FUMC Rockwall gives back with Community Garden

Church sets goal to donate 4,000 pounds of produce to Helping Hands food pantry (Rockwall) July 18, 2013 – The First United Methodist Church of Rockwall  Community Garden, located at 1200 E. Yellow Jacket Lane, was started to allow members of the congregation a means to give back to the community and their fellow congregation […]

Does your faith travel?

(June 27, 2013) For Sale signs sprout up in front of houses like lilies in early summer. For many, the end of a school year brings a season of transition—a move. Our house is currently cluttered with boxes as a son prepares to move across the country. The packing process gets complicated by souvenirs of […]

Mother of the Graduate

Mother of the Graduate

(May 19, 2013) The journey that began with a stack of diapers and swaddling blankets will reach a pinnacle at the toss of a tassel. Our youngest child will soon don a long robe and mortarboard to receive his college diploma. This, he thinks, is no big deal, just a necessary bit of pageantry. As a […]

The God Who Heals

(May 12, 2013) There are things we never receive because we don’t pray believing. Jesus said that, and encouraged his followers to speak to “mountains,” those big things that appear immovable (Mark 11:22-24). Sickness and disease should qualify. Jesus spent much of his ministry healing the sick. Then he passed the baton to his disciples—not […]

Suds for Surgery Car Wash, garage sale May 11

(DALLAS-May 6, 2013) Shoreline Dallas Church will host a benefit car wash and garage sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11. The “Suds for Surgery” Car Wash will raise money for church member Shkelqim Kelmendi, an SMU student whose younger sister has undergone four surgeries for a brain tumor. Mergimtare Kelmendi (“Megi”) […]

‘Southern Exposure’ makes Texas debut at First Baptist-Wylie

(WYLIE-April 25, 2013) A Southern Exposure, a multi-award winning comedy-drama by native Texan Kelley Kingston-Strayer, makes its Lone Star state debut at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the First Baptist Church in historic downtown Wylie. First developed and produced by the Tony Award winning Barter Theatre for the 2011-2012 season, A Southern Exposure went on to productions from L.A. to […]

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