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Our Mission Program has many facets, beginning at home and moving out into our world. We invite you to take a few moments to explore our church's local outreach ministries:
Angel Tree
The Angel Tree program provides Christmas gifts and new clothes to children from low-income families within Mansfield ISD. Names and wishes are placed on a tree in the atrium, church members choose a child to buy Christmas gifts for. To help with this ministry, please contact .
Common Ground Network
Common Ground is an association of churches and support agencies in the Mansfield community who work together to coordinate community-wide assistance programs. Programs include School Supplies, Christmas programs, Feed Kids for Summer, and food drives. For more information, contact .
ESL (English Second Language)
Free English classes are open to our community and led by volunteers. We offer a 12-week spring semester and a 12-week fall semester, with both morning and evening classes. Curriculum and teacher training are provided through the LIFT (Literacy Instruction For Texas) program. For more information, contact Susan Luttrell.
Feed Kids for Summer
Feed Kids For Summer is a Common Ground program designed to help supplement lunch and breakfast food for children who are on the Mansfield ISD free and reduce lunch program during the school year. It also brings attention to the high demand the local food pantries experience during the summer months. This is done by providing a bag of child friendly food that can be picked up throughout the summer at any one of the food pantries in the
G.R.A.C.E. Homeless Ministry
The streets of downtown Ft. Worth are home to a number of displaced persons. Volunteers from First Church periodically go to the areas near the shelters to offer food, drink, clothing, fellowship and acceptance. G.R.A.C.E. (Giving Respect and Compassion Everywhere) ministry happens the second Saturday of each month. To read more about the group we partner with go to Feed by Grace. For more information, contact .
Habitat for Humanity
The Mansfield community participates in Habitat for Humanity, a ministry that builds homes for people in the community. Our church helps with two houses each year, one in the spring and one in the fall. Volunteers are needed to help with construction, hospitality and food. For more information, please contact .
Hands of Christ
Hands of Christ is a ministry of home repair for the elderly and disabled in the Mansfield community. This ministry is the third Saturday of March, April, May, September, October, and November. Jobs include building wheelchair ramps, installing handrails, repairing roofs, replacing flooring, windows and screens, painting, and much more! For more information, contact .
Kairos
Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. is the parent organization of a body of ministries addressing the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women and children, to their families and to those who work in the prison environment. Kairos is a ministry of the apostles whom Jesus, the Christ, has called into community and sent forth into the environment of the correctional institution. Kairos has been called the best example of the early church in existence today. For more information on the Kairos Prison Ministry, contact . (Click here for cookie baking instructions.)
Meals on Wheels
FUMC is the drop off point for the Mansfield area Meals on Wheels program of Tarrant County. Volunteers from Mansfield deliver lunch meals to homebound persons Monday - Friday. FUMC coordinates the delivery of many of those meals through faithful volunteers. For more information, contact Susan Luttrell.
Wesley Mission Center
The Wesley Mission Center is a community outreach, volunteer supported ministry of FUMC Mansfield. WMC began in 1979 as a small project, and has grown into its own building with many ministries: Community Thrift Store, Food Pantry, and C.A.R.E. Center.
