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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
Eaton Fire Disaster Relief
Instant Family
Street Shaves
Olive Crest Helps Families In Crisis
Your Generosity Provides Joy
What Does Compassion Look Like
One Million Meals
RIP Medical Debt
Infertility Birthed Uniquely Knitted
Olive Crest
Partnering With Olive Crest
Joy Jars Inspired By The Jessie Rees Foundation
Medical Debt Forgiveness
How Can Shoes Show God’s Love
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.
Let’s Talk About Poverty
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.”
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.
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!”
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.
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.
Home for Good
In Celebration of Survivors
Cindy’s Story
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.
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, ...
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.
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.
scrip
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!