Friends Meeting of Washington

Hunger and Homelessness Task Force

Meal Programs

Christ House Dinner: Volunteers prepare and serve dinner to about 60 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: Volunteers prepare and serve lunch for about 80 homeless people at the Church of the Pilgrims, two blocks south of the Friends Meeting House, from 10 AM until 2 PM on the first Sunday of each month.

St. Luke’s Shelter Dinner: Volunteers prepare dinner and eat with the residents of a small shelter housed in St. Luke’s Methodist Church, 3655 Calvert Street, NW on the fourth Saturday of every month from about 6:30 PM until 8 PM.

SOME Breakfast: Volunteers prepare and serve breakfast for about 250 homeless people at “So Others May Eat” (SOME) at 71 O St., NW., from 6:30 AM to 9 AM on the first Saturday of each month.

Soup Mobile/Grate Patrol: Friends prepare and serve dinner (soup, fruit, bread, hard boiled eggs and cookies) for about 100 street people from a Salvation Army truck on the first Wednesday of each month.

Special Projects

Holiday Shoe Boxes: Starting in September, nearly two thousand shoe boxes will be filled with basic necessities for homeless men, women and children, and then wrapped in colorful comics for distribution to homeless shelters on the Sunday before Christmas.

Donations

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.

Hunger Fund: Contributions from Friends and attendees (or others) made out to “FMW Hunger Fund” are used to support local shelters, programs and projects for hunger and homelessness. All contributions accepted and appreciated.

The Hunger and Homelessness Task Force meets on the fourth Sunday of each month in the Decatur Place Room at noon. Please feel welcome to join us.