Projects offering opportunities to make a difference year-round:
Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County
Habitat for Humanity
Hearts for Home
Meals on Wheels
North Texas Conference Disaster Project
The Nelson Center
Our Daily Bread
Salvation Army Shelter
Projects offering an opportunity to make a difference by supporting periodic appeals and events:
Argyle Food Bank
Blood Drive
Health Services of North Texas
Methodist Children's Home
School Packs for Kids
UMCOR
Argyle Food Bank
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The Argyle Food Bank is located within First Baptist Church Argyle and has volunteers from Argyle United Methodist Church, Church of Christ, Cross Timbers Community Church, Faith Harvest Church and First Baptist Church Argyle. Each church also contributes by hosting food drives throughout theyear. AUMC conducts two food drives each year, with each drive supplying a one-month inventory of supplies (2,000 lbs.). Of course, donations of non-perishable supplies are accepted at any time of the year. Paul Lumpkins, at 940-464-7224, may be contacted with question regarding donations and assistance. Melissa Miller at 972-742-4614, is the AUMC contact person.
Blood Drive
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What better way to give to others than by donating life-giving blood?Watch for periodic announcements of blood drives sponsored by AUMC. For more information or to volunteer to help coordinate a drive please contact Dian Darr at 940-262-3020.
Children's Advocacy Center of Denton County
(back to top)Mission: To provide justice and healing for abused children through interagency collaboration.
Our criminal and civil justice systems (designed for adults) can inadvertently add to the suffering of child abuse victims and their families through lack of coordination and cooperationamong the agencies involved in this process. http://www.cacdc.org/
AUMC provides volunteer support and raises funds for the Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County. For additional information please contact Don Pooley at 940-262-0109.Disaster Recovery Mission Trips
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Disaster Recovery is a non-profit volunteer organization that is working to help the people whose homes are still damaged due to hurricanes. As a partner with UMCOR, Disaster Recovery's mission is to help repair homes to those individuals that were uninsured, under-insured, or under-assisted. For more information go to http://www.umcortexas.com/Habitat for Humanity
(back to top)Habitat for Humanity of Denton County works in partnership with God and people, from all walks of life.
Habitat houses are built by volunteers with donated funds and materials and then sold to deserving families with no-interest mortgages. For more information about Habitat for Humanity see http://www.hfhdentoncounty.org/.
AUMC provides volunteers and financial support for HFHDC.Health Services of North Texas
(back to top)Health Services of North Texas, Inc (HSNT), is an organization that is continuing to evolve to meet the needs of low-income, medically underserved individuals in North Texas. The acquisition of the Denton Guardianship Program and The People's Clinic has opened HSNT's services to wide array of underserved persons living in Denton County.
Denton County currently carries a Governor's Designation as a Medically Underserved Area. With only the HSNT Community Clinic and the Health Department, there are serious gaps in access to health care that impact the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
HSNT cares for people who otherwise would have no place to go for affordable health care. For additional information on HSNT please contact Ron Aldridge, Ph.D.or go to www.healthntx.orgHearts for Homes
(back to top)Hearts for Homes is a Christian-based outreach ministry dedicated to providing no-cost home repairs to low-income elderly homeowners in Denton County. Learn more at www.heartsforhomes.org.
AUMC will provide funds, supplies and volunteers. Please contact Don Pooley at 940-262-0109.Meals on Wheels
(back to top)Meals On Wheels is a grassroots volunteer advocate for the elderly and those in need through home-delivered meals, senior center lunch and activity programs and other support services.
Many AUMC members regularly deliver meals to Argyle elderly and disabled. The food is important, however, the daily contact is even more important to many of these individuals. To learn how you can help please contact Becky Rogers at 940-367-4411.Methodist Children's Home
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Methodist Children's Home is a non-profit child care ministry affiliated with the seven United Methodist Annual Conferences of Texas andNew Mexico. Founded in 1890, the Home serves more than 1,000 children daily through residential care, a Boys Ranch, foster care and a college program.
Since the 1890's Methodist churches have generously contributed their Annual Christmas Offering as one source of financially support for the orphanage.The Nelson Center
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Run by Lutheran Social Services, the Nelson Children's Center providesresidential treatment to severely emotionally disturbed boys and girls, ages 6 to 15. AUMC provides volunteer mentors and volunteer services (VBS and haircuts) to the boys and girls at the Nelson Children's Center. To learn how you can help at the Nelson Children's Center contact Rebecca Laschinger at 940-262-2111.
Our Daily Bread
(back to top)Our Daily Bread, a soup kitchen, serves a noon meal at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Denton, Monday through Friday of each week. This broadly-based ecumenical endeavor, reaches out in Christ's name with people from diverse churches in the community.
AUMC members regularly volunteer with meal preparation and serving as well as donating food and supplies. To learn about how you can serve through this ministry please call Dana Bolin at 940-246-0245.Salvation Army Shelter
(back to top)Argyle UMC volunteers support the work of the Salvation Army by being bell-ringers at collection kettles during the Christmas season. Funds collected in these kettles support the Salvation Army homeless shelters. To volunteer please call Martha Callawayat 940-246-2266.
School Packs For Kids
(back to top)Each August AUMC members provide school supplies for under privileged students at Argyle ISD. Watch for announcement of the drive and the list of items needed.
For information and to help with the drive, sponsored by Footprints Bible Class, please contact Melissa Miller at 972-742-4614.UMCOR
(back to top)UMCOR is the humanitarian relief and development agency of the United Methodist Church. Compelled by Christ, UMCOR responds to natural or human made disasters—those interruptions of such magnitude that they overwhelm a community's ability to recover on its own. UMCOR's mission is to alleviate human suffering. We provide practical, proactive support to the most vulnerable survivors of chronic or temporary emergencies due to natural or civil causes.
One of the ways UMCOR responds to the needs in our country and around the world is by supplying cleaning and health supply kits to areas hit by tornado, hurricane, flooding and earthquake. AUMC members contribute these supplies for shipment to UMCOR Sager Brown Supply Depot in Louisiana.
Watch for the announcement of the next collection for our church. Please call Melissa Miller at 972-742-4614 for information.
The UMCOR Sager Brown Supply Depot in Louisiana offers volunteer opportunities for all ages to come to the center to assemble and pack the kits ready to ship to disaster areas around the world. Volunteers wishing to help in this way please contact Jane Kayler at 940-262-0393 for more information.
