TOUCHING LIVES IN COLLEGE parents meet on Monday March 19 at 7:00pm to build another mailing for our FUMC Allen college students. On that date, parents and friends meet in BaseCamp children’s area to set up the tables, sort their gifts, and work in assembly line fashion to make packages ready for mailing. Anyone who […]
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Bake Sale
Sunday, March 25 9:00am-12:00pm BAKED GOODS NEEDED! We need your help to make the annual Women In Missions Bake Sale a success as we raised funds for scholarships. If you bake, please consider donating your cake, pie, cookies, bars, brownies, or candy to the annual Women in Missions Bake Sale! Bring your delicious goods to […]
Holiday Challenge Update
Change the World Allen offers children, teens, and adults the opportunity to pay if forward right here in our home community with different ways to serve others. To keep the spirit of CTW alive year round, our members and many of our friends participated in the Change the World Holiday Challenge. Through these efforts, we […]
Helpers in School (H.I.S.)
Helpers in School is hosting a “cutting” party on Friday, February 9 from 9:30am–12:00pm in Fellowship Hall. Bring your scissors and help cut patterns and material for pajama bottoms to be sewn into gifts for the students at Boyd Elementary. Questions? Contact Mary Freeman.
Summer Reading at the Connatser Library
Are you needing help with your summer reading list? We have the solution in the Connatser Memorial Library in Room 203 at FUMC Allen. You might expect our church library to have many reference books on the bible and our faith. And it does! But did you know our library also has a notable fiction […]
Fill the Bus on August 7
Retailers are telling us and the kids are running from it, but the first day of school is less than one month away. In the next month, parents will be purchasing back to school supplies, backpacks, clothes, and shoes. They will be scheduling appointments for physicals, vaccinations, eye exams, dental cleanings, haircuts, and more. But many of […]
August Blood Drive
Red Cross Blood Drive Sunday, August 7, 2016 9:00am-1:30pm FUMC Allen Gym The media has called attention to the emergency need for blood donations. Scores of media outlets such as Yahoo! News, USAToday.com, CBS, and Fox have reported on the blood shortage, asking eligible donors to give as soon as possible. Across the U.S., thousands […]
Change The World Donation Requests
One way you can help support Change The World Allen is by making donations to the following groups: Military Support Group Help us build care packages for our troops. Buckets are available at the entrances at First United Methodist Church Allen to collect items to package on Sunday, May 15. Cash donations to help pay […]
Girl Scout Silver Award Project Benefits APT G: A Place to Go
Many thanks to the Girl Scout cadette who, for her Girl Scout Silver Award, updated the costume closet for APT G: A Place to Go, FUMC Allen’s special needs ministry for teenagers and young adults. Her goal was to collect at least 30 costumes for the 20-25 special needs youth who attend APT G each […]
School Supply Drive for Dominica
Marissa Battle, a 2014 graduate of Allen High School and church member, is collecting children’s school supplies through the month of February for a college mission trip sponsored by Trinity University in San Antonio. This group of college students, led by Miss Battle, will be heading to the Dominica where they will work with […]