Trip Schedule

Please keep in mind Waterfront Church's needs change on a monthly/weekly basis. We may have a large amount of work for your team to do, or we may only have enough work for half-days the week of your trip. As you think about your team's schedule, please remain flexible and willing to adjust with the needs of our church.

Important: Contact Zack a few weeks before your trip to get an idea of the amount of work we have for your team. You can then schedule outside mission projects with other local DC organizations, depending on availability.

Waterfront Church Projects

DC Area Organizations

Washington, D.C., is filled with local ministries and organizations that desire to help those in need.  Some of these ministries and organizations focus on the homeless, while others focus on inner-city children or the terminally ill.  This section will provide you with a list of contacts so that you can fill your ministry schedule, do good work, and promote what Waterfront Church stands for in the community.  

Miriam’s Kitchen
Website  |  202-452-8926
2401 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037

Miriam’s Kitchen is committed to ending chronic homelessness in DC by creating meaningful connections with chronically homeless individuals, placing them in permanent supportive housing, and ensuring they have the necessary support to remain in housing. We advocate for permanent supportive housing as a long-term solution, while meeting short-term needs by providing healthy meals and high-quality social services to more than 4,300 chronically homeless individuals each year.  

So Others Might Eat
Website  |  202-797-8806
71 ‘O’ Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001

SOME (So Others Might Eat) is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. We meet the immediate daily needs of the people we serve with food, clothing, and health care.  We help break the cycle of homelessness by offering services, such as affordable housing, job training, addiction treatment, and counseling, to the poor, the elderly and individuals with mental illness. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.

Food & Friends
Website  |  202-269-2277
219 Riggs Road, NE, Washington, DC 20011

The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.

D.C. Habitat for Humanity
Website  |  202-882-4600
2115 Ward Court NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20037

Habitat works to provide affordable housing solutions for low-income families in need.  Their aim is to build just as many homes as possible.  DC Habitat welcomes teams from corporations, non-profits, and civic or faith-based groups to come out and help build decent, affordable housing in the District. They offer different ways for all kinds of groups to get involved, the most popular being ‘team builds.’

Kids Konnection
Website  |  202-563-1720
3929 4th St SE, Washington, DC 20032

We are currently looking for volunteers to help with our Sidewalk Sunday School Program. You will be working on a team that ministers to children ages 2 to 13 in the inner city of South East Washington, D.C. Sidewalk runs Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. If you are available from 4pm to 6pm on any of those days, please contact our office.

Capital Area Food Bank
Website  |  202-644-9800
4900 Puerto Rico Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20017

The mission of the Capital Area Food Bank is to feed those who suffer from hunger in the Washington metro area by acquiring food and distributing it through its network of partner agencies and educating, empowering and enlightening the community about the issues of hunger and nutrition

D.C. Central Kitchen
Website  |  202)-234-0707
425 2nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

Since our founding in 1989, DC Central Kitchen has prepared 25 million meals for our low-income and at-risk neighbors in Washington, D.C. That’s a lot of meals – but don’t mistake us for a soup kitchen.  The 5,000 meals we dish out every day are loaded into our fleet of trucks and distributed at little or no cost to 100 nearby homeless shelters, transitional homes, and nonprofit organizations, saving them money and nourishing their clients.

Manna DC
Website  |  202-832-1845
828 Evarts Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018

Since 1982, Manna has been serving low and moderate-income families, assisting them to fulfill the dream of homeownership. In that time, we have created and preserved nearly 1,000 units of affordable housing for low and moderate-income DC residents and our homeowners have accrued over $60 million in equity. Our financial literacy and homeowner training program has been replicated more than 200 times across the nation.

Calvary Women's
Website  |  202-678-2341
1217 Good Hope Road SE, Washington, DC 20020

Calvary Women’s Services offers housing, health, employment and education programs that empower homeless women in Washington, DC to change their lives. Our programs carry out our mission to achieve excellence in what we offer: a safe, caring place for tonight; support, hope and change for tomorrow. These programs include transitional and permanent housing, personalized case management, life skills and education opportunities, job training, health and wellness services, on-site therapy and daily addiction recovery meetings. At Calvary, we believe every woman has the strengths and gifts she needs to be successful. Each woman in our programs identifies and builds on her strengths, meeting her goals for safe housing, good health and financial independence.

Little Lights
Website  |  202.548.4021
760 7th St SE, Washington DC 20003

Little Lights Urban Ministries provides holistic ministry and services to children and families living in poverty in Washington, D.C., primarily focusing in Potomac Gardens and Hopkins, two public housing communities on Capitol Hill. Little Lights provides high quality and intensive after-school and summer programs with academics and enrichment, one-to-one mentoring, and arts-based programs. Little Lights also provides economic empowerment and family resource programs through the Family Center, on-the-job training, and the Clean Green Team, a landscaping micro-enterprise.

A Wider Circle
Website  |  301-608-3504
9159 Brookville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910

The mission of A Wider Circle is simple: to end poverty for one individual and one family after another. We work in partnership with those we serve and with those seeking to help to ensure that every child and adult has the chance to succeed and the opportunity to live well.

Backup Plan Ideas

Over the years, we have led groups of as small as 4 and as large as 75 into the city, and no matter the size of your group, it always seems that there is a mission project or two that falls through due to weather, overbooking, or other unforeseen events.  This section is critical for your planning and highly effective when the Spirit is leading.  Listed below are several opportunities to show the love of Christ in our community.  Keep in mind, these ideas are abstract in nature, but highly effective.  While doing these activities, we ask that you wear your Waterfront Church T-shirts, accurately represent the God we serve, and the church you are helping.  If you need more information specifically on any of these projects and where you can implement them, we can provide additional guidance.  Waterfront does not have the ability to fund these efforts, however, they are effective and appreciated.

At this point you should have...

Decided on WCDC service projects
Arranged other DC area service work
Created a backup plan in case of rain
Finalized your team's weekly schedule
Partnered with WCDC through giving

Next Step: Prepare your team

CLICK HERE  to get started on step 3!