Service & Outreach

Epiphany’s local partner organizations depend heavily on volunteers. If you would like to help, contact Amanda Eap at amanda@epiphanyseattle.org.

Every night of the year, a hundred or so people come to the Operation Nightwatch Dispatch Center on 14th and Jackson to get a hot meal prepared by volunteers and, if space is available, a bed for the night in one of Seattle’s homeless shelters. The Epiphany meal team is on duty the third Saturday of odd-numbered months. Parishioners also make sandwiches that the Nightwatch staff distribute at tent encampments. Contact Ann Beck at anncbeck@hotmail.com or Terry Carlisle at tscarlisle57@gmail.com

At Sound Foundations NW, volunteer construction crews build quality temporary homes for Tiny Home Villages managed by the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI). These communities offer safe, dry, warm housing (with lockable doors!) and shared kitchens, laundry, and sanitary facilities for people who might otherwise be under a tent on the sidewalk. LIHI also provides case managers and other services to help residents land jobs and move on to permanent housing. Epiphany’s crew gathers at the Sound Foundations’ “Hope Factory” in South Seattle on the second Saturday of the month. Contact Jenny Cummins at jennycummins@gmail.com or Pete Melin at petermelin26@gmail.com.

Many young people living on the streets of the University District depend on Teen Feed for a hot meal and help getting off the streets and into jobs and housing. Since the 1980s, Epiphany’s Teen Feed crew has met at a University District church to prepare a meal on the fourth Thursday of the month. Contact Ann Beck at anncbeck@hotmail.com.

The YWCA provides a range of services to help women, many fleeing domestic violence, find housing, jobs, and independent, stable lives for themselves and their children. Epiphany has partnered with the YWCA since the 1970’s, when our parish began providing Christmas gifts for families in YWCA programs. We continue this tradition today, each year collecting back-to-school supplies and, at Thanksgiving and Christmas, holiday gift cards for families in YWCA housing and emergency shelters. Another YWCA program Epiphany supports is Angeline’s Day Center for Women in Belltown. Contact Sherilyn Peterson at speterson@perkinscoie.com or Ann McCurdy at ann@frostymoose.com.

Donations to Epiphany’s Hunger Basket provide fresh produce for the Central Area Food Bank at the YWCA Phillis Wheatley Branch in Madrona. The food bank is always in need of volunteers to pack food bags for the 300-plus client households on Tuesdays and Wednesdays or to deliver bags to clients’ homes Wednesday afternoon. Contact Holly Boone at brausboone@msn.com.