East Fort Bend Human Needs
FUMC is one of the founding partners in East Fort Bend. EFBHN provides limited financial assistance for rent, utilities and medicines, and offers a food pantry that provides nutritious perishable and non-perishable groceries, household items and toiletries. Proceeds from the Resale Shop located in the building help to support the Food Pantry. FUMCMC provides support for EFBHNM through donations of time from volunteers, Board Members, on-going food collections, special food drives, donations of clothing, and household items and financial support throughout the year.
East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry (EFBHNM) is located at 425 Stafford Run Rd., Stafford, TX 77477 Phone number: 281.261.1006.
HOURS OF OPERATION:
Tri-City Churches
Resale Shop – La Boutique
10 am – 4 pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Wednesday
Closed on Sundays
Food Pantry
10 am – 1:30 pm Tues., Thurs., Fri.
6 – 8 pm on Wed.
Closed Sat.- Mon.
Armstrong Elementary
Armstrong Elementary is a Title I, bilingual school located less than one mile from FUMCMC. Opened in 2008, it had no Parent-Teacher Organization and very little parental volunteer support. Our church adopted Armstrong as a community outreach endeavor. During our time at Armstrong, we have provided teacher appreciation breakfasts and lunches, volunteer assistance in the classroom, established a reading buddy program to mentor students, held book drives, provided a male presence at the school to encourage fathers to participate and formed a prayer partner group to pair a church member with a teacher or support staff member. One of our younger church members asked his friends not bring him gifts for his birthday. Rather, he asked that they bring sporting equipment to outfit the school.
Neighborhood Outreach
Several times during the year our Missions Volunteers respond to our neighbors and members need for help in repairing their homes. We go out to fix their leaky faucets, broken ceiling fans and lights, paint their home, replace broken windows, and repair their drywall, etc.
Prison Ministry
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative is a revolutionary, Christ-centered, values-based, pre-and post-release prison program supporting prison inmates and parolees through their spiritual and moral transformation into a new life in Christ.
This program is a U.S. pilot program, which began in April 1997 at a minimum-security prison (the Carol S. Vance Unit in Sugar Land, Texas), and is a joint effort between the Prison Fellowship Ministries, Houston-based churches, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The program begins 12-18 months prior to an inmate’s release and continues for an additional 6-12 months of aftercare once the prisoner has been returned to the community. Inmates volunteer for the program and must meet several criteria before they are accepted. Statistics consistently show that a much lower recidivism rate versus those inmates that don’t participate in IFI.
Volunteers can serve as tutors, lead a Bible study or prayer group, or mentor an inmate pre-and post-release.
FUMCMC additionally supports the aftercare program with quarterly financial donations to facilitate the transition from prison to a new faith-based community. At present, FUMCMC has volunteers who volunteer in this area of mission ministry.
Weekly and Monthly Mission
Five times each year on Sunday mornings, the Missions Ministry get up bright and early to cook and sell fresh breakfast tacos before, during and after all church services. The cost for each warm, homemade taco is only $2. All proceeds of the sales go to help fund various outreach projects.