Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

Starting out as a calling to share with Plano homeless and food insecure residents, following observations made by CRUMC members during the Point-in-Time Homeless Count, People Who Love People has grown and needs your help!  We share a meal with our friends near the Plano Day Labor Center every Monday and Thursday morning, as well as provide nonperishable food that can help during the week.  We also take care of other needs such as toiletries, clothing, conversation and prayers!

Come join the party and share the love of Jesus!  We gather in the corner of the DART parking lot, just south of the Day Labor Center located at 805 Ozark Drive.  We meet at 7:30am, serve and share fellowship, and we’re usually done by 8:15am.  Feel free to come to the site and see what’s going on, you’ll be hooked!

Would you like to donate?  Click on the sign-up genius link below for more information!  You can have donations delivered to the addresses listed or bring donations to the site.

Our friends constantly need the following:  men’s gently-used shirts and jeans/pants, belts, sneakers, boots, backpacks/tote bags and luggage with wheels.  They always need NEW underwear and socks, NEW work gloves, toiletry items, and snack items.  We also collect Bibles, Bible study workbooks, and devotionals in both English and Spanish.  Non-perishable food and new/gently-used clothing can be brought to the People Who Love People donation bin in the Mission Donation area.

For more information, please Like and follow us on Facebook: People Who Love People 

Go to the Sign-up Genius Link for more information and to sign-up to donate and order items needed 

Contact Susan Williams suzewill@yahoo.com, 972-345-4458 or Christie Varner at christie@varners.us, 214-862-3301 with questions.

Seniors Serving Seniors! Plain-O Helpers is a volunteer handyman service that assists seniors in Plano with minor home maintenance and repair, including installing assist bars in showers and installing wheelchair ramps.

Join us every Friday in room 204 when we meet from 8:30-9:30am.

Questions? Contact:
Call 469-366-4286 or visit www.plain-o-helpers.org or email plainohelpers@gmail.com.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

The PISD Head Start program is an exemplary preschool program for disadvantaged children. It’s located in Meadows Elementary in east Plano. Teachers have prepared packets listing the needs and wants of each child and their family members. We will sponsor 50 families for the holidays. Packets will be available on Sundays October 31 and November 7 in The Commons to sponsor a Head Start Student and their family for the holidays. Information regarding the family, a picture of the student, and detailed instructions will be included in the information packet. To help cover expenses for Thanksgiving, gift cards for a grocery store or Wal-Mart should be purchased and turned in to the school on Tuesday, November 18, between 7:00 am and 4:00pm.

Christmas gift drop-off for Custer Road is Wednesday, December 1, from 7:00 am to 4:00pm. Drop-offs days are very easy, school staff members stand by with carts to pick-up your clearly labeled bags of gifts.

This project is exciting for the entire family, and something that Custer Road families and Sunday school classes look forward to every year! It is a wonderful way to be the hands and feet of Christ for a family who may not feel joy during the holidays.

Questions? Contact Susan Williams at 972-345-4458, or suzewill@yahoo.com.

Starting out as a calling to share with Plano homeless and food insecure residents, following observations made by CRUMC members during the Point-in-Time Homeless Count, People Who Love People has grown and needs your help!  We share a meal with our friends near the Plano Day Labor Center every Monday and Thursday morning, as well as provide nonperishable food that can help during the week.  We also take care of other needs such as toiletries, clothing, conversation and prayers!

Come join the party and share the love of Jesus!  We gather in the corner of the DART parking lot, just south of the Day Labor Center located at 805 Ozark Drive.  We meet at 7:30am, serve and share fellowship, and we’re usually done by 8:15am.  Feel free to come to the site and see what’s going on, you’ll be hooked!

Would you like to donate?  Click on the sign-up genius link below for more information!  You can have donations delivered to the addresses listed or bring donations to the site.

Our friends constantly need the following:  men’s gently-used shirts and jeans/pants, belts, sneakers, boots, backpacks/tote bags and luggage with wheels.  They always need NEW underwear and socks, NEW work gloves, toiletry items, and snack items.  We also collect Bibles, Bible study workbooks, and devotionals in both English and Spanish.  Non-perishable food and new/gently-used clothing can be brought to the People Who Love People donation bin in the Mission Donation area.

