ACTION

We volunteered, donated, and completed:

ACTION / impact report / 2009

65 hours every day

$11,413 every week

21 projects every month

1 year of serious community impact
See how
thanks to you… we took ACTION
in 2009
 cared more…

ACTION did more…

2 transitional living homes, owned by Port Hueneme man-
aged by Lutheran Social Services, were completely
furnished thanks to the Action ministry center warehouse,

2 young children and their father received housing after the

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loss of their mother by the step-father in a murder-suicide,
thanks to a referral from Casa Pacifica and VC Child Pro-
23,565 volunteer hours tective Services,

$447,735 volunteer hours value

400+ church volunteers descended on Piru for a town
makeover during the 2009 ACTION Serve

62 county-wide church partners Multiple partnerships cross-county increased food distribu-

tion through churches and agencies including Mercy Minis-
50+ agency partners (NPO’s, City/County) tries, Manna and Simi Food Pantry, thanks to a partnership
between ACTION with VC Food Share
250+ service projects completed
10 Ventura County residents struggling with homelessness
$145,750 in-kind donations
i.e. beds, refrigerators, washer/dryers,
and sober living were placed into area treatments centers,
including Teen Challenge, Casa De Vida, Rescue Mission,
food, shoes/clothing, bedding, hygiene VC Behavioral Health & Telecare, thanks to ACTION staff.
items, furniture, household goods, toys,
computers. 12+ county families struggling with mentally ill relatives
referred for ministry assistance, resources and life coach-
12,000 Christmas Shoppe toys (2008) ing, thanks to the ACTION network. ACTION Executive
Director Rob Orth recognized by Turning Point Foundation
695 Christmas Shoppe volunteers (2008) and Ventura County Board of Supervisors as a “Champion
of Mental Health.
5,000 hours of volunteer foster care
Financial assistance to fix a Christian couple’s car (foster
parents); in turn, donated their other car to a recently
emancipated foster youth (age 19), so she could have the
car to get back and forth to school and work..”

$8,000 in school supplies & 200 backpacks passed out

$5,000 in gift gave high school grad gifts to foster youth

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 Join us! Here’s how to take ACTION now for 2010 TO DO:
MONEY
Thanks to you,
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Urgently need 40 new monthly donors.

Need special one time gifts to reach our $20k goal.

others now give thanks... Need matching gifts to help us end 2009 in a good
position.
In 2009, we made a serious impact.
Thank you again for everything you gave. Go: www.actionvc.org/1donate/giving.php

And there’s much more to do in 2010...

serving the Lord... serving others...
...will you give of you?
In thanks for your blessings,
help us continue to bless others.
TIME
Be a volunteer. Serve somebody. Be a leader.
Take a project on & organize others. Be an office or
event volunteer. Help good things happen.
Go: www.actionvc.org/serveday/list_Services.php

Go: www.actionvc.org/1volunteer/staffvols.php
There is a world of hurt outside our doors,
in Ventura County,
in our city,
in our neighbors’ homes... STUFF
Need toy donations for the 5 Christmas Shoppes, land-
take ACTION now... scape & construction supplies for various projects, and
lots of misc in-kind donations as needs arise.

Contact ACTION office: (805) 987-0330

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We take action, because we can...

thanks to Him.
Giving is our Thanksgiving.

Isaiah 58:11

“…if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry

and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.”

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