Love Locally
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and delight in the recognition.”
-Alexander Smith, Scottish poet
We partner with a number of local missions through hands-on involvement and financial support. Members of our congregation have embraced these efforts as their own, and these activities are an important part of life at University Park United Methodist Church. To find your area of connection, contact Rebecca Frank.
Amigos Days
Amigos Days is a hands-on ministry in which urban and suburban churches join together with residents of urban neighborhoods to make a difference in their communities.
Agape Not Home Alone
The Agape Memorial Methodist Church in east Dallas provides a Christian-based after-school program for children ages 5-9 whose parents are working during after-school hours. Through the program, approximately 30 children are picked up at school, supervised, fed and tutored until their parents pick them up.
Dallas Bethlehem Center
The Dallas Bethlehem Center is dedicated to providing the children of South Dallas with a positive environment for growth, regardless of their economic status or family situation.
Christ's Foundry
Christ's Foundry serves as both a community center and a center of worship and spiritual growth for the Spanish-speaking community located just north of Love Field.
The Family Place
The mission of The Family Place is to eliminate family violence through intervention and proactive prevention, extensive community education, advocacy and assistance for victims and their families.
Methodism's Breadbasket
Serving southeast Dallas, Methodism’s Breadbasket provides emergency food, prescription drugs and utility and rent assistance to needy families.
North Dallas Shared Ministries
North Dallas Shared Ministries provides appropriate, effective, emergency assistance to low-income clients and patients and helps them to access health and community programs.
Open Door Preschool at Grace UMC
This preschool serves 3- and 4-year-old children coming from non-English speaking families.
Project Transformation
Project Transformation is a grassroots, faith-based nonprofit based in Oak Cliff that provides socially conscious leadership training and ministry exploration for young adults, as well as community-oriented programs for children and youth living in Dallas and surrounding low-income neighborhoods. Each year, UPUMC sponsors Project Transformation interns, and we support annual summer day camps with supplies and volunteers who read with children.
The Wesley-Rankin Center
The Wesley-Rankin Center offers a wide variety of programs to support children, youth, adults, and families in impoverished West Dallas neighborhoods.
The Wilkinson Center
The Wilkinson Center serves the needs of the poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods of East and Southeast Dallas, striving to show God’s love by offering hope and a hand-up to people living in poverty. The Center serves between 15,000 and 20,000 people each year, half of which are children.
