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Due to social distancing and other health precautions, GMC is unable to operate our annual winter shelter. Earlier this year when COVID-19 first halted our normal operations, GMC quickly pivoted and adjusted our Drop-in Center operations. GMC renovated our space to allow for required distancing regulations. Currently, GMC provides guests with daily showers, laundry, lunch, phone access/charging stations, coffee, and access to psychiatric care. 
As part of our ongoing pivot to overcome COVID-19 barriers, GMC is ecstatic to announce the launch of our new winter program: GMC Extends. GMC will now stay open until 7:00pm Monday through Friday. GMC will be serving dinner nightly and have partnered with Feed the Fight DC and local congregations to offer our guests warm dinners. Additionally, GMC will be distributing gift cards, winter clothes and supplies so our guests can be warm, fed, and safe through the coming months. Our normal winter shelter usually houses around a dozen clients. However, through Extends GMC will be able to broaden our reach serving hundreds of individuals during the harsh winter months. GMC has arranged an Amazon wish list of supplies to distribute to our Extends guests. These supplies include: jackets, sleeping bags, gift cards, and water bottles. You can also donate to the GMC Extends fund to help the safe implementation of our new program! Thank you for your support of this new program.

Thank you to Ambassador Thani Thongphakdi and the entire staff at the Royal Thai Embassy for their generous donation of 100 bags of essential items to the GMC! The bags consisted of canned soup, meat and vegetables, crackers, fruit cups, custard cakes, hand sanitizer, and face masks. As neighbors in Georgetown, we are thrilled to continue to grow our relationship with the Royal Thai Embassy after the delicious meal they catered for our guests and staff back in December. During such unprecedented times, we are grateful to Ambassador Thani Thongphakdi for his commitment to community service.

On the 23rd of March, we posted that we would be closed until the 29th of March at the least. Unfortunately, we have made the difficult decision to remain closed until further notice. This decision was made for the safety of our guests, our staff, and our Georgetown community.

If you would like to support GMC during this challenging time, financial donations will provide the most flexibility in addressing our most pressing needs.  You can click here to make a financial contribution online by clicking HERE. Or you can mail a donation to: Georgetown Ministry Center, 1041 Wisconsin Ave., Washington DC, 20007. If you would like to donate items, we would ask you to support us through in-kind donations of items in short supply such as hand sanitizer, gloves and masks for when we do re-open the center.  You can visit our Amazon Wish list page HERE.

We thank you for your support now more than ever, and look forward to our reopening as soon as it is safe.

When so much attention is given to what makes us different, generosity is what brings people together. We’re proud to be apart of the #GivingTuesday global movement for generosity.

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