MISSION MINISTRY
There are many ways to serve at FUMC Georgetown. You can serve in any of our ministry areas: Children, Youth, Adult Discipleship, Music, and Worship arts. If you are looking for more outward facing opportunities, our Mission & Outreach team can help you find a place to serve. We have several Mission Ministries that are primarily run by our own church members, and other partner organizations that we support financially and with volunteers.
For more information about these and other opportunities, email missions@fumcgt.org.
INTERNAL MISSIONS
UMCOR Disaster Relief and Recovery
Disaster Relief and Recovery is dedicated to providing critical support and assistance in the wake of emergencies. When disaster strikes, United Methodists have a long legacy of helping their neighbors and communities, and this team continues that tradition by site clean-up, home repairs, resources, and compassion to those affected.
For more information or to volunteer, email DisasterRelief@fumcgt.org or call (512) 863-2370.
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CLICK HERE to learn more about this mission.
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Georgetown Helpers
Georgetown Helpers is an all-volunteer service group made up of men and women of our church, providing minor home maintenance and repair services with a key focus on safety issues in the home. Most of our work supports seniors and those with disabilities.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Jim Ruth at GeorgetownHelpers@gmail.com
Project Transformation
Project Transformation is a summer literacy camp for children in our community. It operates M-TH, during the months of June and July. We need people to provide breakfasts and lunches each day, as well as readers who can sit with children, while they read, between the hours of 10am and noon each day.
For more information or to volunteer, contact children@fumcgt.org.
Quail Valley Neighborhood Ministry
The Quail Valley Neighborhood Ministry focused on providing meaningful recreation and social opportunities for kids and families within the greatest area of need, the Annie Purl Elementary attendance zone. We provide monthly social opportunities, meals, and other events each month. All events are located at the corner of Quail Valley and Katy Lane unless noted.
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For more information or to volunteer, contact bobkalka@gmail.com or sign up HERE.
PALS Place
PALS Place (Patience And Loving Support) is a ministry of FUMC Georgetown to our members as well as the Georgetown community. The ministry offers four hours of respite care on Mondays to persons who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. The time away also gives needed rest to the spouse or other caregiver.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Kathy Pena at care@fumcgt.org.
Micah Workers
The mission of the FUMC Georgetown Micah Workers is to provide scriptural and historical education about justice to inspire and encourage involvement in creating God’s beloved community.
For more information, email Missions@fumcgt.org.
FUMC Benevolence Fund
Our FUMC Benevolence Fund provides temporary financial aid for basic needs such as food and utilities for people in crisis.
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Getsemani Community Garden
Getsemani Garden, founded in 2012, is operated at our Getsemani property at 412 E. 19th St. The community garden grows food for those in need, offers neighbors a place to garden, and provides lessons on how to garden. Volunteers meet Tuesday and Friday mornings at the garden, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM.
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For more information please contact missions@fumcgt.org.
FUMC Blessing Bags
Each Thanksgiving, our Open Table College Ministry works to collect and distribute Thanksgiving Meals to local families in need.
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For more information or to volunteer, contact Kenny@fumcgt.org
EXTERNAL PARTNERS
Education Connection
Education Connection has a mission to have every child reading by the end of 3rd grade. Volunteers meet with one child once a week to help them improve their reading skills. We provide over 25 volunteers each year, to our neighborhood school, Annie Purl Elementary.
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For more information or to volunteer, visit https://www.education-connection.org
Faith in Action
Faith in Action Georgetown is a non-profit organization helping seniors maintain their independence and quality of life. Volunteers are needed to provide transportation to medical appointments, grocery stores and various other errands.
For more information or to volunteer, visit https://www.faithinactiongt.org/volunteer
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Sleep in Heavenly Peace builds and delivers free beds to families with children who do not have a place of their own to sleep. Their mission is simple: "No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town!"
