Dinner Bell for April 3rd, 2024
At Christus Health, helping you achieve your best health is more than a goal. Christus Health is a Catholic not for profit health system comprised of more than 600 centers, hospitals, clinics, and urgent care facilities in Texas. Christus Mother Frances is one of its centers and is located in Sulphur Springs. As Dinner Bell feeds and nourishes those who need a meal and Christus with its goal to improve nutrition and the availability...
Dinner Bell for March 27th, 2024
It is our Easter Meal with Community Partner Clayton Homes!!! Clayton Homes has been a Community Partner with the Dinner Bell Ministry every year since the Easter meal in 2018, even donating the hams that are the centerpiece of the meal. Locating in Sulphur Springs in January, 1977 in a temporary office, the first family homes rolled off the production line in August. In 27 years, Clayton Homes has become one of the major...
Dinner Bell Menu For March 20, 2024
The Sojourners Sunday School class at the First United Methodist Church was organized in the early 2000’s from the former Gleaners Class that disbanded when the members became empty nesters! Meeting in the parlor the class members remain dedicated to each other and their concerns. However they do give freely of their time, talents and financial resources to the many projects and programs of the First United Methodist Church....
Dinner Bell Menu For March 13, 2024
The Community Partner for Dinner Bell this week is no stranger to our feeding ministry. Fine Christian Ladies has a passion to help those persons needing meals and willingly sees that meals reach ones needing them the most. They give and serve more than once a year. Dinner Bell thanks the Fine Christian Ladies for their selflessness. GRAB and GO with a meal from the distribution area under the covered driveway on the Northeast...
Dinner Bell Menu For February 28, 2024
The Messengers Sunday School Class of the First United Methodist Church was organized in 1955, 69 years ago! Membership was full of fairly newly married couples and a few single persons. Sadly most of those original members are no longer alive, but their memories and good works outlive them. Jackie Brice is one of the originals who still attends on Sunday with a big smile on her face! Dan Bonner, Judge Kearney Brim, and Christine...
Dinner Bell Menu For February 21, 2024
Money Law Firm and First American Title became Community Partners in 2023 and have continued that sponsorship with the Dinner Bell Feeding Ministry into 2024 with multi times each year. Thank you Brent and team for making sure “Persons Who Need A Meal” in this area receive that sustenance. GRAB and GO with a meal from the distribution area under the covered driveway (porte cochere) on the Northeast corner of the...
AARP Tax-AIDE Officially Begins
February 7, 2024 – The AARP Tax-AIDE program officially saw their first clients of the 2023 tax season this week. This volunteer powered service is available to anyone regardless of age or residence. Volunteers from as far as Greenville traveled to the Sulphur Springs Public Library to help people file their Federal Income Tax. They are not the only ones drawn to the Celebration City, clients are known to drive from as far as...
Dinner Bell Menu For February 7, 2024
Christus Mother Frances became a Community Partner with the Dinner Bell Ministry in 2017! That entity assists with feeding the community five times yearly which aligns with one of the goals of the Hopkins County unit of the hospital system with its commitment to improve food insecurity in its area if influence. GRAB and GO with a meal from the distribution area under the covered driveway on the Northeast corner of the First United...
Dinner Bell Menu For January 31, 2024
The Brian Toliver Family and dealerships in Northeast Texas is the Community Partner for this week. The family supports and volunteers in schools, healthcare and church giving hours of service to these entities. GRAB and GO with a meal from the distribution area under the covered driveway (porte cochere) on the Northeast corner of the First United Methodist Church campus starting around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday. MENU Hamburger Steak...
Texans face a bigger burden than ever to pay rent, study finds
By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune Jan. 25, 2024 – Texas renters are under more pressure from the state’s high housing costs than ever, according to a Harvard University study released Thursday. More than half of the state’s 4.2 million renter households spend too much of their income on keeping a roof over their heads and the lights on, a report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies shows. Some 51% of Texas renters...
