District happenings

Yorktown Ministerial Alliance holds dinner for homebound
Yorktown Ministerial Alliance had an Easter dinner for the homebound and nursing home citizens in Yorktown. The group served 200 meals and delivered 150 meals. It was hosted by New Life Fellowship, and almost all of the churches in town participated.
In April, JOY, the community-based youth ministry is sponsoring the 30 Hour Famine, which helps raise funds through World Vision, a Christian relief organization that provides water, food and clothes and builds schools for children in poverty-stricken or AIDs-affective countries.
The event is to be hosted by the First Presbyterian Church in Yorktown. Leaders expect about 70 kids to participate.
The Ministerial Alliance also hosted a community wide worship service during Lent. 

Churches in Runge partner together to bring in youths
Runge Boy’s Camp planning is in full swing. Leaders are expecting 70 or more boys this year to spend three days at M. Slaughter’s farm and two overnights at Hogg Plum. There will be a project work day this year at one home in Runge.
The Teen Challenge choir will be singing and testifying on Thursday evening. The camp is June 2-6.
Runge UMC assisted St Paul’s Lutheran with the World Day of Prayer service. Runge UMC and Runge First Baptist Church are co-sponsoring a Runge High School baccalaureate service at the Veterans of Foreign War building. It is the first time in a long time for a baccalaureate service in Runge, leaders said. 

Church members raise money to buy gift for service men
Men of St. Peter’s By the Sea UMC, Corpus Christi, purchased 250 copies of Strength for Service to God and Country for local fire fighters, police officers and Scout Leaders. The superintendent of the chapel at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio told the congregation how tattered and marked copies of the book are passed from one person to another among deployed troops. The church raised an additional $240 to send the books to other military installments. The Rev. Harold Onwiler, interim pastor of the church, said this was an accomplishment for men of his 90-member congregation.

Best-selling author to visit Kingsville during May
Janice Higgins, national bestselling author and founder of R.A.G.E. (Release Anger and Guilt for Empowerment, is to visit St. Paul AME Church in Kingsville May 8-14 during the first annual “R.A.G.E. conference.
Higgins coaches youth on how to turn negative behavior into positive behavior. Visit www.janicehiggins.com for more information.