Together we’re reaching our region by changing the community one life at a time. We help accomplish the mission of the church by serving together and sharing the love and truth of Jesus Christ through our actions and words. Regardless of your interests, spiritual gifts or talents, there is a place for you to serve.
Download our current newsletter here: Holiday Newsletter
Looking for a our current Holiday Giving Projects? Holiday Giving Projects
Adopt a Family/Child assists struggling families and foster children in our church and the surrounding community. You can help a family in need or one of the foster children from a local agency this holiday season by preparing and delivering a Thanksgiving food basket or by meeting other tangible needs such as meals and gifts at Christmas. This holiday program is a comforting reminder to people in need that even in the most challenging of economic times, people do care.
How to Participate
You or your group may select a family in need by stopping by the Adopt a Family table in Holiday Compassion Project tent in the courtyard or email TonyD@BaysideOnline.com. This is a great project for individuals, families or Small Groups. It is a hands-on way to teach your children, family and friends how to care for others by serving with them.
Download Foster Child FAQ Sheet
Download Thanksgiving FAQ Sheet
For More Information
Please stop by our ministry table in the courtyard.
In partnership with Chuck Colson’s famous Prison Fellowship Ministries, share Christian love with the children of incarcerated parents through the provision of Christmas gifts. When a parent is imprisoned, it is the children who suffer the most. But this year, you can let these children know they are not forgotten.
How to Participate
Stop by the Holiday Compassion Project tent in the courtyard during weekend service times and pick a child you’d like to bless this Christmas.
Please be sure to return your WRAPPED gifts by November 25. Why is this date so important? Angel Tree parties and gift distribution will begin the following week.
What to Volunteer with the Angel Tree Ministry? Here’s how you can help-
Adoption of Children – Check out Angel Tree packets to Baysider’s after each weekend service. 20 minutes of your time is all it takes! A great family activity too! November 3/4 – November 10/11
Gift Organization – Staff tables at weekend services -Receive and sort gifts back from Baysider’s before each service. 20 minutes of your time is all it takes! A great family activity too! November 17/18 – November 24/25
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact the Angel Tree Team at AngelTree@BaysideOnline.com
Christmas Angel helps parents bring a little joy to their children at Christmas. These parents are striving to make a positive change in their own lives through the Teen Challenge restoration program. They will be reunited with their children at Christmas and your gift donation will provide them with an opportunity to give their child a present at Christmas.
How to Participate
Stop by the Holiday Compassion Project tent and pick a child you’d like to purchase a gift for this season.
Please be sure to return your UNWRAPPED gifts by November 25.
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Help staff the Christmas Angel tables in the courtyard before or after weekend services
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Bob Simmons at 2rsimmons@sbcglobal.net
Food banks are continuously in need of food, especially during the holiday season. A simple way for you and your family to help those in need is by donating nonperishable food items. All food donations will benefit the Placer Food Bank. The food bank serves over 55 agencies throughout Placer, distributing over 4 million pounds of food and serving approximately 50,000 families each month.
How to Participate
Stop by the Holiday Compassion Project tent to pick up a food donation bag, fill it with healthy nonperishable food or simply fill your own bag of nonperishable items and drop them off in one of our food collection bins on campus. Can’t do an entire bag, grab a couple cans from your pantry – every donation helps!
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Help collect donations before and after weekend services in the Holiday Compassion Project tent
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Shaun Sanassarian at ShaunS@BaysideOnline.com
Send some Christmas love to impoverished children all around the world.
How to Participate
How Fill a shoebox with gifts that’ll bring a smile to a child’s face – toys, school supplies, hygiene items and whatever else your heart desires and even track it online to see where it ends up. Include a personal note along with $7 for shipping and handling. Bayside will get the gift box to Samaritan’s Purse who’ll then transport it to a child in need.
Shoeboxes must be dropped off at Bayside no later than Nov. 18th.
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Carol Champion at sassynana@yahoo.com
“From Bayside with Love” The Bayside Military Connection Ministry is committed to supporting and encouraging our deployed military troops and their families at home. Please join us in showing our love and appreciation by sending care packages filled with a taste of home.
How to Participate
Join us at the Care Package Packing Party
December 4 – Bayside Packing Party
Bayside Conference Center
8303 Sierra College Blvd. Suite #140
Roseville, CA 95661
If you have a loved one who will be deployed at Christmas, we would love to include them—and other members of their unit. In May we sent packages to several individuals, as well as to two complete units in Afghanistan. Please give us their APO or FPO address, and we’ll do our best to ship them a Christmas Care Package, From Bayside with Love! –
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How to Participate
Stop by and visit our table in the Holiday Compassion Project tent during weekend services during the month of November.
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Greg Van Dusen at gregvandusen@gmail.com
Red kettles. Festive bell ringing. Merry Christmas wishing. You know who we’re talking about, the Salvation Army Bell Ringers! Did you know that the Red Kettle Christmas Campaign enables the Salvation Army to provide food, toys and clothing to over 6 million people during the Christmas season? Not only that, they’re also able to help more than 34 million Americans recovering from varying personal disasters nationwide.
South Placer County has 31 locations where you can serve. Last year 800 volunteers rang the bell for the Salvation Army. Some people had so much fun; they hurried back to sign up for more shifts. This year you too can be a bell ringer! Grab a friend and ring together or include your kids and teach them about giving this Christmas season.
How to Participate
Stop by the Salvation Army table in the Compassion Project tent to volunteer today.
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Ken Frank at Ken@avalongraphics.com
We’re looking for 40 families who are willing to host a Japanese student from December 23 – January 6. Families will simply provide a bed, food and transportation to and from the designated study center. This is a great opportunity to expose these students to the real meaning of Christmas. Open up your home for two weeks and make a significant difference in the life of a student.
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Kelly Pagaragan at pagz@wwdb.org
The situation in the Congo is both dire and hopeful. Join Bayside in their together with World Vision to move forward the “journey of transformation”. This proven community development model for sustainable long-term solutions is built on World Vision’s 60 years of experience building a better world for children.
How to Participate
Stop by the Holiday Compassion Project tent a purchase a 2012 Bayside Christmas Ornament for $10 with all proceeds going directly to this project to save the lives of so many children and people.
Questions or to Volunteer
Contact Kim Bordisso at KimB@BaysideOnline.com
