Serve: Local
Austin Street Shelter – is a shelter in Dallas that serves the area homeless. FUMC Coppell has been faithfully providing food for this ministry for the homeless in Dallas every Saturday morning since 1992.
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Saturdays at 4:15 am we provide sandwiches, boiled eggs, and fruit to the shelter
- Christmas morning at 4:15 am we provide hot breakfast to the shelter
- various other collections for the shelter are made throughout the year
Church contact: Cindy Warner, warner.family@verizon.net
Website: www.austinstreet.org
Christ’s Foundry - is a mission church of the North Texas Conference located in a densely populated Spanish-speaking immigrant community north of Love Field in Dallas.
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Bring food to their children’s program
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Angel Tree for children at Christmas
Church contact: Jerry Alexander, jerry.Alexander@utdallas.edu
Website: www.christsfoundry.org
Christian Community Action (CCA) - is an agency in Lewisville that ministers to the poor by feeding, educating, and training families in need. FUMC Coppell supports this agency through donations of clothing, books and small appliances.
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Paper and Prayers
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Summer Kids Eat Free Program with Boys and Girls Club
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Christmas Angel Tree - provides toys to CCA store
Church contact: Jana Alexander, jana.alexander@fluor.com
Website: www.ccahelps.org
Habitat for Humanity - provides a pathway for harworking, low income families to realize their dreams of owning a home. As a church, we have built 25 walls in our parking lot to be used in Habitat for Humanity houses throughout Dallas County.
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teams gathr together to work on homes
Church contact: Sharla Myers, dcm59@aol.com
Website: www.dallas-habitat.org
Project Transformation - provides leadership development to college age young adults and communit
y programs for children in low income areas of North Texas.
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FUMC Coppell participates in two reading weeks during the summer at a site
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Provides meals for summer interns twice during the summer months.
Reading dates: June 7th-10th and July 19th-22nd, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm at Chapel Hill UMC.
Dinner for interns: June 13th and July 18th
Church contact: Judy White, thewhites12@verizon.net
Website: www.projecttransformation.org
For more information about any of these programs, contact our Mission Chairs: Keith and Leslie Hicks at lhicks@sabrerealty.com or Rev. Ashleigh Joyner at ajoyner@fumccoppell.org.