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Fill the Hole
 "What's Next?" Gathering
We had a great time at the "What's Next?" meeting! There were many ideas shared, from teaching adults to read to providing water in third world countries to expanding into a transportation ministry. If you have a BIG DREAM you'd like to share, Ken would like to hear it! Contact him at 817-481-2559 or kend@fumcg.org.Get a fresh perspective and hear what church member  Lorie Payne is thinking - she wrote all about it on her blog this week (click here to read it). We're hearing some great stories about how people are "Filling the Hole"! Be sure to share your story with one of our staff members. We'll be including them in the Updates section of E-News each week.
Recycle Your Book!
If you are no longer using your copy of The Hole in Our Gospel, you may return your book to the church office. We will pass it on to someone else who would like to read it, or to another church that's doing the study.
Don't just give up something this Lenten season... take something on!
Throughout the season of Lent, we ask you to "fill the hole" we've been talking about in the book The Hole in Our Gospel. Below is a look at some of the opportunities that are before you. Visit the cross display in the Sanctuary Foyer (both campuses) or Founders Chapel Atrium to choose the item you want. Each tag displayed on the crosses lists a way in which you can make a difference in the lives of those who are needy - both in our community and around the world. Take a tag and make it your Lenten project! Please note that when you take an item off of the cross, you are responsible for following through with it by contacting the person indicated on the tag. Note that new tags on the cross will have a different color ribbon than the brown used in previous weeks. Need help choosing or need more information? Contact Volunteer Coordinator Bev Campisi at beverlyc@fumcg.org or 817-797-4936.
New on the cross this week:
- Assist two families who need help moving - one on March 19-20 and one on March 28. (Contact Whitney Illies if you can help.)
- Donate Box Tops for Education (clipped from commonly-used products) to Cannon Elementary. Click here for a list of products from which you can clip Box Tops.
- Donate an old computer to be refurbished for the Texas Center for the Visually Challenged.
- Provide an orphaned CHHS student with a laptop to take to A&M in the fall.
- Repair cars for our neighbors (or pay to have the work done).
- Serve as a Client Aide for someone in GRACE's Transitional Housing program.
Provide an eye exam and new eye glasses for a neighbor in need.
Buy new pair of black, slip on, loafer style dress shoes for a neighbor in need.
Provide a women's size 7 all white Nike or Puma for a neighbor in need
Provide prescription eye glasses for a neighbor in need
Provide dentures for a young neighbor in need
Provide washcloths, hand towels and bath towels for a neighbor in need
Pick up and deliver donated furniture
Tutor low-income children
Donate Spanish language children's books
Read with a struggling reader at a local school
Read to children at Feed Our Kids sites during the summer
Serve as a MENtor (male role model) for a local school child
Distribute door hangers and invitations to church events
Provide a gas card for those in need
Donate to the Benevolence and/or Compassion Funds
Provide a month of school lunches for a child in Kenya
Make an Emergency Assistance Kit for people in need of toiletry items
Provide a year of secondary school for a child in Kenya
Give towards the completion of the Meru Synod Guest House our church is building in Kenya
Serve at the Church on the SLAB serving the homeless
Provide paper goods for the Church on the SLAB
Donate toiletries to the Church on the SLAB
Give monetarily to the Church on the SLAB
Coordinate Fall/Spring missions projects
Volunteer at Spring into Missions
Do home repair and odd jobs for the elderly
Sponsor an AIDS orphan in Kenya
Sponsor a table at Be Our Guest neighborhood meal
Serve at Be Our Guest neighborhood meal
Serve on a Kairos Prison Ministry team
Bake 6 dozen cookies for the Kairos Prison Ministry
Sponsor a family table for the Kairos Prison Ministry
Adopt a plot ($200) at GRACE Community Garden
Donate mulch, fertilizer, garden tools, etc. to GRACE Community Garden
Donate a tool shed for the GRACE Community Garden
Write grants for GRACE Community Garden
Install an irrigation system for GRACE Community Garden
Provide casseroles for Never Go Hungry casserole ministry
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Provide a Wal-Mart gift card for a neighbor in need to purchase some basic clothing items
Provide a scholarship for a child to register in our our new scouting ministry for Hispanic boys
Provide dry cat food and flushable kitty litter for a neighbor in need who has cats
Provide a scholarship for a student in need to attend Sky Ranch, an educational 3 day field trip, with the other 5th graders at Timberline Elementary School
Provide new children's size tennis shoes for children in need at Timberline Elementary School.
Provide a month's rent for a 19 year old student in need at GHS
Provide a month's utilities for a 19 year old student in need at GHS
Give to help a grandmother and three teenagers in Rwanda with food for a month
Give to help a teen in need in Rwanda with transportation to and from school so he can finish his education
Help low-income families weatherproof their trailers
Volunteer with Hispanic Ministries
Donate Wal-Mart gift cards for low income families
Provide a scholarship for a low-income child to attend the NASA field trip with Cannon Elementary
Make a monetary pledge to An Hour to Help Haiti team(s)
Serve as a coordinator for Weekend Food
Provide Weekend Food for a child for one month or for the entire year
Provide health kits for UMCOR to help Haiti
Give to UMCOR to help Haiti
Help keep Radio Methos on the air in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa in order to help educate the population about disease, productivity, reconciliation, etc.
Help families to get their children registered for CHIP/Medicaid health insurance
Donate items to GRACE
Help stock the food pantry at Grapevine High School
Provide dentures for a resident of the Grapevine Housing Authority
Provide a computer for a family in the Grapevine Housing Authority
Provide occasional transportation for shopping or doctors appointments for a neighbor in need
Provide eye glasses for a neighbor in need
Purchase groceries for a neighbor
Provide furniture (sofa, end tables, lamps) a for a neighbor in need
Help a wheelchair-bound neighbor with grocery shopping.
Make Blankets of Hope for residents of a local substance abuse treatment center
Provide contractor-strength plastic bags for the Thrift Shop
Serve as a coordinator for Feed Our Kids during the summer
Provide childcare at Cannon Elementary during Latino Family Literacy Night |
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