Metropolitan offers a variety of opportunities for Christian service throughout the Washington area, including:
The Ballet Studio that provides all-scholarship, professional-caliber ballet training to inner-city children whose families are unable to afford lessons at a commercial studio. Contact: Barbara Gaskill, 202-244-3635 or by e-mail at barbarabillclem@erols.com.
Children's Outreach Projects to children at the Community of Hope and at Casa del Pueblo. Contact: Kay Jacobi, Director of Children's Ministries, 202-363-4900, ext. 26 or by e-mail at kjacobi@mmumc-dc.org
Rebuilding Together, an all-volunteer project that repairs owner-occupied homes of limited income, elderly and disabled citizens at no cost to the homeowners. read more Contact: Lee Crockett.
Clothing Collection Team that collects and distributes clothes to individuals and families in need. Contact: Faith Lewis 202.363.4900
Friendship Place Community Resource Center that offers direct services aimed at securing benefits, employment, and housing for homeless men and women in upper northwest Washington. Contact: Dick Schleicher, 301-229-2385 or by e-mail at rschlei@verizon.net.
IONA Senior Services that provides personalized professional and volunteer assistance to people 60 years of age and older and their caregivers. Contact: Irving Biscomb, 202-966-4430.
Project 5000 that collects and provides emergency food to hungry people. Contact: Sue Wadel Smith, 703-413-4241 or by e-mail at wadelse@netscape.net.
The St. Elizabeth's Project that regularly visits patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the mentally ill. Contact: Kay Poynter, 301-424-6796.
The Sandwich Brigade that makes and delivers sandwiches weekly to the Infirmary of the homeless shelter at 2nd and E Streets, NW. Contact: Bonnie Edwards, 202-686-9087.
Scouting Ministries that help young people, boys and girls, become committed Christians and responsible citizens. Contact: Randy Stoudt, Scout Liaison, 301-260-8881 .
Shelter at Metropolitan that houses homeless men during the winter months and homeless families in the spring and fall. Contact: Dick Schleicher, 301-229-2385 or by e-mail at rschlei@verizon.net.
Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) is a coalition of congregations, community organizations, unions, tenant associations, and schools in the District of Columbia that work across racial, religious, and economic lines to insure that Washington, DC remains a place where families can afford to buy a home, educate their children, and a secure a living-wage job. Metropolitan Memorial was one of the founding congregations of WIN and along with nearly 50 other congregations created a broad-based, multi-racial, strictly non-partisan, District-wide citizens organization that develops neighborhood leaders, addresses community issues, and holds local elected officials accountable. Contact: Rev. Sandy Rector at 202-363-4900 ext. 19 or at srector@mmumc-dc.org or Ann Michel at 202-885-8582 or at amichel@wesleyseminary.edu.
Zacchaeus Soup Kitchen that provides nutritious meals for over 400 needy individuals each day. Contact: Dick & Carol Schleicher, 301-299-2385 or by e-mail at rschlei@verizon.net.
