Volunteers Needed: Adopt a family at Housing Up for the Holidays! | St. Columba's Episcopal Church

Donate Ingredients for a Family's Holiday Dinner and/or Help Load or Deliver Holiday Dinner Boxes to Housing Up!

Adopt a family in need this holiday season by providing a box with all the ingredients for a festive holiday dinner. St. Columba's Episcopal Church hopes to provide holiday dinner boxes to all 114 families in two apartment buildings operated by Housing Up (an organization that develops affordable housing and offers comprehensive support services).

We have multiple volunteer options.

Sign up here to fill a box with ingredients and deliver it to St. Columba's on Dec.17 or Dec. 18.

Boxes should contain all of the following ingredients, and enough for a family of 6:

- Either a frozen turkey or two frozen chickens,

- Fresh collards, fresh kale or fresh green beans,

- Sweet potatoes or regular potatoes, or a mix

- Onions, garlic, carrots and bell peppers,

- Optional: bag of rice or box of pasta,

- A pie (carefully wrapped, placed on top of other food inside the box, and cushioned with tissue paper or other packaging material),

- A personal note on a holiday card from you/your family to the recipient family. (Please note that families may belong to a variety of religious traditions.)

- To facilitate delivery and distribution, Housing Up requests that the food be packed in a box, not in bags.

Sign up above to deliver boxes (unsealed so we can add an additional small treat) to St. Columba's on Dec.17 or Dec. 18. Boxes will be removed from your trunk, contact free, by our volunteers. Boxes should be delivered along the curb on the west side of the block of 42nd Street NW between Butterworth Place NW and Albemarle St. NW on either Dec. 17 or 18 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Click here to sign up to help us unload the boxes from cars on Dec. 17 or Dec. 18.

Sign up here to help us deliver the boxes to Housing Up on Dec. 17 and Dec. 18

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