Category: Events

This year, Georgetown Ministry Center (GMC) marks 30 years of service to people experiencing homelessness in our community. In anticipation of its upcoming annual benefit, the Spirit of Georgetown, GMC invites you to a special Q&A conversation with author, journalist and host of the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown, Sally Quinn, and Leon Weiseltier, of Brookings Institute, writer, critic, philosopher and magazine editor.  They sit down to discuss her new book, Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir, touching upon the topics of spirituality and the ways our various faiths unite us all and shape our views on how to care for people who are less fortunate, as is GMC’s mission.

The event is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP on our Eventbrite page.

Tickets to the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown will be available for sale at the event. Copies of Sally’s book will be for sale and she will be available for book-signing after the Q&A.

About Leon Wieseltier: An American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor, Wieseltier served as the literary editor of The New Republic from 1983 to 2014. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic.

About Sally Quinn: A quintessential Washingtonian, Quinn is an author, television reporter, and journalist who has worked and socialized with the city’s movers and shakers for several decades. For Quinn, the thread tying together the varied facets of her life is spirituality. The creator and moderator of The Washington Post’s religious blog OnFaith.com, the most visited religious site on the web, Quinn focuses on the values and rituals that have given her life meaning.

About Spirit of Georgetown: The Spirit of Georgetown is Georgetown Ministry Center’s highly-anticipated annual benefit. Held every fall in a historic Georgetown home, GMC honors someone who has helped make its work to find solutions to homelessness possible. This year’s Spirit will be hosted by author, journalist and long-time Washingtonian, Sally Quinn, and will honor Mayor Muriel Bowser for her leadership on issues of homelessness.

The 2017 Taste of Georgetown is fast-approaching on September 24th and Georgetown Ministry Center is seeking volunteers to help during the event!

GMC is the beneficiary of this long-running epicurean event that brings together the best of Georgetown’s culinary scene in one taste bud-tantalizing, fun-filled afternoon. We are seeking volunteers to help during the following shifts:

1/2 Day Shift: 10am-1pm

1/2 Day Shift: 1-5pm

Full Day Shift: 10am-5pm

Volunteers will receive 2 Tasting Tickets in return for volunteering. If you are interested in volunteering, please email carolyn@gmcgt.org to receive more info & sign up!

All of us at GMC want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our DoMore24 MixxedFit event, donated to support our work, or told your friends and coworkers about GMC! You all made DoMore24 a success. We couldn’t do any of our work to end homelessness one person at a time without you, so thank you!

Check out a few pictures from the day. A special thank you to the Georgetown BID for providing the sound system, Grace Episcopal Church for letting us use the churchyard, and to Sabrina Burrell, Samuel Washington, and Tiffancy Barnes, our instructors for the afternoon. Get excited for another DoMore24 next year! You can mark your calendars for June 2, 2017.

Thank you Page Evans, Jocelyn Dyer and Dymenn Sasser for all of your hard work planning this perfect night.  Thank you so much Ellen Charles for hosting the event at your lovely house.  There are many others that were instrumental in the success Thursday evening.  Most importantly thanks to all of the wonderful attendees for supporting GMC’s important work in the community.   For those of you who had asked for a copy of Gunther’s remarks, the only ones we have available to us, you can find them here.  Much more later.

At Georgetown Ministry Center, we have so much to be thankful for. Our community of guests, staff, volunteers, and donors are amazing, and we would not be who we are without them. In past years, Thanksgiving Day at GMC has usually been pretty low key; we’ve always been open, but have saved the feasting for other days that week. This year, our Program Coordinator, Beau Stiles, and his amazing family cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner for all of the guests in our center!

Beau, his wife Corinna, and daughter Cora served sixty-five guests on Thanksgiving in our tiny center. If you think you slaved away in the kitchen making Thanksgiving dinner, wrap your head around this: Corinna cooked the following from scratch: 3 turkeys, 21 pounds of mashed potatoes, 21 pounds of candied yams, a huge amount of cornbread stuffing, 9 pounds of green beans, 9 pounds of sweet corn, gravy, 6 dozen rolls, 8 dozen cookies, and pumpkin cheesecake coco marscapone swirl bars! 

Beau later told the rest off staff:

Each day I get so much from the people we provide services to and I am grateful. As such, my family is supportive of what I do and the cause, so it was a natural fit. This was a token of my (and my family’s) appreciation. Thank you for allowing us to do is. It was incredibly meaningful to us all, and perhaps our most meaningful thanksgiving to date.

We really enjoyed our day. We did not go home and celebrate, as the Thanksgiving at the center was our Thanksgiving as well. After all, that’s what the day is all about… coming together and sharing. I am most thankful to be somewhere that brings this out in my family and I, and allows for us to do something like this, independent of the organization. We are truly blessed. We are already contemplating next year!

Thank YOU, Beau, for giving so much to GMC. We are so lucky to have such dedicated staff.