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Discipleship
Missions
Wimberley UMC participates in Local, State, and International missions.
You do not have to be a member or active participant of the church to join us in missions. All are welcome.
WUMC participates in a variety of border missions
WUMC participated in a Rio Grande Valley Mission Opportunity helping needy families. Our host was Pastor Bob Clark ( formerly of Wimberley UMC) and the Pharr and San Juan UMCs. Volunteers served in a variety of ways. Work projects included general home repairs. The evangelism outreach distributed Bibles and food. The church ministries lead Bible studies, music programs, and VBS. The educational ministries conducted classes in life skills, sewing and crafts, English language, literacy. PHARR MISSION TRIP AUGUST 10-16, FAMILIES WELCOME, CONTACT GAYLA MCNEIL TO REGISTER!
Day Laborer Outreach (held once a month)
The Faith Meets Life Sunday School class invites all who are interested to join us in feeding breakfast to the day laborers who congregate outside of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Breakfast items, drinks, and assorted clothing items are always welcome. Please contact Marcus McMullin at 512-557-8118, or marcusmcmullin@hotmail.com.
Habitat for Humanity Volunteers Needed
Thursday-Saturday 8:30AM, 25 Lone Star Trail. For more information call Charlie Fleming 512-847-2184
International Missions
WUMC will attend a Costa Rica Mission this year with Manchaca United Methodist Church
Honduras Outreach International (HOI)
...our prayers are with HOI as they work to rebuild this program
In the Agalta Valley exists a small village of about 200 people who have come
to know and love the people of Wimberley and Dripping Springs. Wimberley UMC has in the past
adopted the village of La Concepcion. The adoption lasted for two years and provided for the
building of an official kindergarten, finishing out the houses in the village, providing water
connections, chimneys for cooking stoves, and cement floors. This adoption occurred after several
trips of yearly visits to the village.
".you have made friends for life." Juan Ramon, our driver for one of those weeks, made this remark to us as we were leaving the village of La Concepcion having finished our mission projects. "Friends for Life".that statement was the exclamation point to a truth to a bond of love and respect that had been growing between the village and us all week and that had culminated earlier that Thursday morning as we made ready to leave. It was a truth that we saw in the beaming eyes and voices of the village leaders as they individually thanked us for our service to their village. A truth we felt in the handshakes and hugs of gratitude from all the people of La Concepcion. A truth made manifest in the beautiful guitar playing of a blind grandfather and the voices of his daughter and granddaughter singing.
It was also a bond of love and a truth the villagers saw in our eyes and heard
in our voices as we sang "Amazing Grace" and other songs for them. It was a truth of love and
respect they felt in our hugs and handshakes for what they had given to us. And just what was it
these beautiful people gave to us? These people who do no have running water, electricity, or
bathrooms, who barely make $400 a year. What they gave to us is far greater in value than the
latrines we built for them. They opened their lives and way of life to us, they trusted us with
their children whom they dearly love and cherish. They gave us their respect. But most of all,
they gave us their love. We were strangers to them only once and then only for a few moments.from
then on we were friends for life.
Wimberley UMC took trips to Honduras for 7 years? We have lost count... During these seven years we invited Dripping Springs UMC to join us and have now handed off this mission to them, so that our members may still directly participate and so we can go and do new things as well. We are grateful for the support of the Wimberley community and of being able to work with our Brothers and Sisters in Christ in Dripping Springs.
HOI takes teams to a ranch in the Agalta Valley that supports over 70 villages. The teams then work in one of those villages for one week, putting in concrete floors, water connections, working in the school, providing medical attention, putting on metal roofs, and room additions.