This page has more details and volunteer information from the Military Outreach Committee (MOC) about upcoming MOC events/activities.
Military Outreach Events
Children’s Clothing Fair:
20 March 2024
10:00am-12:00pm at
Murphy Canyon Chapel
3200 Santo Road, SD 92124
Donated children's clothing in good condition will be available for military families at no cost.
Spring Military Appreciation Food Drive: Next food drive will be in May 2024. Date TBD
The Military Appreciation Food Drive focus is to help military families in need due to financial limitations by providing them nourishing food and to demonstrate TLC's resolve to support the local military families. Our Spring Drive provides 3 days of nourishing meals and snacks to a family of four.
Sponsor a Food Package: Donations will be accepted starting late March 2024 with specific dates TBD
Volunteer Opportunities:
We have two opportunities for volunteers - helping to pack the food packages and the actual distribution of the packages to the military families. Dates currently TBD.
REGISTRATION FOR MILITARY FAMILIES INTERESTED IN RECEIVING A FOOD PACKAGE WILL BEGIN APRIL 2024, DATE TBD. Registration is required to ensure no one is turned away.
STEP and
Sharing The Joy!
TLC teams with STEP (Support The Enlisted Project) to support their annual Christmas Sharing the Joy Toy Drive and Adopt a Family projects. Each year STEP has over 200 local military families registering for “adoption” and while many are adopted, some are not. For those families, the toy drive ensures that the children of the non-adopted families “share the joy” of receiving Christmas toys.
More info on STEP and to Adopt a Family, go to https://www.teamstepusa.org/ .
Military Family Assistance Ministry
An opportunity to assist a military family in an extremis can occur at any time and we stand ready with helping hands to provide food, money, and transportation.
Volunteer Opportunities: If you are willing to be on call for transportation support, please contact Wayne Duke at 858-740-1068 via email at moc@tierrasantalutheran.org.
Donation: Monetary donation of any amount to support this ministry are welcomed and can be provided by check to Tierrasanta Lutheran Church with memo line note “MOC/FA”.
Wreaths Across America
Donations/Sponsorship: You can sponsor wreaths by going directly through Wreaths Across America by clicking the below (indicate the Miramar National Cemetery.
Volunteer Opportunities:
You are invited to join TLC members in placing the wreaths on the graves at the Miramar National Cemetery in mid December and removing them the first week of January.