Service

In response to God’s love for us, we reach out to serve those in need in our community, country and throughout the world. We do this through our gifts of time, talent and dollars.

Cooking for a fund raising dinner

Gifts of time and talent. We are active in the Annandale Christian Community for Action (ACCA), which provides food, household items and transportation services for underprivileged in our area. We hammer and paint to renovate homes for Rebuilding Together, and collect Bingo prizes for a local assisted living facility. One of our members is the caller there. The Quilters make quilts for distribution to disadvantaged people elsewhere in the world. A group at Peace initiated Project Boomerang making greeting cards for service men and women. Peace has a long term commitment to Haiti beginning well before the earthquake, and members have made several trips to Haiti, to assist a Lutheran-sponsored school and orphanage in that impoverished country, see the Lazarus Project.

Prayer shawls ready for distribution

Meeting at Starbucks, drinking coffee and chatting has become an intensely satisfying service project as the group developed the Prayer Shawl Ministry. People knit prayer shawls for members and friends to celebrate joys and to comfort in time of sickness or loss.

We use our God-given talents in our congregational life – worship, music, education, youth, building and grounds, and more. We serve in positions of leadership as members of our Congregation Council, developing policy and budget of the congregation. A columbarium is available for internment of ashes.

We believe we are all stewards of God’s earth and we want to care for our bit of it as best we can. We have worked over the past several years to make our church “green” by developing gardens and conducting an energy audit and responding to its recommendations. Our goal is to Dream Green, and to implement our dreams.

Gifts of dollars. We take seriously our call to stewardship. Peace contributes over ten percent of its income to those outside our congregation. We support the national and regional bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Each month we hold a special collection to benefit a ministry that serves the homeless, unemployed, children and the elderly, campus ministries or Lutheran camps in the Washington, D.C. metro area and beyond. We have ties to a growing congregation in Ethiopia, and we have given funds for building a new church there. We participate in an alternative gift program, Gifts of Hope.

Come join us in serving.

6362 Lincolnia Road, Alexandria, Virginia, 22312