Oct 31st Harvest Festival - Great Times & Great Cause for SoOC kids!

Thursday, October 31st from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Harvest Festival - at Calvary San Clemente located at 1031 Calle Recodo. A free, fun and safe evening for families, couples and singles, making a positive impact on community while stamping out hunger.

“In these times, it is more important than ever before, to provide a safe and healthy environment for kids and adults to celebrate the beginning of the harvest season with lots of fun and friendly fellowship”, stated Pastor Holland Davis. “While serving our community with this event, we also wish to support and raise awareness for a very special local cause, feeding the food-insecure children of San Clemente. These are children from all walks of life who, through no fault or control of their own, are caught up in challenging economic conditions that determine what, if anything, they will have to eat.”

According to Capistrano Unified School District, over 6,500 of their students are food insecure. During the week, they depend on school cafeteria food to meet their basic nutrition needs, but many of them have very little to eat over the weekends, and return to school weak and tired, negatively impacting their ability to learn. Feed The Kids San Clemente is a weekend food assistance program dedicated to supporting children in our local schools who have

been identified as at-risk due to food insecurity. Feed The Kids SC launched in January 2024, supplying weekend food to ten kids from one San Clemente elementary school. Within six months, this program grew to feed 52 kids from eight CUSD schools. Currently, this program provides six meals per student every weekend, for a total of 312 meals delivered every week.

Harvest Festival attendees will have a great evening of music and activities, and will know that they are supporting a great cause by purchasing food, drinks, and raffle tickets.

• Kids will enjoy bounce houses and slides, carnival games, and crafting, and find lots of free candy and other goodies at Trunk-or-Treat Avenue.
• Contest prizes will be won in many events and categories.
  • Kids and adults are encouraged to dress up as their favorite biblical character, historical figure, hero or any family-friendly costume (scary costumes are discouraged) and enter the costume contests.
  • Those who come hungry will have a good chance to win the fastest Corn-on-the-Cob eating contest in both children and adult categories.
  • Bakers will compete in a Fall-themed cookie bake-off, judged on artistic design and taste.
• Live music by Trash Bandits and amazing tunes by DJ Josh will entertain the crowd throughout the night!
• Prizes worth up to $5,000 will be raffled off, including gift cards and certificates from local retailers, professional service providers, and restaurants who have been generous in their donations to this event. The grand prize of the raffle will be a one week stay at a luxury vacation rental home on the Big Island of Hawaii*.

All funds raised through sales of all food, drinks, and baked goods, and the live raffle, will benefit Feed the Kids SC.

For more information about the event, visit www.harvestfest.calvarysanclemente.org/, or email calvarysanclemente@gmail.com, or call (949) 228-9117.

About Calvary Chapel San Clemente

Calvary Chapel San Clemente is a San Clemente Jesus People Community in South Orange County affiliated with the Calvary Chapel Association of Churches, and serving San Clemente since 2010 under the leadership of Pastor Holland Davis. Service times are 8:30 am and 10:30 am on Sunday and 6:30 pm on Thursday. On Thursdays, dinner is provided from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm. To learn more about this church and its many ministries, services and events, visit calvarysanclemente.org.

About Feed The Kids San Clemente

Feed The Kids San Clemente is a division of the non-profit Love San Clemente organization. Feed the Kids SC is a weekend food assistance program dedicated to supporting children in CUSD schools who have been identified as at-risk due to food insecurity. Its mission is to end food insecurity, beginning with San Clemente school children, and to remain diligent in that fight, wherever there is a need. To learn more about this program or to volunteer or donate, visit feedthekidssc.org.

*Does not include airfare, car rental, food or drink. Some fees may apply.

Feed The Kids San Clemente is a division of Love San Clemente organization. © 2012 Love San Clemente. All Rights Reserved