Operation OC and The Village of Hope

Operation OC is Orange County’s collaborative private/public partnership to meet the needs of the evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relocating to Orange County. Clothing donated during CPC’s “All Church Progressive BBQ” will be used in the Hurricane relief effort.

Five acres of the former Tustin Marine Corps Air Station is being converted into The Village of Hope – a haven designed to heal hurting families. It will provide housing for a total of 192 men, women and children, with facilities for 36 families and 88 single adults. The Village of Hope will include 128 dorm rooms, a child development center, playground, parent education center, vocational training classrooms, health care facility, donation warehouse, and support offices. There will also be a cafeteria with an outdoor dining area, and vegetable gardens.

The Village of Hope is presently being used for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita refugees to re-build their lives. Eventually it will become the first place in Orange County where homeless and poor families can transform their lives while staying together. It will provide much more than just a roof over their heads and warm meals to fill their stomachs. The Village of Hope’s faith-based residential program will teach homeless families and adults to become self-sufficient at no cost to them. It is the Orange County Rescue Mission’s most ambitious project to date.

The Orange County Rescue Mission has a long history of giving hope. We offer dozens of programs to provide the homeless with shelter, food, clothing, guidance, counseling, education, job training, parenting classes and child care. Our faith-focused mission is to minister the love of Jesus Christ to the least, the last and the lost

Their success rate is ten times the national average — 85% of the men and women who graduate from our New Life programs become self-sufficient. We operate entirely through donations without government welfare funding. The Orange County Rescue Mission is one of Orange County’s largest private nonprofit organizations.