Wellspring

e.g. A United Methodist Community

of Faith
Building for the future in 2011

Reaching People,
Touching Lives,
Caring for Others
extravagant generosity
THE ANNUAL CAMPAIGN
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Life Changing Generosity

From the Stewardship Chair

Greetings, church at the beginning of the school year. She

even mentioned receiving a legacy gift from the
As I began preparing for the family of Barbara Madden following her death.
stewardship emphasis for
2010, God’s message of gen- Generosity—it is life changing for both the giver
erosity kept appearing over and receiver. Hearts are filled with joy, and that joy
and over before me. So, I devoted my meditation is a gift that continues to be passed from one to
time to searching for God’s display of extrava- another. The following pages outline the many
gant generosity, not only during Biblical times ministries that are taking place within the hearts of
but even now, as we face today’s challenging eco- Wellspring. These ministries would not be possible
nomic conditions. How abundantly the acts of ex- without the love and generous financial gifts of
travagant generosity appeared! those attending this community of faith.

The parable of the good Samaritan tells a story of Once she discovered I was a
compassion and generosity as a complete stranger member of Wellspring her face lit
tends to the wounds of another and covers the
expense of lodging during the injured man’s recu- up and she expressed great joy...
peration. As you continue on your walk with Christ, my
During a weekly knitting gathering, I found myself prayer is that each of you will ask yourself, “What
sitting next to the principal of Carver Elementary. will be my mighty act of extravagant generosity?”
When she discovered I was a member of Wellspring Patty Glanzer, Stewardship Chair
UMC, her face lit up, and she expressed great joy
for the school supplies that were donated by the

extravagant generosity “and through us your generosity will

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A Note from Our Pastor

Churches throughout the world are facing chal- The document you are
lenges never seen by previous generations. Well- holding is Well-
spring is no different, yet challenges present spring’s plan of action
opportunities to evaluate, clarify, and define or to engage today’s chal-
redefine our purpose. Challenges give us the lenges. It not only de-
opportunity to ReThink the mission and purpose tails where we are as a
of church. The current Nightline series on “The church, but where we
Ten Commandments” is a vivid witness of how feel God is calling us
desperately the world needs the church. The to go. The difference
growth of Christianity around the globe is a testi- between the two--
mony to the spiritual hunger and the receptiveness where we are, and
to the gospel. where we hope to be--
is your support.
“Church,” however, does not necessarily mean Know that at Well-
telling the world about our own experiences and spring, your support
what we hold sacred. Nor does it mean one sacred can make a difference,
gathering place. Instead, the church must rise to a significant differ-
meet today’s new challenges, and it must do so ence as together we
using whatever means necessary. If it means seek to reach the un-
using technology, we will do it; if it means har- churched from all
nessing the connectivity of the Internet, we will do walks of life. We seek
it; if it means learning and using excellent music to be a welcoming and
from various venues to reach this new generation, accepting community
we will do it; if it means starting a satellite loca- that models the love of the one who died on the
tion, we will do it; if it means focused and targeted cross, Jesus our Lord, for the whole world. As
marketing to reach the people who do not have a your pastor, I am excited about the opportunity to
church home, we will do it. serve Christ’s church at such challenging times
To meet these challenges, Wellspring needs your and proud to be a part of this community of
support. Wellspring needs strong, committed Methodists. I look forward to all that we can do
leaders who are willing to answer their call and together through our extravagant generosity.
walk into uncharted water to fish for souls. We Shalom,
need leaders who will choose to make a difference Debra
in the lives of the people in Georgetown and
around the world.

result in thanksgiving to God” (2nd Corinthians 9:11b, NIV)

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The Hope of Meaningful Worship

