Category: What’s New

Georgetown Ministry Center is very excited to announce our new partnership with Recoup, the first online marketplace connecting people with the brands they like and the causes they care about, like GMC.  And, it’s based right here in Georgetown!

What is Recoup?

Recoup is similar to Groupon or LivingSocial and allows you to purchase great deals from local or national merchants, and then automatically donates a percentage of your purchase to us. What’s cool about Recoup is that you can also choose to increase that donation by converting more of your savings through a tax-deductible donation. Want to read more about how it works? You can on Recoup’s website.

How do I sign up?

You can click here to sign up and support us on Recoup. If we can reach 100 supporters on Recoup by the end of the year, Recoup will double donations to us!

So what kind of offers does Recoup have?

Check out this offer for Il Canale and enjoy delicious Neapolitan food in Georgetown! It’s a great way to support the local community! We hope many of you will take advantage of the offers Recoup will have to offer.

Recoup: Buy what you like. Save what you want. Support what you love.

This is the last day to register for the last big Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walk. This is your last chance to walk down the middle of Independence Avenue flanked by thousands if other souls in support of a dignified solution to homelessness. We need you.

Register, walk, support GMC! Helpthehomeless.org
Register online until 5:00 p.m. Tonight.

On Thursday, Georgetown Ministry Center had its first-ever talent show! From singing and dancing to guitar playing, storytelling, and poetry recitations, both guests and staff strutted their stuff and had lots of laughs and fun. This first show definitely showed other shyer guests that there is nothing to be afraid of when performing in our center. We are a safe, supportive, and welcoming place!

Stay tuned for pictures. Next month we have a comedy show in the works!

We’re cooking up some new programming here at the center! Today was the first day of our new knitting group, which will happen every Monday morning. We had several people interested in our group today; some came knowing how to knit, while others learned from scratch. I was pleasantly surprised by some of the people who already knew how to knit and others who were willing to learn! We’d love for more of our guests to join our group, but for that to happen we’d need a few more knitting needles and/or crochet hooks.

GMC also now has a chess club that is affiliated with the United States Chess Federation. One of our members took the initiative to set it up, advertise it to our members, and solicit suggestions for our club’s name (which is now registered with USFC as the very creative “GMC Chess Club”). This same member will also be leading chess strategy lessons once a week.

And if that weren’t inspiring enough, I had another member ask if she could lead a demonstration/workshop on how to create a makeshift loom and weave a little square, which can be used to patch clothing or bags.

Stay tuned for more updates on what’s happening at GMC!

—Stephanie

The weather is going to get bad. Please call the shelter hotline at 1-800-535-7252 if you are aware of anyone in need of shelter during the storm. There are shelters open around the clock during the emergency and there are contingencies for more if needed.