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Serving with Love
Third Saturday of each Month | 5 to 7 p.m. June 19, July 17, Aug. 21, Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20, & Dec.18 On the third Saturday of each month, White’s Chapel volunteers travel to the Presbyterian Night Shelter in Fort Worth to serve women and children who are homeless or victims of domestic violence. Volunteers meet at the Morris shelter at 5 p.m. to serve dinner and provide love, encouragement, and fellowship to the residents. Space is limited so volunteers are taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration is required and all volunteers must be fully vaccinated. For questions or additional registration information, please contact Heather Rowley. Super Saturday: Rise Against Hunger
Saturday, July 17 | 9 to 11 a.m. | Evans Hall White’s Chapel is teaming up with Rise Against Hunger to help people around the world who are food insecure. On July 17, passionate WC volunteers and families will gather at the church to package food for the hungry. The dry, packaged food supplied by Rise Against Hunger will provide a nutritious meal when recipients mix it with water. Volunteers will meet at the church at 9 a.m. in Evans Hall to help unload supplies from the trucks and set up packaging stations. Volunteers will then actively participate in the fight to stop hunger by measuring and packaging meals for those in need… approximately 20,000 meals will be packaged and shipped globally. Registration for this Super Saturday event is available online. Families, friends and church groups are encouraged to attend. Children four years old and older are welcome to help their parents serve. All participants must wear closed-toed shoes. For more information, contact Dorothea Christ. Project Transformation 2021
Volunteers Love to read? Love to work with children? Project Transformation is a summer literacy ministry sponsored by the Central Texas Conference. White’s Chapel has been a partner church to this program for many years, supporting it financially, providing volunteers, and donating food and supplies. Our week to help with this summer literacy program is July 19-22 (Monday-Thursday) at First UMC Bedford. Volunteers can sign up to help read with the kids (10 a.m. - 12 p.m.), play outside games/activities with the kids (1-2 p.m.), help provide snacks & lunches, drive meals, and/or donate food sacks. All reading volunteers must be vaccinated and youth (ages 13 & up) must come with their parent. Also, all reading volunteers must attend a short Sunday afternoon orientation before your week to serve. We hope you can join in with us to help make this a great week for all involved! Please feel free to sign up for one shift or to help with the kids every day!! Volunteers will meet each day at First United Methodist Church in Bedford (1245 Bedford Road). Please park in back of the church near the Project Transformation sign. Hope you can sign up to be a part of this wonderful outreach! Any questions? Please contact Dedra at dedradim@gmail.com. Thanks so much for helping to reach out to families in our area and help these kids succeed in school! WC Neighbor Food Drive
Thank you so much for donating food this past year! In addition to our regular drive for the month of June, we will also be collecting specifically for Project Transformation, the Central Texas United Methodist Conference Literacy program. Sacks of food will be given weekly to the families in the program to help supplement their food needs. The church's week to help is July 19—22. We will be supplying reading volunteers, food, and other supplies. Please check out our website to sign up to help! Please place all food donations in the blue cart located outside the Administration Building or in the main concourse, inside the east welcome doors (M-Th, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., F 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. & Sunday mornings). Any food is welcome, but if you would like to contribute to the Project Transformation needs, please choose from the list below. Thanks so much!! FOOD FOCUS for Project Transformation (no glass jars please!) Couscous (16 oz. bag/box) Saltine Crackers (16 oz. box) Instant Potatoes (26 oz. box) Red Lentils (16 oz. bag/box) Peanut Butter (16 oz. jar) Applesauce (24 oz. jar) Jelly (20+ oz. jar) Bouillon Cubes (3.5 oz. jar) 
Cooking With Care at Ronald McDonald House
Second and third Monday of each month | 10 a.m. to Noon Pre-pandemic, teams went to the Ronald McDonald House the second and third Monday of each month to cook for families of Cook Children's. Currently, we are purchasing box lunches and delivering them to the Ronald McDonald House. For seven years, our Cooking with Care team has served on the second and third Mondays of each month at Ronald McDonald House in Fort Worth. Our wonderful volunteers prepare and cook wholesome meals for the families at Cook. Please contact Susan Gregg for more information. Volunteer at Angels’ Attic
Angels' Attic is a volunteer-run White's Chapel ministry supporting local and global charities through the sale of donated merchandise. Angels’ Attic Upscale Resale, located at 1250 William D. Tate Ave., Suite 350, in Grapevine Towne Center, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Men and women are needed as volunteers to sort donations and ready them for display, test electronics, pick up and deliver furniture, research prices, repair furniture, display and stage merchandise, and greet and wait on customers. Volunteers may work regular weekly 2 hour shifts or substitute as needed. Volunteer opportunities can be tailored to fit your schedule. Contact Angels' Attic to schedule volunteer hours, call them at 817-251-9451 or simply show up when you have the time.