For more information, please Like and follow us on Facebook: People Who Love People 

Go to the Sign-up Genius Link for more information and to sign-up to donate and order items needed 

Contact Susan Williams suzewill@yahoo.com, 972-345-4458 or Christie Varner at christie@varners.us, 214-862-3301 with questions.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

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Starting out as a calling to share with Plano homeless and food insecure residents, following observations made by CRUMC members during the Point-in-Time Homeless Count, People Who Love People has grown and needs your help!  We share a meal with our friends near the Plano Day Labor Center every Monday and Thursday morning, as well as provide nonperishable food that can help during the week.  We also take care of other needs such as toiletries, clothing, conversation and prayers!

Come join the party and share the love of Jesus!  We gather in the corner of the DART parking lot, just south of the Day Labor Center located at 805 Ozark Drive.  We meet at 7:30am, serve and share fellowship, and we’re usually done by 8:15am.  Feel free to come to the site and see what’s going on, you’ll be hooked!

Would you like to donate?  Click on the sign-up genius link below for more information!  You can have donations delivered to the addresses listed or bring donations to the site.

Our friends constantly need the following:  men’s gently-used shirts and jeans/pants, belts, sneakers, boots, backpacks/tote bags and luggage with wheels.  They always need NEW underwear and socks, NEW work gloves, toiletry items, and snack items.  We also collect Bibles, Bible study workbooks, and devotionals in both English and Spanish.  Non-perishable food and new/gently-used clothing can be brought to the People Who Love People donation bin in the Mission Donation area.

For more information, please Like and follow us on Facebook: People Who Love People 

Go to the Sign-up Genius Link for more information and to sign-up to donate and order items needed 

Contact Susan Williams suzewill@yahoo.com, 972-345-4458 or Christie Varner at christie@varners.us, 214-862-3301 with questions.

Seniors Serving Seniors! Plain-O Helpers is a volunteer handyman service that assists seniors in Plano with minor home maintenance and repair, including installing assist bars in showers and installing wheelchair ramps.

Join us every Friday in room 204 when we meet from 8:30-9:30am.

Questions? Contact:
Call 469-366-4286 or visit www.plain-o-helpers.org or email plainohelpers@gmail.com.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

Custer Road has a long-standing relationship with Christie and Thomas elementary schools at part of our Local School Ministry and our involvement with Spring Creek Village as these are two of the feeder schools for Spring Creek Village. Both schools are Title 1 schools and consequently have more than a few students whose families are in financial need. We have been in communication with the social workers at both Christie and Thomas who are thrilled that Custer Road is again able to provide some assistance to families this holiday season. These social workers are on campus and identify first-hand those students and families who may be struggling financially. They’ve created a packet that will be sent home with these students offering the families a bit of assistance. Each family is asked to list the names and ages of their children along with a “need” and a “want” item for each. Approximately sixty packets are being sent home with students. We will have the completed packets for those families who choose to be involved at a table in The Commons on 11/7 and at the Alternative Gift Market on 11/13 & 14. We are asking that gifts be purchased based on the packet for each child and gift cards be provided for the parents. There will be a drop-off date identified where all items must be returned to the school. Providing wrapping paper with your gifts is encouraged as everything will be given to the parents on a particular day – allowing the parents to wrap and give these gifts themselves if they choose. If you are not able to support an entire family but would like to contribute toward sponsorships, please donate to CRUMC online or by check and indicate “LSM Family Sponsorships”. If you have any questions, are interested in sponsoring a family but can’t get to the church during the Alternative Gift Market, please contact Laura Farley at lafarley@cisco.com or via text or call at 972-697-6371.

The PISD Head Start program is an exemplary preschool program for disadvantaged children. It’s located in Meadows Elementary in east Plano. Teachers have prepared packets listing the needs and wants of each child and their family members. We will sponsor 50 families for the holidays. Packets will be available on Sundays October 31 and November 7 in The Commons to sponsor a Head Start Student and their family for the holidays. Information regarding the family, a picture of the student, and detailed instructions will be included in the information packet. To help cover expenses for Thanksgiving, gift cards for a grocery store or Wal-Mart should be purchased and turned in to the school on Tuesday, November 18, between 7:00 am and 4:00pm.

Christmas gift drop-off for Custer Road is Wednesday, December 1, from 7:00 am to 4:00pm. Drop-offs days are very easy, school staff members stand by with carts to pick-up your clearly labeled bags of gifts.

This project is exciting for the entire family, and something that Custer Road families and Sunday school classes look forward to every year! It is a wonderful way to be the hands and feet of Christ for a family who may not feel joy during the holidays.

Questions? Contact Susan Williams at 972-345-4458, or suzewill@yahoo.com.

