St. Paul’s Outreach Committee seeks to further the parish’s mission by providing monetary outreach grants to local communities and overseas ministries and to provide opportunities for “hands on” parish outreach.

During the past year, the outreach committee led the congregation in donating toys to the Central Union Mission’s Christmas Toy Drive, collected non-perishable food for the Capital Area Community Food Bank, and contributed new backpacks filled with school supplies for elementary school age children in DC’s Wards 7 and 8.

We also provided community grants from $1,500 to $30,000 to Food and Friends, the Bishop Walker School, the Washington School for Girls, the Capital Area Food Bank, the free community dinner and food distribution program of St. Michael’s and All Angels Episcopal Church in Hyattsville, Md., and other partners. We provided monetary support to the Church of the Holy Ghost, Genoa, Italy, and the Compass Road Society at the Washington National Cathedral. As a parish, this summer we partnered with St. John’s Episcopal Church, Georgetown, to support immigrant babies separated from their families by donating diapers and baby formula.

This year we plan to continue our community grants program and to offer the congregation more options to serve by supporting the organizations listed above and new ministries.