Our organization has been growing and growing. The three main concerns identified in our early November ‘99 survey from the Isla Vista residents were Food for Families, Education for their children, and Physical and Emotional Health Programs that can alleviate some of their vulnerability from lack of health insurance.
We are thankful to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ that the programs we have been able to initiate are making a profound difference. Even though we are meeting some of these needs, it is still a weekly challenge to fund them.
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The IVTC students and the IVTC coordinator have been working hard preparing for this “IVTC Tutors Thank You Event”. But they were not alone in the planning. All students’ parents joined them to have a nice dinner for the IVTC Tutors
SBCDC and our community families want to say THANK YOU to Nourish America for their recent donations. SBCDC has partnered with Nourish America for many years.
On Monday, January 4th, Laura Otaola announced to the students that she would be leaving IVTC for a position with Young Life, a ministry that reaches out to adolescents. The children and parents prepared food and spoiled the tutors with a wonderful meal in celebration of the many contributions Laura has made to the tutoring center.
Although Laura will be deeply missed by students and tutors of IVTC, we know her new job will bring joy into the lives of children at Young Life-so we’re excited for her!
We love you Laura!
The new UCSB school year brings new and former students back to the campus. After a SBCDC presentation that the IVTC Director Laura Otaola, and a current IVTC Tutor Hannh Johnson did for UCSB Intervarsity, we have thirteen new volunteers that got moved to help our IVTC kids. We are very thankful to UCBS Intervarsity for providing new tutors and to God for integrating the IVTC ministry and faithful Intervarsity members
The IVTC students and the IVTC coordinator have been working hard preparing for this “IVTC Tutors Thank You Event”. But they were not alone in the planning. All students’ parents joined them to have a nice dinner for the IVTC Tutors
The G.O.P [Girls of Purpose] members were working hard the last months to get funding to go to watch Christian Concerts and have fun at Great America in Santa Clara, CA. The girls did garage sales, food event, and door-by-door fund raising events to get the funding needed to spend a night in Santa Clara and enjoy the day in the Great America park’s recreations and then the Christian concerts. NicoleO – 11 yeaers old – said “it was the best ever concert of my life”. FabiolaR and LizbethR concur …
Our organization has been working with EScrip for several years! We want to encourage you to use this link to help us to keep our Programs running! You just need to click on top of the image, and it will open another page where you can sign-up with EScrip and select our Organization as a beneficiary. Thank you again for thinking about us!