Starting out as a calling to share with Plano homeless and food insecure residents, following observations made by CRUMC members during the Point-in-Time Homeless Count, People Who Love People has grown and needs your help!  We share a meal with our friends near the Plano Day Labor Center every Monday and Thursday morning, as well as provide nonperishable food that can help during the week.  We also take care of other needs such as toiletries, clothing, conversation and prayers!

Come join the party and share the love of Jesus!  We gather in the corner of the DART parking lot, just south of the Day Labor Center located at 805 Ozark Drive.  We meet at 7:30am, serve and share fellowship, and we’re usually done by 8:15am.  Feel free to come to the site and see what’s going on, you’ll be hooked!

Would you like to donate?  Click on the sign-up genius link below for more information!  You can have donations delivered to the addresses listed or bring donations to the site.

Our friends constantly need the following:  men’s gently-used shirts and jeans/pants, belts, sneakers, boots, backpacks/tote bags and luggage with wheels.  They always need NEW underwear and socks, NEW work gloves, toiletry items, and snack items.  We also collect Bibles, Bible study workbooks, and devotionals in both English and Spanish.  Non-perishable food and new/gently-used clothing can be brought to the People Who Love People donation bin in the Mission Donation area.

For more information, please Like and follow us on Facebook: People Who Love People 

Go to the Sign-up Genius Link for more information and to sign-up to donate and order items needed 

Contact Susan Williams suzewill@yahoo.com, 972-345-4458 or Christie Varner at christie@varners.us, 214-862-3301 with questions.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

Starting out as a calling to share with Plano homeless and food insecure residents, following observations made by CRUMC members during the Point-in-Time Homeless Count, People Who Love People has grown and needs your help!  We share a meal with our friends near the Plano Day Labor Center every Monday and Thursday morning, as well as provide nonperishable food that can help during the week.  We also take care of other needs such as toiletries, clothing, conversation and prayers!

Come join the party and share the love of Jesus!  We gather in the corner of the DART parking lot, just south of the Day Labor Center located at 805 Ozark Drive.  We meet at 7:30am, serve and share fellowship, and we’re usually done by 8:15am.  Feel free to come to the site and see what’s going on, you’ll be hooked!

Would you like to donate?  Click on the sign-up genius link below for more information!  You can have donations delivered to the addresses listed or bring donations to the site.

Our friends constantly need the following:  men’s gently-used shirts and jeans/pants, belts, sneakers, boots, backpacks/tote bags and luggage with wheels.  They always need NEW underwear and socks, NEW work gloves, toiletry items, and snack items.  We also collect Bibles, Bible study workbooks, and devotionals in both English and Spanish.  Non-perishable food and new/gently-used clothing can be brought to the People Who Love People donation bin in the Mission Donation area.

For more information, please Like and follow us on Facebook: People Who Love People 

Go to the Sign-up Genius Link for more information and to sign-up to donate and order items needed 

Contact Susan Williams suzewill@yahoo.com, 972-345-4458 or Christie Varner at christie@varners.us, 214-862-3301 with questions.

Seniors Serving Seniors! Plain-O Helpers is a volunteer handyman service that assists seniors in Plano with minor home maintenance and repair, including installing assist bars in showers and installing wheelchair ramps.

Join us every Friday in room 204 when we meet from 8:30-9:30am.

Questions? Contact:
Call 469-366-4286 or visit www.plain-o-helpers.org or email plainohelpers@gmail.com.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

Annual Alternative Gift Market for Missions Returns in November-get your Christmas shopping done early!

Christmas is meant to be celebrated, not regretted! We all want our Christmas to be a lot of things. Full of joy. Memories. Happiness. Above all, we want it to be about Jesus. What we don’t want is stress. Or debt. Or feeling like we “missed the moment”. Tired of giving dust-catchers? Do you ever see your loved one wear the shirt you gave them? Want to avoid the crowds at the malls? You can do all of this by giving a meaningful mission gift to your loved one AND giving a gift to someone in need. Christmas is a season of gratitude for gifts, especially the gift of Jesus from our loving God. We seek to imitate God in our gift-giving at this time of year. This Christmas consider giving a different kind of gift, a gift that gives twice. Give to your loved one, a bowl holder, soup, a certificate for clean water or to support Bed Start. Purchase soup and donate it to one of our Missions! When you do, your gift helps someone in need – a hungry family or a struggling child. Your giving can transform the world! Join us at the annual Alternative Gift Market for Missions, on November 13, 9am-Noon and November 14, 9am-12:30 pm in The Commons.
Our Alternative Gift Market will have mission gifts available from:

Agape Resource & Assistance Center
Bed Start
Buckner Peru-NEW IN 2021!
Christ’s Foundry Tamales
Equal Exchange Items
Heifer International
Living Water International
Project Transformation
UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief)
UMW Soups benefiting God’s Pantry and UMCOR
27 & Oak (Buckner International)-NEW IN 2021!

