Washington, DC International Christian Church

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Hello! My name is Melika and I am a member of an amazing spiritual family.

We focus on creating stability by rescuing lives through mentoring relationships and teaching the rescued to go out and rescue others.

Members of the Washington DC International Christian Church (DCICC) are imploring our communities for financial donations to support our outreach efforts locally, nationally, and abroad. All donations are tax deductible. The value and stability that our model of churches bring to the community is essential at this time as families and communities are suffering.

We focus on creating stability by rescuing lives through mentoring relationships and teaching the rescued to go out and rescue others.

Campus Students - The DCICC provides exceptional campus ministries where students are engaged in considering age-appropriate moral/ethical issues and building character. We are currently in the process of raising up additional leadership to also provide teen/youth ministry programs.

Marriage & Parenting - On-going teaching and individualized marriage, parenting and premarital counseling provides intensive training for healthy marriages and families. Because of this counseling, divorce is extremely rare among members of our congregation, while the national divorce rate is over 50%.

Financial Counseling - Debt is a rapidly growing problem in our country and we are especially concerned for our young people who have grown up with this epidemic and may not have examples of financial stability in their lives. Many people who join the church come in with financial trouble and we actively counsel them to stability. We also actively train the young people in our vibrant campus ministry through mentoring relationships about financial responsibility and how to get/keep good jobs.

Emotional & Chemical Recovery - We have successful emotional and chemical recovery programs (also free). Participants commit to the program, choose a sponsor, and work toward graduating from it. Graduates often go on to be sponsors. The programs provide practical help and support, but also focus on working through the situations and emotions that caused participants to use chemicals in the first place. Along the way they take deep personal responsibility for the damage done to themselves and others by their substance abuse.

Mentoring Relationships - As a part of membership, all our members are involved in mentoring relationships. Most are both mentoring and being mentored simultaneously and that is the goal for all. People who come to us from troubled pasts often lack life skills to function successfully in society. Mentoring provides practical training that quickly helps them become stable and self-supporting. There are so many stories of people rescued from gangs, drugs, the pain of abuse, insecurity, laziness, and mental health difficulties. The goal is not just to rescue the troubled, but to equip them to then go rescue others.

Outreach - It is hard to describe in this brief letter all the outreach going on even in our relatively small, but ethnically diverse, congregation of 109. All our efforts described above are not just available to our members but we are actively inviting the community to participate in these life changing opportunities free from charge or when necessary at a minimal cost.

Community Service - Engaging and supporting our communities is important to us. We have an annual Day of Mercy where the whole congregation participates in community service and have ongoing programs where small groups of members have a weekly or monthly community service commitment. We also work closely with and help financially support an organization called MERCYworldwide that offers global disaster relief and youth programs (www.mercyworldwide.org).

If you’ve found this information compelling, please consider a tax-deductible donation.

DCICC

2021 L St NW Ste 101-348

Washington, DC 20036

dcicc.org

Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.