Each November we take a special offering to support a missions partner working to pursue gospel renewal. Our 2025 beneficiary is The Lamb Center, a Christ-centered day shelter in the City of Fairfax, with almost 35 years of experience caring for people experiencing homelessness.
Our offering will be used to fund the furnishings for Beacon Landing, a 54-unit Permanent Supportive Housing community developed by The Lamb Center in partnership with Wesley Housing.
Beacon Landing is a planned five-story residential/mixed-use community with 54 apartments and an employment center on the ground floor of the building.
Beacon Landing will serve people who have been homeless for at least one year and have a chronic disability, offering residents long-term affordable housing, case management, and other on-site supportive services.
Construction is underway; occupancy is anticipated in December 2026. The Lamb Center will be responsible for hiring and managing staff for all case management and other supportive services provided at Beacon Landing.
1,191 people experience homelessness everyday in Fairfax County. More than 10,000 people per year in Fairfax need emergency housing payment assistance to prevent families and individuals from falling into homelessness.
Helping the homeless means feeding, caring, clothing, and educating them so they can get employed and back on their feet.
The Lamb Center’s gospel-centered work is to assist people experiencing chronic homelessness through serving meals, providing showers, clean laundry, counseling, and employment assistance.
“The Lamb Center began planning for Beacon Landing roughly eight years ago, in answer to the question: What is the greatest unmet need of our guests? The overwhelming answer was affordable housing.
Developing affordable housing initially felt like it was too big of an undertaking. But God had other plans. He kept calling us. Since the project began in earnest in January 2023, multiple seemingly unsurmountable obstacles have emerged. Each time, an unexpected path forward has emerged, thanks to the Holy Spirit.
God is indeed at work through Beacon Landing and we are humbled to be at this significant milestone in the project.”
—Tara Ruszkowski, Executive Director, The Lamb Center
By underwriting the furnishings for Beacon Landing, McLean Presbyterian Church will help provide homes to people who have lived outside or in their cars, often for many years. Our gifts will ensure that our fellow image-bearers have the basic creature comforts that most of us in the United States take for granted — a table to eat at, a light to drive out the darkness, and a bed and seating for rest.
Our offering will help make these 54 units into 54 homes: homes that communicate to their inhabitants that they are valued and loved children of God, to whom he has promised hope and a future.
$118,800 | Individual Units ($2,200 unit average x 54 units)
$25,000 | Workforce Development Offices
$150,000 | Common Areas + Additional Offices
Guided by Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,” The Lamb Center’s mission is to live out the compassionate heart of Christ by serving our neighbors experiencing homelessness.
The Lamb Center is a daytime drop-in shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness in Fairfax, Virginia. They provide a variety of services without cost to their guests, including breakfast, lunch, showers, laundry service, Bible studies, case management, AA meetings, a nurse practitioner clinic, a dental clinic, and much more.
With a firm belief that God has a plan for each guest who comes to them, The Lamb Center is excited for the opportunity to directly impact our homeless neighbors with affordable, long-term, permanent housing and bring them the good news of Jesus Christ.
Help welcome our most vulnerable neighbors into a home of their own!
