This Spring, for the second year in a row, dozens of TerraNovans spread out into our community to take people's trash away, for free. Just a simple way to bring love to God's world, and to make His love famous. Here are a few of the pics from the day.

Terranova Starts off 2012 with a festive rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas!

Friends and family come to celebrate. Anytime is the right time to take the plunge and follow Christ.

This Thanksgiving (2011) TerraNova partnered with OC Rescue Mission to serve the Thanksgiving Feast to their residents and guests -- about 450 people total. What a great (and grateful) way to put skin on Jesus this holiday season!

What better way to spend Mothers Day Weekend than to make God's love famous amongst a dozen moms and their kids who have had very hard lives? But there is hope ("esperanza" in spanish). The ministry of Casa de Esperanza exists to see God do his work of transformation for those who have had to flee a context of domestic violence and abuse. Our team came down to reach out to the moms, the kids and also to do some construction projects! Why not join us on our next trip in Fall of 2011?

Since we are moved to show God's love in simple ways to our neighbors, we decided to mobilize 80 Terra Novans, 12 trailers, and a couple of rented 40 cubic yard trash bins to do the job. Here's the connect: Jesus has taken away all the junk (sin) in our lives and washed us clean!

Terra Nova turns four! Wow! Time to celebrate God's goodness, over the April 9/10 weekend.

In October of 2010, we teamed up with the Beyond Borders group at UCI to put on a great event where we hosted 80 students from all over the globe down at Doheny beach. We shared a meal with them and also our surfing skills! We're trusting that we've helped Beyond Borders as they begin to reach these kids!

Since kids need backpacks for school and many families are struggling greatly to make ends meet, what better way to show God's love than to provide for them tools that will help them in their education. So we put together 150 backpacks for kids in our community and then in selected places, we got to deliver them!

Every year, we do the parade! Great tunes from the Terra Nova band, Cold Terra Nova water. Lot's of smiles! A little taste of Terra Nova life rolling down the street, for everyone to see!

What does it look like when 55 guys get together up in Big Bear to draw close to God and each other? It looks a little bit like this...

We once again headed south of the border to Casa de Esperanza, a shelter that ministers to women in crisis and their children. We love how God is at work down there and desire to join Him as He transforms lives!

About two dozen of us got together to help a family in our community transform their front and backyard from a jungle to something that the city would feel good about. The husband is out of work and recently in a car accident that left him unable to care for his yard. They were going to be fined for the lack of upkeep, but now things are looking better. Our thanks to this family because they gave us an opportunity to express our love for God by serving them!

Just a simple way for us to express love to our surrounding community--thanks to all who came as our guests! Hope you and your kids enjoyed it!

In November 2009, 52 Terra Novians traveled to Ensenada, Mexico to serve the women and children of Casa de Esperanza, a shelter for victims of domestic violence and abuse.

In partnership with Albertsons food stores, we had the honor of funding and serving over 900 Thanksgiving meals to folks in our community

A bunch of TerraNova guys, gathered in the frigid temperatures of Big Bear in June, to learn about living well in the various realms of their lives.

The women of Terra Nova, sharing food, sharing friendship and sharing God's Love.

Sharing God's Love with teachers in our community. We packed up bags and baskets of goodies for all 50 teachers plus office staff at Gates Elementary School in Mission Viejo. Check out the pics from the "load in" here.

We've gotten into this map-painting thing. It's a cool way to express love and service in a totally behind-the-scenes way for some of our local schools. Here's the latest (this is our 3rd school now).

3 days building homes, building hope, building relationships and sharing God's Love.

We got our hands dirty with this one. Check out the pics from a day of serving folks who live in the Landisview community. It was seriously one of the coolest things you could ever have been a part of. The stories these pictures represent ...

TerraNova rocks the Lake Forest 4th of the July parade. We love this!

5 homes • 2½ days • 110 people "Putting skin on Jesus!"

In December, the people of TerraNova donated, assembled, and delivered some amazing gift baskets for the teachers of Los Alisos Intermediate school.

Baptisms and BBQs at the beach.