Above: Guests, speakers and musicians celebrate together after this year's Next Step Breakfast.
We Are Bound Together: Next Step Breakfast 2019
On Thursday, March 14, almost 300 guests gathered at the National Press Club for our 13th annual Next Step Breakfast. Together, we raised $240,000 to empower our neighbors who are battling unemployment, homelessness, and poverty. Program participant Michael Anthony Hood-Bey spoke of his struggle to overcome life’s challenges by using “...obstacles as stepping stones to complete my mission.” Read more .
1,482 Neighbors Served!
Next Step Program (NSP) participants have more options than ever before, and the impact is showing! With five diverse locations, expanded employment options through the STRIVE training, and increase d hours of service, Samaritan Ministry is more accessible to our neighbors than ever before. With our 961 NSP participants we have a winning formula: Rigorously compassionate coaching + essential tools + access to opportunity = the hand up our participants need in this competitive, overpriced, under-paid environment. Lea rn more about our Next Step Program.
Maryland Partner Churches Community Walk for the
Homeless in Our Midst
We say we care for our neighbors, and on Saturday, April 6, 60 people from the Silver Spring area showed it at the SMGW Maryland Partner Churches Community Walk for the Homeless in Our Midst! As our first event in this year's Empower The Homeless Campaign , this walk from Ascension Episcopal Church to Grace Episcopal Church demonstrated our support for our unhoused neighbors. More on Facebook!
Volunteers Make Samaritan Ministry's Success Possible
We've counted all the data and 2018 was a great year for part-time staff (also known as volunteers) at Samaritan Ministry...232 volunteers gave over 16,000 hours of service to make our work together possible! As we say at Samaritan Ministry, "Staff is staff." While there were fewer volunteers due to having fewer groups, volunteers gave 500 more hours! Click here to read our individual volunteers' stories.
We need stuff! Click here to see our current needs for food, toiletries, and other in-kind items to support our participants in reaching their housing, employment or education goals!
Join us!
Your support is crucial to the life-changing work of Samaritan Ministry.   Your generous gift of time supports our homeless and near-homeless neighbors as they continue to take their  Next Steps!