Cash, Check and Credit Card payment available and cash/check is preferred.
Purchase gift cards for Agape, Bed Start and Family Sponsorships from Revelation Scrip.
Volunteers will be needed to serve as cashiers & certificate writers. Sign-up through Sign-up Genius on the church website. Contact Stephanie Mills at smills@crumc.org with questions.

Custer Road has a long-standing relationship with Christie and Thomas elementary schools at part of our Local School Ministry and our involvement with Spring Creek Village as these are two of the feeder schools for Spring Creek Village. Both schools are Title 1 schools and consequently have more than a few students whose families are in financial need. We have been in communication with the social workers at both Christie and Thomas who are thrilled that Custer Road is again able to provide some assistance to families this holiday season. These social workers are on campus and identify first-hand those students and families who may be struggling financially. They’ve created a packet that will be sent home with these students offering the families a bit of assistance. Each family is asked to list the names and ages of their children along with a “need” and a “want” item for each. Approximately sixty packets are being sent home with students. We will have the completed packets for those families who choose to be involved at a table in The Commons on 11/7 and at the Alternative Gift Market on 11/13 & 14. We are asking that gifts be purchased based on the packet for each child and gift cards be provided for the parents. There will be a drop-off date identified where all items must be returned to the school. Providing wrapping paper with your gifts is encouraged as everything will be given to the parents on a particular day – allowing the parents to wrap and give these gifts themselves if they choose. If you are not able to support an entire family but would like to contribute toward sponsorships, please donate to CRUMC online or by check and indicate “LSM Family Sponsorships”. If you have any questions, are interested in sponsoring a family but can’t get to the church during the Alternative Gift Market, please contact Laura Farley at lafarley@cisco.com or via text or call at 972-697-6371.

Custer Road has a long-standing relationship with Christie and Thomas elementary schools at part of our Local School Ministry and our involvement with Spring Creek Village as these are two of the feeder schools for Spring Creek Village. Both schools are Title 1 schools and consequently have more than a few students whose families are in financial need. We have been in communication with the social workers at both Christie and Thomas who are thrilled that Custer Road is again able to provide some assistance to families this holiday season. These social workers are on campus and identify first-hand those students and families who may be struggling financially. They’ve created a packet that will be sent home with these students offering the families a bit of assistance. Each family is asked to list the names and ages of their children along with a “need” and a “want” item for each. Approximately sixty packets are being sent home with students. We will have the completed packets for those families who choose to be involved at a table in The Commons on 11/7 and at the Alternative Gift Market on 11/13 & 14. We are asking that gifts be purchased based on the packet for each child and gift cards be provided for the parents. There will be a drop-off date identified where all items must be returned to the school. Providing wrapping paper with your gifts is encouraged as everything will be given to the parents on a particular day – allowing the parents to wrap and give these gifts themselves if they choose. If you are not able to support an entire family but would like to contribute toward sponsorships, please donate to CRUMC online or by check and indicate “LSM Family Sponsorships”. If you have any questions, are interested in sponsoring a family but can’t get to the church during the Alternative Gift Market, please contact Laura Farley at lafarley@cisco.com or via text or call at 972-697-6371.

Annual Alternative Gift Market for Missions Returns in November-get your Christmas shopping done early!

Christmas is meant to be celebrated, not regretted! We all want our Christmas to be a lot of things. Full of joy. Memories. Happiness. Above all, we want it to be about Jesus. What we don’t want is stress. Or debt. Or feeling like we “missed the moment”. Tired of giving dust-catchers? Do you ever see your loved one wear the shirt you gave them? Want to avoid the crowds at the malls? You can do all of this by giving a meaningful mission gift to your loved one AND giving a gift to someone in need. Christmas is a season of gratitude for gifts, especially the gift of Jesus from our loving God. We seek to imitate God in our gift-giving at this time of year. This Christmas consider giving a different kind of gift, a gift that gives twice. Give to your loved one, a bowl holder, soup, a certificate for clean water or to support Bed Start. Purchase soup and donate it to one of our Missions! When you do, your gift helps someone in need – a hungry family or a struggling child. Your giving can transform the world! Join us at the annual Alternative Gift Market for Missions, on November 13, 9am-Noon and November 14, 9am-12:30 pm in The Commons.
Our Alternative Gift Market will have mission gifts available from:

Agape Resource & Assistance Center
Bed Start
Buckner Peru-NEW IN 2021!
Christ’s Foundry Tamales
Equal Exchange Items
Heifer International
Living Water International
Project Transformation
UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief)
UMW Soups benefiting God’s Pantry and UMCOR
27 & Oak (Buckner International)-NEW IN 2021!

