Join us as we celebrate what it means to be church family. Our service will be lead by members of the church and those who worship with us. The potluck following the service will be held in our fellowship hall. This is a chance to use our new kitchen, we will be holding a kitchen blessing/dedication as part of the pot luck. See you there, Janet Cook
Take the time this Sunday to give thanks for Clergy. Send a card, text, or call a clergy member who has meant something to you in your walk of faith. We as a church family will recognize Pastor Kevin and Allie during worship.
Sunday lunch just got easy!
After we collect gently used adults and children’s clothing the clothes are sent off to a processing center to be cleaned and sorted before being stored for the next big disaster. Think floods, tornados and earthquakes, so we do not need PROM dresses, or dance shoes. Belts and tote bags are needed as is new underwear and socks still in the original package. Matching shoes are welcome, no hats please. Drop clothes at the church near the new kitchen, or if you know where the key to the storage building is put them on the ping pong table.
The church is again hosting a FREE cookie decorating booth at the Castroville Old Fashioned Christmas on Houston Square here in Castroville. Workers are needed on both Friday night and all day Saturday.
300 Plain unfrosted sugar cookies needed.
. The patch is open during daylight hours for photos.
We will not be selling Pumpkins this year.
PENDING THE VIRUS BEING OVER BY THEN
Come say so long and happy retirement to Pastor Ev and Marilyn McCarley.
Bring your favorite BBQ side for the BBQ themed pot luck in the fellowship hall.
Pastor Evs last Sunday in the pulpit is on Fathers Day June 21.
If need be we will hold this event later.
Our EASTER Sunrise Service on Houston Square has been cancelled by the City of Castroville.
The breakfast is also cancelled.
Stay safe at home and watch our live FACEBOOK page at 7 am for the Sunrise Service and 10:30 for our Easter Worship Service.
Good Friday Service will be live at noon on our FACEBOOK page.
An uplifting worship service is planned, join us. The children are working on something to share with us.
This Service might be online rather than in the church.
Pastor Ev and Volunteers will be on Highway 90 doing Ashes again this year.
Worship services at noon and 6:30pm
Free Community wide Pancake dinner in the church hall.
There will be a donation jar for the Medina Co Food Pantry Building Fund.
Our Special Candlelight Service will take a different format than our normal Sunday Worship.
We will also be celebrating with Holy Communion.
We have child safe candles for the little ones.
As part of our Out Reach to the community we adopted a section of highway near the Potranco Elementary School on FM 1957. Once a quarter we pick up trash on a two mile section of the road. No one walks the whole two miles as we send out teams of two and three along various sections of the road. Normally we are done with the pick in a hour and a half. First time pickers MUST meet in the church parking lot at 8am for a safety briefing.
We will be ringing the hand bells for the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign at our local Walmart on Mondays from 11am to 7pm. You can sign up to ring as a team or family.
Money raised will stay in our area(Medina Co) to support such thing as the Angel Tree program, and emergency disaster support.
We will be looking at were we want to be in a year, 3 years or 10 years as we continue to grow with our community. We will be starting to look at our kitchen remodel after we complete or storage building.
Open meeting all may attend and vote.
Co Chairs Kay Reynolds and Darrell DeCock
We will be looking at our financial status for the third quarter of the year.
Everyone who attends worship has a voice and a vote at the meeting.
In Support of the National Night Out sponsored by the La Coste police department. The church will have a booth. Our booth manager for La Coste is Shirley Hodges, she does games and hands out candy. Contact Shirley in late September if you would like to help with this FUN Out Reach. KIDS WELCOME and fur babies too!
La Coste event is Tuesday Oct 1, 6-8pm in the park near the tracks.
Put on your apron, grab the big knife and join us in fellowship as we prepare the Pico and clean the grills for our annual fundraiser. Please bring your cutting board!
We will need help chopping tomatoes and green peppers. Packaging the cheese and the Pico and wrapping the tortillas.
Bring a dessert for the bake sale table.
Normal start time around 8, join us in the fun as we gather in Christ's name for this different type of fellowship even if you can only come for an hour. Yes school age children and teens can come and help.
This team looks the big picture and plans for continued growth. and what we need to do next in the way of projects.
We will be hosting a COAT DRIVE to support Eagle Pass United Methodist Church. Included in this drive are hats, gloves, mittens and scarves. New coats are most welcome as are clean gently used coats. We need coats for kids, teens and adults. Clean extra blanks most welcome also. Diapers have been asked for also.
We will be joining with the Baptist Church and other organizations in the regional park for a back to school bash. We are doing hot dogs and games, so come on out and visit with your brothers and sisters in Christ.
Join us as we host a cookie reception for our Summer Ministry Intern Katie Toalson who will be leaving us to return to Duke University in N. C..
Katie has been with us for 10 or so weeks as she learned about how we do Methodist. A Laity Team has been mentoring her on how we do church.
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Our 5th annual Back to School Fair is still a work in progress at this time. This fair is for incoming 6th graders who the District Office has identified and will be receiving limited amount of gym gear and school supplies. Worshipers are welcome to Volunteer to assist at this event. Please contact our Lay Leader Janet Cook.
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This class will cover AED and CPR first, then the First Aid part.
If you take AED and CPR only the cost is $45.00 but $55.00 if you also take the First Aid Part.
Anyone over 12 years old may take the class. Certificate is good for two years.
First Day of VBS for those who are entering kinder this fall to those who just finished 5th grade.
VBS will on continue on Friday at the same time.
However Saturday VBS will run 9am to 3pm.
This years theme is To Mars and Beyond.
We will providing 12 Easter Food & Household Baskets to those the MVISD office has told us could use some help in providing basic needs. You can adopt a whole basket or one item from the basket. The program will run to April 14, 2019.
Our annual clothing drive for disaster survivors.
Our own Hill Country District in partnership the the Seventh Day Adventist church collects, sorts, cleans and bags our donations for shipment to the next disaster. Please no prom dresses but they take belts, hats, gloves, fanny packs and tote bags. Half used boxes of diapers and depends also welcome.
Our annual Children’s Christmas Program will be held during the normal worship time slot.
Bring, Nana and Poppy, all the aunts and Uncles, do not forget the camera!
To work with the children you need to complete the background check and the safe gathering class.
