Community Service

Love Irvine selects and promotes a limited number of ongoing volunteer opportunities, in addition to annual events like city-wide serve day, so that anyone in the city can volunteer and make a difference in our community. These opportunities are picked with intentionality and in collaboration with community partners and other stakeholders. Our intention is to strengthen and support other organizations and initiatives which are already making a difference in our city. We can do this by promoting and presenting their opportunities to our volunteers. We will try our best to make it easy and meaningful to volunteer, and by giving volunteers a good experience, our hope is that they will be more inclined to continue volunteering longer-term with the same organization or another opportunity introduced by Love Irvine.

Greatest Need in Irvine

What is the greatest need in Irvine and what can people in our city do about solving it?
Let’s think BIG and believe–this is doable!

What if we pick just one need, come up with a realistic plan that will solve it, and make it simple enough so that [everyone] can be part of the solution?

What if we all worked together?

City government, businesses, the faith community, education, nonprofits, and more!
THAT IS WHAT LOVE IRVINE WANTS TO DO!

We want to facilitate identifying the one need, help gather key stakeholders to create a plan, then create volunteering opportunities to help meet the need.

Love Irvine currently has almost 1,000 volunteers in its network–made up from the diversity of people who live in our city and who want to help! As more people catch our vision this number will grow! We want to offer volunteering opportunities which lead towards solving ‘the greatest need’ in our city.

This is LOVE IRVINE and what Loving Our City looks like!

Events & Education

Love Irvine gets passionately involved in community outreach events to share our vision, mission, and promote volunteerism, all to bless and benefit our city. Outreach events are divided into two categories–Sponsored or Participant.

Sponsored: Events that are primarily organized by Love Irvine. (City Wide Serve Day, Irvine’s National Day of Prayer, Night of Healing, Prayer Walks, Random Acts of Appreciation, etc.

Participant: Events that are organized by another entity where Love Irvine participates. For example, Irvine holds city events like National Night Out or Global Village, Love Irvine participates as one of their Community Partners. We also participate at events other nonprofits to promote

Education: Who is Love Irvine? What is our Vision and Mission? We love talking with people all over our city about who we are, and what we are doing! Our name, Love Irvine, catches everyone’s attention. We stand out because most of what society sees and hears about today is not about Loving each other. So, we are focused on the good we can bring and do for our city through love in action!

Citywide Prayer

We believe praying for our city is foundational to loving our city. We believe prayer can help heal the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of our city.

Praying for our city means praying for our civic leaders, business leaders, Public Safety, teachers, students, all residents and all aspects of our city. We are to seek the peace and prosperity of our city; [intercede] pray to God for it, for if it prospers you too will prosper. Jer. 29:7

Our prayer team meets weekly and provides a space for Irvine-based Evangelical Church Leaders to gather and unite for the betterment of the city and our communities.