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Dear Church Family, We are grateful that our Mustard Seed Food Pantry can help our neighbors throughout the year with food assistance, but especially during the most recent government shutdown. Thousands of families in Kerr County are affected by the suspension of SNAP benefits. During the month of November, we will be collecting non-perishable food donations in the lobby area at Kerrville First United Methodist Church. Shopping baskets will be available for you to drop off your donations throughout the week and on Sunday mornings. Some food items that are needed are canned chicken, canned chili, canned stew, macaroni and cheese boxes, canned spaghetti sauce, beans and rice. If you want to give a monetary donation, please make your check out to KFUMC and put Mustard Seed in the memo or you can give electronically through the KFUMC website. Just go to GIVE, then click on Give Online and scroll on down to Mustard Seed Ministries. Thank you for your generosity! Beth Palmer Candy, Costumes, and Cars — Oh My!Trunk or Treat was spooktacular! Between the cool trunks, creative costumes, and plenty of candy, our community came together for a night full of laughter, love, and a little spooky fun! Thank you to all who helped make Trunk or Treat so super sweet! Harvest Fest Recap 2025Saturday was a day filled with fun at our Harvest Festival! We loved spending time with our community this past weekend—playing games, dancing to DJ David, enjoying hayrides, getting our faces painted, sharing food, and so much more. What a wonderful way to celebrate the new season and spread the Lord’s love throughout our community. A huge thank-you to everyone who helped make this event possible. What a truly blessed day of faith, fellowship, and friends! UGRA River Trail Cleanup - Sign-up! River Trail Cleanup - UGRA.org UGRA is sponsoring a post-flood river trail and park cleanup on Nov 15 from 8 AM to 12 PM. The KFUMC ERT is putting together a team to work on this project and we would love to have you participate. If you decide to join us, please register for the event, select Group A which covers Tranquility Island, and let Ray or David know. Thanks! Each group has a limited number of slots so please register as soon as possible. Ray: [email protected] David: [email protected] Food Relief  Flood SupportUpcoming Events Don't Miss Out on Harvest Festival This Saturday! Come join us on Saturday, November 1 from 10am-2pm for the Harvest Fest at Light on the Hill! Live music, food, fun and games, hayrides, petting zoo, face painting, and connections to local resources. This is a free event for our entire community! Mega RecapWhat a Great Outpouring of Support! What a great outpouring of support for our community at the San Antonio Food Bank's Kerr County MEGA Food Pantry at Light on the Hill! Hundreds of unpaid servant showed up to share 37,000 pounds of food with our community on Monday! Flood Support  Thank you, God, for giving us everything we need each and every day. Amen.      Leading Through the StormWatch and listen as our very own Rev. David Payne and Beth Palmer join Rev. Lisa Greenwood on the Igniting Imagination Podcast. Need Information About Flood Relief Efforts?Love God. Love Others. Make A Difference. This is our mission statement. Sounds simple, but living out this mantra takes daily intention. The good news? We don't have to do it alone. Together, we can embody this mission and make a lasting impact. First, love God. Well, that seems like a no-brainer. But loving God is more than just an emotion. It involves a surrender of oneself to God's will and a commitment to living according to His teachings. This includes obeying His commandments, prioritizing His word, and actively engaging in worship and service. Loving God is about aligning one's life with God's purposes and demonstrating love for Him through actions and a transformed life. Second, love others. This means that we are to treat others with kindness and compassion, recognizing the inherent value and dignity of all individuals. If we truly love God, then we must love every one of His children, even the ones who think and act differently than us. Don't we want everyone to know how much they are loved by God? The way we treat others is a reflection of Christ's love. Finally, make a difference. There are many ways to make a difference in the world and impact those around us. Making a difference as a follower of Christ essentially involves a holistic approach. It is about living out our faith, demonstrating God's love through our actions, serving those in need, and sharing the hope and transformation found in Christ. Together, with God's help, we can live out our mission, both near and far! Upcoming Events  Volunteer with Mercy ChefsNeed Support or Info with Flood Relief?25 YEARS...
It went by so fast. Thank you for all of your wonderful words and cards of encouragement celebrating twenty-five years of service at KFUMC. I am so blessed to have the privilege to serve with each of you! Thank you! Blessings, Beth   What a wonderful time of worship this past Sunday! Every service was overflowing with love and encouragement for our graduating high school seniors and that gift of encouragement was contagious in the very best way! I love that we were able to write notes of encouragement both last week to our college graduates and this week to our high school graduates. I know that God filled me with the Holy Spirit to remind myself to share words and deeds that encourage and bless others. There are so many ways to encourage each other and I pray that together we can make a difference in the lives of many! Blessings, Beth       What a Great Month to Serve! April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and at Kerrville First United Methodist Church and Light on the Hill at Mount Wesley, we are overflowing with gratitude for our unpaid servants! Our church family was many places, serving many people and epitomizing what being the hands and feet of Christ is all about. We had folks helping serve our neighbors at the San Antonio Food Bank’s Kerr County Mega Food Pantry, where we were blessed to share over 40,000 pounds of food with 350 families and almost 1,000 individuals! Our Mobile Mustard Seed unpaid servants were at a senior apartment complex providing friendship and healthy food for the residents. Our Saint’s Alive Choir blessed residents at local care facilities, too! We had unpaid servants all over town sharing homebound communion, visiting folks in the hospital, delivering food and meals, sending cards, making calls, driving and riding on the buses, teaching Sunday School, and just showing up to serve wherever needed. Thank you to everyone for sharing your prayers, your presence, your gifts, your service, and your witness to bless so many! We appreciate all you do! If you want to learn more about opportunities to serve... Contact: Kerrville First United Methodist Church at (830) 257-0800 - or - Light on the Hill at Mount Wesley at (830) 315-6104 Thank you!!! Blessings, Beth Our Wonderful Unpaid Servants at Light on the Hill at Monday’s Mega Food Pantry!!!Special Events Food PrepBack to School Volunteers! Mustard Seed Volunteers!
