Since 2006, the Community Service Committee has worked with Pastor Bob Mathieu of DC Christian Ministries and the Anacostia Gospel Chapel to provide the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner to families in need in southeast DC. In 2009, the committee expanded the project to include local food banks, including the Capital Area Food Bank (which serves Prince George's County and Washington, DC), Manna Food Center (which serves Montgomery County), and the Bowie Interfaith Pantry and Emergency Aid Fund (which serves Prince George's County).
Members participated by
- Collecting the non-perishable ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner, such as boxed potatoes or macaroni and cheese, bags or boxes of stuffing, canned vegetables (corn, green beans, yams, Durke onions, etc.), cream of mushroom soup, marshmallows or brown sugar, canned gravy or gravy mix, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie filling, a cake mix, tea or coffee.
- Providing Pastor Mathieu with Safeway or Giant gift cards in denominations no greater than $25 so the family could purchase the turkey and other perishable ingredients. (Giant and Safeway were the stores accessible to Pastor Mathieu's families. Donations greater than $25 were broken down into mulitple gift cards so they could help more than one family.)
Food and gift cards should be delivered
Members needing assistance with delivery, contacted Judy Gretsch
before [CHECK BACK LATER FOR DEADLINE]
at (301) 595-9711 or jgretsch@abcmetrowashington.org
to arrange for a member of the Community Service Committee to assist you.
 | DC Christian Ministries/
Anacostia Gospel Chapel
1217 Alabama Avenue SE
Washington, DC Directions:
Take Suitland Parkway east to Stanton Road.
At the 2nd light, make a right on Alabama Avenue.
#1217 is on the left about ½ block past the light at the Congress Park Metro station.
The building looks like a small apartment building; the church has offices on the ground floor.
If you need additional directions, please feel free to call Pastor Mathieu at (202) 277-2601. |
In 2009, the Community Service Committee asked members to bring their Thanksgiving Dinner Food Drive collections to the chapter's annual business meeting/monthly general membership meeting which was held on November 4th. Committee volunteers then divided the donated food between three local food banks that cover the chapter's service area: the
Capital Area Food Bank (which serves Prince George's County and Washington, DC),
Manna Food Center (which serves Montgomery County), and the
Bowie Interfaith Pantry and Emergency Aid Fund (which serves Prince George's County). The following members donated to the food banks and to Pastor Mathieu's church.
Aronson & Company
Baker DC, LLC
John E. Barry Plumbing & Heating Corp.
Facchina Construction Company, Inc.
Facchina Development, LLC
Goodman & Company, LLP
Grunley Construction Company, Inc. | Lanigan, Ryan, Malcolm & Doyle, P.C.
Mid-Atlantic Promotions
Oncore Construction, LLC
SunTrust Bank
Tradesmen International, Inc.
Williams Scotsman
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These 25 member companies, as well as ABC Chapter and National staff, that participated in the 2008 Thanksgiving Dinner Food Drive, which donated hundreds of pounds of food and hundreds of dollars of grocery store gift cards to Pastor Mathieu and the Anacostia Gospel Chapel.
Aronson & Company
John E. Barry Plumbing & Heating Corp.
Blackwood of DC, LLC
Broughton Construction Company
Busy Ditch, Inc.
Calvert Masonry, Inc.
Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc.
Construction Bonds, Inc.
Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell, P.C., CPAs
CTS Services
Donohoe Construction Company
The George Washington University
Gilbane Building Company | Grunley Construction Company, Inc.
Harkins Builders, Inc.
Hawkins Electric Service, Inc.
HITT Contracting Inc.
Kone, Inc.
Mid-Atlantic Promotions
Miller & Long Co., Inc.
Oncore Construction, LLC
Scaffold Resource
SunTrust Bank
TrashMasters, Inc.
Williams Scotsman
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Four member companies, as well as ABC Chapter staff, participated in the 2007 Thanksgiving Dinner Food Drive for Pastor Mathieu and the Anacostia Gospel Chapel.
Busy Ditch, Inc.
Facchina Construction Company, Inc. | SunTrust Bank
Williams Scotsman |
12 member companies, as well as ABC Chapter staff, participated in the 2006 Thanksgiving Dinner Food Drive for Pastor Mathieu and the Anacostia Gospel Chapel.
Advantage Marketing
Aerotek
BE&K Building Group, Inc.
Busy Ditch, Inc.
CPI Restoration, LLC
Forrester Construction Company | Georgetown Insurance Service, Inc.
Goldin & Stafford, LLC
The Meltzer Group
Outside Unlimited, Inc.
SunTrust Bank
Tuckman-Barbee Construction Co. |
If your company participated in one of these projects but it is not listed here, please let us know. Contact Judy Gretsch, staff liaison to the Community Service Committee, at (301) 595-9711 or jgretsch@abcmetrowashington.org.