Upcomoing

Community

Spring Clean

Event

Saturday April 27, 2024

Sign in between 8:30-9 am

Collier Park

626 E St

Ramona CA

Watch a short video from a past clean up event

prepare

for an

Upcoming

Event

The primary aim of our clothing giveaway is to support young families before the school year resumes by providing back-to-school clothing. Unfortunately, we have faced shortages of school-aged clothes in the past two years. Any assistance in collecting school-aged clothing would be immensely appreciated!

Serve Ramona

An inter-denominational and community

service group

Mail: C/O FCC PO Box 248 St, Ramona, CA 92065 • Email: ServeRamona@gmail.com

Text: 408-684-1225

Monthly Meetings

Our regularly scheduled meetings are held on the 1st Friday of each month at 3 pm in the

Fireside room of the First Congregational Church on the corner of 8th & D St.

Community and service minded individuals are welcome to attend our monthly planning meetings

April: Community Spring Clean-up 4/27/2024

June: Community Rib BBQ 6/1/2024

July: Clothing Give-away 7/27/2024

September: 9/11 Day of Service & Remembrance

October: Homeless Care Kits/ Stuffed Animal Drive 10/19 & 11/2/2024

November: Community Turkey Dinner 11/9/2024

December: Community Christmas Sing-a-long 12/15/2024 2 pm

A FUN, INTERACTIVE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE GUARANTEED TO RAISE YOUR SPIRITS

SUCCESS!

A big thanks to all who came and all who made this annual event possible. Special thanks to Ramona High School Fusion Leaders

and the volunteers from JustServe!

Stuffed Animal Drive

was on 10/21/ 23

Ramona donated

over 160 Stuffed animals!

Serve Ramona

Give some comfort to kids

who are away from home

Drive-Thru Drop-off

Saturday, October 21, 2023

9am-11 am

527 9th Street

Serve Ramona

PREVIOUSLY HELD YEARLY EVENTS

9/11 National day of Service & Remembrance

Help Serve Ramona get 911 service hours before 9/11/23.

Plan on joining us in dedicating an act of service to the memory of a loved one or someone who died in the 9/11 tragedy. Click the link to choose a name, get some ideas for next year.

Serve Ramona's

Service-o-meter

911 HOURS

Held every year at the end of July, the Clothing Drive and Giveaway was another success! Many, many families came to get need clothes and the extra were taken to three local charities: Goodwill, Ramona Food and Clothes Closet and Shariah's Closet .

Easter Eve Dinner

Serve Ramona has been teaming up with

Ramona's United Methodist Church on their community dinners. Proceeds from purchased tickets go toward giving meals to those in need, first responders and active military.

Pre-order you ticket now for a fabulous homecooked meals that also gives to the community.

This Easter Eve Dinner includes:

Baby back ribs, beans and coleslaw

$10 adult/ $6 child

Community Spring Clean

No foolin'-- we had a great time working together

and eating together!

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Food Drive

Bring your non-perishable food items to

527 9th St. in Ramona, CA

on Saturday March 25th

from 9am-11am.

Your donations will go to the San Diego Food Bank which feeds over 400,000 people every month. Online donation can be made by clicking the picture.

Ramona donated over 1,300 lbs of food!

Click here to donate online

Uniting to help our homeless

It's not a handout--it's hope

wrapped in brotherly love.

HOW CAN I DONATE?

We post a link to a custom list from Amazon

where we have the needed items. People

choose what they want to donate and the items are delivered and stored at a central location until the day of the assembly event. Often members of the community donate hotel toiletries, gently used socks and had crafted beanies and scarves.

Making care kits for the homeless is dear to our heart. It’s not just a bag of supplies to the homeless... it’s hope wrapped in brotherly love. Much thanks to all who supported this year by donating supplies and time in organizing and assembling. This was our 5th year. We made 100 bags. This year we added hand written notes of encouragement. Youth from different congregations helped with this effort and the most touching one might have been the simplest written by a 13 year old girl that said “l love you.” The bags were lovingly and skillfully sewn by Carol Spencer When Carol volunteer to help sew bags three years ago and was given a pre-cut used bed sheet she said, “Oh, we can do better than that.” Starting in 2020 Carol took charge of the bags and started the “ Community Piece Makers” to share her love of fabric art while making these bags. Her classes were felled by the pandemic shutdowns so she and Diana Webb took on the task. The filled bags will be distributed closer to Christmas by Pastor Sherrie Day and Christian Hope Community Fellowship that ministers to the homeless.

Our first annual Community

Christmas Sing-a-long 2022

It was a big hit and everyone who came

wanted to come again next year! With solo

artists, a bell-choir and interactive fun and traditional

Christmas songs a good time was had by all.

Look forward to the 2023 Sing-a-long on Dec 10th, 2pm

Serve Ramona's

5th annual

2022 Homeless

Care Kit Drive

2022 Video

Assembled

Nov 12th, 2022

9 am

527 9th, St. Ramona

2021 4th annual Homeless Care Kit Drive

2021 Short video here

2022

For over 40 years

the Ramona United Methodist Church

has provided a holiday meal for the community and

our neighbors in need. Join in!

All but 13 of the 400 tickets were sold!

Thank you for the great support, Ramona!

Part of their family's holiday

celebration

Dishing your food with smiles

Families were fed & excellent service

rendered by RHS Fusion, NJROTC and community members.

Ellen & Derek ready to serve

Proceeds helped

feed our

neighbors in need.

Ramona Senior Center

434 aqua Ln, Ramona, CA 92065

Leaders serve!

Brenda tells us what's next

2022 Community Clean-up

Nothing brings a community together like working together for the common good. This was our 4th year bringing Ramonans together to pull weeds and beautify Collier Park and pick up trash in the park and on Main Street. Our first ever after clean up lunch was a big hit!

Watch a short video of the event by clicking on the poster.

2022 Stuffed Animal Drive

Ramona Collected 50 of the 4000 total donated

from San Diego County. Good job!

Participating Congregations

Please join us !