Worship Matters

If we at Wellspring believe that the local church is profess their faith through baptism, and continue
the Body of Christ, then Worship is certainly its their journey as an active member of one of our
heart. Worship is the one thing that distinguishes
the church from every other organization. It is the Our goal for 2010 is to touch
one thing that makes us the church. Other organi-
zations may do good work, and they do make a and transform lives through
difference in their community, but if there is no meaningful worship, through
worship of God, then they are not a church; they
are not the body of Christ. relevant teaching and by
Therefore, we at Wellspring seek to become a being a witness to our faith
radically hospitable congregation where all are through serving others.
accepted and all are welcome in the house that God
has created.
small groups, where people come together to study
Our goal for 2010 is to touch and transform lives the word, pray for each other, hold each other
through meaningful worship, through relevant accountable, and support each other. It is through
teaching, and by being a witness to our faith efforts and others that we seek an average worship
through serving others. attendance of 325.
In 2010, we hope to reach out to the unchurched, In 2010, we hope to build on our quarterly Celebra-
tion of the Arts, expanding it to showcase not only
local artists, but also regional artists as they ex-
press their faith in art, music, drama, and dance.
In 2010, we hope to develop a youth praise band
and a children’s choir, seeking to raise up and train
the next generation of musicians.
In 2010, we hope to invite regional and national
speakers like Bishop Violet Fisher, who spoke in
the spring, and Dr. John Hobert, Lois Craddock
Perkins Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School
of Theology in Dallas who will speak November
8th. We plan to develop this into an annual lecture
series featuring national and international leaders.

welcoming single people, young families, and col-

lege students by presenting Christ in a meaningful In 2010 we hope the Worship at Wellspring will
and relevant way in all of our worship services. touch and transform lives, as we reach out to the
We hope that people who are seeking a new way of unchurched, build on our existing program, devel-
life might find faith in Jesus, and that we at Well- op new worship ministries and invite national
spring might model what that faith looks like. We speakers into our midst. Without your financial
hope to help seekers grow in their understanding of support, these hopes will be just a daydream, but
God and the peace one has living a God-honoring with your support they will become a reality that
life. We hope that one day believers might want to can change the world.

extravagant generosity “those who worship God must be led by

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Reaching People
Increase weekly worship attendance by 20%.

Reach young families and the unchurched through worship.

Develop a children’s choir and youth praise team.

Recruit five experienced vocalists for contemporary services.

Provide four special musical events.

Expand the Celebration of the Arts by inviting artists from

around the state.

Develop a lecture series featuring renowned preachers and

profound leaders.

These goals reflect an investment in our commitment to touch

and transform lives and are attainable through an increase in
our current spending for musically accomplished personnel.

the Spirit to worship him according to the truth” (John 4:24b, CEV).
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Relevant Teaching - touching minds and hearts

Christian Education Matters

Children’s Ministry We will expand our efforts to reach more families

This year more than forty young minds got to trav- with children by providing more events in which
el through ancient Rome and explore Paul’s life families can bring their young children, such as
and ministry. They traveled through the Roman our annual Easter Festival. And we will train
marketplace to touch, feel and taste things from volunteers who are young at heart in ways to offer
ordinary life in Paul’s day. Through this experi- their treasured gifts
ence and the magic of terrific adults assisting in to children.
all areas of their Roman journey, the children Youth Ministry
beheld new sights and gained understanding of This year nine chil-
biblical stories. dren learned about
the Christian Faith
We will expand our efforts to and what it means
reach more families with chil- to live out their ex-
dren by providing more pression of faith as
a United Methodist.
events where family can They were con-
come and bring firmed into the
their young children church and have
been entrusted to
We will continue creating new places and spaces your nurturing care.
so that children can travel to sacred, ancient terri- Our confirmation
tories and experience their sights and sounds. To class for 2010 has
begun, and we are
excited to have
members from Adult Sunday School classes be a
part of teaching our youth.
Both our senior high and junior high youth had
transformative experiences on Mission Trips to
Southaven, MS and Waxahachie, TX. Their lives
were touched as they offered help to others by
cleaning horse stables, painting houses, clearing
away debris, building wheelchair ramps and steps,
and performing other labors of loves on behalf of
those who could not do those things for themselves.
Our youths have shown the same generosity here
at home as they visited residences of The Wesley-
accomplish this goal, we will continue our Godly an Nursing Home on Scenic Drive. Your generos-
Play model of teaching for younger children, while ity has been tremendous as you supported their
older children will have a separate classroom and fund-raisers and hosted them in your homes for a
learn stories from the New Testament about Jesus Progressive Dinner.
and his journey, allowing children to explore what Next year we will continue our efforts to reach
it means to be a friend of Jesus (sojourner). other youths in Georgetown by increasing our

extravagant generosity “keep your father's commands and

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s
small group studies, developing more learning and
fellowship events, and expanding our mission in-
volvement locally and nationally.
Adult Education
“What does this mean…I still do not understand why
it happened?” It was her story as she searched for
answers to her son’s death, asking why did this
happen? Her story is one of many which challenge
us with questions we cannot answer alone and so
believers and seekers gather together to search and
study the Sscriptures. It is a custom handed down to
us throughout the centuries. Acts 2:42 tells us that
early Christians “devoted themselves to the apostles’
teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread
and the prayers.” Today, we still develop and nur-
ture our faith by gathering to study God’s word.
This year we have gathered to study through Wednes-
day Night Bible Study, Sun City Bible Study, Lay In 2010, we are planning to continue developing
Academy, Sunday School and other special studies. studies which can cultivate fruitful lives by provid-
Through our short-term and special studies, more ing seminars and lecture series. This goal can be
than 160 hearts and minds have been touched and accomplished through an increase in our current
challenged. spending.

