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Moving Beyond Church
Moving Beyond Church
Is being a people with Jesus at the center, traveling wherever Jesus takes us.
Is trusting that God is active in the world.
Is meeting others in their context.
This bulletin is designed to help you navigate your way on a Sunday morning at the gathering of the church at Emmanuel. But one of our core values is to live out the example and call of Jesus for his followers to be light in the communities we find ourselves in. This could be the neighborhood you live in, the space that you work in, or beyond. This page is designed to help you live out your faith as you leave the worship center and return to your world.
Local Engagement 2025
Local Engagement 2025
Harbor House Hot Meals Provided in 2025
960 (660 on Sundays and 300 on Thursdays)
Also provided 288 hygiene kits (24 per month)
Number of Emmanuel volunteers involved in hot meals
Sunday meals: 80 different people involved, including 14 children high school and younger
Thursday meals: 11 people involved
Harbor House Sack Lunches Provided in 2025
140
Manna donations during 2025
Approximately 1,748 pounds
116 bags of groceries (based on Manna's estimate of 15 pounds equals 1 bag of groceries)
Harbor House Hot Meals
Harbor House Hot Meals
Every day of the year, Harbor House provides a hot meal to about 50 people in our
community who may otherwise go hungry. Currently, Emmanuel provides these 50 hot meals on one Thursday evening every other month. Five volunteers each make 10 meals on their own, package them in to-go containers, and deliver them to the Harbor House distribution site at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. If you're interested in participating, please contact Dawn Zeilinger at dawnzeilinger@yahoo.com .
We also provide these 50 hot meals on the second Sunday of each month. Here’s how that opportunity works:
Volunteers from the congregation will provide the various food items. For example, someone can sign up for a certain number of meat portions, someone else for salads, someone for dessert, someone for vegetables, etc. Sign-up Genius will have the details each month.
The volunteers will prepare the food at home and meet at church on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 to bring their already prepared food. They will work together to assemble the meals in to-go containers. A few people would then deliver all the meals to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.
February Manna Drive
February Manna Drive
Manna of the Conejo Valley is a ministry partner with Emmanuel. They are asking for cooking oil, peanut butter, and syrup. Bring your donation to the church and leave it in the narthex, aka front lobby.
Bring your donation to the church and leave it in the narthex, aka front lobby.
You can learn more about Manna at their website
Manna has moved! New address is 95 N. Oakview Drive in Thousand Oaks.
Food pantry hours and donation times remain the same.
Phone number is still 805-497-4959.
Harbor House Opportunities
Harbor House Opportunities
Lunch Sign Ups
Lunch Sign Ups
Harbor House needs lunches. Our signup sheet has many openings. If you can possibly take a day and make 10 lunches, we would be grateful. We ask for 90 lunches per day, which is a big ask and we know that. We are hoping if all of our volunteers can help a little, we can continue to feed the needy who come to our meal program. Since Lutheran Social Services closed their drop-in center, we have seen higher numbers coming to our daily program. We are so grateful for those of you out there volunteering with this program and helping to keep our community fed.
Water Donations
Water Donations
If you can, please bring bottled water to our meal program any day between 4:00-4:30 PM. Our location is Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 1 W. Avenida de los Arboles, Thousand Oaks.
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Amazon Wish List
Too strapped for time to make lunches? Please take a look at our Amazon Wish List which has many items that will help us to make lunches.
Harbor House News - Stay Up to Date!
Harbor House News - Stay Up to Date!
Sign up for the Harbor House newsletter at this link!
Esther School Newsletter Fall-Winter 2024-2025.pdfEsther School Newsletter
Esther School Newsletter
The Esther School is one of our ministry partners, they describe their vision:
To build a thriving community of faithful and skillful servant leaders, bringing sustainable transformation through education and partnership with students, families, community members, and Christ-followers from within Zambia and around the world.
The newsletter link takes you to a PDF newsletter; it also includes an ask for donations. We support the Esther School as a church, if you would like to give directly to them you can do so but we are not asking you to do so.
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