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.
As The Esther School (TES) prepares to celebrate its first graduating class, the grade twelve students stand as powerful testaments to how God is working in this community. Their growth reflects what God can do when students, their families, staff, and sponsors like you partner together. As a sponsor, you provide pivotal opportunities for success - school supplies, daily meals, letters of encouragement, and, above all, prayers. Your support sends a clear message to students: you believe in them.
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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.
Manna of the Conejo Valley is a ministry partner with Emmanuel. They are asking for canned meat (like chicken and spam), canned chili. 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 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.
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.
Sign up for the Harbor House newsletter at this link!
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.
We are partnering with Westminster Clinic and the backpack drive they conduct every year. We are going to focus on elementary supplies, as that is the highest number of backpacks needed.
Last year they distributed backpacks and school supplies to 1,585 children.
Westminster Community Care Center is a private, non-profit community care center serving the working poor and uninsured of Ventura County. We also serve as a training site for high school students considering careers in healthcare.
Westminster Free Clinic is 100% free. We serve as a safety-net for those with no other affordable options and fill gaps as needed.
As a community care center, our goal is to provide low-income people with early access to healthcare, and health supporting programs and services, in order to prevent more costly mental and physical health problems. To achieve this, we understand that the health environment must also change, so we partner with the community to inspire both individual and larger scale change.
The clinic is first come first serve, providing access to health care to over 100 patients on Tuesday evenings at 4:30pm in Oxnard, Wednesday evenings starting at 4:30pm in Thousand Oaks and Thursday evenings starting at 4:30pm in Santa Paula. We do not take patients with Medi-Cal, Medicare, or other insurance programs.