April 25, 2026 Day of Service

1. Preisker Park - Spreading bark chips

Bring gloves and sunscreen

Rollers frames & roller covers provided

Wear old clothes for painting - paint inevitably gets on you

2. Pioneer Park - Painting benches - Lots of them

30-35 volunteers PROJECT CLOSED - The Mayor's Youth Council and leaders
Bring gloves and sunscreenRollers frames & roller covers providedWear old clothes for painting - paint inevitably gets on you

3. Minami Park - Spreading bark chips

Bring gloves and sunscreenBring metal rakes and shovels and wheelbarrowsThe Park Department will have some rakes and shovels

4. Buena Vista Park - Spreading bark chips

Bring gloves and sunscreenBring metal rakes and shovels and wheelbarrowsThe Park Department will have some rakes and shovels

5. Los Alamos - paint school playground

5. Painting a Playground - Olga Reed Elementary - in Los Alamos - United States & World map, Hopscotch, Foursquare & Tetherball areas

Bring sunscreen

Wear old clothes for painting - paint inevitably gets on you

6. Paint a Playground - Patterson Elementary

6. Painting a Playground - Patterson Elementary -United States & World map, Hopscotch, Foursquare & Tetherball areas
Wear old clothes - Paint inevitably gets on youBring Sunscreen

7. Paint a Playground - Pacific Christian School

7. Painting a Playground - Pacific Christian School  PROJECT CLOSED - (Orcutt Presbyterian Church & Pacific Christian teachers and parents & students)
- United States map, Hopscotch, Foursquare & Tetherball areas

Wear old clothes - Paint inevitably gets on you

Wear Sunscreen

8. Mobile Home Park in Orcutt

Mobile Home Park in Orcutt - Repair a fence & doing yard work for seniors - 3 houses at this point

-Bring gloves and sunscreen

-bring gardening tools, trimmers

9. Salvation Army - Landscape along Cook Street

The Salvation Army does so much helping others.  They need a little touch up in their planter beds.  Got some ideas?  We'll give $300 dollars to a crew to bless the landscaping efforts.
Bring gloves and sunscreen

Bring shovels, hand spade 

10. Litter Pick up

Bring gloves and sunscreenTrash grabbers and bags will be provided - Dump trash bags at 911 McCloud where a roll off container will beWe have about 20 trash graders.  Get a group and clean up an area.  We need to check with the city where they would like us to do.

11. City Serve

We are partnering with City Serve, a non-profit affiliated with the Healing Rooms of Santa Maria.  They could use some more volunteers to distribute FREE resources and pray for people. 

12. Helping 2 Senior

PROJECT CLOSED - FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

We need someone who knows how to install a drip system.  The controls are in but it needs emitters going to plants.  A couple of people could do this.  A trip to Home Depot or Lowe's will be needed.  Serve Santa Maria will reimburse expenses.
Next door the fence and gate need repairing.  The 2x4's are rotten. A 40-50 foot fence and gate needs to be disassembled and then rebuilt.  6-8 volunteers with tools could do this.  Whatever expenses are involved, Serve Santa Maria will reimburse you.  Two seniors would be so thankful. These two seniors live next door to each other.

• Bring tools to complete the jobs.
• Call me and I will give you phone numbers and addresses for the seniors. 805-264-5959.

13. Help a senior

A senior needs some serious trimming of her shrubs and weed whacking the front yard which is all weeds.  A roll-off container will be there for the yard waste.

• Bring gloves and sunscreen
• Bring power trimmers, weed walkers and blowers
• Wheelbarrows
• Call me and I will give you an address and phone number 805-264-5959.

14. Help a senior

A senior needs the weeds whacked down in her small back yard.  Once that is done perhaps some artificial turf could be put down.  There is a small side yard too.  Perhaps artificial turf there too?  Whatever expenses are incurred doing this will be reimbursed by Serve Santa Maria.  We need someone who knows what they are doing.

• Bring gloves and sunscreen
• Tools to do the work
• Call me and I will give you an address and phone number 805-264-5959.

15. Help a Senior

This project requires a special skill set.  The grace of God in you.  No judgment.  A heart for a senior who wants to be FREE from clutter.  When I visited her and saw the situation, I called her "a beginner hoarder."  She laughed.  She knows she is a hoarder. It's not serious yet.  The home does not smell yet.  She wants to be FREE, but needs the encouragement of others to start anew.  Isn't that what Jesus came to do?  Set us FREE from whatever imprisons us?  I gave her a vision of a new start in her home.  She liked it, but it's hard when you are imprisoned.  I gave her my card and said to call me if she changes her mind.  It reminded me of when Jesus asked the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, "Do you want to be healed?"  All she needs to do is say "Yes." like the paralytic did. She could cancel, but I'm praying for resurrection for her.  If you want to be one of the volunteers, call me and I will give you the address and phone number.

• Bring gloves
• Trash bags will be provided.
• Bring trash bags to 911 McCloud where a blue, roll off container will be
• Call me and I will give you an address and phone number 805-264-5959.