Every Wednesday Evening: 5pm
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 are helpful, but not required.
Having a servant’s heart and helping with Bed Start has no age limit. Youth 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 here, through Push Pay or make checks payable to Custer Road UMC, indicate Bed Start on the memo line, and place checks in the Offering Plate or send them to the church office.

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 or Sunday from 8am-11am.

Items we are greatly in need of:

Dressers/Chests of Drawers
Beds of all size but king
Kitchen Dinette sets
Utensils/Pots & Pans-any household item MONETARY DONATIONS!
Bed Start provides beds, other furniture and household items to families in need. Gently used donations of items are always needed.

For more information, to arrange a large furniture pick-up or to serve on Saturday mornings with pick-ups/deliveries, please contact Doug Nickols via email at director@bedstart.org. We currently have a wait list of over 90 beds. Help make a difference in someone’s life this week!

For more information, please go to: www.bedstart.org. Volunteers are needed every Saturday, 8am to noon, to help with pick-up and delivery. This is an ongoing mission.

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.

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.

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.