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TMF Awards $1.2 Million in Grant Funding

During the spring grant cycle, TMF awarded $1,293,175 to 49 nonprofit organizations and churches serving in one of four areas of focus.

Flexing Muscles of Vitality and Wholeness

Using a cohort-based model, TMF gathered congregations by affinity to learn and experience the five adaptive muscles through C3.

Investing in the Unknown

The metaverse is a digital universe made up of augmented reality, virtual reality, and blockchain. In this digital reality, we expect to find gamers and maybe even a new economy, but what about the church? Will the church be there too?

Courageous Faithfulness

For Grace Ave, Holy Conversations was an opportunity to pause and listen to God’s voice to hear their calling anew within their current context. During this process, they discovered their neighbors were not who they had always imagined them to be.

The Jazz Brunch

"I wanted to create an event that would celebrate donors while they were blessing our ministry. When I was starting out at the Tyler United Wesley Foundation, I prayed to meet people who would want to become part of our Wesley family."

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Wesleyan Investive Awards $200,000 to Spiritual Entrepreneurs

Four Innovative Leaders to be Honored at a Virtual Event on Sunday, May 22

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TMF End-of-year Update Q&A with President Tom Locke

We are pleased to offer this interim report on the 2021 financial results for TMF. The detailed 2021 impact report will be distributed in April, after the auditors’ final report has been submitted and approved by the finance committee of our board.

Thanks Be to God for Jim Turley

My long-time friend and colleague Jim Turley has passed on to his next form of life. For Jim, the journey couldn’t have been very long – he seemed always to have at least one foot in heaven already.

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Six Distinguished Leaders Join TMF Board

The Texas Methodist Foundation (TMF) announced six new board members who will each help support the organization’s work “to empower the Church in the achievement of its God-appointed mission.”