In 2024, MUMC celebrated its 150 Year Anniversary as a church. As part of the celebration, we shared stories from our history online, in...

Our church has long cared for the members of our community. Due to that, Rev. Tracey Beadle asked the Men’s Wednesday Bible Study and...

I can’t begin to recall all the people I have met in our community all the way from Georgetown to San Marcos who when I mentioned our...

The roots of contemporary praise music at Manchaca United Methodist Church stretch back 30 years. Around that time there began a trend...

Imagine a woman sitting alone in her upstairs bedroom alone and suffering from the pain of a recent surgery when the doorbell rings. She...

Similar to most children who grow up in this church, I imagine, I have a lot of amazing memories from Vacation Bible School over the...

Texting, emailing and phone calls are wonderful, but it is so very special to receive a beautiful handwritten card from someone who...

When I first walked into the MUMC Craft Group it was a beehive of activity in my want-to-be artist heaven. Bins filled with beautifully...

The band Gungor sings, "You make beautiful things out of the dust....You make beautiful things out of us." This melody comes to mind when...

Thanks to the vision and creative talents of Suzanne and Dennis Holcomb, the Sanctuary choir (along with a few other musical members of...

Hidden Windows (After much inspection and consideration, this author is speculating that the windows in the hallway next to the Choral...

There are three areas that were originally planned to have stained glass windows that are hidden from most of the congregation’s view...

You must look up to see the beauty of the stained glass with their white lines embellished with golden lines in the form of curves and...

Our present sanctuary was built between two existing buildings. This created the “bell room” that has no windows and a parlor with...

She had been working with stainglass for 10 years when MUMC approached Martina Hill about designing and installing the stain glass...

Did you know that our church has both a bell and steeple? No, the bell is not located in the  steeple, but in the small tower just west...

MUMC has a long history of congregant support to expand the church campus and refurbish the existing structure. One recent project was...

The sanctuary that was begun in 1956 served the Manchaca area for about 30 years.  Season after season went by in the beautiful, cozy...

My husband and I had just recently discovered MUMC when we found out about the Contemporary Services held in the Family Life Center. At...

When the church decided we needed a bigger sanctuary, the question was, “How do we pay for it?” We hired a retired pastor, Wimpy Smith,...