Foundation was inspired by my 11-year-old daughter, Jessie, during her fight with ...
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RIP medical debt forgiveness

Medical Debt Forgiveness

MEDICAL DEBT FORGIVENESS   Medical debt can hit any family. My name is Lilia and I’ve been with Titus for twenty years and we have four daughters. A few years ago, I had gone in for a simple corrective surgery that was supposed to be outpatient, real quick and fast, ...
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How Can Shoes Show God’s Love

How can Shoes Show God’s Love? Here is a story from Ray who was an Eastsider working with the Orange County Department of Education Access Program. “ACCESS is proud to collaborate with various local and national organizations and businesses to equip our students as they build a pathway to college ...
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The 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.

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Let’s Talk About Poverty

Let’s talk about poverty. Poverty. Poor. Living under the Poverty Line. These terms and phrases we hear on a daily basis to describe a person in need–but what do they necessitate exactly? Food? Shelter? Different clothing? Perhaps, but when we lean in to take a closer look we find that ...
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Being 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 ...

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A 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 ...

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Unpacking 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 ...

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Celebrating 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 ...

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Out 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.” 

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The Domino Effect 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.

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Low 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!”

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Homelessness – 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. 

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Where 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.

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Home for Good

Dean Martin once sang a song with lyrics claiming he had his love to keep him warm, and it seems no truer words have been spoken for Virgil and Terry, an elderly couple that have lived in between motels and the actual streets of Orange County for more than 13 ...
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In Celebration of Survivors

Back in September, Friends Christian Church in Yorba Linda held a spectacular event in conjunction with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF) to honor survivors of Human Trafficking with a graduation ceremony. Many, if not the majority of these individuals had never experienced any sort of ceremony of ...
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Cindy’s Story

Cindy’s Story “It’s the shirts with turtlenecks, ya know, the ones that wrap around your neck? It’s those I still can’t wear.” Even though it’s been 14 years since leaving her abusive ex-husband, for Cindy there are particular prompts that even now give rise to recollections of terror during the ...
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Building A Foundation For Healing

One couple's story of transformation and how they're using their story to build into the lives of others. 

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A 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, ...

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A 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.

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At Eastside, we practice responsible stewardship and inspire individuals, families, and small groups to eliminate barriers and unleash compassion in creative and meaningful ways. We partner with trusted local organizations because we believe lasting impact begins with listening, learning, and working together. Rather than creating solutions in silos, we engage with community experts and strategic partners who understand the real needs and gaps. Their insight helps us identify where Eastsiders can serve most effectively—empowering kids, strengthening families, and advocating for those in need. Get involved today and be part of unleashing compassion!

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OUR MISSION

Eastside Local Compassion is committed to serving the community and helping Eastsiders find their passion to serve. We aim to empower kids to thrive and bring hope to families by listening and learning from existing pillar organizations in the community, developing partnerships, identifying gaps in services and intentionally mobilizing people and resources.

OUR VISION

Our dream is for Eastside to be a leader in finding solutions, building bridges, and bringing the love and hope of Jesus to hurting communities. We strive to inspire people to collectively influence transformational life change.

VALUES

Trust & Collaboration
Strategic Partnerships
Transformational Life Change 
Maximizing Resources

join the compassion crew

Do you want to help mobilize other Eastsiders to serve? Want to join a group of Change Makers to facilitate compassion activity on your campus? Join the Compassion Crew! Projects vary depending on the season, your skillset, and campus. Ways you can serve while on the Crew include things like shopping or delivering partner supplies, helping support compassion projects, prepping compassion experiences for other Eastside groups, helping promote upcoming compassion opportunities at your campus, and more.

foster care

If you are interested in learning more about becoming a foster or adoptive parent, we’d love to help connect you with those organizations. But all of us can do something!  You can find out how you can support foster and adoptive families. You can buy diapers and wipes. You can provide a meal. You’d be providing indescribable encouragement to those families. To get more information about foster/adopt or to learn how to support these families, click on the link below.

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shop with a purpose

Looking for more ways to give back? It’s as easy as buying a gift card. Scrip is a unique way to donate because a percentage of every gift card purchased through our scrip program goes toward helping families in need!

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