Community Service Volunteer Opportunities

Assist Crisis Pregnancy Center
Located across the street from Immanuel Bible Church, this center helps mothers-to-be and couples at a difficult time in their lives.Multiple opportunities for volunteer service.
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Contact: Linda Perry, lindaperry@earthlink.net

Center for Student Missions hosts all of Immanuel’s Urban Immersion and DC Student Missions projects. Multiple opportunities to connect and serve in Washington DC. 
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Contact: Jason Martin, jason@csm.org

Central Union Mission offers hope and help to the homeless and others in need in Washington DC. Daily meals for the homeless, nightly Gospel services.
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Contact: Dee Dee Collins, deedeecollins@verizon.net, or Dave Treadwell, DTreadwell@missiondc.org

Children’s Heart Project
A ministry of Samaritan’s Purse that provides hospitality and transportation to African children coming to the U.S. once or twice per year for life-saving heart surgery.
Contact: Brenda Urice, burice@immanuelbible.net

CrossLink International is a ministry that collects donated medical products from hospitals and medical offices, then provides these vital resources to medical mission teams and mission hospitals.  Volunteers are needed to inventory medical supplies and medicines at the Falls Church warehouse and prepare medical goods for shipment to over 120 countries. 
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Contact: Ruth Anderson, volunteer coordinator, ruth@crosslinkinternational.net

Food & Friends prepares, packages and delivers meals and groceries to more than 1,350 people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses throughout Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia.
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Contact: Mark Harmon, mark@csm.org

Grace Ministries in Arlington provides a monthly outreach to immigrants in Northern Virginia. Volunteers help unload food supply trucks from the Food Bank on Friday and bag groceries, 10am–3pm. Volunteers can also attend the worship service and help with food distribution on Saturday morning, 8–11am.Children of all ages are welcome to participate.
Contact: Ana Maria Lopez, anamaria869@yahoo.com, 703.920.8076

Immanuel's Food Pantry
Bags of groceries are given out at Immanuel nearly every day to people in need. Families or small groups can assemble bags and bring them to the church for distribution. For further instructions, click here.

Immanuel’s Hope
The charitable outreach of Immanuel Bible Church that provides clothing, furniture and housewares to needy families in Northern Virginia.Volunteers can receive and sort donations, distribute goods, provide hospitality, and pick up furniture on Saturdays.
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Contact: John Williamson, john@williamsonresearch.com

Mary Church Terrell Elementary School
Immanuel Christian School has established a partnership with this inner city school in Anacostia that is dedicated to changing lives! Opportunities for after-school mentoring and joint projects with ICS.
Contact: Beverly Atkinson, atkinson@immanuelchristian.net

Regency House Food Distribution
This program delivers groceries to low-income seniors and disabled citizens in an apartment complex known as Regency House. Distribution is made on Saturdays, 9am–12pm, where the food is sorted and distributed to the residents.
Contact: Mark Harmon, mark@csm.org

Steps to Elevate People (STEP)
Reaching out to elementary school families, with opportunities to bring hope to the poor through the gospel of Jesus Christ. STEP provides encouragement by mentoring, educational opportunities and serving.
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Contact: Susie Austin, Susie@stepdc.org, 202.829.8989

Urban Immersion
Immanuel’s annual mission trip will be Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2008. Hosted by the Center for Student Missions, we will work at various sites ministering to those in need in the nation's capital, including Central Union Mission.Come and experience the city in a whole new way . . .through God's eyes! This is a great mission trip suitable for families with children 12 or older. If you are interested in joining our team, contact deedeecollins@verizon.net.
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Wounded Warrior Ministry
Teams from Immanuel Bible Church serve food to the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital and their families. There are opportunities to serve once a month.
Fall 2008 schedule: September 21, October 19, November 16, December 14
Contact: John Sperling, jrsperling@aol.com, or Bill Law, wlaw@cox.net

Young Life Capernaum
You'll serve as a buddy to a student with special needs.
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Contact: Laurie Harmer, 571.235.6147, lharmer@capernaumdc.org

Young Life in Washington, D.C.
Tutoring youth or volunteering with their basketball league, opening your heart to a needy child in NE Washington, D.C. 
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Contact: Elaine Baldwin, 703.200.5411, ecbaldwin@verizon.net