Outreach

"... for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to 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 below.

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.

Backpack Buddies
In the 2020-2021 school year the Backpack Buddies program at St. David’s supported 130 students each week in three Ashburn schools: Cedar Lane Elementary, Discovery Elementary and Broad Run High School. For those not familiar with this program, Backpack Buddies is designed to provide children experiencing food insecurity with nutritious, kid-friendly, pre-packed meals for the weekend—when they would not have access to a school’s free lunch and breakfast. We need your help restocking our shelves in preparation for supporting these schools again in the 2021-22 school year! Please look over the list below for preferred items. There are tall metal shelves in the back of the church narthex where food donations can be placed. Thanks in advance for your support!

Volunteer Opportunities
Please consider supporting the Backpack Buddies program at St. Davids by volunteering to help with packing or school deliveries. Packing takes place in the St. David's Annex each Sunday, begins at 12:30pm and usually takes less than an hour depending on the number or volunteers. Individuals, families and groups are welcome to help.

Deliveries take place during the week and require picking up bins from the church filled with individual bags of food for each student, delivering them to one of three schools and returning empty bins to the church. The days/times for deliveries are flexible, generally any day Monday through Wednesday, between 9am and 2pm.

Additionally, food can be provided through our Amazon Wish List. You can select the St. David's delivery address and it will come directly to the church

Would you like to help? Select the option that works best for you:

Backpack Buddies Preferred Items:

Fruit juice boxes
Individual serving cereals (1 oz or less)
Individual instant oatmeal cups or bags
Cereal bars and peanut butter crackers
Fruit snacks
Individual canned fruit or applesauce cups
Chef Boyardee ravioli, Beefaroni, spaghetti cups
Chicken noodle soup
Easy Mac & Cheese cups and boxes of macaroni and cheese
Small canned or packets of tuna or chicken
Individual snack bags - cookies, Cheez-its, Goldfish
Individual shelf-stable milk (white or chocolate)

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 Jeff & Lori Grimm at gracetogo@sdlife.org.

Grace to Go Testimonial

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

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

Donate here!

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

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, feel free to reach out directly to Tim Vorce or Jeff Grimm.