Come Serve With Us! 
Help Cook for the MCCH Men’s Shelter! 
We cook hot breakfasts that are delivered to the shelter in Rockville.
- 200 residents receive hot Saturday and Sunday breakfast!
- No experience is necessary – all are welcome!







The Lord’s Table 
Preparing and Serving Brown Bagged Lunches at Epworth Methodist Church

#Refugees Welcome 
Help Outfit an Apartment for a Refugee Family

“…I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” —Matthew 25:35

Rebuilding Together 
Helping provide low-income homeowners with safer homes
Rebuilding Together Montgomery County (RTMC) offers low-income homeowners safe and healthy home repairs at no cost to the recipient. Over the course of a year, RTMC repairs the homes of more than 100 families, reducing their financial burdens and improving the quality of life for more than 500 people across our county. RTMC’s critical services preserve safe and affordable housing, prevent homelessness, protect a family’s most valuable asset, and stabilize our vulnerable communities. GPC works with RTMC to provide home repair services. This program depends entirely on volunteers to repair and/or renovate the homes. Projects take place for one day in April. Volunteers do not need to be GPC members; anyone older than 14 years of age with any skill level (but experts are also needed!) can participate. GPC offers scholarships to volunteers who cannot afford to contribute toward materials for the projects.



Gaithersburg HELP 
Lending support to this local food pantry in many ways

SOME (So Others Might Eat) 
Serving up French toast and more on the first Tuesday of every month

Volunteers can participate in two ways: (1) join the GPC SOME Crew and help cook breakfast when you can, and (2) donate the ingredients for breakfast. The SOME Crew is made up of people who have said that they would like to help prepare breakfast at SOME with a group from GPC. Each month an e-mail is sent to everyone on the list and a group is assembled based on the responses.
Prison Ministry 
Connecting with local inmates

Community Schools 
Supporting students and teachers in many ways

We’ve changed our name but not our mission. Almost 10 years ago, GPC began its involvement with Summit Hall Elementary School. Our goal is still to reach out to families and students that need extra help with winter clothing and occasional money for groceries and necessities not covered by food stamps. In 2018, the Community Engagement committee expanded our reach to include Rosemont Elementary School and Forest Oak Middle School. These schools have similar needs and are grateful for the goods and gift cards we can send their way as well as our prayers and good wishes.
A few summers ago, Summit Hall ES added two eight-classroom portables. The teamwork of GPC men that helped move classroom materials and even two pianos to meet the deadline for the beginning of school was remarkable. Unfortunately the portables take up so much space that the loved Move It Monday running program that we helped staff had to be discontinued.
GPC volunteers still help in classrooms at Summit Hall, by working on math or writing with the students, and doing copying for the teachers. One member has diligently updated the bookroom used by the teachers. Our support to Rosemont ES and Forest Oak MS is primarily through contributions.
Collecting Box Tops for Education is something we can all do by checking our food boxes and labels. These little stamp-like items earn money for the schools to spend on extras that their budget can’t provide. There are collection boxes in Lindsay Hall and the church office.
Our Christmas Giving Tree tags help GPC members know the needs of families, so that many of our members can support the school families. Some volunteers have worked on trash pickup, trimming trees, planting chrysanthemums, and providing craft programs for kids during family dinners at school. One summer, the GPC youth group spent a 90° day helping with outdoor cleanup, and cooling off inside, labeling new books for the bookroom.
The opportunities are endless and new events may include meeting with a group of mothers to get to know them and have them hear English in an informal learning opportunity. Also, a reading specialist is looking for volunteers to help collate papers into packets.
Some of the mothers of Summit Hall students helped us cook breakfasts at GPC for the Men’s Shelter. They look forward to another opportunity to join in that activity.
Please consider helping us with this neighborhood project. The rewards cannot be measured.
Interfaith Works Women’s Center

Week of Meals
December 20–26, 2020 {DATE TO BE CONFIRMED}