Texas State United Campus Ministry students helped people at the laundromat while remembering Jesus’ foot-washing and last supper during Maundy Thursday. Students spent time talking with the mix of families, singles, and college students at the laundromat.

They helped others fold, wash clothes, and shared a pizza. Students hosted a table set up with children’s activities for the children.

Friends from El Buen Pastor UMC joined the students at the laundromat. The evening closed around one of the folding tables with Holy Communion. Several joined in worship.

"Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days," says the book of Ecclesiastes. It has to be true if it’s in the Bible, right?

Well, the bread Rio Texas churches have been casting on the waters came home last week.

Johnson City UMC, in partnership with Hill Country District churches, collected used clothing and turned it over to the Seventh-day Adventists’ Community Service Disaster Response center in Keene, Texas.

The Disaster Used Clothing Drive, conducted every Lent, spread to churches all around Central Texas.

The Adventists make the rounds of participating churches by picking up the bags and boxes and taking the clothes to their warehouse where they are sorted, sanitized, packed and stored until a disaster requires used clothing. They load their trucks and are wait for the morning when the survivors come out of the shelters.

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