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Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod
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Local Ministries
- Bethany House – Emergency shelter support for women and children in crisis. HT provides housing at below market rates to Bethany House for use as short-term housing.
- Emergency Driving Services – People without other transportation options are driven to medical appointments. HT volunteers participate in driving services.
- Food for Others – Distributor of free food directly to people in need in Northern Virginia. HT volunteers distribute food weekly to some of the poor and homeless families in the Culmore and Bailey’s Crossroads area.
- Glories/Happy Hats – This ministry makes hats for hospitalized children. HT provides storage space for materials and supplies and other support; HT members sit on the Happy Hats Board.
- Graham Road Elementary School After School Homework Club – HT members tutor children from the Graham Road Elementary school. In 2006, the HT volunteers’ efforts were recognized by the Fairfax Partnership for Youth Program.
- The Green Team - This new group at Holy Trinity integrates care of the Earth with our understanding of Stewardship of God's Creation. They work with members of the community on projects of environmental care and advocacy.
- Hat and Mitten Tree – At Christmas, the Sunday School donates hats and mittens to the Salvation Army to distribute to families in need.
- Homestretch – Provides transitional housing and other support to low-income families. Currently, Homestretch provides accommodation for about 70 families in housing units that it owns or rents, plus for six single women in a group house. HT members sit on the Board and provide financial support and volunteer time.
- Hypothermia Response Program – Through this shelter program operated by the Fairfax Area Christian Emergency Transitional Services, 19 churches provide beds and food to those needing shelter at night during the winter months. For seven nights this winter, HT will provide shelter and dinner, breakfast and snacks to the homeless.
- Knox Food Pantry – Food pantry located at Knox Presbyterian; food is delivered directly to people’s homes and serves as an emergency stop-gap. HT supplies food and volunteers deliver food.
- Meals on Wheels -- Provides home-delivered meals services to people in need. HT volunteers participate in home deliveries.
- Miriam’s Kitchen – This ministry feeds, counsels, and provides other services to homeless men, women, and children in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of D.C. and is headquartered at the Western Presbyterian Church. HT members volunteer once a month to prepare and serve breakfast and work annually on the major fund-raising event.
- NOVACO – Together with Bethlehem Lutheran, HT is supporting a mother with 3 daughters, all under the age of 5 in this transitional assistance program for victims of domestic abuse. HT supports the family by providing meals, gift cards, clothing donations, and home repair and maintenance activities and other services.
- National Lutheran Home Auxiliary – The Auxiliary seeks to enrich the lives of the residents of the National Lutheran Home through birthday and other parties, home maintenance, and educational programs. HT members provide baked goods and volunteers for the Spring and Fall Festivals.
- The Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission School, Rock Point, Arizona – This is a community seeking to recognize and help meet the educational, health, social and spiritual needs of the Navajo people in partnership with the Navajo. The Sunday School students have sponsored a child at the Mission School; HT members collect school supplies for the Mission.
Global Ministries
- Haiti – Holy Trinity works with the Lazarus Project in Haiti to help provide schooling, meals and housing for children in one of the poorest countries in the world. Holy Trinity has taken work trips to Haiti as well as raised money for this effort.
- Navajo Mission – The Sunday School sponsors a child at the Navajo Lutheran Mission School in Rock Point AZ. We provide a scholarship for the school as well as gifts at Christmas and birthdays. Letters are exchanged between the students.
- Costa Rica – Holy Trinity supports Stephen Deal as a missionary in Costa Rica through the ELCA Global Missions
- Companion Synods – Through the Metro Washington DC Synod Holy Trinity has companion relationships with El Salvador, Namibia, and Slovak Republic. This involves support, exchanges and visits in the three countries.
- Heifer Project – The Sunday School has participated in projects to raise money for Heifer Project International which provides help to farmers in the US and around the world.
- Eye Clinic in Bolivia - In cooperation with the Lions Club, Holy Trinity members travel to Bolivia or other Latin American countries to conduct an eye clinic in poor villages that do not have eye care available. The knitting ministry makes and supplies eye wash cloths.
Friends and Affiliates
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