The Missions Committee has off-site storage available for any items you want to donate now to the annual garage – no need to hold on to your unwanted treasures until July. 

Know someone who is moving or downsizing? Their items are welcome also.

Please call 972-255-4185 to arrange pick-up and/or schedule drop off times.

Children’s Ministries will once again be selling paper backpacks for the Food 4 Kids program from June 3- July 8. This is a program that provides weekend food for schoolchildren who come from food insecure homes. Last year we raised over $4800 and we are looking to beat that this year! The paper backpacks come in denominations of $1, $10, $25, and $100 so please give generously to help hungry children in our community. For more information contact Cori Bell x205 or cori@ppumc.org.

The 2012 Irving Great Days of Service (GDS) finishes this weekend, April 20, 21. The GDS Closing Celebration for volunteers & homeowners is Sun. Apr. 22. The time is 2:00 pm @, First UMC. Refreshments will be served.

The PPUMC/GDS house repair project located @ 1008 English will be completed on Fri. afternoon 4/20. The house project for Sat. Apr. 21 is located @ 1731 N. Nursery. Repairs needed are carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting & yard. Team captain is Frank Spitzig. We need more volunteers to help complete this project. Lunches, drinks & fellowship are provided.

Volunteers bring hope, caring and fellowship to our neighbors in need. Also their homes are repaired and their neighborhoods are improved.

The Missions Committee appreciates your support & generosity for this local annual mission project. Contact Andy Schellenberg to volunteer or for details.

You for additional information or to volunteer you may contact Rev. Dana Norton at danna@ppumc.org or 972-255-4185, ext. 202 and she will get you in touch with Frank or Andy.

No More Malaria, Grace Children’s Hospital in Haiti and the UMCOR Advance #901670 “Tornadoes 2012” Fund will share our church’s special April Lenten offering.

Imagine No Malaria is the United Methodist church-wide effort to overcome malaria in Africa and eliminate deaths caused by this preventable disease—a goal world leaders hope to accomplish by 2015. UMC efforts started with sending nets to eliminate deaths caused by this disease. It now involves educating communities and health care workers, developing health care infrastructure and making advancements in health care communications. Imagine No Malaria will create a stronger and more broad-based community health infrastructure to help The United Methodist Church in the fight against diseases of poverty. Nothing But Nets remains a key component of the campaign against malaria.

For decades, United Methodist congregations have supported the work of Grace Children's Hospital in Haiti by giving through the Advance. In the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake's aftermath, this partnership has grown stronger. Though the inpatient ward did not collapse during the initial earthquake, its structure was severely damaged, as was much of the hospital's main campus. Both children and adults can be treated at one of Grace Children’s Hospital’s many outpatient clinics. People living in the slums around the hospital receive vaccinations, prenatal care, and other basic health services from specially-trained community health workers and volunteers. Grace Children’s Hospital is recognized as Haiti’s leading medical facility dedicated to the treatment of children with tuberculosis (TB). Each year, the hospital receives thousands of children who are suffering from TB, HIV and other diseases. Children who are seriously ill are admitted to the sixty-bed inpatient ward, where they receive care from the hospital’s all-Haitian staff.

The United Methodist Church is uniquely situated to respond to disasters because we have churches (mission stations) in every county and in almost every town and village across the United States. We also have a worldwide Methodist connection with annual conferences, central conferences, and autonomous partner churches on five continents. Most of the time, even before the area bishop or the annual conference officials contact the United Methodist Committee on Relief disaster-response office, the UMCOR network manager is on the phone trying to ascertain the damage and offering to give assistance to affected communities. We will give to the “Tornadoes 2012” Fund.

Your generous donations this for the 2012 Lenten Offering will support these United Methodist Advance funds, which use 100% of your gifts for each designated ministry.

Grace Children’s Hospital of International Child Care in Port au Prince, Haiti is a mission of the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Keith Mumma, USA ICC Director will present information about this incredible mission to children on February 5 from 10 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. in the Activity Room. You won’t want to miss hearing about this UMC Mission.

As we give thanks for our blessings and look ahead to the celebration of Christ's birth, PPUMC Missions Committee suggests a variety of opportunities to meet the needs of persons in our community and around the world.

This year's projects focus on helping neighborhood children, families and senior citizens, plus several area ministries. Detailed lists of needs and donation information is available at the Missions display in the Ministry Center. Opportunities for individuals, families, Sunday school classes or groups include:

Selecting a Salvation Army Forgotten Angel from the Missions Christmas tree and purchasing one or more gifts for a child, teen or elderly Metroplex resident. Gifts are needed no later than Sun. Dec. 4.

Adopting a student (and their siblings) from Farine Elementary School, our church's Partner In Education. Gifts are needed by Sun. Dec. 11.

Providing toys and clothing for children with an incarcerated parent through the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Program. This year the PPUMC Youth have adopted the families.

Adopting a resident of a local nursing home. Suggested needs are sweat tops and bottoms, small-size lotions, shampoo, soap, lap throws, magazines, etc. Donations need to be back by Sunday, Dec. 4.

Making donations to the Bethlehem Center in Dallas, the Methodist home in San Antonio, the Denton Wesley Center Campus Ministries, the Methodist Home in Waco, and the UMCOR Texas Wildfire Fund. Checks may be made out to PPUMC and marked for your selected ministry or placed in the appropriate envelopes in the Ministry Center.

Remember our church and neighbors during this holiday season. Share the love and real meaning of Christmas by giving your time and money generously.

The Namaste Class is hosting Jeri and Bill Savuto in the Activity Room on December 4 at the Sunday School hour (10:00 AM). All are invited to come and hear their presentation. As most of you know, they have been in mission for several years at the Maua Methodist Hospital (MMH) in Maua, Kenya. PPUMC has helped to support them both financially and spiritually in this effort for the time they have been there. Remember too that PPUMC is their home church.

Jeri and Bill are completing their work in Maua and will be retiring sometime next year. They will be able to update us on the status of the mission at MMH and what their plans for the future might be. Namaste encourages all of you to come and greet them and renew old acquaintances. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided.

Joplin, Missouri - Before and After

Calling all college students! Plymouth Park UMC is sending a team of college students on to Joplin, Missouri to help those devastated by the EF-5 tornado that stuck Joplin this past May. We are working with the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to help the residents rebuild their homes and livelihoods.

This Mission Trip is scheduled to leave on Sunday, December 18 returning Friday, December 23. The cost for the trip is $150, with partial scholarships available.

If you are interested, please contact Peg at peg@ppumc.org or 972-255-4185 x 208.

Plymouth Park UMC is sending a team of college students on to Joplin, Missouri to help those devastated by the EF-5 tornado that stuck Joplin this past May. We are working with the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) help the residents rebuild their homes and livelihoods.

This Mission Trip is scheduled to leave on Sunday, December 18 returning Friday, December 23. The cost for the trip is $150, with partial scholarships available.

If you are interested, please contact Peg at peg@ppumc.org or 972-255-4185 x 208.

Golden Cross has helped thousands of individuals in North Texas receive health care who otherwise could not afford it. Golden Cross has been the therapeutic, and at times, life-saving difference for those in need, funding a range of services from childbirth to cardiac surgery to physical rehabilitation. In the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Golden Cross is administered through the Pastoral Care office of Methodist Medical Center in Dallas.

Golden Cross Academic Clinic