• A place to connect with God in God's creation for 50 years
  
• A year-round retreat center
  
• Provides week-long summer sessions
  
• Nearly 300 acres on Massanutten Mountain
  
• Serving children, congregations, schools and groups.
  
  www.carolinefurnace.org / (540) 933-6266

• Over 38 years of service to prevent homelessness
  
• Provides short-term crisis assistance and empowerment enhancements to individuals and families
• In 2005, helped 76 families move to permanent housing
• Served 1,440 meals to children and tutored nearly 100 children last year
  
  www.cflsdc.org / (202) 347-0511

• Provides affordable housing to low-income elderly and disabled
  
• Five Fellowship Houses in DC area
  
• Founded in 1960
  
• Chaplaincy program provides pastoral care and counseling to residents
  
• Services include transportation, homemaker services, and meals
  
  www.fellowshipsquare.org / (703) 471-5370

Good Shepherd Housing Foundation

• Provides affordable, permanent, supportive housing
• Serves individuals and families with chronic low income
• Assists clients to utilize mainstream services including healthcare services
• Provides supports for parents and families
  
  www.goodshepherdhousing.org / (703) 730-1078

Lutheran Social Services/National Capital Area

• Founded in 1917
• Providing direct services to more than 3,000 individuals each year
• Programs include Adoption & Foster Care; Caregiver Suite Senior Services; Disaster Preparedness& Response; Refugee and Immigrant Services; Youth Haven Camps children and families affected by HIV/AIDS
  
  www.lssnca.org / (202) 723-3000

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg

• Founded in 1826, oldest Lutheran seminary in US
• Graduate degree programs for ministry and continuing theological education
• As of Fall 2005, there were 305 students from 60 of the 65 ELCA synods
• Over 90% of students receive scholarships
  
  www.ltsg.edu / (800) MLUTHER

Lutheran Volunteer Corps

• Since 1979, more than 1500 Lutheran Volunteers
• Volunteers spend a year working for social justice providing direct services to marginalized in society
• Addresses root causes of poverty and oppression
• Providing services in 10 cities throughout the US
  
  www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org / (202) 387-3222

• Year-round outdoor ministry retreat facility
  
• Extensive summer camp program for ages 7 to 16 and adults 55 and older
  
• Camper scholarship program
  
• Facilities include inn, lodges, and cabins
  
• Over 450 wooded acres and trails and 5 ponds
  
  www.mar-lu-ridge.org / (800) 238-9974

• Founded n 1973 as a place of biblical hospitality
  
• Serves homeless women and families
  
• Housing individuals in temporary shelter, transitional housing, and affordable permanent placements
  
• Provides day program, addiction recovery program, wellness center, and childcare
  
  www.nstreetvillage.org / (202) 939-2072

Northern Virginia Coalition (NOVACO)

• 11 Years of service
• Housing for our Neighbor in Need
• Helping homeless victims of domestic abuse
• Providing housing, education, childcare
• Providing counseling, mentoring, financial management

www.novaco.org

• Founded in 1842
  
• Only Lutheran college in Virginia and second oldest Lutheran school in the US
  
• 1900 students chose from 33 majors, 28 minors and 17 concentrations
  
• In 2005-2006, gave over $18 million in financial aid, including special aid to Lutherans
  
  www.roanoke.edu / (540) 375-2200

Southeast Ministry

• Grassroots social justice ministry
• Provides job readiness and GED classes
• Ex-offender support group
• Ministry of hope that builds self-esteem, transforms lives, and helps people realize their God-given abilities
  
  www.southeastministrydc.org / (202) 543-4200

THC – Housing Families, Transforming Lives (Transitional Housing Corporation)

• Serves more than 300 homeless or at-risk families
• Operates transitional, permanent supportive, rapid re-housing, and affordable rental housing programs
• Comprehensive supportive services include employment and career counseling, parenting and family life skills, substance abuse counseling, mental health counseling for adults and children, and youth enrichment programs
• 83% of the transitional housing families who graduated from the program moved into permanent housing
  
  www.thcdc.org / (202) 291-5535

• 120 years of service
  
• Quality care for seniors and their families
• Independent living, short-term rehabilitation,
• Extended nursing care, Respite,Hospice
• Chaplains and in-house physician
  
  www.thevillageatrockville.org (301) 424-9560

Companion Synods of the Metropolitan DC Synod

Lutheran Church in El Salvador

• Largest Lutheran Synod in Central America
• Provides holistic approach to ministry
• Offers hope and reconciliation
• Helps the vulnerable in rural and urban areas.

Lutheran Churches in Namibia

• Northern Synod (ELCIN)
• Southern and Central Synod (ELCRN)
• Support seminary
• Sustain educational and economic projects
• Meet spiritual need of Namibian people

Lutheran Churches in Slovakia

• More than 300 congregations
• Numerous Lutheran elementary and secondary schools
• Established Lutheran Theological Seminary
• Outreach to Roma (Gypsy) community

These organizations are a part of the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

• The Metropolitan Washington D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America encompasses 75 congregations, and four missions. There are over 36,000 members in these congregations.
• Purpose is to draw together the resources of congregations, individuals, and local and global ministries in order to engage our community in the Gospel of Jesus Christ so that all people may experience God's grace and fullness of life.
  
  www.metrodcelca.org / 202-822-1901