Fourteen  from three local churches joined forces on Saturday, July 24, 2010 to build a 33′ ramp to make it easier for an elderly couple in Iowa Park to get in and out of their home.

Three were from Archer City FUMC (Rev. Rick Davis,  Karen Aulds, and Leon Groves), one from Floral Heights UMC (Don Beeks), and one was the director of the Texas Ramp Project (John Laine).  The nine from FUMC were:

• Alan Ballard
• Will Barkdale
• John Bradshaw
• Kevin Folmar
• Troy Sims
• Tammy & Gary Sparks
• Brandon Vaughn
• Dawn Yadlosky

We met at FUMC at 8:00am and were at the home by 8:40am.  We were finished about 12:40pm!  It took a great team effort to make this happen!

THANK YOU to all involved!

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Help us  provide mobility for a disabled individual in our community by helping to build a wheelchair ramp through the Texas Ramp Project.

• Saturday, July 24, 2010
• 8am (meet in the FUMC parking lot)
• We should be done between 12noon and 1pm.

Most tools will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorites that fit your hands perfectly!

Sign up NOW below!

On this mission trip to El Paso and Lydia Patterson Institute, we’d leave on Sunday, August 1, work Monday-Wednesday, and return Thursday, August 5.

• We’d like to make this a family trip with parents and children!
• Breakfast would be like cereal, granola bars, pop tarts, etc.
• Lunch would be like sandwiches and chips.
• Supper we’d go out to eat!
• Cost is TBD and dependent on number of folks interested – the more the cheaper!

Contact Rev. Sims (tsims@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x229) for more information!

June 9, 2010 marked a first for the North Texas Annual Conference as, in addition to the normal business of the conference, a mission work day was held to help members of the conference (including our Bishop, District Superintendents, and Extended Cabinet) practice what we preach.  FUMC folk participated in all of the projects:

• Cooking Breakfast (Connie Rosenburg & Erica Conner)
• Painting the Riverside Cemetery Fence (Erica Conner, Rev. Pellikan, and children of Adventures in Mission (AIM-1))
• Texas Ramp Project 1 (Rev. Sims)
• Texas Ramp Project 2 (Alan Ballard & former Youth Pastor, Dana Coker)
• Texas Ramp Project 3 (Elizabeth Yeager)
• Imagine No Malaria Car Wash (Youth of FUMC)
  In fact Jeff Ginn and our youth spearheaded this event that raised over $300 to help eradicate malaria on the continent of Africa by 2015)

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Did you know?

Habitat For Humanity of Wichita Falls does a Collegiate Challenge program where students from colleges around the country come to work here in Wichita Falls.  This week, Air Force Academy Cadets from Colorado Springs and University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Students were here to serve.

One of the treats they experienced on Thursday, March 25, 2010 was a meal provided by Emma Knight and her Dad, Kyle.  Other than cutting up the meat, Emma essentially did all the cooking (of course under the guidance of Kyle who is teaching her the fine art of cajun cooking) and helped serve jambalaya, green beans, and bread!

THANK YOU TO EMMA AND KYLE FOR YOUR SERVICE AND GENEROSITY!

Did you know that three college students from our church (Lauren Haynes, Clay Ginn, and Dannielle Rouse), Ronda Haynes, and Jeff Ginn participated in a Mission Trip during Spring Break to the Lydia Patterson Institute in El Paso, Texas with the Denton Wesley Foundation? Lauren, Clay, and Dannielle are shown here with Stephanie Iracheta (the recipient of the FUMC Youth LPI Scholarship) and her brother, Alberto.

THANK YOU TO
LAUREN, CLAY, DANNIELLE, RONDA, AND JEFF!
FOR YOUR SERVICE!