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Bulverde
 United Methodist Church 28300 Highway 281 North, San Antonio, TX 78260 Phone 830-980-7745 |
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Outreach Servant Area
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' -Mathew 25:35-40 (NIV)
Outreach Opportunities BUMC organizations and individual members participate in a number of outreach programs that provide support in various forms to people that are in need of help both within our local communities and in out of area communities. These programs provide excellent opportunities to use your spiritual gifts to provide services, donations, and prayers to make a difference for those in need. Please click on the following to view information about the mission, support, and needs of each Outreach organization. Bulverde Quilt Group - Children's Quilts Bulverde United Methodist Women (UMW) Methodist Foster Home Christmas Party Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) and Moppets United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) Upward Basketball and Cheerleading
Backpack MinistryBUMC Points of Contact: Channel Maze (210) 677-9019 Hannah Hedgpeth (210) 421-6289
Mission: Provide bedding, devotional, hygiene, food, and various other items to the homeless in San Antonio.
Support: The Backpack Ministry bundles articles donated for the homeless into backpacks and distributes about 75-100 backpacks each month to homeless areas in downtown San Antonio.
Needs: · Articles needed include new or slightly used backpacks, devotional items, blankets, men’s clothing, tooth brushes and toothpaste, travel size soap and shampoo, disposable razors, deodorant, flashlight and batteries, water, snacks, bus pass, etc. Please place donated articles in the homeless box outside of the Fellowship Hall. · Money donations are also welcomed (the donation of $30 will sponsor a backpack). Please make out checks to the BUMC Backpack Ministry and provide money donations to the church office.
Bulverde Food Pantry
BUMC Point of Contact: Judy Barrar (210) 481-0156
Mission: The Bulverde Food Pantry acquires and distributes nutritious food and other family items to needy individuals and families.
Support: BUMC collects donated food and monetary donations and provides them to the Bulverde Food Pantry.
Needs: · Food donations can be placed in the shopping cart near the Sanctuary on Sundays. The donations that are most needed include: canned meats and stews, canned tuna fish, canned 100% fruit and vegetable juices, packaged rice and pasta, packaged casseroles and dinners, jams and jellies, peanut butter, canned and packaged soups, canned vegetables and fruits, sugar and flour, and diapers. · Checks and gift certificates are also welcome and can be provided to the church office. Please make out checks to BUMC with a note indicating Bulverde Food Pantry.
Bulverde Quilt Group - Children's Quilts
BUMC Point of Contact: Mary Beth Ryan (830) 438-8022
Mission: The Bulverde Quilt Group outreach mission is to make and donate children's quilts to the Methodist Children's Hospital in San Antonio for distribution to chronically and terminally ill children.
Support: To date the Bulverde Quilt Group has made and donated over 500 children's quilts to the Methodist Children's Hospital since 2000. From 25 to 69 quilts have been donated at a time depending upon how many have been made when the hospital's Chaplain has indicated a need. In addition, children's quilts have also been made and provided to BUMC members and others with critically ill children. Before a quilt is given to a child, each is blessed by one of our pastors. Please click here to read a wonderful news article about the founders of the Bulverde Quilt Group and the mission of the Children's Quilt ministry.
Needs: · The primary needs are prayers for the children and the Children's Quilt ministry. · All quilters, from beginners to experienced, are welcome to join the Bulverde Quilt Group and participate in the Children's Quilt ministry.
Bulverde United Methodist Women (UMW)
BUMC Points of Contact: Grace Holt (BUMW Outreach) (830) 980-9175 Lorelei Mayer (BUMW President) (830) 885-4318
Mission: The organized unit of United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose purpose is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church. For more information about BUMW please click here.
Support and Needs: Below you will find 15 different opportunities for Bulverde United Methodist Women (BUMW) to serve our Community, locally and internationally. Some of the agencies listed below are agencies we have been helping for many years. Several are new to us in 2008. All of the agencies listed below, have in the past or will this year receive monetary gifts from us. Some of them we have helped in many other ways throughout the years, depending on what their needs are each year.
This site will be updated throughout the year as we keep in touch with each agency and find out their specific needs, so please visit this site often and see how you can help. As we seek or obtain request for assistance from these agencies, you may also see bulletins from us asking for your help. If any agency listed below peaks your interest and you would like to know more about it - please feel free to contact them directly or contact Grace Holt at 830-980-9175.
We have a Mission Nite Circle that meets at 6:30pm on the 3rd Wednesday of each month in the UMW room in the Fellowship Hall. This year one of our goals is going to be to contact each organization during the year and see in what manner they would like our support in addition to money and then help them. If you are interested in some hands on mission work come join our nite circle.
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
Mission: The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) mission is to alleviate human suffering by providing practical, proactive early response support to the most vulnerable survivors of chronic or temporary emergencies due to natural or civil causes.