For more information or to volunteer, contact Ben Lake at ben.lake@shpbeds.org
The Wesleyan Senior Healthcare
The Wesleyan Volunteers utilize their skills and talents to nourish the mind, body, and spirit of those who call The Wesleyan home. From providing personal companionship to grounds beautification, there are ample service opportunities for individuals, church congregations, civic groups, and local businesses.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Life Enrichment Director Carly Gurgin at Carly.Gurgian@wesleyanhomes.org
UMCOR- National
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is the global humanitarian relief agency of The United Methodist Church, responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises around the world. Through UMCOR, FUMC supports this work by sending financial gifts, relief supplies, and trained volunteers, helping bring immediate aid and long-term recovery to communities in need, without regard to race, religion, or background.
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For more information, email missions@fumcgt.org
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Backpack Buddies
Backpack Buddies is a volunteer organization that provides food each weekend to food-insecure students. There are approximately 110 volunteers from 10 Georgetown area churches that pack food bags for all the Georgetown ISD schools—currently over 900 bags per week. For more information or to volunteer, contact info@georgetownbackpackbuddies.org
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For more information or to volunteer, contact info@georgetownbackpackbuddies.org
The Caring Place
The Caring Place has provided for the basic human needs of all people in our community since 1985 in a welcoming, respectful and caring way. With the help of FUMCGT and other churches, The Caring Place is a community-based, community-supported, and community-serving organization.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Rita Turner at rturner@caringplacetx.org.
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ZOE Empowers
Our church supports several community groups in Rwanda, through ZOE Empowers. This ministry equips orphaned children and youth-led families with solutions to overcome extreme poverty—for good. Through this three-year educational experience, the youth learn trades, human rights, healthcare, and more. At the end of the three years, these youth are self-sufficient with the skills to take care of their families.
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For more information on how you can support these youth, email missions@fumcgt.org.
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CLICK HERE to learn more about our ZOE Empowers Ministry.
Isaiah 117 House
Isaiah 177 House provides physical and emotional support in a safe and loving home for children awaiting placement. The mission of Isaiah 117 House is threefold: reducing trauma for children awaiting placement, lightening the load for child welfare services, and easing the transition for foster families. They need volunteers to offer support and care for the children on a short term basis.
For more information, please contact missions@fumcgt.org.
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels is a senior nutrition program that provides hot, nutritious noontime meals to local seniors in need, Monday through Friday. Volunteers deliver meals to homebound seniors, and offering in-person meals in a congregate setting for seniors who can get out and about in the community.
For more information or to volunteer, owbc-tx.org/volunteer or call (512) 763-1400.
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Texas Ramp Project
Texas Ramp Project is a nonprofit that provides handicapped ramps for low-income adults and children with disabilities as identified by local healthcare providers. We have regular build dates and can use volunteers of all abilities.
For more information please contact Larry Baird at baird102746@gmail.com.
Carver Center for Families
Carver Center for Families is a family resource center (FRC) that nurtures the health and well-being of children, youth, and families, and builds on the strengths of our community’s parents, caregivers, and residents, as well as the organizations that support them.
For more information for to volunteer, visit https://carvercenterforfamilies.org.
Helping Hands of Georgetown
Helping Hands of Georgetown is a mobile food pantry dedicated to breaking down barriers to essential resources in our community. We provide crucial food support to those in need, ensuring that everyone in Georgetown has access to nutritious meals.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Sasha Christensen at Executive@helpinghandsgtx.org
Dress a Girl (or Boy)
If you like to sew, we have a group of seamstresses who meet monthly to create dresses for girls across the world. As part of Hope 4 Women International, Dress A Girl groups dream of a world in which every girl has at least one new dress. We want girls to know that they are worthy of respect, and that they are loved by God.
For more information contact missions@fmcmgt.org or visit https://www.dressagirlaroundtheworld.com/
Kairos
Kairos is an non-denominational organization that provides a 4 day experience in prisons, designed to start building the Christian community inside the institution, and help inmates begin to build a better life. It takes a team of folks both inside and outside the prisons to make these events happen 2X/year.
For more information, please contact Gary Buchler at gbhawkeye@icloud.com.
Camp Sunshine
Camp Sunshine is a week-long New Mexico Conference camp for physically and/or mentally challenged adults aged 16-60+. The mission team assists in providing a safe, loving, fun Christian environment where campers can be themselves leaving behind the stress of societal expectations. The camp takes place in late July or early August each year, in Sacramento, New Mexico.
For more information or to volunteer, contact care@fumcgt.org.