Welcome to our “Helping Locally” page.
We are happy to help guide your interest toward supporting local needs that we have partnered with.
While the current climate presents challenges for some of the traditional ways of partnering with our local community, we are continuing to search for ways that we can help those in need in our own “backyard”.
If you’d like to get involved, please contact our Outreach and Care Pastor, Keith Gove at keithg@richfieldcc.org.
Living Well Pregnancy Centers
We are happy to partner with Living Well Pregnancy Center in Orange.
Living Well provides free pregnancy services to the community, for women at the crossroads of an unplanned pregnancy. Through compassionate, practical care, women are offered real solutions for their unique circumstances. They also provide judgment-free guidance to women who have experienced abortion at any time in their lives with the hope of leading them towards healing and restoration.
How you can join us in supporting Living Well.
1. Pray for the center and for the women they do and will work with.
2. Volunteer your time, talents, experience, and care.
3. Donate gently used baby or maternity clothes or other baby items.
For more information or to help you get connected to Living Well, you can contact Keith at keithg@richfieldcc.org.
HIS HOUSE
We are currently partnering with HIS House - a local, homeless intervention shelter - to support their efforts to provide at-risk families a chance to stay off the streets.
There is a Homeless Intervention Shelter (HIS House) in Placentia, across from Valencia High School, that could use our help. As you can imagine, many who were just barely getting by financially, are now in crisis. Many of the families struggling to get off of the street are now out of jobs. HIS house is helping, and we can be helping them. There is a list of needs - groceries, canned goods, frozen foods, prepared meals, hygiene products. Not only are these items more scarce at the moment, but they are also more expensive. Our help can mean a lot to one of these affected families. We are happy to coordinate with you for a drop off - simply contact me, Keith Gove, if you have items to donate.
HIS House is located at:
907 Bradford Ave, Placentia 92870
Phone: 714-993-5774
R.E.A.C.H.
(Human Trafficking Prevention and Support Team)
We’re always looking for people who would like to use their gifts and talents to support efforts to prevent and support the pain and horror of human trafficking.
For more info on our efforts or any of the opportunities below please contact Dennis Griggs or Sonia May.
Want to learn more? Below are more ways for you to get involved!
What Can I Do About Human Trafficking? Everyone Can Do Something
Even you can help trafficking victims.
Write notes of encouragement to Orange County survivors who are trying to restart their lives. See examples here.
Your Life Group, club, or family can either: 1) fill a sturdy emergency backpack for a victim of human trafficking (list of items here) or 2) fill a child or teen backpack for a minor in foster care. Contact Sonia May to deliver a backpack.
Become a trained volunteer with the OC Human Trafficking Task Force. (Language translators are greatly needed!). Learn more here.
You can help trafficking case workers:
Sew and donate face masks to OC Human Trafficking Task Force. Face masks are needed for social distancing by caseworkers and the victims they are assisting.
Give financially to an organization that’s making an impact.
You can help prevent trafficking:
Partner with our Safe Families for Children (SFFC) ministry, either as a family friend or by becoming a host family. Contact Keith Gove for more info.
Donate gift cards to our SFFC ministry to practically assist our host families who incur extra costs caring for these children.
Learn and talk to your children/grandchildren about the dangers of online predators. Traffickers and pornographers often pose as teenaged friends, boyfriends, modeling agents, acting talent scouts, etc.
Recognize the signs of human trafficking. Go here to learn more.
Immediately report suspicions: National Human Trafficking Hotline 1-888-3737-888
Stop to notice the lonely kids and teens in your neighborhood (those who seem to be on the fringes) and take a personal interest. Get to know them and become a safe adult in whom they can confide. These kids are often the most vulnerable to traffickers. One caring person can change the whole trajectory of a precious child’s life.
To learn more about R.E.A.C.H at RCC
Contact reach@richfieldcc.org
Like us on Facebook to learn more about Human Trafficking
ENGLISH CONVERSATION FOR INTERNATIONALS
Are you interested in improving your English and building friendships? Do you have a friend or neighbor who would like to learn English?
Soon, we will regather once COVID regulations and results permit us to. When we do meet, we’re together every Wednesday from 10am to 11:30am from September thru June. Classes are free and you can join any week!
For more information, call the church office at 714-524-1744.
