Missions
“Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”Luke 12:33-34
Be sure to visit the Missions News Blog to read the very latest going on with Missions.
Missional Opportunities Happening Now:
Local Missions

www.hope4agape.com


There is now an added mission to provide pillows as well. Read about the Bed Start Pillow Project here.



No special training is needed, only a desire to intentionally build a relationship with a student. Typically, it is a 30 minute to 1 hour commitment during the lunch/recess time, but arrangements may be able to be made for after school mentoring as well.
We will also provide volunteers for Book Fairs, teacher meals and other volunteer opportunities requested by the schools. A Back to School Teacher Appreciation Breakfast will occur in August and we collect board games, Kleenex and hand sanitizer to replenish the classrooms.




SOS produces short skits, monologues and Reader’s Theater presentations to church social gatherings, children’s programs and retirement centers. The skits are 15-minute Reader’s Theater plays on aging and Christian principles. Mostly humorous, sometimes unintentional. Contact Betty Garst via email here for more information.
Custer Road holds an annual collection of new socks and underwear for adults-all sizes are needed, Small to XXL. Gently used blue jeans are also needed. Opportunities to serve on Sunday mornings at S.O.U.L. Church are also available to help with sign-in, set-up, serving food, clothing distribution and clean-up. Contact Patrick Robinson at Robinson.patrick@verizon.net or visit soulchurch.org for more information.

Global Missions




It is estimated that 500,000 Juarez residents live in poverty, about 37% of the population. Of these, approximately 62,000 live in “extreme poverty.”
Larry and Dr. Nancy Rodriguez Cox founded Juntos Servimos, a mission of healing and hope, in 2004. JS provides an individual response (including medical care, shelter, food and education) to the suffering experienced by people in the towns along the Mexico/US border. The work of JS is primarily in Matamoros, Mexico, however they are now reaching out to the El Paso/Juarez area to work with Proyecto Abrigo in Tierra Nueva, Mexico, a suburb of Juarez.
Rev. Jose Luis Portillo founded Proyecto Abrigo in 1996 in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Since then, over 7,000 homes, two churches, a medical clinic, and a vocational school have been built to serve the poorer communities outside of Ciudad Juarez.

If you’d like to contribute, you may do so online at www.givetomission.org, or make a check payable to Custer Road UMC and note “UMCOR and/or the Specific Advance #” in the memo line. You may put your designated gift in the church offering plate or send to our church, located 6601 Custer Road, Plano, TX 75023.

Imagine having nothing but dirty, bacteria-infested water to quench your thirst. To wash your clothes in. To cook with. To bathe in. And to give to your children to drink. No one should live this way. But more than 884 million people around the world do. Enough is enough. Because no human being should live this way.
That is why Pastor Kory and his wife, Jennifer, lead a trip of 12 church members in partnership with Living Water International in September 2016 to dig a water well in Rivas, Nicaragua. Read more about Pastor Kory’s trip to Nicaragua here.
A new team of twelve will travel to Guatemala November 4-11, 2017 to dig a water well. To get more information about this trip, contact Tony and Elizabeth Hairston via email here.
Living Water International is a Christian organization dedicated to helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience “living water”- the gospel of Jesus Christ – which alone satisfies the deepest thirst. Imagine a well – that WE PAY FOR AND BUILD WITH THE HANDS OF OUR OWN CHURCH MEMBERS – that will gush with clean, life-giving water and sustain generations for years to come.
Drives / Collections





Upcoming Events:
Date/Time | Event |
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Apr 25, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
Apr 28, 2018 8:00 am - 3:00 pm |
Love Where You Live |
May 02, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
May 06, 2018 8:00 am - 1:00 pm |
Blood Drive - May 2018
Custer Road UMC, Plano TX |
May 09, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
May 16, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
May 23, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
May 30, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
Jun 06, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
Jun 13, 2018 5:00 pm |
Bed Start |
Contact:
Stephanie Mills | Director of Missions | smills@crumc.org |