March 2010- Christian Relief Services, in partnership with Americans Helping Americans^®, believes in giving a hand up not a hand out by providing assistance to over 37,362 men, women and children in fiscal year 2009 (ending June 31, 2009) through in-kind goods including food, shoes, school kits, hygiene kits, coats, blankets, toys and diapers. So far this fiscal year we have assisted 5,354 individuals and 312 Veterans and the numbers keeps growing.

Thurday, February 4, 2010  from Bob Levey's Blog

The warehouse holds 15,000 cubic feet and takes up most of a city block. It’s full of furniture for Native Americans, bedding for Africans, the occasional battered refrigerator door.

Right in the middle is a floor-to-ceiling shelf full of cardboard boxes. The outside of each box reads: BANDAGES. It might as well read: WE CARE.

Working with United Way of the National Capital Area, Christian Relief Services of Northern Virginia has spent the last two weeks collecting donations for beleaguered earthquake victims in Haiti.