"Love San Leandro" is a joint effort by a number of San Leandro, CA churches to roll up our sleeves and serve our community out of our love for Jesus and for the people. This is a semi-annual event that takes place on a Saturday from 9-12 Noon and all are welcome to participate, whether affiliated with a church or not!

To participate in "Love San Leandro" just click on the Project Name, fill out the form to let us know what project you will be participating in and how we can get in contact with you.

Thank you for your interest. Please join us as we seek to make a difference and show a little kindness to the City of San Leandro, Oakland, Mexico, and the Congo.


Watch Love San Leandro in Action


Local churches
 involved with
"Love San Leandro"

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Bay Area Chinese Bible Church

Creekside Community Church

Faith Fellowship

Halcyon Baptist Church

San Leandro Church of Christ

San Lorenzo Japanese
Christian Church

 

 

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Thank You for checking in with

"Love San Leandro"


Our last event was

Saturday, October 17, 2009
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

This video shows some of the projects from

Love San Leandro 2009!

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LIST OF PROJECTS

SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!

PROJECT NAME STATUS PROJECT NAME STATUS
Just Walk Across the Room - Training in sharing Your Faith Closed Make Christmas
Card/Boxes for Military
Closed
Make Christmas Cards
for Prisoners
Closed Plant Raised
Vegetable Gardens
Closed
Make Fleece Blankets
with Residents at Jones Nursing Home
Closed Make Fleece Blankets at Creekside for
Healthcare Residents
Closed
Yard Clean Up #1
on Broadmoor
Closed Yard Clean Up #2
on Begier
Closed
Yard Clean Up #3
at Building Futures
Closed Cox Bicycle Rodeo Closed
Cox Bicycle Clinic Closed First Resort Baby Shower Closed
Urban Church Basketball and Fashion Show
Closed

Loft Home Buildings
for Mexico

Closed
Holy Tearers - Make Bandages for Hospitals Closed

Clean Up After Lunch

Closed

Photographers

Closed    
       
The Following Projects Are Date Sensitive -
They Occur Before or After the Main Event on Saturday, October 17th

Donations
(Deliver by Oct.11th)

Closed

Boxes for Military Overseas
(Deliver by Oct.11th)

Closed

Pre-Build Loft Homes
(Friday, Oct. 16th)

Closed

Mission Trip - Put Homes Together in Mexico (Dec.4th-6th)

Closed

 

Project Are Closed - Please contact your local church
if you still want to help!



JUST WALK ACROSS THE ROOM
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Training in sharing your faith.
Donation of $10 includes light lunch.
Saturday, October 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Halcyon Baptist Church
2860 Halcyon, San Leandro


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MAKE CHRISTMAS CARDS/BOXES FOR MILITARY
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Make Christmas cards/boxes and mail them to men and women serving in the military overseas.
(Child Friendly Project).
Location:  Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd. (Library and adult classroom next door)
Team Leader: Kristianne Koenen and Terry Teresi
Volunteers:  25 total (15 card making, 10 assembling boxes)
Supplies:  Paper, pens, decorations provided.  Bring scissors and any additional decorations you’d like to use.  Also see donation list at the end of the projects for items needed in the boxes.




MAKE CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR PRISONERS
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Make Christmas cards
for prisoners at Deuel Vocational Institute and Santa Rita Prison (Child Friendly Project).
Location:  Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd. (Jungle Room in Children’s Center)
Team Leader: TBA
Volunteers:  25
Supplies:  Paper, pens, decorations provided.  Bring scissors and any additional decorations you’d like to use.  

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PLANT RAISED VEGETABLE GARDENS
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Plant Raised Vegetable Gardens for Adults with Disabilities.
Location: Fuller Gardens Apartment Complex -
2390 East 14th St., San Leandro
Team Leader: Christina Morton Sheridan
Volunteers:  6
Supplies:  Work gloves, gardening Supplies: shovels, rakes, hoes, hand cultivators, pruning shears, watering cans

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MAKE FLEECE BLANKETS AT JONES NURSING HOME
- SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please sign up for another project!
Make fleece blankets with residents at Jones Nursing Home (first 90 minutes). Then, we will have a time of singing and playing bingo with the residents (remaining 90 minutes).
Location:  524 Callan Ave, San Leandro
Team Leader:  Lynn Holman and Beth Baker
Volunteers:  8
Supplies: Scissors or quilting rotary cutters




MAKE FLEECE BLANKETS AT CREEKSIDE
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Make fleece blankets
at Creekside for San Leandro Healthcare residents (first 90 minutes). Then, we will drive to San Leandro Healthcare (1 mile away) and have a time of singing and playing bingo with the residents and pass out the blankets (remaining 90 minutes)
Location:  Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd. (in the Student Center).
Team Leader:  Fran Botelho
Volunteers:  20 (ages 12 and up – men and women)
Supplies:  Scissors or quilting rotary cutters

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YARD CLEAN UP #1
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Location: 
____ Broadmoor, San Leandro
Team Leader:  Wing Lai
Volunteers:  7
Supplies: TBA

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YARD CLEAN UP #2
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Location: ____ Begier, San Leandro
Team Leader: Jim McKelvey
Volunteers: 6-8
Supplies: TBA

