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If you can help serve in any of the following areas with our outreach ministries, please indicate your interest below so we can get you connected! Please contact us with any questions.
Ways to Serve
Camp Hope Dinners
Each month, a group of volunteers gathers to cook a meal that will be delivered and served at Camp Hope. This is a great way to give back to our veterans and show our appreciation for all they have done. If you would like to get involved with Camp Hope, please click the link below to learn about the upcoming ways you can volunteer.
Ongoing Outreach Donation Needs
We are always in need of the following supplies to hand out to the organizations around Houston we support. Please consider purchasing any of the following items, and dropping them off at the east entrance of the main campus. Or, shop our Amazon wish list and have the items delivered directly to the church. Contact us with any questions!
Items in need: peanut butter; tuna pouches; individually packaged chips, crackers, granola bars, breakfast bars, snacks, cookies; dried beans; rice; juice boxes; pasta and pasta sauce; any full-size toiletries (shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, etc).; full-size blankets
Upcoming ways to serve
FAM Farm Partnership
Upcoming farm days:
Saturday, October 26 | 9 AM - 12 PM
Saturday, November 9 | 9 AM - 12 PM
Saturday, December 7 | 9 AM - 12 PM
Saturday, January 11 | 9 AM -12 PM
Shamba Ya Amani (“the Farm of Peace” in Swahili) is located in the Alief area and directed by FAM’s Women’s Empowerment Group. Members of this group work together each Saturday, along with volunteers, to plant, maintain, and harvest community rows as well as individual family beds. Shamba is also home to a number of beehives that are tended by mothers and youth in the FAM community. MDUMC serves alongside the women of Shamba Ya Amani at least one Saturday each month! To sign up for an upcoming Farm Day, click the button below.
Upcoming in 2024
Mission Trip Opportunities
Belize | October 2-6, 2024
MDUMC is forming a team to serve this fall in San Pedro, Belize! Our team will be returning to Hope Haven Children’s shelter for construction work, and to spend time with the shelter’s children (read more here: hopehavenbelize.org). San Pedro is a beautiful island filled with lots of opportunities to explore and is a short trip from Houston. Please reach out to Linda Jenkins at 214-641-3835 or lindajenkins@mdumc.org for more information.
Contact KellyWilliams@mdumc.org for information on any of the trips.
MDUMC GRANT APPLICATION INFORMATION
MDUMC annually awards grants to support organizations that help address children's issues, homelessness, job insecurity, hunger, and more. Nonprofit organizations affiliated with Memorial Drive United Methodist Church through outreach activities, funding, or volunteer participation receive priority consideration. Grantees must apply annually; multi-year requests are not considered. The grant application window is open from May – July every year. The 2025 grantapplication will be posted here in April 2025. Questions? Contact KellyWilliams@mdumc.org
MDUMC offers many opportunities for outreach, including our missions program. Missioners are sent throughout the US, and around the world, showing love for God and neighbor by reaching into the community to help those in need.
Please contact us with any questions.
GLOBAL MISSIONS
Missions are transformative, and it is impossible to return home unchanged. Serving alongside others and seeing injustice in our world fosters a need to tell the story of our experience and expose the issues affecting our neighbors. If you are prepared to say yes, God will use you to change lives, build the Church, and impact communities around the world. Missions are part of the faith journey of the entire church, not just those who are physically able to make the journey. There’s a place for anyone to become active in missions by serving on a team, giving generously to missions, and most importantly, supporting our teams and those they serve with prayer.
“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.”