Cash, Check and Credit Card payment available and cash/check is preferred.
Purchase gift cards for Agape, Bed Start and Family Sponsorships from Revelation Scrip.
Volunteers will be needed to serve as cashiers & certificate writers. Sign-up through Sign-up Genius on the church website. Contact Stephanie Mills at smills@crumc.org with questions.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

Seniors Serving Seniors! Plain-O Helpers is a volunteer handyman service that assists seniors in Plano with minor home maintenance and repair, including installing assist bars in showers and installing wheelchair ramps.

Join us every Friday in room 204 when we meet from 8:30-9:30am.

Questions? Contact:
Call 469-366-4286 or visit www.plain-o-helpers.org or email plainohelpers@gmail.com.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

POWS is gearing up for the upcoming season

In 2018, the Collin County Homeless launched the Plano Overnight Warming Station (POWS). The purpose of POWS is to provide a safe, warm, and secure place for the homeless to stay overnight when the temperature drops below freezing or there are dangerous conditions which could cause injury or death from exposure. The site for POWS is The Salvation Army location in east Plano. The POWS season runs November 1, 2021 through March 2022.
You can visit the POWS website for more detailed information here: http://www.pows.collincares.org/POWS%20Brochure.pdf

Custer Road has had a team for the past 3 years. We currently have 18 people signed up for our team and we would love to have 10-15 more join this year. For anyone who is wanting to join our team, there is a mandatory training and a background check required. The background check form is filled out during the training and conducted after the training session by the Salvation Army.

Training Sessions (only need to attend one) are in August, September, October and November, will be conducted at the Salvation Army of Plano site @ 3528 14th St, Plano, TX 75074 or at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano, and you can sign-up for one here via Sign-up Genius
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0c4bada62da7fb6-volunteer2

For more information please contact the CRUMC Team Lead Mark Orland at m_orland@yahoo.com or (214) 364-5501

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. 

Seniors Serving Seniors! Plain-O Helpers is a volunteer handyman service that assists seniors in Plano with minor home maintenance and repair, including installing assist bars in showers and installing wheelchair ramps.

Join us every Friday in room 204 when we meet from 8:30-9:30am.

Questions? Contact:
Call 469-366-4286 or visit www.plain-o-helpers.org or email plainohelpers@gmail.com.

Did you know that Bed Start needs help from people serving every week? And did you know that they need more help than just delivering beds on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings? Regardless of your activity level, Bed Start could use your help. Here’s when they need help and information on the type of help they need.

• Every Wednesday Evening: 4:45pm  
  Provide delivery on Wednesday evenings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. All Wednesday night deliveries occur near the church.
• Every Saturday Morning: 7:45m-Noon (meet in the parking lot at 7:45am, depart CRUMC at 8am) 
  Provide Pick-up and Delivery help on Saturday mornings. Meet in the parking lot directly across the street from the church. Deliveries are made around Collin County. A pick-up truck/trailer is helpful, but not required.

Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth and children are welcome to join us! If you can love on families and have a strong heart for showing kindness to someone we are serving than we want your help. You don’t need a strong back to be able to help.

Monetary donations are also welcome to purchase beds and bedding. Donate online at bedstart.org.

We are in need of various items for donation. If you have any of these items, please bring them to the Bed Start donation area across the street from Custer Road UMC in the parking lot on any Saturday from 8am-11am. Please DO NOT leave items in the Mission Donation Area.

Items we are greatly in need of: 

• Dressers/Chests of Drawers
• Beds – Twin & Full Size
• Kitchen Dinette sets
• Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item

Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

Go to www.bedstart.org and complete a PICK-UP REQUEST FORM to arrange a large furniture pick-up. To serve, please fill out the VOLUNTEER APPLICATION on the BedStart website. If you are in need of assistance from BedStart, please fill out a REQUEST FORM on the BedStart website. If you have any questions, please visit the BedStart website or contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org.