Campaign Update

At the beginning of June, we consecrated The Garden, our new community youth center in Gulfton on our Gethsemane campus.  I was overcome with joy and thanksgiving for what God is doing, because of your generosity and faithfulness!

Because of your support and prayers, we are very near completion with the last of all six Transformed campaign projects.   By the mercies of God, our faithful congregation at St. Luke’s has made possible:

• the opening of a thriving and growing, early childhood education program at our Gethsemane campus in partnership with Small Steps Nurturing Center;
• restoration of the historic, beacon Spire atop our Westheimer campus sanctuary;
• retirement, in full, of $6 million in debt on the Westheimer parking structure built in 2016;
• construction of a larger, better-configured facility for our hallmark Woodshop Ministry led by senior adults, which celebrated its grand opening last month;
• renovation of the Westheimer campus south entrance including a new wrought iron fence, irrigation on the Blanton field, and handsome signage  (soon to be completed, a bit delayed by the City of Houston’s recent W. Alabama roadwork)
• The Garden, a Community Youth Center in our Gulfton neighborhood, on the Gethsemane campus.

My heart is filled with gratitude.  With the funds that have been raised through the Transformed campaign and contributions still coming in, St. Luke’s is truly living our mission “to live and love like Jesus” by investing ourselves in the future of this city where we have been placed, that it may be transformed by his love.

Thank you, again and again, for your generous heart.

In Christ,

Tom Pace III

PS: If you missed the ribbon cutting and would like a tour of The Garden, please contact Ryan Villarreal, Executive Director of The Garden.

The Bible’s story of God’s love for us begins in a garden but it ends in a city – the City of God. Here at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, all our family of ministries share the same vision – A City Transformed by the Love of Jesus. We believe we are here for a reason: to be sent by Jesus, motivated by his love, to bring about God’s preferred future for the city in which we have been placed, and to invite people to be a part of the City of God. Houston is our primary mission field. God tells the prophet, Jeremiah, to “seek the welfare of the city to which I have sent you.” Houston is our home, and we love this city, and our calling is to be an instrument of its transformation.