Please join us as we pray for our Liberia Mission Team who are there serving alongside the local Methodist Church. May God bless them and protect them! 
  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.
 Mobile Mustard Seed is Tuesday, June 14! Contact Beth at beth.palmer@kfumc.org if you want to come serve!
 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 the fall of 2021, eight of our KFUMC staff members participated in two days of training on the low ropes course at Light on the Hill. A low ropes course is a ground-based obstacle course designed to encourage team building and personal development. The #1 benefit to participation in low ropes elements is outcomes such as trust building. Other common outcomes are self confidence, team cooperation, decision making, communication skills, positive risk-taking, leadership skills, and goal setting, to name a few. Our group had fun, worked hard, laughed harder and grew to recognize and depend on each other’s strengths. We leaned on each other and trusted in each other to complete the tasks at hand. Participating in the activities took me out of my comfort zone and if I hadn’t been able to lean on (literally) and trust my group, I absolutely would not have been able to problem solve and successfully navigate the course.
This reminds me of how we have to lean on and trust in God to make it through each day and navigate life. Our natural preference is to plan everything out but God wants us to depend on Him constantly, trusting Him to guide us and support us as we go. As the problems of the world seem heavier every day, it is so good to be able to lean on God and trust Him to give us strength as we need it. Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all of your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. Proverbs 3:5 AMP -Beth Palmer, LOTH Outreach Director  Light on the Hill has been invited and has agreed to be part of the H. E. Butt Foundation’s Kerrville Capacity Building Program to maximize our impact by strengthening our capacity to become even more effective and efficient as an organization. The H. E. Butt Foundation’s Kerrville Capacity Building Program consists of select nonprofits that agree to work together for 11-months at becoming more efficient, effective, and cooperative. The goal of this program is to help vital nonprofits like ours operate at peak performance. The H. E. Butte Foundation desires to cultivate wholeness in people and institutions for the transformation of communities.
We are so excited and honored to be chosen to participate in this inaugural year program in Kerr County! Thank you H. E. Butte Foundation! |
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