Mercy House provides housing and comprehensive services for a variety of homeless populations which include families, adult men and women, mothers and children, those overcoming substance addictions and those who are physically or mentally disabled.  Services include help with food and clothing.  Access to showers and clothes washing machines.  Mercy House will help clients find housing and provides transitional housing for those getting back on their feet.  Counseling services are available as Mercy House seeks holistic transformation for individuals.

Pathways To Hope is a local Flipside ministry that provides, information, encouragement, and logistical support to families interested in taking in foster children or interested in adoption.  In addition Flipside helps with providing Safe Families to those in temporary need of help with childcare while moving forward at critical times in their lives.  There are also opportunities for Flipside families to come alongside with funding or providing other resources for those caring for foster children, adopted children or those who are acting as a safe family.

Contact:

Ivy Gentry

Ph.  (909)560-9519

Crossroads Prison Ministries connects prisoners with volunteer mentors on the outside.  Mentors have the opportunity to interact with those incarcerated through grading Bible Studies, writing letters of encouragement, and developing friendships.  Flipside members are involved with those in a number of local prisons.

Contact:

(909)367-8007

Life Stream Blood Bank serves the Inland Empire by providing lifesaving blood products and services to more than 80 southern California hospitals and medical facilities.  Flipside holds blood drives twice a year to provide blood for our local communities.  For each donor who gives blood during the blood drive, Lifestream will donate $20.00 per person to go toward Flipside outreach and missions projects.

Contact:

Don Burghardt

(951)533-5546

Missions of Hope International

Missions of Hope seeds to educate, empower, restore, and redeem disadvantaged children and families and communities.  Missions of Hope accomplishes their mission through providing schooling for over 20,000 children, skills training and business training and micro-loans for adults as well helping with medical needs in under served communities in Nairobi Kenya and beyond.  MOHI also seeks spiritual transformation with the children and has a number of church planting partners seeking to bring Christ to those who don’t know Him.  Flipside sends teams every other year to participate with the Gitathuru community in the Mathare Valley to bring hope to children.  Flipside members also sponsor children from poor families so that they may attend school.

Contact:

Mr Wallace Kamau

Mrs. Mary Kamau

For sponsoring a child–cmfi.org/mohi

M+D

Our partnership in the Middle East seeks to reach out through community development and the love of Christ with refugees and others from a war torn country steeped in poverty and a lack of hope for the future.  Coming alongside people and sharing God’s love with those who don’t know him is the priority of this outreach.  Flipside provides financial and prayer support for this outreach.

Contact:

Sean and Teresa Rogers

Sean and Teresa  work with women and men who have been caught up in the trafficking trade in Germany.  They seek to provide support to those who are victims and trapped with no way out. The ministry focuses on building relationships and sharing hope and the good news of Christ as well as introducing people to an alternative lifestyle that reflects who God created people to be.  Flipside provides financial and prayer support for this ministry.

Contact:

Dennis Larkin

E3 Partners seeks to equip Christians and churches overseas to evangelize the lost and establish multiplying churches.  E3 seeks to accomplish their mission by sending Christians from the US on short term trips to teach and mentor local believers and churches for outreach.  Our partner Dennis Larkin focuses his time on taking teams to Nigeria to equip locals there for outreach to the unreached.

Contact :

dennislarkin@E3partners.org

Flipside has a number of partners in the Baja area of Mexico.  Flipside takes a few trips each year to work with pastors, churches and disadvantaged communities.  Activities include visiting orphanages, supplying Christmas gifts to individuals and communities in need, construction work, responding to crises, encouraging pastors, and sharing the love of Christ with those in need.

Contact:

Garry Brock  garry@flipsidechurch.com

Alex Saldana  ajsaldana5784@aol.com

Mission Impact

Healthy Communities

Michelle and Gerber Perez

Flipside partners with Michelle and Gerber in Guatemala to transform lives and communities in a holistic manner.  Work focuses on working with communities to help them use appropriate technology to obtain clean water, proper sanitation by building latrines and trash disposal.  Work has also been done to help build and equip medical clinics and provide assistance to local community schools.  Flipside sends a team every other year to support the ministry through coming alongside the community and engaging in a variety of activities from construction to teaching and sharing the love of Jesus.

Contact:

Flipside partners with World Vision to raise money for getting clean water in Kenya and other African countries.  Flipside raises money by having individuals seeks people to sponsor them by donating funds as they run in the Charity Challenge part of the  LA Marathon and The Global 6K for water.

Contact:

Lindsey Hill