Touching Lives
“Religious education is at the core of our Methodist day lives, or to the tremendous loss or hardship so
heritage and our Christian life. It is through the many of us encounter? How are children to be
teaching ministry that we assist children, youth taught to value a faith that society sometimes
and adults in shaping their own spiritual journey. seems to have forgotten?
It is our charge as Christians, to nurture others and
to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. This In the last part of the Great Commission (Matthew
includes asking the challenging questions about 28:18-20) Jesus commissions us to a ministry of
the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, “teaching them to observe all that I commanded
deepening our relationships with family and you.” It is not enough to just be taught what Jesus
friends and growing in our relationship with God. said, his words were clear, “teaching to observe all
These questions arise in childhood, in those years that I commanded you.” It is this teaching
of teenage angst, and throughout the many ministry that Wellspring strives to honor as it
challenges of adulthood. The scriptures are there provides a safe place for all who seek the
to guide us, to comfort us, and to provoke us to a sacredness of their own individual journies
deeper level of human experience. But what do towards wholeness as together we can learn to
they all mean? How do they pertain to our modern better understand God’s purpose in our lives.

do not forsake your mother's teaching.” (Proverbs 6:20, NIV)

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Serving the Community, World and Church

Mission Matters

This year volunteers from Wellspring took up participate in a Habitat Build, and through your
paintbrushes, hammers, glue guns, nails and generosity we provided lunch for more than forty
climbed ladders to help build a Habitat house in people. In addition, our support of the Caring
Georgetown and make home repairs in Texas and Place has provided food to replenish their pantry
Mississippi. The work of their hands renewed as they share with those who are hungry in our city.
hope and restored lives. We also responded to lives
that were shattered in the wake of natural disasters
by delivering flood buckets to Sager Brown and Our baskets overflowed
sending monies to devastated areas of our world. with notebook paper,
As the economy in the US slowed, so have econo- notebooks, pencils,
mies around the world, leaving more people with- pens, folders, and after
out food and shelter and other basic necessities of
life. Through your support, Wellspring has
school snacks.
helped others meet their basic needs.
Next year we are planning to enhance our impact We were saddened by the death of Marty Rose,
on the lives of others through sharing in mission who led us in our mission work with Carver Ele-
work in Georgetown and around the globe. mentary School and the Willie Hall Center After
School Program. However, the back-to-school
Serving the Community – Birthday parties bring drive for school supplies that she began was still
smiles and laughter, and in March sixty people fulfilled. Our baskets overflowed with notebook
from Wellspring attended a party at Wesleyan paper, notebooks, pencils, pens, folders, and after-
Nursing Home school snacks. Through your support, our minis-
where guests and try to these children is making a difference in their
residents enjoyed lives.
bright balloons,
the joy of laugh- Serving the World – Through our connections and
ter, and great our support, we have touched lives throughout
cookies. People Texas and around the world. We are sustaining
in nursing homes ministries in small towns and villages by providing
often feel alone assistance for leadership so that others may hear
and forgotten, the gospel proclaimed. Our world has become
but through this more globally focused, and so must the church.
mission we give This year leaders from our church family went to
Wesleyan resi- other parts of the world to share in mission work.
dents warm Rev. Don Goodwin participated in a Habitat Build
memories of a in South America , and Stan and Jennifer Mauldin
loving touch traveled with friends to Africa for mission work.
from people who Wellspring must seek ways to connect its ministry
have shown they and mission to particular places and spaces around
care. the globe.
In May we also Serving our Church – Freshly brewed coffee and
went into the buttery popcorn are just some of inviting smells
community to greeting us in Munch and Mingle on Sunday

extravagant generosity “Never be lacking in zeal,

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mornings. This hospitality is made possible by members
offering themselves in service to others within the church.
Our church provides many opportunities to serve within the
walls through ministries such as Congregational Care, Ste-
phen Ministers, Close Friends, and the Prayer Shawl Minis-
try. These ministries—as well as church leaders and
committee members, folders, money counters, front desk
receptionists, Fall Festival committees, and many other vol-
unteers--ensure the church’s ability to be effective in its
ministry and witness.