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YARD CLEAN UP #3
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Building Futures for Women and Children "Safe House"
Location: TBA (A confidentiality form will be signed by those serving at the safe house)
Team Leader: Tim Royal
Volunteers: 10
Supplies: Gloves, weed whacker, shrub trimmer, hoes, shovel, cultivator

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COX BICYCLE CLINIC
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Location:  Verdese Carter Park in Oakland – corner of Bancroft and 98th Ave.
Team Leaders:  Greg Mickle, Bob and Karen Worthen
Volunteers:  25 bicycle mechanics needed, and 4 administrative
Supplies:  Work tables to do repairs on, bicycle repair tools, saw horses with boards (to make work table.  Call Greg Mickle if you have used bicycles to donate (510-551-4087)

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COX BICYCLE RODEO
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Location:  Verdese Carter Park in Oakland – corner of Bancroft and 98th Ave.
Team Leaders: Jesse Nakamura and Woody Square
Volunteers: 6
Supplies: Will be provided.

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URBAN CHURCH BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AND
70’s FASHION SHOW

SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Saturday, Oct.17th)
Location: Brookfield – Ira Jenkins Rec Center, 9175 Edes Ave, Oakland
Team Leaders:  Jeff Bruce and Armando Stokes
Volunteers: 5 makeup artists/hair stylists, 5 kitchen/food prep, 3 administrative, 4 scorekeepers 

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FIRST RESORT BABY SHOWER
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!

Baby shower
for 4 women with unexpected pregnancies.
Location:  Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd.
Team Leader:  Jenny Bruce
Volunteers: 40 women (age 13 and up)
Supplies: 
Baby gift (Jenny will contact you with items on a registry at Target)

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HOLY TEARERS

- SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!

Make bandages for hospitals in the Congo
(see website www.covchurch.org/women/departmental-ministries/global-ministry/bandage-rolling)
Location:  Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd.
Team Leader:   Sharon Wallace
(email sharon@creeksidecommunity.org)
Volunteers:  20 (5 on sewing machines, 5 cutting fabric, 5 rolling bandages, 5 packing) men or women ages 16 and above
Supplies: 5-6 sewing machines, scissors, thread.  We are asking for donations of used patterned or solid sheets (cotton blend) and 5 yard pieces of cotton blend fabric.

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HANDS OF MERCY LOFT HOME BUILDINGS FOR MEXICO
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
(see website www.handsofmercy.com )
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location:  Parking lot on north side of Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd.
Team Leaders:  Todd Hill, Matt Chan, Glen Ottinger and Jay Martin 
Volunteers:  40 (men, women and children age 10 and above)
Supplies:  4 table saws, hammers, tape measures




CLEAN UP
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Time: After lunch, October 17th
Location: Creekside Community Room
Volunteers: 8
Supplies: Will be provided.

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PHOTOGRAPHERS
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Chronicle the day’s events with your camera.
Location:  All projects (maps will be provided)
Team Leader:  TBA
Volunteers:  5
Supplies:  Digital camera, ability to make a DVD-R copy of your photos/movies of that day to share with others.

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THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS ARE DATE SENSITIVE -

THEY OCCUR BEFORE OR AFTER THE MAIN EVENT ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th:




DONATIONS
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Deliver to local church by Sunday, Oct. 11th.
Used Bicycles
1 yard pieces of fleece
Sheets (gently used or new) made from cotton or cotton polyester (solid or print)
Cotton fabric to be used for bandages (5 yard pieces)

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BOXES FOR MILITARY OVERSEAS
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Deliver to local church by Sunday, Oct. 11th.

Socks (80% cotton – black or white crew socks
Beef jerky
Tuna or chicken foil packets
Small licorice and hard candy
Gum, mints
Rice Krispie pre-wrapped bars
Granola Bars
Fruit Gummies
Hot beverages – individual tea bags, coffee bags, hot chocolate, Crystal Lite
Tennis balls
Baby Wipes
Hot Hands (purchase at Big 5)
Popcorn, granola bars, snack crackers
Playing cards

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PRE-BUILD HANDS OF MERCY LOFT HOME BUILDINGS
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
Date/Time: FRIDAY, October 16th, 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location:  Parking lot on north side of Creekside Community Church, 951 MacArthur Blvd.
Team Leaders:   Todd Hill, Jay Martin
Volunteers (experienced):  8
Supplies:  8 Chop saws and stands, hammers, tape measures, saw horses




HANDS OF MERCY MISSION TRIP
SIGN UP IS CLOSED - Please contact your church if you are able to help out!
P
ut homes together in Mexico on Dec 4th to 6th.
We will leave the Bay Area Friday December 4th and fly to San Diego, drive across the border and begin assembling the two loft homes.  We’ll drive back to San Diego Sunday, Dec 6th then fly to the Bay Area.
(Click this link to see video or go to youtube.com and type in “loft home ministry”).
Location:  Rancho Casitas, Mexico (18 miles SE of Ensenada)
Team Leader: Kathy Greer
Volunteers:  30
Cost:  $200
Supplies:  Passport needed (if you don’t have one the process takes about 8 weeks).  A tool list will be provided.

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