Community Outreach
Showing the love of Christ in tangible ways through serving our community.
Upcoming Events
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Places to Serve
WCC encourages its members to serve the community through the following organizations.
- Act Six Leadership Scholarship –This is an opportunity to support under-represented students to achieve their college and career goals. There are many ways to help including financial support for dorm and school supplies, coaching at college essay workshops, serving as a scholarship essay reader, taking on a mentoring role for a student, and assisting with scholar training. Contact Pamela Ryan at 503-869-4714 if you are interested in learning more or visit actin.org.
- Compassion Connect – This city ministry operates quarterly health and community clinics throughout Portland. By way of these events, the compassion of Christ is shown through the volunteers and the united effort of churches. Compassion Connect is fully committed to supporting, encouraging, and resourcing any group of churches who feel led by God to pull together their community to serve their neighbors. To find out more go to their compassionconnect.com.
- Dinner and a Movie – A support, mentoring, and educational project to help Portland’s homeless youth. Volunteer opportunities include long-term relational commitments and as-needed for administrative needs. Learn more at dinnerandamoviepdx.com or contact Chris Yarco at 503-754-4821.
- Girls Matter – A ministry that seeks to empower girls every where to find strength and healing in Jesus unconditional love! To learn more visit girls-matter.com.
- Lents Neighborhood Pastors Coalition – Pastors from small churches serving the disadvantaged Lents community meet regularly for prayer and discerning regarding the role that churches can play in bringing healing to the community. Contact Keith Lucas at 503-720-1422 if you would like to be involved or learn more.
- Operation Nightwatch – Serving the homeless not so far away through a mobile RV in the 92nd & Flavel area. To volunteer at the 92nd & Flavel location contact Peggy at peggy@lentsbc.com for details. You can read more about Nightwatch at operationnightwatch.org.
- Second Stories – An urban ministry focused on community development. They envision a movement where churches are trained and unleashed to collaborate with schools, service organizations, neighborhood associations, individuals and other churches for long-term neighborhood enrichment, social, and spiritual transformation in Portland. Volunteer opportunities can be found at second stories.org.
Past Projects
February 2011
Warm clothing and blanket drive to support Operation Nightwatch ministry to SE Portland homeless. 8 bags of warm clothing and blankets were provided to Operation Nightwatch for distribution to those who visit the weekly mobile care van at 92nd and Flavel. For more information on Operation Nightwatch, or to sign up to serve, go to operationnightwatch.org
March 2011
Collection of cosmetics to support the Marshall High School Prom. To read about how our support played a part in showing love to a broken school community take a look at the Oregonian article from March 31, 2011.
April 2011
Books for babies collection to support Clackamas County Healthy Start. Healthy Start is a child abuse prevention program that works with first time “at-risk” parents who have children between the ages of 0 -3. They work hard to help parents to build healthy parent/child relationships and to know that they are their child’s first teacher. Early literacy is an important part of their work and WCC members collectively donated over 100 books to support early reading.
Video Gallery
Anthony Jordan / Portland Leadership Foundation
Anthony Jordan from Portland Leadership Foundation shares his story, and how God is using PLF to reach underrepresented kids in Portland.
On Saturday, September 18, over 60 volunteers came out to Willamette Christian Church to clean up our building and property for the fall. Check out a quick highlight video!
On July 28, 2010, a group of about 100 came out to Marshall High School to clean up their grounds and property. It was a great day!
