Travis Park Church

Food, Fellowship & Fun Home Group went to Viva Vegeria, a vegan Mexican restaurant tonight! 🌮

We had a great day today at the The DoSeum!

Today was a great day at VBS! The children sang around a “fire” light, made s’mores, learned about science, and took home goody bags full of special crafts and camp treasures! Tomorrow we head to the Doseum!!!

Today during VBS - the science of bubbles! 🫧

Today Mid Week Manna Bible Study read Mark 4:26-29 and discussed the Parable of the Growing Seed. Where do you see yourself in this parable?

Congratulations to our organist Yi-Hsin Yu! Yi-Hsin passed her American citizenship interview last week and is an American citizen now! The Sanctuary Choir surprise-serenaded her on Sunday morning before worship with "America the Beautiful." Yi-Hsin has been playing at Travis Park Church since March of 2022. She grew up and completed her education in Taiwan; she has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in Piano Performance.

Six days a week Chef Robbie cooks a meal in the Travis Park Church kitchen with his team made up of staff and volunteers. Monday through Friday they load the Corazon van and serve food (more volunteers) at the Corazon Day Center at Grace Lutheran Church. Sunday mornings we open the doors at 8am to serve breakfast with even more volunteers!

Today at VBS the children learned about Ruth. Pictured here is one of the crafts and the activity of gathering “wheat” straws together.

Today the children at VBS learned how to find the presence of a base using an acid. Megan taught them how to find the rocks with calcium carbonate in them by dropping them in vinegar and looking for bubbles - followed by making baking soda and vinegar volcanoes!

Happy 45th anniversary to Maria and Paul Delauter!

Bravo!!!! Today was the last concert of the season for Alamo City Symphony Viva, who played to a packed house this afternoon! Thank you for filling our Sanctuary with beautiful music! 🎶

Rio Texas Annual Conference 2024 - plenary session #2! 🙏

This Sunday at 4pm!!! 🎵

We are happy to welcome Ta Wei to the stage for Classic Moments. Get your tickets at alamocityarts.org for June 9th at 4 PM, Travis Park Church

Pacific Northwest-based pianist Ta Wei Tsai enjoys a multifaceted career as a musician. Equally comfortable as a soloist and a collaborator, Ta Wei has performed in Europe and Asia, as well as some of the most prestigious stages in the U.S., such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Sarasota Opera House, to name a few.
Trained as a classical pianist at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, Ta Wei has since evolved into a fierce advocate for the accessibility of music education for today’s youth. Whether it’s coaching young singers through work as a teaching artist with the Seattle Opera, or sitting alongside students on the floor in public school music classes, Ta Wei truly believes in music education as a way of investing in the well-being of our communities, and a way for our communities to stay connected with the world we live in.

Yesterday Pastor Bob led youth families in building a porch for the Carriker home. The walls are up and now we just need to put on the roof!
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New York bound! 📞 And that’s a wrap on Stock Sale 2024! People can complete their payments on Sunday through the QR code, or use the link below. Shoutout to the Emmaus Youth who courageously spoke on the phone to many people they didn’t know personally. So thankful to be a part of such a brave, loving, and generous church community! - Caroline

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https://travisparkchurch.churchcenter.com/giving/to/emmaus-youth-choir

👏 👏 And that’s a The Circle School wrap! Happy commencement! Take a bow…you all are incredible! 👏👏👏

This Special Sunday is a denomination wide celebration intended to raise awareness that even in a world plagued by war and terror, violence and destruction, people of faith have a clear call to build peace with justice. As United Methodists, our yearning for peace must move us to act.

The United Methodist Social Principles call us to love our enemies, seek justice, and serve as reconcilers of conflict. We insist that the first moral duty of all nations is to work together to resolve by peaceful means every dispute that arises between or among them.

Fifty percent of the funds collected on Peace with Justice Sunday remain in the Annual Conference to develop and strengthen social justice ministries within the local conference. Fifty percent of the donations collected fund national and international peacemaking ministries and grants.

Checks to give "above and beyond" regular giving should be made out to Travis Park Church with the memo "Special Sunday" and we will submit a check from the congregation to the UMC.

Our Youth are hard at work making calls to ask our members to invest in the future by “Purchasing Stock” and making a special donation to Emmaus Youth Choir!

Stock Sales are a yearly tradition and are happening through the end of May! You may be getting a phone call from one of the Emmaus Youth Choir members asking if you would like to buy stock in the youth choir. It’s $10/stock, so if you buy 5 stocks that would be $50. Your donations are tax deductible and will show up on your giving statement.

The youth will be calling between 5-7pm on Wednesdays from the church phone, so don’t screen their calls!

The Emmaus Youth Choir has been working hard with the adult choir to be incredible representatives of Travis Park Church in the world, and you have the opportunity to invest in the future of this church!

Ready to purchase? Tap below:
https://travispark.org/stock/

Today the Congregation held a Church Conference to consider and vote on moving forward with Phase 1 of Sanctuary restoration. Brock Curry read an excerpt from the book, We Finish to Begin…citing a moment from our church history when the congregation chose not only to restore the church after devastation, but also moved to expand beyond. On Pentecost Sunday 2024, the vote was a unanimous yes. Holy Spirit is stirring here, friends. 🔥May our building and our people continue to serve the mission of creating disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

Today was the first Practical Vision Workshop for Travis Park Church, where we cast a vision for 1-3 years into the future: what do we want to see happen as a result of the actions we take? We will share out the beginning stages of this vision - via the email newsletter - with the congregation and we will meet again sometime after Annual Conference to continue the conversation. Date TBD! Thank you to all who showed up and lended their voices today!

✨Joyful Noise! and Cherub Choir Present: Let Your Light Shine ✨
This Sunday is the Children's Musical, where the children will deliver the sermon in musical form! Our Music & Worship Director Caroline has been rehearsing with the Joyful Noise! and Cherub Choir and they cannot wait to sing for you, based on Matthew 5:13-16. After worship, the children will have their end-of-year party; new children are welcome! 🔥

Travis Park Church We are mission-minded and spirit-driven Reconciling United Methodists; we welcome and accept ALL.

What an happy photo from the Sunday Corazon San Antonio Volunteer Prayer Huddle with Pastor Edie! ❤️❤️ Volunteers begin to flow through the doors of Travis Park Church every Sunday morning at 7am to cook breakfast and prepare coffee and other services for our friends. Before the doors open for all at 8am, we gather to pray for all those that may enter through our doors may experience the abundant love of God.

We are thankful for the many hands that serve on Sunday mornings and throughout the week. If you've been looking for your sign to start volunteering, here it is!