Outreach

"Jesus said, 'For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? when did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we seeyou sick or in prison and go to visit you'"Then the King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'" - Matthew 25:35-40
At St. David's we proclaim in our Baptismal Covenant that we will:

• Proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ
• Seek and Serve Christ in ALL persons, loving our neighbors as ourselves
• Strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being

Our community hopes that we do this as we embrace and support the following Domestic and Global ministry partners:

• Domestic
  • Annual Ministry Events
  • Feeding the Hungry
  • Hope for the Homeless
  • REACH
• Global
  • Bromley School, Liberia

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Domestic Outreach

Domestic Outreach ministry maintains a database of names and emails to notify volunteers of local service opportunities via e-mail through an on-line sign up website; this includes volunteers needed for Grace To Go, Loudoun Hunger Relief, Backpack Buddies, one-off needs and other outreach activities. If you would like to be included in this database or have any questions, please email the Domestic Outreach team.

Domestic Outreach Presentation

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Backpack Buddies
About 1 in 4 school children in Loudoun County are uncertain where their next meal will come from.  Over the last several years, St. David's has worked with Discovery Elementary and Cedar Lane Elementary in Ashburn to address this problem.  Please continue to donate food throughout the summer for the upcoming school year.  We provide 11 items per week and are always taking donations for cans of chicken noodle soup, tuna, juice boxes, granola bars, oatmeal packets, mac and cheese boxes, Ramen noodles and individual cartons of milk.  Last year we packed 90 bags a week and packed over 3,000 bags for the school year.  Hunger does not end on the weekend.  Please contact Keith Korin at keithkorin@yahoo.com if you have questions.  Please take the time and check out one of our major grant providers:  www.bbfloudoun.org.

​​Backpack Buddies is a program model created by Feeding America to provide food for the weekend to elementary school children who are in need. St. David’s has been supporting the Backpack Buddies Program since March of 2012. Currently, we provide food for more than 80 students at 2 local elementary schools, Cedar Lane and Discovery. Every week, a grocery bag filled with 6 meals and 2 snacks plus juice and shelf milk is provided for each child. The school will fill the child’s backpack with the food to take home for the weekend. How can you help? Please donate individually-packaged lunch, dinner and snack foods, juice boxes or shelf milk. You can drop off your donation on the steel rack in the back left corner of the Narthex. For a detailed list of food items please click here.

If you prefer, you can make a financial donation.  Red envelopes (found near the rack in the narthex) with cash or a check made out to St. David’s with Domestic Outreach in the memo line can be placed it in the offertory basket or returned to the church office.  Grocery store gift certificates to Giant, Costco, and Walmart are also appreciated.  Additionally, please consider asking your place of employment to make or match a donation.

• Sign up to help with packing.
• Sign up to help deliver the bags.
• Backpack Buddies Presentation

Reach Mission Trip 2019
​The St. David's Middle and High School youth Reach registration for our 2019 trip is open for members of St. David's. We will be traveling to Uniontown, PA.  Email reach@sdlife.org for more information.
 
Contact:         reach@sdlife.org

Grace to Go
On Sunday, January 16th, 2011 we commissioned Grace to Go. St. David's is partnering with St. James’ Episcopal Church and Deli South in Leesburg to provide nutritious meals of baked chicken, potatoes, broccoli, carrots and a roll to those who are hungry. The ministry work of cooking is done on the 2nd Sunday of each month from 1:00-3:00 pm and the meal distribution is done the following Monday evening at St. James’ Episcopal in downtown Leesburg at 5:00 pm.  Click here to volunteer or sign up.  For more information about this ministry, please contact Walter & Stephanie Hearne and Jeff & Lori Grimm at gracetogo@sdlife.org.

​Grace to Go Testimonial

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Loudoun Hunger Relief
We hand out blue bags after service the last Sunday of the month for food to be returned the following Sunday. Place the food in the wagon in the narthex and your donation will be delivered to Hunger Relief. The much needed food throughout the year is cereal, 100% fruit juice, canned tuna and chicken, peanut butter, jelly, tomato products, spaghetti sauce and hearty soups.

Sign up to help

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DC Central Kitchen
Every day, volunteers help transform 3,000 pounds of donated food into 5,000 balanced meals that are distributed at little or no cost to 80 nearby homeless shelters, transitional homes, and nonprofit organizations, saving them money and nourishing their clients. 

Location: 425 Second Street NW Washington, DC 20001 
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Sign up here! 

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Global Outreach

Bromley School in Liberia
​The Bromley Mission School, established in 1905, was left in ruins after
14 years of civil war. The school is re-building and currently serves
and educates 100 girls in Liberia.
Contact:   bromley@sdlife.org

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Honduras
In February of 2020, St. Davids sent its first "Scout" team of six (6) missioners to Copan, Honduras to support and evaluate a long-standing mission to bring clean, abundant water to some of the most impoverished and deserving people in the world.  The Partnership for Clean Water and Education (http://www.pcwe.org) is a local non-profit working in trusted alignment with an incredible Honduran organization called Agua para el Pueblo (http://www.apphonduras.org).  Each year, the PCWE sends teams of volunteers to Honduras to work side by side with APP and those whom it is called to serve to build gravity-fed, clean water delivery systems.  Each project typically costs around $30,000, a ridiculously inexpensive price to bring life-changing water to an entire community.  While the funding, of course, is important, it's the shoulder to shoulder shared work experience that differentiates this mission as an outreach that literally and permanently changes lives.  For more information, whether as a sponsor or a potential 2021 participant, please email St. Davids at Domesticoutreach@sdlife.org.

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El Hogar 
EI Hogar is a boarding school located in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The school currently serves and educates hopelessly poor boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 14.
Contact:    elhogar@sdlife.org

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