GRACE Ministries is a community outreach program that serves low-income immigrant families in the local community.  One Saturday each month (typically the second Saturday of the month), low-income families receive food, clothing, diapers, household linens, toys and children’s books. The ministry also provides job training for Personal Care Aids and Commercial Drivers Licenses to eligible low-income immigrants. 

There are many ways to serve in the ministry:

Set Up Fridays: Opportunites to serve on the Friday preceding a Grace Ministries Saturday include volunteers that prepare the Fellowship Hall and rooms for the ministry by:

• Setting up tables and chairs
• Preparing the hospitality area for serving on Saturday
• Sorting and hanging clothing donations
• Setting up the Children’s Corner with books and crafts
• Arranging toy donations and linen donations
• Bagging food
• Collecting and disposing of trash and cardboard

Saturday at GRACE Ministries: Opportunities to serve on Saturday include:

• Pre-registration and greeting (Spanish speakers are very helpful)

• Registration (Spanish speakers needed)

• Hospitality – setting out refreshments

• Children’s Corner – doing crafts with children/reading to children

• Worship (assisting with the short worship time – music)

• Working in the clothing, toy, linen, diaper and food rooms

• Helping guests take their goods to their vehicles

• Clean Up

MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE: Support GRACE Ministries through your financial gifts and donations. Donations are needed and appreciated each month including seasonal clothing, diapers, household linens, small toys, and children’s books.  Clothing donations should be bagged and labeled with the type of clothing.  This helps with the sorting of the clothing.  Donations may be dropped off in Fellowship Hall beginning the Sunday prior to a GRACE Ministries Saturday.

CUMC Coordinator:  Barb Shaiko at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

To Volunteer:  email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Related Website:  www.graceministriesumc.org

Centreville United Methodist Church supports our United Methodist missionaries in many ways. The congregation is encouraged to support missionaries though their letters, their gifts and their prayers. Prayer calendars that guide daily prayer for United Methodist mission, missionaries, and deaconesses around the globe are available.

The mission council supports two missionaries and their ministries around the world.

Shana Harrison serves in Santiago, Chile as the chaplain to students and families of Colegio Psicopedagogico Juan Wesley, a school for persons with disabilities.

Randy Hildebrandt serves in Sneedville, TN at the Jubliee Project.

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT: Individuals can support our missionaries through their prayers and their correspondence.
CUMC COORDINATOR: Barb Shaiko at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Western Fairfax Christian Ministries provide services for those in need in western Fairfax County including food, clothing, household items, emergency financial assistance, transportation and budgeting assistance.

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE: Food is collected each week for the WFCM food pantry. Volunteers transport the food donation from CUMC to WFCM on a weekly basis. Volunteers also serve at WFCM in the food pantry and clothing closet.

CUMC COORDINATOR: Barb Shaiko, at 703-830-2684, or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

RELATED WEBSITE: www.wfcmva.org

FACETS provides emergency intervention and educational programs for homeless and low-income people in Fairfax County to assist them to become independent.

CUMC COORDINATOR: Barb Shaiko, at 703-830-2684 x1871 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
RELATED WEBSITE: www.facetscares.org

FACETS Mentoring Programs match mentors with both youth and adults. Mentors offer support and friendship, company on a field trip, someone to talk to, and role modeling. Mentors meet with mentees at one of the two public housing sites (Robinson Square, Fairfax; Barros Circle, Centreville) or another site mutually agreed upon by mentor and mentee (and mentee's parent/guardian).
DATE AND TIME: Mentors are asked to make a one-year commitment to the program. Contact should be made with the mentee at least once a week for one hour at a time convenient for both the mentor and mentee.
DUTIES: Youth mentors provide a young perons with support, guidance, friendship, affirmation, and positive examples through listening, caring, clafifying goals, assisting in problem solving, bringing out individual strengths and talents, and tutoring. Adult mentors provide appropriate support in the form of phone calls, visits, referrals, etc. They assist in establishing goals and strategies for reaching goals.

FACETS Family Enrichment Services consist of on-site education and recreational programs for low-income families who live in two public housing developments, Barros Circle (Centreville) and Robinson Square (Fairfax City). Programs include educational supports for youth, and life skills and marketable job skills for adults. Programs are held at the community centers four days a week.
DATE AND TIME: Volunteer opportunities are very flexible as to time requirements.
DUTIES: Volunteers may do craft projects, music activities, tutor children, supervise food and game night, work one-on-one with families in crisis, help with computer classes, and do many other activities with both children and adults.