Opportunities at FUMC

Food Pantry Items for June are sugar and crackers.

Place your donations in the barrel located in the Narthex Hallway outside the Sanctuary.

Red Cross Disaster Team   

     FUMC MC has arranged with the American Red Cross to be designated as a short term shelter  in time of local disasters. The core team for this project is in place. Volunteers are needed to help when we are called by the Red Cross to open the shelter.

Contact Jean Pirtle or the church office for information.

East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry

located at 425 Stafford Run Rd., Stafford, TX  77477      281-261-1006

Hours of Operation:

Resale Shop- Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. and Sat. from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Closed on Sundays.

Food Pantry - Tues., Thurs., and Fri. from 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and

Wed. evening from 6 - 8 p.m. Closed Sat. - Mon.

Blood Drives for 2003

Did you know that every 1.3 seconds of every day, a unit of blood is transfused in this country? That means 46 united of blood per minute, 2,760 units per hour and on, and on...

All Blood Drives are held in cooperation with the Houston Blood Bank and are held in the Fellowship Hall from 8:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 2

Sunday, May 25

Sunday, August 31

Sunday, November 2

Upcoming Mission Trips for 2003

Costa Rica - June 6-15 (approx. $900)  Travel to the village of Esparza to help complete the Sanctuary at the Methodist Church and assist in teaching Vacation Bible School to the children of the village. Contact persons:  Dave and Lyn Storm There are 6 openings left for this trip.

Maua Methodist Hospital/Meru Agricultural Center, Kenya, Africa - June 26-July 12 (approx. $2,700) This trip will include construction and medical projects as well as teaching Vacation Bible School to the village children. This facility is supported by FUMC MC through the Global Mission Partners program. Contact persons: Don and Karen Cahilly

Oklahoma Indian Ministries July 12-19 (approx. $250) The 2003 projects are in several different locations and consist of building and repair work to fellowship halls, sanctuaries, and parsonages. Vacation Bible School will also be taught to the children of the area. Contact person: Jim Daurity

Guatemala (approx. $1,000) Each of these trips is one week in length and provides medical and dental assistance to the villages through the program Faith In Practice. This is a Houston-based, non-denominational organization which staffs the trips with doctors, dentists, nurses, dental assistants, Spanish translators and others willing to go as support team members. Contact person: Janie Cook

Additional Mission Opportunities at FUMC MC

     H.O.M.E. Project -Helping Others - a Methodist Experience- repairing homes for the needy in the local area. This is a one-day project.

     UM ARMY - United Methodist Action Reach-out Mission by Youth- summer mission work camp for youth who have completed the 9th grade. The week-long work camps are held in different towns in the East Texas Conference throughout the summer.

     Christmas boxes for Ministry at Port of Houston - ecumenical project - in 1998 10,500 boxes were given to seaman at the Port of Houston.

     Fort Bend Women's Center - UMW upholds this project with visits, Christmas gifts and other support as needed.

     Adopt-A-Highway - FUMC is responsible for picking up trash 4 times a year along a two- mile stretch of FM 1092 from Lexington to Highway 6.

     Randall's Good Neighbor Program- monies collected from this project go to support the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry. 

     Methodist Home - located in Waco, Texas

     Disaster Relief trips - in cooperation with UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief). Recently we have provided assistance with cleanup and rebuilding to hurricane victims in Mississippi and flood victims in the state of Texas.