The Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging is now using three classrooms in the Parish Hall on Wednesdays and Fridays from 11-4 p.m. to care for those affected with dementia or Alzheimer’s.  This will allow caregivers a much needed break.

Another act of outreach was our donation to the Episcopal Relief & Development Fund for Hurricane Katrina Response Fund.

The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) has given donations to Hospice, FISH, Free Medical Clinic, Shelter for Abused Women, Salvation army, Cure Autism now, Help with Housing, Visiting Nurses, Bishop Sinabulya, and the Diocese of Virginia.

Outreach efforts range from helping local residents in need, to funding national and international disaster relief efforts and through our Uganda Partnership providing direct support to buy bicycles for clergy in our companion Diocese in Central Buganda, Uganda. We are active in distributing food to the poor in our community, and provide a wide variety of support to various charitable causes and organizations within our community.

Grace Church also maintains a Scholarship Loan Fund from which it helps parishioners, their children, and local residents to further their educations through low-interest loans to help defray the costs of college. Each year a number of students are helped through this program. The Rector's Discretionary Fund is used by the Rector on an individualized basis to provide discreet assistance to those in need. This is funded by loose offerings from the collection plate the first Sunday of each month, and from contributions specifically designated Rector's Discretionary Fund. Our Rector is also very active in visiting those who are ill or hospitalized, those who can no longer make it to the church for services, and in reaching out to those new to the community.

In the Spring of 1998 Grace Church held an auction to raise funds to help buy food and clothing for orphans whose parents have died of disease in our companion Diocese in Central Buganda, Uganda. The auction brought in over $4000, of which after expenses we were able to send almost $3000 to help the orphans. In addition, Grace Church contributed another $3000 to buy a motorcycle for the Rev. Kezlon Kiwanuka Semanda, the Diocesan Secretary and Sub-Dean of St. John's Cathedral, Kasaka, and to buy bicycles for 31 lay-readers to cover all 31 parishes of the Diocese.