Emmanuel House


Emmanuel House provides year-long volunteers a place to live in intentional community with others who are sharing a similar experience during their time of service in the Christ House community.


What is Emmanuel House like?


Emmanuel House is a comfortable, inviting place for year-long volunteers to call home and offers freedom for individuals to express feelings, desires, goals and opinions while practicing callings towards simplicity and stewardship. It is a place where people sharing common experiences come together for renewal while having the opportunity to build relationships with groups outside of the year-long volunteer community.


As an intentional residential volunteer community comprised of individuals of different faiths and beliefs, house members meet every Wednesday evening from 6-8pm for a meal, prayer or reflection, and a shared activity. These 'Community Night' evenings provide a structured means for Christ House year-long volunteers to share experiences with their community members, to discuss relevant issues of social justice, and to challenge each other to grow in a supportive environment. Naturally, unstructured activities occur throughout the week, creating additional opportunities to build community.


What is the lay out of the house?


Emmanuel House consists of the following:

*Emmanuel House is fully furnished (living, dining, kitchen and bedrooms) and year-long volunteers only need to provide personal belongings, such as clothing and toiletries.


Where is Emmanuel House?


Emmanuel House is conveniently located less than 1 block from Christ House, in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Adams Morgan is home to a large number of ethnic restaurants, shops, stores and the National Zoo. Although the area is a lively, urban neighborhood, one can find quiet and solitude three blocks away in Rock Creek Park. A long paved trail winds through the park and is ideal for those who enjoy walking, running or cycling. Many other unpaved trails wind through the park for hiking. There are several Metro bus stops as well as two Metro rail lines (Columbia Heights and Woodley Park) within walking distance of Emmanuel House and Christ House.



"Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are a part of something that is bigger than themselves: A shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshipping a god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others; to look at them and see a potential partner in one's enterprise."   –Suzanne Goldsmith