Serve: National
Disaster Response Team/Trailer - this group responds to natural disasters across the U.S. by collecting goods and traveling to sites to help with clean up and repairs.
Church contact: Mike Ridgley, martoo@verizon.net
Gleaning Network of Texas - a grassroots organization whose goal is to use our state's fresh produce to help alleviate hunger by going into the fields to glean produce and disperse it to food banks.
Church contact: Susie Marshall, susie@gleantexas.org
Website: www.gleantexas.org
Lydia Patterson Institute - a Methodist institution in El Paso, Texas that serves a predominantly Hispanic population. The institute develops leadership skills and provides quality bi-lingual cross-cultural academic education. FUMC Coppell sends a mission team each year.
Church contact: D.J. Hodge, dwight-hodge@hotmail.com
Website: lydiapattersoninstitute.org
For more information about any of these programs, contact contact our Mission Chairs: Keith and Leslie Hicks at lhicks@sabrerealty.com or Rev. Ashleigh Joyner at ajoyner@fumccoppell.org.