Ongoing Serving Opportunities

The Serve Initiative

Across our county and around the DC area, the people of Immanuel Bible Church are plugging into service and outreach opportunities! It’s a great way to be salt and light in the community God has placed us in. This webpage will help you individually or your neighborhood group, family, Bible study, or ABF table to connect with places of ministry where our church has ongoing involvement. Click on any name below to learn more about the organization and find out who to contact. At the bottom of this page, upcoming opportunities are featured.  Please contact me here or Deedee Collins at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need additional assistance.

Michael Connor
Pastor of Mission and Outreach

	Anacostia Gracious Arts Program (AGAP) AGAP offers an after-school arts education to the youth of Anacostia. Volunteers assist with meal preparation, mentoring, Bible lessons and diverse arts classes. Meets Mondays.  For more information, visit http://www.agapdc.org/ Contact: Dennis Crawford, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Assist 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.  For more information, visit assistpartners.org Contact: 703-354-7291 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	City | Service | Mission City | Service | Mission hosts all of Immanuel’s Urban Immersion and DC student missions projects. Multiple opportunities to connect and serve in Washington DC. For more information, visit www.csm.org/washingtondc.php Contact: Kyle Antinore, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Central Union Mission 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. For more information, visit www.missiondc.org Contact: Deedee Collins, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or David Treadwell, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Food & Friends 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 DC, Maryland and Virginia. For more information, visit http://www.foodandfriends.org Contact: Beth Stewart at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
	Grace Ministries Grace Ministries Food Distribution (Arlington UMC).  Every third Friday, beginning at 9:00 a.m., we bag food delivered by a Food Bank truck.  The next day we open doors at 6:00 a.m. and begin the distribution! If you would like to help as a volunteer, come and join us as we serve to our neighbors.   For more information, visit http://www.graceministriesumc.org/ Contact: Ana Maria Lopez, Grace Ministries coordinator, (703) 979-7527
	Immanuel’s Hope Ministry Immanuel’s Hope Ministry is the charitable outreach of Immanuel Bible Church that provides clothing and kitchen wares to needy families in Northern Virginia. Volunteers can receive and sort donations, and provide hospitality and distribute goods to charity visitors. For more information, click here Contact: John Williamson, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Restoration Ministries Restoration Ministries seeks to bring healing to men, women and children who are trapped in the slavery of sex trafficking and lead them into the freedom of Jesus Christ. Website: http://restorationministriesdc.org/index.html Contact: 202-213-6025 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Urban Immersion Hosted by the Center for Student Missions, we 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. Contact:  Deedee Collins, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	IBC Wounded Warrior Outreach Ministry IBC Wounded Warrior Outreach Ministry serves food to the wounded soldiers at Dewitt Hospital at Ft. Belvoir. There are opportunities to serve once a month. Click here for more information. Contacts: John Sperling and Bill Law, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Young Life Capernaum Young Life Capernaum gives young people with mental and physical disabilities the chance to experience fun and friendships through clubs, camps and other exciting activities.  The club meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month at H.B. Woodlawn H.S. in Arlington. Teams from Immanuel participate regularly. For more info, visit http://www.younglife.org/Capernaum/ Contact: Caleb Henderson, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.