Sharing God's Love Through Community Outreach - Spectrum Ministries

The main hub of our work is community work. We work in seven different communities right now. Some of the communities we’ve been working in a couple, two, three years…there’s others that go back 30, 40 years. In that time, for those communities that we’ve worked in for a long time, we’ve seen the infrastructure grow. Maybe there were dirt roads before, no water, no power…they have those things now. Kids are more apt to go to school and get an education, which is a great thing. But the spiritual climate hasn’t changed. And so, our message is, God loves you.

Nonprofit, Community Outreach, Tijuana, Poverty CycleShana ThompsonDecember 8, 2019Comment

Working Toward a Hunger-Free and Healthy San Diego - with Feeding San Diego

Today’s blog comes from a conversation I had with Alicia Saake, the COO of Feeding San Diego. Read below to learn about food waste and food insecurity in our neighborhoods, and how YOU can help alleviate these problems in your community!

Community Action, Community Outreach, Nonprofit, San Diego, Volunteering, Food Insecurity, Food WasteShana ThompsonNovember 24, 2019Comment

Breaking Down Barriers Through Sports - Game Changer

Game Changer is an experiential learning model rooted in behavior change. It is designed to bring about a change in perception, which leads to a change in behavior, which leads to a change in outcomes. The outcomes that we want are more peaceful outcomes between law enforcement and members of the general public that they serve.

Law Enforcement, Professional Sports, Collegiate Sports, Community ActionShana ThompsonNovember 10, 2019Comment

Once Lost, Now Found - How You and Your Dog Can Help Save a Life with Search Dog Resources

Search Dog Resources was formed from a group of people that have the same mission in mind, and that is to aid law enforcement to find lost people, whether it be an Alzheimer’s patient, whether it be a child, whether it be a hiker, whether it be somebody that hasn't returned for quite awhile…and we get together two or three times a week to train for those missions.

We have dogs in different disciplines. We have trailing, which works like a bloodhound that needs a scent article and hopefully will be able to follow that scent of that person only. And then we have what they call area dogs, which are non-scent specific and they will find any human scent. It takes two to three years to get a certified dog to gain mission-ready status.

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