Trail Volunteers! Saints Alive Choir!
New Dawn Volunteers!  Important Calendars   From Jane Davis I am praying for you this morning…It’s Resurrection Tuesday. May we always remember what Jesus did for us…not just Good Friday, and Resurrection Sunday. Sunday was a day of celebration…it brought promise, life and hope. Why do we so easily pack it all away in a “box” until next year? Jesus is still risen, as He said He would be. I’ve asked Him to renew His resurrection in our hearts every day. To give us reminders of what He did for us… Everyday. Reminders of the hope He gives us… Everyday. Happy Easter Tuesday. We are Easter People. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3  We are Easter PeopleEaster gives us hope – a hope that promises fullness of life! Easter People believe the resurrection of Jesus shows that suffering, disappointment and death can be transformed into new life! This week we remember that we are Easter People all year long! We thank you, God, for showing us that nothing can separate us from You. Not death, not sickness or fear, not darkness or pain, can ever keep You from us, for we know that: Christ is risen from the dead, glory hallelujah! We give thanks for Your loving care, and we pray for everyone who is sick or suffering, that they may be healed; we pray for everyone who is mourning, that they may be comforted, for we know that: Christ is risen from the dead, glory hallelujah! We give thanks for Your peace, and we pray for all who govern or who are in authority, that they may work for justice, for we know that: Christ is risen from the dead, glory hallelujah! We give thanks for the church, and especially for this faith community, and we pray that it may be a place of welcome, healing, and reconciliation, for we know that: Christ is risen from the dead, glory hallelujah! We give thanks for our friends and families, and we pray that their hearts may be lifted and joyful today; we pray also for ourselves, that the spirit of Easter may remain with us, for we know that: Christ is risen from the dead, glory hallelujah! Blessings, Beth Palmer  Mega & Mobile Mustard April  Join Us, Home Dedication   We were blessed to spend last weekend with one of our grandsons! Braxton is 3 and he is so much fun! One of his favorite things is putting puzzles together. I enjoyed watching him look at each piece and then figure out where it fits in the puzzle. And if it didn’t fit, he would pick up a different piece, and study it, and try again. And he celebrated each time a puzzle piece fit. As I watched him, I thought about how life is like putting a puzzle together. We pray, we study, we try, we try again, and again, and we are grateful and we celebrate. Yesterday, my friend, Jane Davis, used puzzle pieces in her prayer and I wanted to share her good words with you. Blessings! FROM JANE DAVIS…  I am praying for you this morning… Puzzles speak to me in so many different ways… Hundreds of pieces, some upside down, others right side up…some edges, some corners. Some, when fitted properly together, complete a beautiful picture. Is your life like this puzzle sometimes? Mine often is.x Lots of unanswered questions. Calendars filled with softball games, Dr appointments, school functions, volunteering, traveling… The puzzle pieces keep piling up, but don’t seem to be fitting together. Then God whispers in my ear… “Give it to me. I’ve already figured it out. Everything will work out, according to My Plan for you.” “You just have to give it to Me.” Once we do that, piece-by-piece, things start falling into place. Not our way…but, better yet, His way. “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8 Easter 2025 Want to volunteer to help? Contact Tina at (830) 315-6104 - or - Beth at (830) 459-5847  Come to the KFUMC Gym this Saturday and cheer on our Women’s Pickleball Tournament Participants! I LOVE THIS OLD MAP OF CAMP WESLEY!  As you can see we have lots of grounds at Light on the Hill at Mount Wesley. If you enjoy working in flowerbeds or pruning shrubs and trees, I have some volunteer opportunities for you!! Let me know if you are interested in helping us. Contact Beth at 830-459-5847 - or - [email protected]   
From Jane Davis I am praying for you this morning… So many storms are raging these days… One billows up, and before it settles down, another strikes. A devastating hurricane, leaving thousands homeless in North Carolina…suicide drivers, crashing into innocent people in the streets of Germany and New Orleans…wildfires still raging out of control in California… A troubling health issue, still searching for answers…the home-going of a loved one…a child making unwise choices…a relationship broken…the abrupt end of a job… On and on the storms continue to billow. How do we calm our souls in the midst of crisis? T R U S T G O D. Easy to say…hard to do, sometimes. The sooner we can bring ourselves to TRUST, the sooner God calms our hearts. When we TRUST that He’s got this, and He’s got us, we can think more clearly. We can breathe. Filter your thoughts back to God’s faithfulness to you in the past. He did miracles in your life then… And He’ll do them again. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart.” Proverbs 3:5 “When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust, I shall not be afraid.” Psalm 56:3-4 Events & Activities    More than 150 Families Received Thanksgiving Feast Ingredients! We are so Blessed and so Thankful! Thank You to so Many in Our Community!
 Faithful Unpaid Servants Behind the Scenes at Mustard Seed Pantry! Thank You to Peterson Regional Medical Center Care Coordination for Supporting Our Thanksgiving Outreach! Girl Scouts Help at Mustard Seed with Thanksgiving Donations Morning Rotary Club Partners with Mustard Seed Pantry Thank You to Eveready Electric Employees for Helping Unload Turkeys from SAFB!
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