BreadBreakers: Community Build Day, with Habitat for Humanity and Dads For All
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In BreadBreakers, our slogan is "Rebuilding the town square, one table at a time." On Saturday the 25th, we're making it literal.
Join the BreadBreakers community, Dads for All DMV, Habitat for Humanity, and Lowe's in Alexandria as we come together for a hands-on service morning where friends, families, and neighbors will build something real together, then send it out into the community.
We'll assemble birdhouse kits and Adirondack chairs and decorate nail aprons, all under one roof. The chairs and birdhouses go straight to local families and to Habitat's ReStores, where every sale funds more affordable homes. The aprons get worn by the volunteers and staff who show up on Habitat's build sites week after week. What you make here keeps working long after you head home.
All are welcome, including all ages, and volunteers are free to come and go as their day allows.
I've never attended a BreadBreakers event before - what is BreadBreakers?
BreadBreakers is a community where neighbors from all different beliefs and backgrounds can hear, be heard, and know one another. Most frequently, we do this through the ancient practice of breaking bread around a common dining table.
But we're more than just a discussion group - we're a movement to heal our world's broken discourse and forge togetherness in a time of isolation and loneliness. Through the sacred act of just "being" together, we're working to rebuild the town square, one table (or service project) at a time.
BreadBreakers is a religiously pluralistic collaboration between Restoration United Methodist Church in Reston, VA and the wider community. All faiths, beliefs, and stripes are welcomed, and our leadership and community include people who attend Restoration and people who don't.
So, we're partnering with Dads for All - What is Dads for All?
Since launching in the DMV, Dads for All has become a community of fathers who show up. They've connected over game nights and a whiskey night, packed shifts at the food bank, cleaned up local parks, delivered furniture to families who needed it, and even helped their school district think through AI and digital safety policy. This build day, which Dads for All invited BreadBreakers to partner on, is the next chapter, and it's one that grown-ups and kids alike from both our communities can be part of.
Tell me more about Habitat for Humanity and the need we're filling with this service morning.
Here's how Dads for All put it: Coming off another school year in the DMV, we're thinking hard about what it takes to give a kid a strong foundation. It usually starts with a stable home. Our partner for the day, Habitat for Humanity DC-NOVA, has spent 35 years partnering with families to help them build stronger foundations for their future. The need is real: one in three households in our region now pays more than 30% of its monthly income toward housing, forcing impossible tradeoffs between rent, food, and care. Every chair, birdhouse, and dollar raised on July 25th helps change that math for a family nearby.