Local Missions

Fredericksburg Interfaith Council: Coordinates School Dressing Days, Dolphin (nursing home visitation for un-churched individuals) and Meals on Wheels, and makes layettes for welfare and Social Services. Call Mary Faulkener at 373-3563 for more information.

The Fredericksburg Area Food Bank: Collects and distributes donated food products to needy individuals and families in Fredericksburg and its surrounding counties.

Hope House: Provides homeless women and their children residency and the services necessary to transition into independent living in the community.

Rappahannock Area Community Services Board: Provides community mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse and prevention and early intervention services for Fredericksburg and the surrounding area.

Rappahannock Adult Activities, Inc.: Encourages mentally challenged adults to participate in community and offers day support services.

Volunteer Emergency Families for Children: Provides training and support for volunteers who provide short-term care and mentoring to abused, neglected, homeless, and at-risk children and youth throughout Virginia.

Central Virginia Housing Coalition: Seeks the improvement of the regional quality of life through coalitions, education, financial counseling and assistance, and locates housing for responsible, qualified individuals.

Mary Washington Campus Christian Community: Witnesses to the love and power of God in Jesus Christ by ministering with students, faculty and staff of MWC through worship, study, service, and fellowship.

Thurman Brisben Center: Provides emergency shelter, food, self-help programs and referral services to homeless families and individuals in the Fredericksburg area. Call Donna Hudgins at 368-9741 to participate in serving meals.

Prison Fellowship Program: Ministers to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families, and promotes biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system. Contact Al Erkert at 373-5094 to get involved.

Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic: Provides free of charge, nondiscriminatory, quality health care services to medically indigent residents throughout the jurisdictions of Planning District 16.

Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault: Provides classes and training for parents and children to protect them from sexual assult and abuse.

Habitat for Humanity: Partners with people in need to build quality, affordable housing.

Rebuilding Together: Assists elderly, low-income, and disabled homeowners in Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania by doing home repairs and repainting on the last Saturday in April. Contact Steve Spratt at 786-3452 to get involved.

Hospice Support Care, Inc.: Provides emotional and spiritual support to the dying and their families through bereavement groups, home visits, and respite care and educates the community on end of life issues. Call 710-0480 to volunteer.

Community Assessment Program (CAP): Improves access to assistance for those in need and stewardship of donations made to help others by doing evaluations for individuals and families.

Mary Washington Hospital Community Services Fund: Provides financial resources that result in improving the community’s general health, containing the growth of the community’s health care cost, or improving the access of the poor and other medically under-served populations to high quality medical care.

Fredericksburg Area HIV/AIDS Support Services: Provides financial, emotional, and medical support for individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS as well as community and individual education for its prevention.

Rappahannock Council on Domestic Violence: Seeks to educate the public and provides confidential assistance through a crisis hot line, temporary shelter, court advocacy, and support and recovery groups for victims, batterers, and their children. To volunteer, call 373-9373.

Virginia Interfaith Committee on Mental Illness Ministries (VICOMIM): Educates clergy and laity toward an awareness and sensitivity about mental illness and offers programs, assistance, and resources to faith communities developing their own programs for ministry with persons with mental illness and their families.

Community Dinner: Provides support for the community dinners held at our church on the first, third and fifth Saturday for the homeless and poor in our community.

Micah Hospitality: Provides funds to support the work of Micah Ministries, an organization of downtown Fredericksburg Churches and other Churches, that provides food, job searching, medical treatment and other assistance.

Families of the Wounded: Provides support to a wounded soldiers’ family while the solider is undergoing treatment in Richmond, VA.

Food Pantry: Our food pantry is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 11am to 1pm and distributes food to the hungry in our community.