News Articles

The following are links to various news articles, interviews and videos about the Weekend of Service event held on the weekend of May 14-15, 2011.

• Tri-City Medical Center create healing garden for patients
  San Diego County News | June 8, 2011
  A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the completion of a healing garden was held Saturday morning at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. Staffers from Tri-City Hospital Foundation and Tri-City Medical Center, North Coast Church members, dignitaries and community members gathered in a courtyard north side of the hospital for the unveiling of three healing gardens.
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• RYAN: The Church has Left the Building
  North County Times | Suzy Ryan Columnist | May 29, 2011
  When I arrived at Carlsbad's Kelly Elementary School for North Coast Church's third annual Weekend of Service, they sent me to the blacktop ---- to paint. "I'm not very good," I told the cheerful greeter who checked me into the service project ---- one of 185 around North County.
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• Volunteers Spruce Up Kelly Elementary School Playground
  KGTV San Diego  | video | May 15, 2011
  The site of a horrifying school shooting in Carlsbad received a makeover this weekend.
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• Volunteers plant 'healing garden' at Tri-City Med Center
  North County Times | Article by Paul Sisson | May 15, 2011
  For patients recovering from surgery, a beautiful garden is about much more than looking at pretty plants...
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• Skipping Church to do Volunteer Work
  SignOnSanDiego | Article by Mike Freeman | May 15,2011
  High on a ladder, Andrea Team stretched out to paint the top of a mural at the new cafeteria at Kelly Elementary School in Carlsbad.
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• North Coast Church Weekend of Service
  Examiner.com | Article by Janey DeMeo | May 15, 2011
  If you’re wondering what all the buzz is about in North County as busy people fix things, prune things and paint things....
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• Churchgoers prepare for community service
  SignOnSanDiego | Article by Linda McIntosh | May 11, 2011
  North Coast Church is canceling weekend services May 14-15 at its three campuses in Vista, Carlsbad and Fallbrook to deploy 8,500 of its attendees on 200 community service projects at 100 sites throughout North County, including Camp Pendleton.
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• Church cancels Sunday service for community service
  North CountyTimes | Article by Cigi Ross | May 3, 2011
  Members of North County's North Coast Church will forgo their traditional Sunday services May 15, when the church holds its third Weekend of Service, closing the doors at its three campuses in Vista, Carlsbad and Fallbrook so that members can participate in more than 200 volunteer projects throughout the region.
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