Support and Needs: BUMW supports UMCOR by preparing and providing hygiene kits and school book bags to needy locations. Items needed for 1 hygiene kit include the following: 1 hand towel (15”x25” up to 17”x27”), 1 wash cloth, 1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket sized and no rat-tail), 1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toe-nail clippers), 1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. & up and individually wrapped, 1 toothbrush (regular sized toothbrush individually wrapped, no child- sized brushes.), 1 large tube of toothpaste (4.5 oz. or larger, expiration date must be 6 months or less from the time it was bought), 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages (band-aids), and 1—1 gallon size baggie. Money donations are always acceptable, as it costs $12.00 to make one kit.
United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM)
Mission: United Methodist Volunteers In Mission (UMVIM) helps people in need with follow on disaster relief, construction and repair, medical aid, educational assistance, and connectional ministry.
Support and Needs: In 2008, BUMW will raise money through donations to help build the new Volunteers in Mission (VIM) volunteer training and material handling center in San Antonio. With the completion of this center, BUMW will be able to ship hygiene kits and other items that we make (e.g. school book bags) that are destined to needy locations without incurring the current expensive shipping fees.
Bulverde Food Pantry
Mission: Click here to go to the Bulverde Food Pantry section.
Support and Needs: BUMW will support the Food Pantry in 2008 with monetary gifts and Food Gifts as the need arises.
Woman At The Well House
Mission: Woman At The Well House is a residential community for formerly incarcerated women. The program promotes their emotional, spiritual, and intellectual growth to facilitate a successful transition into the larger community. Woman At The Well House meets the essential living needs of each participant by coordinating and providing: Housing, Food, Clothing, Health Care, Transportation, Education, Scholarships, Job Counseling, Job Training, Job Placement.
Support and Needs: BUMW will support Woman At The Well House through monetary gifts and clothing in 2008. What will $100 buy for the Woman at the Well House?
Methodist Mission Home
Mission: At Methodist Mission Home adoptive parents can choose the adoption service that best meets their needs – infant domestic, international, or older child. Birth mothers looking for answers receive counseling in a safe and supportive environment and may live in their maternity center. Methodist Mission Home educates struggling teen parents and professionals who work with at-risk families about adoption, private foster care, and community resources that strengthen families and prevent child abuse. SCHI, Southwest Center for Higher Independence, helps young adults with disabilities overcome barriers through transitional living education. Vocational and life skills enable our students to reach their goals and realize their dreams.
Support and Needs: BUMW has supported the Methodist Mission Home for many years with monetary gifts and will do so again in 2008.
Comal County Crisis Center
Mission: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Crisis Services.
Support and Needs: BUMW has supported the Crisis Center for many years with monetary gifts and women’s toiletries, as we will do again in 2008.
Wesley Of Columbia Heights
Mission: Serving the people of San Antonio’s South Side since 1909. The South Side community served by Wesley of Columbia Heights has nearly 100,000 individuals; nearly 90 percent are Hispanic. More than half the families with children under 18 years of age have incomes below 185 percent of federal poverty guidelines, and the median family income is 32 percent below that of Bexar County. Wesley provides Child Care, Wellness & Recreation for Adults, Senior Enrichment Program, Health Education Services, Counseling Services, Emergency Assistance Services, Medical & Dental Services.
Support and Needs: BUMW has supported Wesley for many, many years, with monetary gifts, supporting the monthly rummage sale, donating to the yearly summer camperships, adopting a needy family each Christmas and making Christmas ornaments for the families Christmas Tree. We will be doing all of these things again in 2008.
New Life Center
Mission: New Life Center specializes in caring for abused, neglected and troubled girls, ages 11 to 17. Typical Problems of Residents include history of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect, Impulse Disorders, Mood Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Self-Abuse, Running Away, Physical Aggression, Poor Social Skills, Property Destruction, Attachment/Bonding Disorders, Defiance of Authority, and Drug Experimentation.
Support and Needs: BUMW will again support New Life through monetary gifts in 2008.
Backpack Ministry
Mission: Click here to read about Backpack Ministry.
Support and Needs: This is another ministry BUMW has supported for several years through monetary gifts and through the other items listed on their site.
Options For Women
Mission: The Crisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to educating and encouraging women to choose life and to serving those affected by unplanned pregnancies.
Support and Needs: This is a new ministry we will support in 2008 with our monetary gifts.
Child Advocacy Center Comal County
Mission: Before the CACCC (Child Advocacy Center Comal County) was created, children who had been abused in Comal County were taken to many different places to be interviewed by investigators. Often a child would need to tell his or her story to a police officer, a child protective services, worker, and an assistant district attorney, all the while being shuttled back and forth from one institutional and sometimes intimidating environment to another. The CACCC was created so that children who had been abused could come to a single place to be interviewed one time so that the number of interviews a child had to experience would be minimized as much as possible.
Support and Needs: Another new ministry for 2008 being supported with our monetary gifts.
My Friends Haus
Mission: The only Licensed Adult Day Care Facility in Comal County – Are you caring for an aging relative or friend in your home? Would you and your loved one benefit from a facility designed to meet your loved one’s physical, mental, medical and social needs?
Support and Needs: My Friends Haus is a new ministry in 2008 and we will be providing monetary gifts in 2008. At our March meeting we will be making Easter cards for the folks at My Friends Haus.
