Have you ever been so excited that you drank 17 glasses of milk?  That was eighth grader Benjamin Singel’s claim as he got ready for WC Students Middle School Fall Retreat.  And after singing “99 bottles of milk on the wall” and plenty of “are we there yets” we pulled into Pine Cove for a [...]

What started as a simple idea—a slogan really—between two brothers has quickly become a theme of hope, inspiration, and perseverance for thousands of people across Texas and the rest of the United States. A little over a year ago, Rev. Stephen Ramsdell at First UMC Waco was undergoing treatment for cancer. According to an interview [...]

Uruguay 2011 Day 4 and 5, October 5 and 6 On Wednesday (day 4), we continued much of what we began the day before: painting the upstairs room (second coat), tiling, and painting downstairs. The highlight of the day was participating in worship with the people of Casa de la Amistad. We sang, some of [...]

Dr. Steven Bell and members of a FaithWorks mission team are serving in Montevideo, Uruguay this week. This is the first note back from Dr. Bell. Uruguay 2011 Day 1 and 2 Sunday, October 2 to Monday, October 3: We began our journey following the 11 a.m. service on Sunday by meeting up in the [...]

Thanks to our volunteers and staff members who participated in the Feed Our Kids program throughout the summer. Participants shared lunches and some fun in the sun with local kids in our community as a part of the program—for more photos, visit our Facebook album here.  

Realizing that there are many in our community who don’t really know much about us, last week we began a four-week series introducing ourselves (or reintroducing ourselves) as a church and as a denomination. Simply put, we want to tell our story, the story of how God has moved in us and worked through us, [...]

My name is JT Thomas and I am a summer intern for White’s Chapel College Ministries. I grew up attending WC Student Ministry and am now a junior at TCU. I was having lunch with a just-graduated high school senior named Josh Yonis, and after hearing his story it occurred to me that young adults [...]

A WC Children’s Ministry profile by Tanya Benavides It’s easy to imagine Kelli Edwards as the consummate storyteller. Her eyes light up and she becomes engagingly animated when she describes her experiences the past three years as one of the storytellers at Vacation Bible School. Kelli started out as a VBS guide eight years ago [...]

By Dainah Chandler Linda (Bartlett) Simmons is a multi-gifted, Christ-centered member of White’s Chapel. She grew up in the very arts-centered Sarasota, Florida, home of the Ringling Fine Arts Museum and the Ringling Circus. “We had an orchestra there, so I have been playing the viola since sixth grade.” After graduating from high school and [...]

I’m a child of civil servants (both of my parents worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs), and as such, we moved around quite a bit during my teenage years. My story is marked by the experiences and challenges of moving to new places, of saying goodbye to old friends and the daunting task of [...]