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Comunidad is a local non-profit that facilitates community engagement focusing on literacy, youth mentoring, and adult leadership development. The mission of Comunidad is to engage and equip locally-rooted community leaders.

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Evening ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) is a program run by volunteers from our congregation. Its goals are to teach English to speakers of other languages, provide them with context for community, and show them the love of Jesus. Classes are held Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7PM to 9PM. Two semesters are offered September through December and January through April. Additionally, a shorter May through June session is also offered. You can help once a week as a teacher, assistant, host, or administrative supporter. 

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With over 300 students enrolled in ESOL programming and opportunities for cross-ministry work with Vida Joven (a Young Life chapter that offers Spanish language meetings), the need for partners is great. No special skills or preparation, including Spanish fluency, are necessary.

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For the Nations (FTN) is a nonprofit ministry that offers classes for adult English language learners and their children in the Washington, DC area (Falls Church, Fairfax, and Alexandria). If you are interested in showing the gospel of hope and healing by engaging with students inside the classroom or through the sharing of meals, the navigating of life, or by unashamedly proclaiming the gospel, those opportunities and more are available.

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The TFCA Foster & Adoption Ministry grows out of our church's culture of care for the vulnerable, including foster youth and families in our own community and orphans worldwide.  We seek to actively support the foster and adoptive families at TFCA through quarterly gatherings, a monthly prayer letter, and wrap-around care for foster, adoptive, and biological families.  This can include everything from mentoring foster youth, to supporting families with meals, errands, babysitting, and much more.

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Homestretch is a local nonprofit organization seeking to empower homeless families with children under the age of 18 in Virginia to attain permanent housing and self-sufficiency by giving them the skills, knowledge, and hope they need to become productive participants in the community. Homestretch does this by providing transitional housing and holistic services for homeless families. TFCA sponsors 2 of the 50 families currently participating in the Homestretch program. Sacred Homes is a partnership program that connects faith communities directly to individual families working to propel themselves out of poverty. We engage in hands-on support to help maintain the home and, to the extent desired by the family and in close coordination with the assigned Homestretch case manager. Congregants can also offer professional skills and services to the families.

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The Refugee Care Ministry seeks to demonstrate and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ in both word and deed to refugees resettling in our area. This is accomplished by surrounding our new neighbors with intentional relational care teams to walk alongside them for 3-6 months as they navigate the complicated road to resettlement in a radically new context. It is our prayer that relationships of mutual love and trust to be formed whereby the Gospel might be shared and received.