Caring for People

Believer's are called to do Mission work. The much to be done at home? Mission work can be
author of James writes "faith, if it has no works, is thought of as acts of Kindness and acts of Mercy.
dead," (James 2:17, NASB). Putting its faith into Acts of Kindness involves things we do for
action, Wellspring will, in 2010, reach out into the ourselves and are generally done without a faith
Georgetown community to find unmet needs. component for fellow believers. Acts of Mercy
But we will go beyond our community and into are what we do for non-believers to relieve their
the world, supporting ministries in small towns suffering. We do these things in the name of Jesus.
and villages by providing assistance for leadership When acts of mercy go deeper and address the root
so that others may hear the gospel proclaimed. cause of the suffering, it is called a Justice ministry.
Some may wonder why does the church, when In 2010, Wellspring seeks to go wherever it is
there is so much need locally, go beyond itself? needed to serve in acts of Kindness, Mercy and
Why does the church go beyond the community it Justice, and do so in the name of Jesus.
exists in, and out into the world when there is so
Santa visits “Close Friends”

keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.” (Romans 12:11)

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Our Ministry needs for 2010

Reaching People through

Meaningful Worship
This budget item reflects the goal of becoming a
radically hospitable congregation where all are
welcome in the house that God has created. Our
goal is to touch and transform lives through mean-
ingful worship, relevant teaching and witnessing
to our faith through service to others.

Total Worship Budget: $376,800

(% of pastor’s salary, pastor’s utilities, pastor’s
expenses, pastor’s insurance, office administrator, Worship Education Mission Administration
music director, continuing education, janitor, wor-
ship supplies, music, janitorial supplies, telephone,
copier, insurance, facility maintenance, debt service, utilities)

Touching Lives through Relevant Teaching

Christian Education is an essential part of developing and nurturing our faith. We come together for
Wednesday Night Bible Study, Sun City Bible Study, the Lay Academy, Sunday School and other special
studies to grow in our faith. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the
breaking of bread and the prayers. (Acts 2:42)

Children Ministry Budget Total: $46,700

(nursery workers, children minister, VBS, teaching materials, family events)
Youth Ministry Budget Total: $45,300
(youth minister, events, teaching and training materials)
Adult Education Budget Total: $7,000
(materials and special guest lecturers)

Total Teaching Budget: $99,000

(children’s, youth and adult ministry)

extravagant generosity “through us your generosity will result

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Caring for Others through Mission

Touching and impacting lives in Georgetown and throughout the world.
Serving the Community
Carver Elementary School, Willie Hall Center after School Program,
Habitat for Humanity, the Caring Place; Wesleyan Nursing Home
Serving the World
Through our connection support we have touched lives throughout Tex-
as and around the world. We are sustaining ministry in small towns and
villages by providing assistance for leadership so that others may hear
the gospel proclaim.
Serving our Church
Wellspring provides many opportunities to serve within the walls through ministries such as Congrega-
tional Care, Stephen Ministers, Close Friends, and the Prayer Shawl Ministry. These ministries along
with the committed folders, church leaders and committee members, money counters, front desk recep-
tionists, Fall Festival committees, and many other volunteers insure the church’s ability to be effective
in ministry and witness.
Total Mission Budget: $88,650

Administration
Support Services Budget Total: $78,493
Administrative and Support Staff Budget Total: $77,560
Custodial Services Budget Total: $8,000
Facilities Budget Total: $11,497

Total Administration Budget: $175,550

Proposed 2010 Budget: $740,000

It is reachable with your support. $200+
$150-$200
$100-$150
$75-100
$50-$75
$30-$50
$20-$30
All dollar amounts represent weekly giving.
$10-$20

in thanksgiving to God.” (2 Corinthians 9:11b, NIV)

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“Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.”
(Job 8:7, NIV)

Wellspring United Methodist Church

6200 Williams Drive
Georgetown, Texas 78633
930-5959
www.wellumc.org

Rev. Debra Crumpton, Senior Pastor

Patty Glanzer, Stewardship Chair

extravagant generosity
THE ANNUAL CAMPAIGN