Wherever we work or live, we want to keep our eyes open for how we can serve those around us. NCC partners with several local organizations in the areas below. Join their work or engage in your own neighborhood, blessing your city through your God-given passions.
Child Advocacy
Overview
NCC partners with families and organizations throughout the DMV to ensure that all children and youth grow up in environments where they can thrive. Our partnerships include opportunities to mentor, tutor, foster and adopt, provide respite care, and support families in crisis.
how to get involved
- DC Dream Center Second Saturday Serve and Ongoing
One person at a time, the DC Dream Center inspires youth and adults to dare to dream, equipping them to reach their God-given potential. The DC|DC encompasses a spectrum of programs from low-barrier after-school activities and tutoring, to programs that offer deeper engagement such as one-on-one mentoring. To volunteer, please sign up and be notified of opportunities. Additionally, you can show up on the Second Saturday of every month at 10am for a general service opportunity. - DC127 One time and Ongoing
Exists to reverse the foster-care wait list in DC. DC127 helps prospective foster parents navigate the process, while partnering with Communities for Families to recruit volunteers to support families in crisis. There are many opportunities to serve such as respite, babysitting, cooking meals for families with recently placed kids, mentoring or providing needed resources. For more information check out the DC127 website. - Casa Chirilagua One time and Ongoing
This is a community of people “learning together to love our neighbors as ourselves” in a Latino neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia. NCC NoVA partners with Casa through volunteer opportunities such as mentoring, teaching English, and bible study volunteers. To learn more and volunteer email [email protected]. - Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center One time and Ongoing
Offers help and support to women, men and their families who are experiencing an unexpected pregnancy. They offer free pregnancy testing, counseling, mentoring, childbirth classes and parenting classes (which includes a fatherhood initiative program). They also support families and their babies by offering free material resources. While they do not perform or refer for abortions, they provide women and men with complete, medically-accurate information about abortion. They are accepting volunteers.
Refugee Care
Overview
Through partnerships and direct ministry we are able to engage in setting up apartments, walking alongside families, connection with services, intentional prayer, and hosting education and awareness events.
how to get involved
- Refugee Care Ongoing
Join a small group and walk alongside a family as they rebuild their lives. This type of support is long term and takes commitment as building trust is key. The group works with the family on everything from doctor appointments, tutoring, language support, job hunting, to meals around the table. The Family Friends team commits to diving deeper into the culture and language of their friends, seeking to learn from them and their community, as well as invite them into their own. For more information email [email protected]. - Homes Not Borders One time or Ongoing
HNB works to provide the refugee and asylum-seeking population of the DC area with all they need to succeed and feel at home in the US. Through setting up apartments, career mentorship, and carpentry training they are always looking for volunteers and donations. To learn more visit the Homes Not Borders website.
Homelessness
Overview
NCC continues to work to end homelessness in our community by walking alongside individuals or families as they rebuild their lives.
how to get involved
- Inservice Sundays
This is a weekly outreach group that engages people experiencing homelessness right where they are. With lunch or a snack as a tool, we seek to build relationships. This can look like praying together, connecting to services, or simply having a conversation. We meet every Sunday at 10:50am either at Ebenezers Coffeehouse or the Capital Turnaround depending on the week. For more information email LaTonya at [email protected]. We are always looking for help with meals. Check out Take Them A Meal to sign up. - The Living Room Wednesdays
A small group that brings people together from all walks of life to fellowship and study the scriptures over a meal. Through the breaking of bread, we have the opportunity to follow the model of Jesus by building relationships with people who are often forgotten or overlooked. While all are welcome, many individuals in this small group have found themselves living on the streets, in a local shelter, or as part of the working poor. The Living Room is every Wednesday from 6-7pm at Ebenezers Coffeehouse. For more information email [email protected]. We are always looking for help with meals. Check out Take Them A Meal to sign up.
Community Development
Overview
Through knowing our neighbors by name, we can help meet needs within our own communities. We work alongside community organizations that are working locally to make change.
how to get involved
- Carpenter’s Shelter • One Saturday a month
Serve and prepare food as we offer a time of fellowship for families experiencing homelessness but currently in shelter. Our partners at Carpenter’s Shelter work hard to care for at least 40 adults and 35 children daily. For more information contact Jenn.
Prison and Re-entry
Overview
NCC seeks to support and walk alongside justice-impacted people both within and outside of our church. This is done through direct ministry and local and national partnerships. Engaging with families who have a loved one who is or has been incarerated, praying over and responding to letters from individuals that are incarcerated, and seeking to engage with our local DC Jail.
how to get involved
- Love Justice Monthly, Ongoing, and Event-based
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6 NIV. Our mission is to support NCC’s fulfillment of God’s call to bring peace and wholeness (shalom) to our brothers and sisters in prison, those reentering society, and families experiencing the incarceration of a loved one. We circle needs in prayer, visit and write those in prison, and welcome returning citizens and justice-impacted families, connecting them to needed resources at NCC and beyond. We gratefully partner with Prison Fellowship® to support Angel Tree programs, Second Chance Month and Justice Reform initiatives. For more information, please email [email protected]. - Prison Fellowship Ongoing and Event-based
Every person is made in the image of God. No life is beyond His reach. Founded in 1976, Prison Fellowship® exists to serve all those affected by crime and incarceration and to see lives and communities restored in and out of prison—one transformed life at a time. Prison Fellowship engages through transforming the lives of prisoners, caring for children and families, and advocating for justice that restores. Volunteer directly with Prison Fellowship and/or check out the Outrageous Justice Small Group (offered most semesters).