Become a Volunteer
Backpack Project
Shoebox Project is now the Backpack Project!
Once again, we invite you on Saturday and Sunday, December 14th and 15th 2024 to help assemble over 1600 backpacks filled with gifts of warm hats, warm gloves and personal hygiene items for our vulnerable neighbors. Contact CJ Lewis at 202-704-4430 for more information.
Volunteering for a few hours is a wonderful way to pass on the spirit of the Season. It is also a great way to meet up with Friends. Hope to see you!!
Click here to donate to the Backpack Project (be sure to designate your contribution for this purpose).
Photos by Jenifer Morris Photography
Hunger and Homelessness Task Force
The Hunger and Homelessness Task Force participates in the following projects and meets on the fourth Sunday of each month in the Decatur Place Room at noon. Please feel welcome to join us.
For information about any of these events, please contact us.
Christ House Dinner: Volunteers prepare and serve dinner to about 50 men on the fourth Sunday of each month from 3:30 PM until about 7 PM at Christ House, 1717 Columbia Rd., NW, a residential medical care facility for homeless men.
Church of the Pilgrims Lunch: Four volunteers prepare and serve lunch for about 40 homeless people at the Church of the Pilgrims, 2201 P St. NW, two blocks south of Friends Meeting of Washington. Volunteers are invited to help set up from 11 AM to noon and /or serve from 12:45 PM to 2:00 PM on the first Sunday of each month.
The Grate Patrol (Soup Mobile) On the first Wednesday of each month, Friends are needed to help with as much as they feel comfortable providing. We buy food for 120 (fruit, bread, hard boiled eggs and cookies) prepare sandwiches in the Decatur Place Room from about 5:30 to 6:30 PM, then bag the sandwiches and and serve with chili around town from the Salvation Army van between around 6:45 and 8:30 PM. Contact Alan W. Field at alanwfield@gmail.com or Louisa Terrell at louisa.terrell@gmail.com
Food Baskets: Baskets are placed in the halls on First Day for food donations to Martha's Table, which provides meals to homeless children and to children in the Columbia Heights area. Nonperishable items in boxes or cans are needed.
Personal Aid Committee
The Personal Aid Committee gives spiritual, personal and practical assistance to members and attenders in need. It may call on others in the Meeting for help, bearing in mind that “All Meeting members are called to care for one another and for the Meeting”. It may form clearness committees when appropriate. It may also make referrals to appropriate social agencies. It maintains contact with members and attenders who are ill, hospitalized, or in other special circumstances.
Hospitality Committee
The Hospitality Committee is responsible for providing or overseeing hospitality at Friends Meeting of Washington with the purpose of making the Meeting a warm and welcoming environment where Friends may gather to strengthen the bonds of community and to welcome others to the Meeting for Quaker or other functions.
Garden Committee
The committee works with volunteers and professionals to design and maintain the gardens and grounds.