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serve in the community
Feeding the hungry
Central Texas Food Bank - Join us to work in the warehouse sorting and packing food. Sign up here: http://oakhillumc.cafb.volunteerhub.com/
Generally the 3rd Thursday morning of the month.
Contact Vicki Matustik for more information.
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Feed My Sheep at Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center - Sign up to bring part of a meal for approximately 120-150 people, to be delivered the third Tuesday of the month. For more information, Meryl Kettler.
Foundation Communities Supper Club - Sign up to bring part of a meal for approximately 75 people at Garden Terrace Apartments, an affordable housing community. (Once a month, date varies.) Email Christina Hall for more information.
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Esperanza Community Meal - Help cook or serve a meal for 60-80 people residing in transitional housing at the Esperanza Community, a ministry of The Other Ones Foundation. (Second and fourth Fridays of the month) For more information, contact Paul Nelson.
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CROP Walk - Join with us in the spring as we join folks from around the planet in raising awareness of world hunger through walking and collecting funds.
a place to call home
Hands on Housing - Help repair and/or paint a home of a family in need. We join with Interfaith Action of Central Texas (iACT) twice a year for this activity, usually in April and October. For more information, contact Matt Bales.
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Habitat for Humanity - Help build a home for a family in need. There are opportunities to serve on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Every other year, we participate in the Methodist Build with other Austin-area Methodist Churches to raise funds for and build a house. For more information, contact Ernie Rebuck
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Fresh Start Resettlement - Serve families that find themselves having to start over by providing donations of household goods and furnishings. Through this ministry, refugee families, moms and kids escaping domestic violence, and people moving from sleeping unsheltered, get assistance with furniture and household items. Because the apartments for these folks are typically very small, they do not accommodate large pieces of furniture, so please no extra large sofas or chairs and no king-size beds or linens. For newly arriving refugee families, volunteers can help create a welcoming environment by setting up an apartment with household items and groceries. For more information, email June Johnson.
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Disaster Recovery - Help tear out, clean up, and rebuild homes after disaster. Working with the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Oak Hill UMC responds with supplies, money, and manpower to field teams to disaster recovery areas in Central Texas. Want to join our list of responders or get trained for an Emergency Response Team? For more information, contact Ron Kettler or Vicki Matustik.
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Flood Buckets - Build 5 gallon buckets of cleaning supplies to give to people whose homes have been damaged through flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires and other disasters.
ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS
Freeze Shelters - With our partner churches in the Oak Hill Community Alliance, we sponsor a shelter from freezing temperatures to neighbors experiencing homelessness. The shelter is currently housed at our very own church, with OHUMC volunteers helping with transporting supplies and guests, setting up the shelter, making and serving meals for dinner and breakfast, helping guests find clothing among our donated items, and cleaning up after guests leave. Email Jon Nelson for more information.
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Feeding Programs at Esperanza and Sunrise (see above)
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Breakfast Tacos and Cocoa - Help take a hot breakfast to residents in area homeless camps on nights when the temperatures are below freezing, but we are unable to open the freeze shelter. ​Contact Vicki Matustik or Jon Nelson for more information.
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Clothing Donations - We receive and distribute clothing donations from members including socks from the youth-sponsored Sock Drive as well as warm and cool weather clothing donated by members. Contact Vicki Matustik for more information.
other ministries
Gifts for the Christ Child - For the past two years, our Christmas giving program, Gifts for the Christ Child, has benefited the Central Texas Food Bank. Taking advantage of matching grants from Food Bank donors, we provided more than 500,000 meals to our neighbors in the Central Texas area.
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PJs for Kids - Working with the Precinct 3 Community Center, families sponsor a child with a new pair of pajamas for the holidays. This program is primarily coordinated through the Preschool and Children’s Ministries Program.
partnering in ministry
We partner with these organizations:
Rio Texas Conference United Methodist Church Disaster Response
Travis County Community Center at Oak Hill.
We Are Blood (Contact Jennifer Freel for upcoming Blood Drive dates at Oak Hill UMC)
