Mission Statement

Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Savior of the world and the Lord of all. All humankind
(the world) is lost and in need of hope. Thehope of the world is found and experienced in
Jesus Christ who is God'sgrace and love. Recognizing the power of sin, we dedicate ourselves
to making the Grace of God active and real for the salvation of the world. The churchis a marvelous,
mysterious creation of God. It is composed of those who have countedon Christ as their hope and have
joined in His effort to proclaim Good News to the world. Faithful proclamation by God's people will be a
balanced response to the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-evangelism and discipleship) and the Great
Command (Matthew 22:37-38 -mercy ministries.) We participate in missions because we are God's people,
and we are following Christ's example and teachings.

• Community Helpers: Provides funds to help meet the emergency rent, utility and pharmaceutical needs of people of Rutherford County. This is supported by our budget.
• Habitat for Humanity: Works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses are sold at no profit and with no interest charged. They build houses every year and you can volunteer to help build one. This is supported by our budget.
• Food Bank: Provides basic food items to the needy people in the area. We help sponsor 4 local food banks 1) Rutherford Food Bank 2) Smyrna/Laverne 3 Cainsville / Lascassas Food Bank 4) The Journey Home. We also collect food items that are placed in the east hall in a cabinet for those who come to the church for help. We need a few volunteers to sort cabinet once a week. This is supported by our budget.
• Pregnancy Support Center: Provides free pregnancy testing and abstinence education as well as counseling and referral services to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation. This is supported by our budget.
• Benevolence Program: This helps people with short-term emergency needs, e.g. families traveling through Murfreesboro with the need for gas, a meal or someone needing a bus ticket to get home or any problems related to loss of income. Please leave an offering at Communion rail on Communion Sundays all that money goes into the benevolence account.
• Room in the Inn: Provides care to the homeless both food and a place to stay. FUMC members volunteer to feed the participants and provide a hot meal on the first Friday of every month. Need a Sunday school class or a Ministry group or an individual to take one of the Friday night meals.
• “M.I.A.” Missions in Action: This is a day set aside to show our community we care. FUMC volunteers sign up for various jobs as helping homebound members, cleaning and rebuilding for different agencies and helping needy children in various ways. We meet at the church on a Saturday morning for prayer and work assignments, then go out and get busy on our projects. The Carpenters Sunday School class is heading up this program and they raise all the funds for the projects. Projects are 1 to 2 days for about 8 hours a day some are more and some are less it depends on the project.
• Murfreesboro Center of Pastoral Counseling: A Christian counseling center located at the Cross Main Building on East Main. This center is sponsored by various churches and is staffed with personnel who are trained in Christian counseling. A graduated fee is charged based on the client's ability to pay. This is supported by our budget.
• MTSU Wesley Foundation: the United Methodist student center at MTSU. It is the third largest in the country. Students who take part in this center come from a wide variety of backgrounds. It is a ministry of reaching students with no church background and some needing to be re-acquainted with their faith. The Wesley Foundation has a choral program, clown ministry and a drama program. Supported by our budget.
• Community Helpers - Medicine Fund: Provides limited funds to help the pharmaceutical needs of needy people of Rutherford County. Referrals come from the hospital emergency room, health departments, and churches, DHS, Room in the Inn, doctors, social workers and food bank. This is supported by our budget.
• St. Mark's Furniture Program: Provides furniture to families that have loss of personal belongings due to fire, domestic violence. If you have any furniture to donate call Paul Givens at St. Mark UMC.
• New Frontiers: Christian Challenge Center using adventure to remover people from their everyday environment and challenges them to meet their Creator. Students have the opportunity to live out God's purpose in their own lives. Need volunteers year round. This is supported by our budget.
• Domestic Violence Center: Provides housing, clothing and care to women and children of domestic abuse situations. This is supported by our budget.
• New Frontiers Children's Home: To assist with construction, maintenance and furnishing of children's home. Houses 6 - 8 young boys from broken homes, delinquent environments. Supported by our budget.
• New Frontiers - Children's Scholarship: To assist with clothing, food and education for a young boy staying at the New Frontier's Children Home. This is supported by our budget.
• The Journey Home: The food program of this ministry is called the Community Café, run by Marcia Houze. FUMC prepares and serves the meal every fourth Thursday of the month, serving lunch Monday –Friday starting at 11:30 in the new facility. The clothes closet is open on Mondays and Thursday, run by Kitty Gannon. We need Sunday school classes and Ministry groups or an individual to provide the money for the meal and about 8-10 peopleLocated at 308 W. Castle St. M-Boro TN. 37129, phone is 615-809-2644
• Shoe Box: We collect household items 2 times a year to help supplement the Rutherford Food Bank. If a family can’t afford to buy food they sure can’t buy cleaning and hygiene products. We also pack personal items in shoe boxes and pass them out to different places in the community like the V.A. and Nursing homes and low income seniors. We need a few volunteers for about and hour 2 times a year.
• Special Kids: The medical and rehabilitative care of children with special needs is a ministry of Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to provide comprehensive rehabilitative health care to children with special needs at the highest quality level possible. Our objectives are to provide continuity of care for all clients through a coordinated multi-disciplinary approach, assist children in achieving and maintaining optimal health status, and improve the quality of life for each child and family. This is supported by our budget.
• Mission Trips: 3 to 4 major trips a year: a Holiday trip between Christmas and New Years to east Tennessee and western North Carolina for 3 to 4 days. We take a Mexico trip with doctors and construction teams to Matamoras to help build churches and homes for people. We do a trip to the Gulf coast to help rebuild after Katrina destroyed many homes, churches and lives. We do Youth trips, College trips, Family trips, Senior Adult trips and trips just because we can. Missions is a way that we the body of Christ can reach out and love our neighbor and to share the Gospel. We raise all the funds for trip and cost of materials for construction.
• Angel Tree: Has two events a year one for Christmas called Angel Tree and one for back to school called Apple Tree. We set up a tree and ask people to take a name from the tree and purcess items for those who need it. The Journey Home and other help based programs and people in the community help us with the people we chose to be in the program. We help Infants to the elderly to reach all of God’s people in this program. We need volunteers to help twice a year and spend some time on a planning team if interested talk to Donna Lovelace she is in charge of this program.
• Good Shepherd home: Help fund the cost of housing and schooling for children who are not adopted. We have events at the campus to share with the kids a few times a year. Need volunteers to help with event. Donna Lovelace is in charge of this program.