AACH develops a plan for the family to follow and provides a case worker to monitor progress. FUMC's first adopted family successfully completed its program in February, 1993. Since then, five additional families have received assistance, including financial assistance, through a dedicated pool of volunteers. The Homelessness Subcommittee of the Missions Commission conducts fundraising activities and manages our involvement. People who have a love of reading and a love of children and are willing to give thirty minutes three times each week to tutor a child.
Members help sort, box and deliver the outgoing food.
Financial contributors, food delivery drivers, food sorters and packers, furniture warehouse workers and deliverers, housewares deliverers, and office workers. The program was started by the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria in 1983, and a number of churches joined with them to provide lunches for the needy in downtown Alexandria. They started serving 15 lunches a day and are now serving 100-125 lunches daily from Hopkins House in Alexandria. Now, Fairlington and other churches provide 30 lunches a day to the Salvation Army at the corner of Mt. Vernon and Bellefonte Avenues. This organization seeks to make changes in both our local area and other areas of the world by engaging in a letter-writing campaign.