Downtown Common - Downtown Poor - Downtown Workers - Outreach Volunteer Opportunities - Peace and Justice - Ministry Teams

Downtown Common

Downtown Poor

The Welcome Table

The number of men, women, and children coming for food each Sunday continues to grow. If you can help us feed the homeless, send your donation to: The Welcome Table c/o The Church of the Epiphany 1317 G St., NW Washington, DC 20005 All donations are tax deductible.

The Welcome Table Breakfast and Outreach Program is a program of The Church of the Epiphany, a 250-member Episcopal congregation located in downtown DC. The breakfast program began in the 1950s and now provides counseling, outreach services and a hot breakfast to as many as 200 men, women, and children each Sunday morning. Working in partnership with Samaritan Ministries, The Downtown Cluster of Churches, DPAH, Catholic Charities, The Salvation Army, SOME and other non-profits, Epiphany's program provides support to the homeless, on a Sunday, when most other services are closed. Our program provides emergency counseling and food and is one of the only walk-in counseling centers open on a Sunday. Read more about the Welcome Table.

Street Sense
Street Sense is Washington D.C.'s street newspaper. It is the first paper of, for and by the homeless and poor people in the Nation's Capital. The mission of Street Sense is to make the public more aware of issues related to poverty and homelessness while also providing homeless men and women with and economically beneficial opportunity and a forum to be published. The 16-page monthly paper, which is put together entirely by volunteers, is filled with news articles, features, poems and editorials from homeless and formerly homeless people, advocates and professional writers interested in social issues. The way it works is that the Street Sense vendors pay 30 cents (to cover publishing costs) for each paper and then they sell it for $1, earning 70 cents for every paper sold. These vendors make an average of $50 a day, and some have even been able to use this money to move out of the shelter. Street Sense has an office at Epiphany.

Street Church
Street Church is a service that will be held outside in Franklin Square Park on Tuesdays at 1 pm. It is a service intended to provide the homeless with an opportunity to worship and find the support of
relationships that provide a foundation of spiritual comfort and trust. After the service, bag lunches will be distributed. The homeless tend to be isolated and many desire to be part of a faith community, but are afraid to come inside a church. This service will provide a way for downtown workers and other churches in the community and in the suburbs to get involved with the homeless. We plan to have the first service on Mardi Gras, February 28, and to somehow include the Mardi Gras theme in our worship and in the lunches that we hand out. We need more volunteers to help plan and/or participate in this service.

Downtown Workers

Weekday Associates

Faith Connections

Fellowship and Light
Epiphany welcomes you to an offering of adult formation on Wednesday evenings --- Fellowship & Light.  Please join us to share a meal and conversation, spend time in communion with God, and learn together through study and discussion of a selected topic. This is a typical evening:

6:30pm – We meet in the Parish Hall with a simple supper of soup, bread, and fruit.  A $3 contribution will help defray the costs of providing a meal and is appreciated.

7:00pm – A candlelight prayer service will be held in the church.  The scripture, prayers and chant will honor our physical need to calm down and rest.

7:30pm –Discussion

Downtown Community Events

Ice Cream Social
From time to time, the parish invites its neighbors to join us in the garden for an ice cream social. This is one of the many ways that we provide a gathering place, a place of respite, and a place of fellowship for the downtown community.

Center for Pastoral Counseling of Virginia
The Center for Pastoral Counseling of Virginia provides professional pastoral counseling: counseling that is sensitive not only to relational and emotional issues, but to spiritual and ethical issues as well. Offices at the Church of the Epiphany are one of 14 locations in Northern Virginia and Washington, DC. Contact them at 703 903-9696.

AA/Al-Anon/SLA

Outreach Volunteer Opportunities

Christ House
A 32-bed health care facility in Washington, D.C., Christ House is a temporary residence for those who are ill and homeless. It is a place where they can receive plenty of rest, nutritious meals, medical care, and social services. On December 24, 1985, the first patient came through the doors, and since then, Christ House has been continuously serving the sick and homeless.

Samaritan Ministry
Samaritan Ministry is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people who are homeless or in need to help themselves. The agency's Next Step self-sufficiency approach allows Participants to set life improvement goals for themselves and with the help of Samaritan Ministry staff, determine a series of manageable, specific tasks toward the fulfillment of those goals. Services such as housing and employment counseling, coaching, motivation, and so much more are offered by our program. Samaritan Ministry offers free help to anyone who wants to make a change in his or her life. There is no religious requirement for Program Participants of Samaritan Ministry.

Downtown Sounds for DC Kids (DSDK)
DSDK is a music program for DC public school children offered by The Church of the Epiphany. It is free and provides transportation for the students. We had several programs last spring and one in the fall. The program resumes in February after some down time in this past fall, since the schools were overwhelmed with the start of the school year and additional testing. Read more about this program or download a flyer.

Peace and Justice

Washington Interfaith Network
Washington Interfaith Network is a multi-ethnic, interfaith, non-partisan, politically active grassroots organization, consisting of more than 45 dues-paying member congregations, schools, union locals and other entities working to improve life in the District of Columbia for all residents.

Service and Justice Ministry Teams

Downtown Ministry Team
Mission Statement: We are called to reach out to and develop ministry with the downtown community, especially downtown workers.

Current Ministries:

Outreach Ministry Team
Mission Statement: We are called to respond to human need and touch the pain of the world, by ministering with the poor, and by working for systemic change.

Current Ministries: