What may churches call “outreach” or “service”, the Advocate calls Community Engagement.
We use this term to remind ourselves that we are called to be in relationship with others in all we do, engaging with them, so that the lives of us all are blessed and enriched.
Our community engagement happens in many ways:
- we are invovled with Orange Justice United, working with out faith groups across the region to work for justice in our County — a living wage for government employees, eliminating the education gap in our schools, advocating for the immigrants in our midst, and more.
- we send out two mission trips from the Advocate each year — one international (to Haiti) and on domestic (in 2008 to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, in 2009 to the Appalachia Service Project).
- we use our office space as a place of hospitality for musicians and amateur theologians, for English as a Second Language Classes, Literacy tutoring, non-profit board retreats, and more.
- we participate in Habitat for Humanity Build projects
- we actively engage with the homeless and those in prison.
