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The missions listed below are supported by Foundry UMC and its members, and take place - in large part - inside the District of Columbia.
Saturday
Morning Cooking Group
Since its inception in the early 1990s, the Saturday Cooking Group has prepared an estimated 28,000 meals for Whitman-Walker Clinic's FoodBank The group meets at Foundry approximately 20 Saturdays each year to prepare meals for the FoodBank (a service of Whitman-Walker Clinic, which serves the LGBT community). The creative dishes cooked by Foundry members are distributed (free of charge) by the FoodBank to individuals living with HIV/AIDS. The Saturday Cooking Group meets Saturday morning at 9:00 am in the Main Kitchen.
Concert
for Life
The Concert for Life, which began in 1993, celebrated its 15th year of song on April 25th, 2008, with That’s Amore, Songs of Love. This annual concert features an eclectic mix of music, and is designed to benefit organizations that serve with individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the metropolitan DC area and in parts of Africa. Please see Concert for Life’s website for a full list of beneficiaries! www.concertforlife.org/ One of Foundry's most vibrant missions, the Community Mission, maintains responsibility for making approximately 70 Easter baskets for the clients of Emmaus Services for the Aging. It also contributes food for the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at Martha's Table and manages the Sandwich 500. Day Labor
Outreach
Thursday Morning Outreach This outreach to the day labor community takes place each Thursday, alternating at the Rhode Island Avenue Home Depot and 15th and P Street NW sites. Volunteers gather to distribute beverages (bottled water and lemonade in the warmer months, hot chocolate in the winter) and sandwiches to the workers. Spanish speaking ability is helpful, but in no way necessary – excellent conversations are to be had at both sites, regardless of your skill! Meet at Foundry every 8:00 am to volunteer with this outreach.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Classes Foundry’s ESL program began two years ago with ‘survival’ English lessons at the 15th and P Street day labor site. Volunteers with the Thursday Morning Outreach brought a five minute lesson to the workers at the site, but when this wasn’t enough for the day laborers, Foundry volunteers decided to establish something more formal! Today, we host three sessions each year – a Fall, Winter/Spring, and Summer course. Each session is 10 weeks long, and caters to all levels of English-speaking ability, from low-literacy to advanced speakers. Classes are free to students, and are held each Tuesday evening from 6:45 – 8:45 pm. Although the classes are not limited to Spanish speakers, they do target Spanish speaking day laborers, particularly those from the Dupont Circle neighborhood. Volunteer to teach with the Summer session today; teachers need not be members of Foundry UMC or have previous ESL experience.
Green
Hunger
Christ House
Christ House is a 33-bed health care facility and temporary residence for the homeless and sick of Washington DC located in Adams-Morgan. Foundry has been serving meals at Christ House for over ten years. Volunteers gather the first Saturday of every month to cook lunch and the first Sunday of each month to cook breakfast. They also share in the meals and enjoy fellowship with the homeless men residing at Christ House. Typically three people cook each meal and volunteers have the opportunity to plan a meal of their choosing. Volunteers with all varieties of cooking experience are most welcome. Food donations are also welcome.http://www.christhouse.org/ Bake
Bring
baked goods every third Sunday of the month to be sold during coffee hours to
raise funds for hunger charities. SOME
So Others Might Eat (SOME) is a community-based organization that provides a wide range of social services to the poor and homeless of the Metropolitan DC area. SOME serves clients not only with food, clothing, and immediate health care needs, but also with services like counseling, job training, and addiction treatment. The second Thursday of each month from 6 – 8 am, Foundry volunteers gather at 71 ‘O’ Street, SOME’s main location, to cook and serve breakfast to DC’s homeless men and women. http://www.some.org/
McKenna’s
Wagon
This mobile soup kitchen serves food to DC’s homeless population 365 days each year. Vans driven and staffed by Foundry volunteers leave Martha’s Table at 5pm on the first and third Friday of each month. The vans serve five stops around the city. http://www.marthastable.org/ Mustard Seed
Peace with Justice Mission
Prison Ministry
Foundry's Prison Ministry seeks to support prisoners, ex-offenders, and their family members through mentoring, spiritual support, select projects, and advocacy. It welcomes volunteers to mentor ex-offenders, to be literary tutors, to attend monthly meetings, and to help with our yearly Christmas project, the Angel Tree, which distributes gifts to children who have a parent in prison. Foundry is also the current home of the DC Books to Prisons Project, which meets every Wednesday at 5:00 pm in B2 to answer requests for reading material from prisoners and mail books free of charge to those who would otherwise have little opportunity to improve their education.
Susanna Wesley House
provides safe housing in a shared house setting for four women transitioning out of homelessness. Opportunities for involvement include
helping with maintenance of house; serving as board member; and assisting
with fundraising and communication
Provides service
opportunities to help raise awareness and concern about Foundry’s connections
with the global community. Each year
VIM organizes a work trip either in the Walk-In
If you are a social services agency seeking to refer a client to Walk-In Mission for identification assistance, click here for a letter containing more information about our mission. WIN is a multi-faith, non-partisan, congregation-based community organization committed to addressing social and economic justice in Washington DC’s neighborhoods. Over 45 organizations (including congregations, schools, and workers unions) are WIN members. As part of the WIN, Foundry members support a variety of social issues. Right now, WIN is focusing on its Neighborhoods First campaign, which supports neighborhood investment and revitalization in each of DC’s eight wards. In conjunction with WIN, Foundry members have also taken up the cause of promoting affordable housing, and the Get-Out-the-Vote campaign.http://www.windc-iaf.org/
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