Benevolence Assistance
Clients are eligible for financial assistance every 6 months to help with utilities and other essentials.

Food Pantry
Clients can get food assistance every month.  Open every other Saturday.

Clothes Closet
Women’s clothing of all sizes and styles are available as well as accessories at no charge.  Open every Wednesday from 4:00pm – 6:00pm.

Meals on Wheels
FUMC program staff and individual church members particpate in delivering meals and checking on homebound residents.

Habitat for Humanity
An international organization through which volunteers, in cooperation with qualifying families, build affordable homes for the those in substandard housing.  Members of FUMC have been actively involved in Habitat from its inception in the late 1990’s.

Tree House After School Program
Free after school care for children of qualifying families, ages kindergarten through fourth grade.

Stepping Stones Day School
Private school offering three year old nursery school, four year old preschool and five year old kindergarten.

Ministry to the Homebound
The Homebound Committee provides regular visits to the homebound with communion served on a quarterly basis.

Devotion services are offered each 4th Sunday at Castleview and Stephenville Nursing Homes – 3:30 – 4:00pm and 4:00-4:30pm respectively.

The St. Nicholas program is a Christmas program sponsored by the Homebound Committee and the Children’s Department. The local nursing homes provide the names of residents and their needs. Church members are given the opportunity to select names and send gift items for the nursing home Christmas parties.

UMW (United Methodist Women)
The UMW is a mission-oriented organization through which women learn of world issues and missional needs worldwide and respond with support both locally and around the world. Our UMW unit features three women’s circle– Maggie Poteet, Bertha Cox and Magdalene Women.  Upcoming meeting times and places may be obtained through the newsletter or the church office.

School Supply Benevolence – The UMW raises money at a city-wide baked potato lunch to purchase school supplies for families in Stephenville who cannot afford them. Families pre-register to receive an assembled supply kit for their children in August. Pre-registration dates and distribution day vary.

UMM (United Methodist Men)
The UMM is an organization through which men in the church work together to support benevolent causes and to benefit the church.

Monthly Breakfast – UMM has a breakfast meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 6:30am in the Fellowship Hall. They share fellowship (and good food!) and discuss how they can be active to help the church with special projects, or what benevolent causes need their support.

The UMM also have a fundraiser breakfast every 5th Sunday for different projects and missions taking place in the church.  A few examples of causes the UMM have supported are Habitat for Humanity, Aldersgate Enrichment Center for challenged people in Early, Texas, and the AIDS Orphanage in Kenya.

The UMM has work days several times a year to do special projects around the church campus, or at the Tarleton State University Wesley Foundation.