 Are you an unpaid servant at Light on the Hill? If so, we have a new T-shirt for you! Contact Beth to get yours AND wear it to worship on Sunday morning, June 4 at KFUMC. We will be sharing stories of transformation from LOTH!   
We are not looking for a shallow joy but rather a joy that comes from faith. This joy grows through unselfish love and respects the fundamental duty of love of neighbor. Alleluia!
As Easter People, we thank God for all that is past, but look forward to all that is to come! He is risen! He is risen, indeed!  Community Health Worker, Lori Payne, Project Manager, Millie Goode, and Community Health Worker, Emily Morales. Light on the Hill is excited to announce that we have received the Methodist Healthcare Ministries Community Impact Grant for 2023! This grant will allow us to expand our outreach efforts to our community by funding support staffing and program expenses for ongoing food relief and community connections to help people with their physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs. This funding will provide for a project manager to oversee the initiative and allows us to hire two part-time community health workers to be the boots on the ground serving our community. Millie Goode will serve as the project manager and Emily Morales and Lori Payne will serve as our community health workers. We are so grateful and excited for all who will benefit from this amazing expansion to our efforts to serve our neighbor! Thank you MHM!!!   We have had a great two weeks of summer camp for kids at Light on the Hill! Thank you to all of the unpaid servants who have shared their love and talent with so many to make Camp Wesley happen! We are also thankful for the San Antonio Food Bank and all of the unpaid servants who shared the love of Christ through the tangible expression of food on Monday at Light on the Hill!    CAMP WESLEY Session 1: We are so excited to be hosting some of our friends from the Doyle Neighborhood this week! We are having a great time celebrating God’s goodness and all of His creation! Thank you to all of our unpaid servants who are making this week so great for so many children!!!  MEGA MONDAY! Monday, June 27, we will host the San Antonio Food Bank Mega Food Pantry at Light on the Hill from 10am – Noon. If you would like to volunteer to help, contact Beth Palmer at beth.palmer@kfumc.org or (830)459-5847.
 The Uvalde Strong Fund supports victims, their families, and others affected by the tragedy at Robb Elementary School on May 24th. Companies, foundations, civic groups, religious congregations, and organizations wanting further details on donating, call 830-896-8811 or email uvaldestrong@communityfoundation.net.   "Kerrville food pantry hosts mass distribution event" Usually, the group provides 12,000 pounds of food per month to the community. Monday, they received almost 64,000 pounds of food from the San Antonio Food Bank. KERRVILLE, Texas — Unemployment has not discriminated due to population size.
Northwest of San Antonio, in Kerr County, more families are looking for resources to meet their needs. A food pantry in Kerrville is hoping to help hundreds of families in need. “It’s people helping people, neighbors helping neighbors,” said Beth Palmer, the Outreach Coordinator for Kerrville United Methodist Church and Light on the Hill. The ministry hosted their first mass food distribution Monday. Volunteers from several Kerrville churches and groups lent a hand. “We don’t want anyone to be hungry in this time,” said Palmer. Usually, the group provides 12,000 pounds of food per month to the community, but they received almost 64,000 pounds of food from the San Antonio Food Bank to feed even more families.  Some of us have big buts (the one “t” variety, not the other kind). By that, I mean we live in constant emotional and relational tension because we live in the land of but.
• I know my BFF didn’t mean to be a jerk, but … • I know my spouse isn’t perfect, but … • I know my son is trying to change, but … • I know my boss didn’t mean to wound me, but … Sadly, we’ve created a “yeah, but” world that is killing us. It’s robbing us of joy and creating unnecessary tension in our relationships. Worst of all, it’s setting us up to love conditionally. The second we add a “but,” we add a condition or an excuse. We are saying to others, “I know the right thing to do, but my choice to do the right thing is subject to your choice to do the right thing.” We rationalize our half-hearted love and acceptance of others based on their actions. In 2021, Light on the Hill @ Mount Wesley was the recipient of the DASH Community Impact Cohorts 1 and 2 Grant. Millie Goode served as the Project Director and worked with Beth Palmer, Outreach Director, and Theresa Standage, Wesley Nurse, to implement the grant. DASH (Data Across Sectors of Health, led in partnership with the Michigan Public Health Institute and with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, identifies barriers, opportunities, promising practices and indicators of progress for multi-sector collaborations to share data for community health improvement. DASH aims to align health care, public health, and other sectors to systematically compile, share, and use data to understand factors that influence health and develop more effective interventions and policies. The specific DASH project at Light on the Hill @ Mount Wesley is Pathways to Health & Wholeness, an integrated framework of care pathways for a marginalized population within health and food security categories. Data-sharing collaborative partners are Mustard Seed, Peterson Health, Raphael Free Community Clinic, New Hope Counseling, Kerr County Inter-Agency Network, and Kerr Konnect. Pathway strategies are designed to give voice to marginalized community members within the Kerrville/Doyle community in assessing their health and wellness needs & determining desired outcomes. READ THE RELATED ARTICLE BELOW.
__________________________________ By Solomon Collins BACKGROUND As a National Program Office (NPO) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH), works with communities across the country to build local capacity for multi-sector collaborations and data sharing efforts to inform an evidenced-based national movement toward a Culture of Health. The Community Impact Contracts (CIC) funding program offers access to direct technical assistance, targeted funds, subject matter expertise, and a supported peer cohort working together to pursue equity and increase sustainable community capacity to lead and leverage data system development. DASH is proud to support projects that center communities and work to eliminate structural inequity through multisector, data sharing efforts. Light on the Hill at Mount Wesley, a CIC awardee, exemplifies what it truly means to be a catalyst for others in understanding the endless possibilities for what happens when you share data. Light on the Hill at Mount Wesley, a faith-based 501(c)(3) public charity devoted to improving community health based in Kerrville, Texas, is a shining example. Six ministries located on the campus offer services related to healthcare and health-related needs: Kerr Konnect (an on-call volunteer driver service for young and elderly adults), Families and Literacy (educational programs including the area’s only GED prep course program), the Mustard Seed Food Pantry, an Education and Exercise Center, a Nutrition Center, and Wesley Nurse (the largest 80+ site outreach program in South Texas). They used their CIC award to purchase licenses for a platform to help them see where the coordinated services they offer were most needed, and where they made an impact. |
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