assistlocal.org - Bringng the CHURCH to the needs of our COMMUNITY

About Assist Local Network

The Assist Local Network concept  was born out of the Local Impact team of Lakeside Church in Folsom, CA and an accumulation of more than 30 years of community service work beginning in Santa Ana, CA.  Operation Love was founded by Assist Local Network's founder and members of local community churches in southern California in the late 1970s, to serve those in poverty in Santa Ana. During the time that Operation Love served the community, the City of Santa Ana awarded Operation Love and it's members the LISA (Let's Improve Santa Ana) community service award for having the most effect on poverty and improving the quality of life for those in need. The Local Impact team of Lakeside Church received the Community Partnership Award in 2008 from the California State University at Sacramento for their continued work at Blanche Sprentz Elementary School in Folsom, CA. The community Partnership Award honors outstanding educators and the important contributors of businesses, community organizations, and individuals to local public education.

The Assist Local Network is a Christian organization whose purpose is to provide support through recruiting volunteers to serve local organizations and charities, and connect the various members of local churches to the needs within their local communities.

The vision of The Assist Local Network is to promote, facilitate, and lead high quality community service events at which the not yet believing community would experience the reality and relevance of Jesus through the service of Christ Followers, and provide to those who participate an opportunity to share the love of Jesus by serving our community, to invite their not yet believing friends, and to building authentic Christ honoring relationships that will transform them into passionate and productive followers of Jesus.

The mission of The Assist Local Network is to connect various members of local churches to work together as ONE BODY to meet needs within our communities such as:

• Poverty
• Homelessness
• Hunger
• AIDS
• Cancer
• Orphans
• Foster Children
• Elderly
• Widowed
• Imprisoned
• Handicapped
• Disadvantaged
• Oppressed
• Emergency response, community support, and more.