Category: Events

On Monday, The Ritz-Carlton Georgetown celebrated Thanksgiving by catering a delicious meal for our homeless guests at Georgetown Ministry Center. As guests helped clean up the center at the end of the day, Ritz-Carlton employees were wheeling trays full of turkey, green beans, sweet potatoes, soup, and pie from the hotel on South Street to the Parish Hall in Grace Church right above our center. At 5:00pm, we opened the doors and our guests came flooding in.

Like last year, everyone’s favorite part of the meal was the butternut squash soup. Even Roy, our Outreach Director who was initially skeptical, tried it and loved it. Seriously, if you are in the neighborhood, go try it out!

We cannot think of a better way to spend Thanksgiving than with our neighbors from the Ritz-Carlton. Thank you so much to Judy Kim, the Assistant Director of Human Resources, for doing all of the planning and coordinating this year! Happy Thanksgiving!

If you were at this year’s Spirit of Georgetown, you know that there are lots of cameras flashing. We posted some of the pictures soon after, but where, you might be wondering, are the rest?

Check out the photos by Alfredo Flores Photography in Capitol File. You might be in one of them!

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the successful Spirit of Georgetown last Thursday, October 17. What a party, and what at turnout! This was our most successful Spirit of Georgetown event to date, and we cannot thank everyone enough who gave and attended the event.

Anyone who was at the event last Thursday or was in the area saw the flashing lights and the secret service standing in front of the home of Brooke and Stephane Carnot, who hosted the Spirit. We didn’t know until the day of that we would have special guests– Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.

Gunther presented Page Evans with The Freddie, our humanitarian award named to memorialize a man who died in a phone booth in Georgetown and whose death prompted the community to found GMC. Page has helped GMC in so many ways ranging from planning past Spirit events to talking about homelessness with local elementary school students to calling GMC about homeless individuals she meets on the street who need help.

It was a beautiful night and event, and we of course could not have done it without this year’s co-chairs, Carrington Tarr, Colman Riddell, Elizabeth Hague, and Amy Porter Stroh. Special thanks also to Brooke and Stephane Carnot for hosting the event, and to our sponsors: Broad Branch Market, partyhands, Washington Fine Properties, and Well Oiled Wine.

You can read more about the Spirit on the Georgetown Dish.

We’d love to see your pictures from the Spirit, so please feel free to send them to us!

2k Walk and 5k Run for Georgetown Ministry Center

Join members from the Georgetown neighborhood, Georgetown University community, and Georgetown Ministry Center family on a beautiful Fall afternoon to raise awareness and support for Georgetown Ministry Center.

You can take in Georgetown University’s beautiful campus with a leisurely 2k walk or participate in some friendly competition in the 5k run. Not sure if you can train for the 5k in time? Register anyway; you’ll be able to decide whether to walk/run the day of during check-in. Costume are encouraged, but entirely optional!

We will have music, a cookout, and prizes for the fastest male and female 5k runners, the best costume, and the registrant who raises the most money in sponsorships for GMC.

If you don’t want to run or walk, register anyway and come cheer on GMC’s Executive Director, Gunther, who will be running the 5k!

Details

When: Sunday, October 20, 2013.
Schedule: Registration at 11:00am-11:30am ; Blessing and Keynote Speaker at 11:30am; Start at  11:45am
Where: Georgetown University campus, registration at Red Square
Who: This event is open to everyone and all ages!
Why: Because nearly 12,000 poeple in Washington, DC are homeless. Georgetown Ministry Center guides chronically, service-resistant homeless individuals toward stability and housing through aggressive street outreach, providing a safe and welcoming environment in our center where everyone is treated with respect, and educating our community about homelessness. We seek to end homelessness one person at a time.

To join us, register on our event page on the Help the Homeless website.

Last Friday, August 9, Georgetown Ministry Center had its very first outing, and we were able to take a group of our amazing members to a Nationals Game! Thanks to superstar volunteer Maggie Handel, we were able to invite the members in our center who regularly help us keep our center and our alley clean, who help staff manage the computer lab, and who help diffuse heated situations in the center. It felt great to be able to thank and celebrate our members!

After Maggie and Stephanie had their request for Nationals tickets approved, Maggie arranged for transportation and food. Most people take the Metro or Circulator to the game and have to deal with massive traffic and crowds. Not us! We arrived and left in style via American River Taxi! Everyone loved riding on the water taxi, and seeing the monuments from the Potomac was breathtaking.

Shaun Guevarra, President of American River Taxi, was able to offer us round-trip tickets for the price of one-way tickets, and we were able to raise 87% of our transportation cost through our small fundraiser on Crowdrise. A huge thank you goes out to everyone who donated and helped get the word out for us.

Once we arrived at the stadium, we picked up half smokes, chips, and drinks courtesty of Ben’s Chili Bowl concession stand and made our way over to our seats. As we chowed down on our dogs, we watched the Nationals’ score go up and up.

The highlight of the night? Look who caught a ball that was hit straight into the middle of our group!

It was such a wonderful night. Great weather, great people, great game. Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this night possible and to our wonderful guests who help clean our center and alley day after day!

Check out the rest of the Photo album on our Facebook page!