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Contacts:

Joy Anderson, (outreach/missions)
972-235-8385

Opportunities and Announcements

Cookie Caper Coming April 27

Cookie bakers are needed for the upcoming COOKIE CAPER.  We need each person to bake 6 dozen homemade cookies (no slice and bake or store bought cookies).  Bring your cookies in a disposable container to the Family Life Center on Saturday, April 26 between 12:00 noon and 4:00 p.m. with your name and kind of cookie on the container.  Sunday, April 27 the COOKIE CAPER will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.  The boxes for the cookies will be sold for $4, $7, and $10.  Then you go around the tables laden with wonderful cookies and fill your box with your own selection of cookies!  The money raised goes to help support our adult workcamps, which this year will be to the Czech Republic and Greensburg, Ks., and to our partner church in the Czech Republic.

Richardson Area Habitat Spring Build

The Richardson Area Interfaith HFH spring build will begin March 8 and will continue for 8 Saturdays excluding the Saturday before Easter.  The build will finish on May 3.  Each Saturday a church van will travel to and from the build site.  Breakfast snacks, water, lunch, and snacks are provided.  Volunteers must be 16 and older to be on the build site.  Teens 16 years must have a parent accompany them and teens 14 and 15 yesrs of age can help on the last day with landscaping and clean up.  This is a great project for adult Sunday School classes as well as individuals.  Sign up will begin in February in the Shawver Welcome Center or by contacting Joy Anderson.

Summer Adult Workcamp to Greensburg, Kansas

The adult workcamp this summer will be to Greensburg, Ks. June 29-July 5.  The team will leave early Sunday morning and return Saturday evening.  Housing will be in the Haviland UMC in Haviland, Ks. and meals will be cooked and eaten at the church.  Greensburg was almost totally destroyed by a tornado in May 2007.  A team from our church went in September for 4 days to help with the beginning of the rebuilding process.  By this summer the rebuilding will be well underway and we will be helping to rebuild homes in this little county seat town.  The cost of the trip will be $100 per person to cover transportation and food.  Supplies will be purchased from money raised through the Cookie Caper.  Persons with carpentry, plumbing, and other handyman skills are needed as well as those willing to be good helpers.  Contact Joy Anderson, 972-235-8385 or through email if you are interested.

Amigos Days Project in April

April 18, 19, and 25 will be the annual Amigos Days Project where we will be helping an elderly homeowner by making minor repairs and painting the outside of her house.  This is a great project for Sunday School classes as well as individuals who like to work outside helping others.  Our house this year is in the Pleasant Mound area of southeast Dallas.  Amigos Days is a project of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church that FUMCR has been a part of since its inception at least a decade ago.  Lunch and drinks are provided.  Some skilled people are needed as well as others who want to help.  Contact Joy Anderson to participate.  Watch for more information about sign up opportunities.

International Christmas Market Successful!

The International Christmas Market November 9, 10, & 11 was wonderfully successful! The Market was open to the community as well as church members.  The fair trade crafts and coffee were very popular with the crowd and supplies of many items were sold out.  Shares were also purchased in record numbers as Christmas gifts for those who have everything.  The preliminary total for the Market is $76,833!  What a wonderful gift to the world at the time that we receive the greatest gift, the birth of a baby who came to show us a new way to love and care for others.  Of that money none stays within the church except for 3 programs that are a part of the outreach ministry of the church.  Thank you to all those who worked at the Market and those who came and bought and found a new way to spend those Christmas dollars. 

860 Totebags Collected for the Homeless!

Totebags for the homeless is a ministry that provides the homeless with essential toiletries, plus a few other items.  Most of us are so blessed that it often escapes us that some among us do not have the resources to obtain those items that seem so normal and essential to our lives.  The homeless often don't have access to toiletries, socks, gloves and a hat for the cold weather, nor do they have the financial resources to buy those items.  This is a small way that we can help make their lives a bit easier for a short time.  Totebags will go to Body & Soul, Austin Street Shelter, and the Day Resource Center.