Thanks to our dedicated team of volunteers and Central Dallas Ministries, the HCUMC Summer Lunch Program helped provide nutritious meals for children in our community. No child should be hungry.

Thank you for making a difference this summer!
- HCUMC Mission Committee

Thank you coordinators and volunteer groups

Therese Campbell
Johnny Swaim
Jan Barnes
Susan Kasten
Kay Dowell
Gail Padwick

Boys Scouts of America
Fannie Mae
Young Mens Service League
Bent Tree Bible and Prince of Peace for their participation serving McWhorter Elementary.

Thank you Paul Mitchell for providing Free Back to School Hair Cuts!

 Thank you Erin Lester for designing our logo!

Over 70% of the Children in our neighborhood are on free and reduced lunches during the school year.

Holy Covenant United Methodist Church (HCUMC) is partnering with Central Dallas Ministries and the Texas Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) to bring food to our neighbors during the summer months.  This year HCUMC has formed a partnership with Bent Tree Bible and Prince of Peace Lutheran Church to provide volunteers to help with food distribution to reach more children.

Program Dates: June 7 to August 20 (Closed July 5)
Serving Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Program Benefits:
• Provides nutritious meals to needy children under the age of 18, at NO COST to participating families
• Gives children the food they need to learn, play and grow
• Helps families stretch their food buying dollar
• Keeps children mentally engaged so the return to school, ready to learn

Feeding Sites:
• Davis Elementary School - 3205 Dorchester Drive, Carrollton, TX 75007-3059
• Furneaux Elementary School - 3210 Furneaux Lane, Carrollton, TX 75007-3500
• McWhorter Elementary School – 3678 Timberglen Road, Dallas, Texas 75287
• Holy Covenant United Methodist Church – 1901 E. Peters Colony Road, Carrollton, TX 75007
• Peters Colony Learning Center – Enrolled Site

How can you receive a lunch for your children?
• Come to a feeding site, and join us for lunch
• Call the church office for more information 972-492-2432

What You Can Do:
• Volunteer!  Give as little as one hour of your time to help.  Online registration is available and will outline the opportunities for you and your family or organization to help
• Clerical Opportunities are available for people who are not available during the day

To find a feeding site in your area visit http://netx.squaremeals.org/snp/summerfood/parents/index.html

My name is Elise Webb and I am Holy Covenant’s Administrative Assistant, a position which gave me a unique perspective of our Summer Lunch Program last year. 

I know the numbers involved:  150 volunteers served over 10,000 lunches to over 500 children in our community.

I know the motivation involved:  Our mission committee saw a need in our own area for hungry children to be fed. 

We arrived early to our site each day to get set up and prepared to hand out boxed lunches.  Most days, there were children there – waiting for us.  Some walked from their homes near by; some were driven by parents; and some came on bikes. 

One little guy road his bike on the sidewalk – keeping his distance – until he could check us out from a far.  He finally rode up and when checking off his name from the list, it was noted there were two boys in this family - a 9 year old and 13 year old.  Assuming this little guy was the 9 year old – we asked if he was going to take a lunch to his big brother.  With a big grin he said “I am the big brother!”  That became his nickname for the rest of the week.

 There is a mix of cultures in the group of children.  Sweet, soft spoken voices with some difficult last names made checking the children off the list a little challenging.  After a few day of scanning the lists for names, one little girl came up and said promptly says “my name begins with O!”