ST Jude's Ranch For Children - Emergency Shelter
Mission: Breaking the cycle of child abuse by providing home and healing wherever children are hurting. When children in Texas are removed from an unsafe home environment, they find safe haven at St. Jude’s Emergency Shelter in New Braunfels. In the course of a year the Emergency Shelter admits more than 120 of Texas’ most vulnerable children, ranging in age from infancy to age 13. Typically, children stay in their care for 30 days, but may stay as long as 90 days.
Support and Needs: St. Jude’s is a new ministry for us in 2008 and we will be providing monetary gifts to them to start. At our March meeting we will be making Easter cards and cookies for the children of St. Jude’s.
W.I.N.G.S. For Life, Inc. (Women in Need of Greater Stengths) for Life
Mission: WINGS was established in Marion, Texas in July 2000 to serve at-risk mothers from areas throughout the state of Texas, ensuring their ability to become successful citizens and strong, effective parents. Girls are referred through the Texas Youth Commission. WINGS for Life program is designed to address the various negative risk factors for teenage mothers, particularly those that focus on strengthening parent-child relationships. The program incorporates services that value the female perspective, and take into account female developmental issues.
Support and Needs: Another new ministry for 2008, we will be providing monetary gifts to WINGS.
Samaritan's Purse
Mission: Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Support and Needs: In past years we have supported Samaritan’s Purse in their Shoe Box Ministry with monetary gifts and will do so again in 2008.
Church Under the Bridge (CUB)
BUMC Point of Contact: Channel Maze (210) 677-9019
Mission: Church Under the Bridge (CUB) ministers the Word of God and provides food and clothing to the homeless that attend the services held in San Antonio. For more information about Church Under the Bridge, please click here to view their website.
Support: · On the first Sunday of each month, Senior High/Chrysalis girls prepare and serve a breakfast meal and the Backpack Ministry distributes backpacks to the homeless attending the Church Under the Bridge service held at 9:00 am. · On the second Sunday of each month, Jennifer Clarke’s team prepares and serves a breakfast meal to the homeless attending the Church Under the Bridge service held at the 9:00 am. · On the second Tuesday of each month, the Covenant Sunday School Class prepares and serves a dinner meal to the homeless attending the Church Under the Bridge service held at 6:00 pm.
Needs: · Volunteers are always welcome to help provide, prepare and serve food. · Men’s clothing and blankets are always needed. · Monetary donations should be provided through the Church Under the Bridge website (see above).
Habitat for HumanityBUMC Point of Contact: Tom Warner (210) 912-6000
Mission: Habitat for Humanity builds affordable houses for people and families in need.
Support: BUMC partners with Comal County Habitat for Humanity and other United Methodist churches to build a house typically once a year in the Comal County area. Through fund raising and financial contributions to buy building materials, Saturday work crews to build a Habitat house, and lunch crews to feed the work crews, a house can be built within about four months. Comal County Habitat for Humanity has just recently purchased 22 acres of raw land East of IH-35 in New Braunfels on which the next Habitat houses will be built. This sizeable acreage will accommodate building approximately 70 houses. Before houses can be built, the land must be cleared and graded, roads and utilities put in place, etc. Engineering estimates indicate that this may take up to a year to complete. Possibly by the end of 2008, the first houses can be started.
Needs: Needs for volunteers and fund raising will be provided here once a house build schedule is determined.
Meals on Wheels
BUMC Point of Contact: Randy Martin (830) 438-3589
Mission: Meals on Wheels, through volunteers and staff of the Bulverde Senior Center, provides well-balanced, hot meals and personal contact to homebound seniors in the Bulverde and Spring Branch area.
Support: BUMC members, along with volunteers from other churches, deliver meals and good will to those in need in the local communities.
Needs: There is always a need for additional volunteers to deliver meals either on a regular basis or as an alternate volunteer. Teams of two, made up of volunteers from local churches, pick up meals at the Bulverde Senior Center (830-438-3111) and make deliveries on an every two-week basis. The routes are usually around 40-55 miles for a round trip depending on the day of the week and may vary as clients are added or deleted due to various reasons. The routes vary in time spent and usually the complete route is 1-1˝ hours in duration. The only requirement to become a qualified volunteer is a heart of charity and the ability to bring a cheerful smile to some clients who have little or no contact with the outside world. Shut-ins appreciate the visits and the meals and the reward for volunteers greatly outweighs the effort spent.
Methodist Children's Foster Home Christmas Party
BUMC Point of Contact: Hannah Hedgpeth (210) 421-6289
Mission:
To facilitate the placement of at risk children with safe and loving
Christian families for short term and long term care.
United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM)
BUMC Points of Contact:
Cynthia Deaton (Children Missions) (830) 980-7745 Reese Henry (Youth Missions) (830) 980-7745 Paul Harris (Adult Missions) (830) 980-7745
Mission: United Methodist Volunteers In Mission (UMVIM) helps people in need with follow on disaster relief, construction and repair, medical aid, educational assistance, and connectional ministry.
Support (Missions): BUMC provides UMVIM mission teams of all ages to help people and communities in need with support in such areas as clean up, repair, renovation, construction, food, clothing, hygiene supplies, Bible study, etc.
Needs (Missions): The next missions for 2008 have not yet been scheduled.
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