Are you interested in making a lasting impact on poverty in your community?

Deerfield UMC and the churches of the Watauga Missional Network have been studying how to impact poverty in our county for almost a year now by serving students through the public school system and building partnerships with the schools in our community. To the right side column of this blog, we have posted several organizations in Watauga who are already working to help children and youth be successful in our community. We are looking at new ways to serve through Communities in Schools. Please feel free to click on the links to the right under serving Watauga together to learn more about what our community is doing and wants to do to help children in poverty or children who are at risk in some way. The early work of John Wesley who founded the United Methodist Church was a work that was based on mission. He went to where the people were and looked for the need to try to meet that need. What we are doing is not a new thing, but we are going back to the roots of our  church history to go out to the community to make a difference when children are in need, and when we do that, we bring honor to Christ. Join us.