Kids & Crayons School Supply Ministry
When: July - August Every year, WC collects school supplies for school at risk in Tarrant County, which includes our new adopt-a-school O.H. Stowe Elementary. Supplies go to students of all ages. There are two opportunities to serve: packing the supplies, and delivering the supplies to schools. Book Drive
When: May The congregation is asked to bring gently used or new books during May to provide for Project Transformation summer literacy project. There are 2 opportunities to serve: (1) packing the books and (2) delivering them to schools. Spring Break Mission Activities
When: Spring Break Outreach for a day(s) during Spring Break providing activities for families to do. Super Saturday of Service
When: 6-8 times a year One Saturday is designed for service, whether packing Thanksgiving boxes or hygiene items, or cleaning out flower beds for the elderly. Families or individuals can serve. Neighbor Helping Neighbor
When: As Needed We have families that need additional help, like a little extra food, need their flower gardens cleaned, their small apartments cleaned, just a little act of kindness needed. Thanksgiving Baskets
When: November There are two opportunities to serve: packing the food boxes, and delivering the food to locals. Communion offering is typically taken the first Sunday of November and funds contributed are used to buy the food to pack for those in need. Rise Against Hunger
When: As Needed There are 2 opportunities to serve, (1) pack food boxes for local families in need and (2) delivery of these food boxes. Angel Forest
Contact: Bridget Davis and Martha Reukema When: November - December The annual Angel Tree Forest will once again adorn the corridors beginning Nov. 1. Each tree will represent angels from specific groups in crisis, allowing people to focus on a particular area of outreach that they are passionate about. A new online component will be added this year to accommodate those not able to physically come to the church to select an ‘angel.’ Those interested in sorting or delivering gifts can sign up at the Missions desk, located in the concourse area. Individuals can also email Martha Reukema or Bridget Davis. Soldier Ministry
Contact: Susan Tanner When: Monthly As part of its many mission and ministry programs, White's Chapel has a Soldier Ministry that has been in operation for more than 20 years. Started to support our soldiers from White’s Chapel, it has expanded to reach thousands of soldiers nationwide by sending care packages filled with phone cards, hand-made cards from WC kids and adults, letters, Bibles, toiletries and food (among many other things). The packages raise morale and let them know that our soldiers are not forgotten! Even though the "war" is officially over, there are still more than 170,000 troops deployed overseas, and we are still losing lives. With the current situation, soldiers' deployments are being extended and they are without supplies to last. Also, there are many soldiers being deployed here at home to help on the COVID front lines where they are fighting a very different kind of battle. You can help let our troops know that they are STILL not forgotten by donating items or helping to pack boxes. Donation items can be placed in the donation box by Wesley Cafe. Contact Susan Tanner with any questions or to help! Filling the Gap (Backpack Ministry)
Contact: Glen Bradshaw When: End of September through end of school year. Food is ordered each week and picked up from Tom Thumb on Monday and brought to church for packing on Tuesday. Volunteers take tubs of food on Thursday to school and teams go on Friday to stuff backpacks. Teams are for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and then 5th Friday when it occurs. Serving with LOVE
When: Monthly Every second Saturday of the month, we travel to the Women and Children’s Shelter in Fort Worth to serve dinner, play games with the children and moms and engage in conversation with them. Meet at the church at 4:30 for briefing: we are typically finished by 6:30-6:45. Families are welcome but children must be at least eight years of age and accompanied by parents. UMCOR - Early Response Disaster Recovery Team
Contact: Carey Cochrell When: As Needed Volunteers go through an extensive eight-hour training by UMCOR on how to assist in the event of a natural, or man-made disaster. Teams are called to serve when we receive notice by the Central Texas Conference Coordinator. Teams typically serve three to four days at a time. Dirty Dozen + YOU
Leader: Chris Rowley When: As Needed Join this exceptional group of men that are the hands and feet of Christ. They remodel and repair apartments, homes, and are literally the hands and feet of Christ as they serve as they are able. All different kinds of opportunities are available during the week and weekend. You are sent a text and if you can help, simply respond. If not, that’s ok. There is always the next time! Mary & Marthas + YOU
Leader: Martha Reukema When: As Needed Join this exceptional group of ladies that are the hands and feet of Christ. From running an errand for an elderly person, helping stock a clothes closet, decorating, cooking, gardening, administrative skills, writing letters - there is an opportunity for you! Help when you are available in any ministry area that appeals to you. A text will be sent out and you can respond if you are available to help. If you can’t, there is always next time! We have several mission trips throughout the year. Some of these are international trips and some of them like the Spring Break Family Mission Trip are within the United States but still outside of the state of Texas.
Spring Break Family Mission Trip
Annually typically in March During spring break, families (children six years of age and older) have the opportunity to serve through the U.S. together for six to seven days to help others in need. Past locations have included Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, and more. Trips include worship, game nights and a fun excursion day. Puerto Rico Building Mission Trip
This is our first mission trip as a church to Puerto Rico. There is still much need in the rebuilding of the local communities after the latest hurricane. We will work with UMCOR as Volunteers in Mission on damaged homes in the hardest hit areas. Costa Rica Bible Home Mission Trip
The mission of the Roblealto Bible Home is to care for the children of Costa Rica who are in critical situations, at social risk or in need of specialized care. The Bible Home provides these children with a safe home that they live in with house parents and other children. There are 10 homes and a school on site. We are there for whatever the Roblealto family needs, be it construction, painting, landscaping, or even nail sorting! We call this trip Mission Trip 101 as it is not too rustic and there is a job for everyone. And the children are so special! Guatemala Stove Building Mission Trip
Can you imagine cooking all of your meals over a campfire on the ground in an enclosed sod house? Join our mission team on our trip to Chichicastenago, Guatemala, where we will work in a local village and build cooking stoves. Current campfires cause tremendous health concerns for the women and children in terms of smoke inhalation and accidental falls into the fire. We work with experienced local stove builders and the families to build cooking stoves -- where we’ll sift sand, haul bricks and blocks, and get a chance to play with the children. Support Only
Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital in Nepal WC has provided funding through communion offerings for the building of a children's wing at the hospital and provided medical supplies, food and clothing when needed. |
Meet the Pastor
Rev. Sterling Smith
Evangelism, Missions and Involvement Rev. Sterling Smith was born and raised in Little Rock, AR. He and his family relocated to Southlake in July 1995, and joined White’s Chapel after their very first visit. Smith has been married for 30 years to the love of his life, Susan. They have three adult children: Jake, Lucy, and Sam.
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