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4 symbol of the achor: Christias adopted the achor as a symbol of hope i future existece because the achor was regarded i aciet times as a symbol of safety. For Christias, Christ is the ufailig hope of all who believe i him.

5 H E B R E W S 6 : 1 9 "WHICH HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, BOTH SURE AND STEADFAST." To our frieds i Texas, Twelve years ago, you took i hudreds Soo, home will feel like home agai, of thousads of us. You opeed your eve if it seems like a lifetime away. homes, closets, ad kitches. You foud We'll be battlig for football recruits schools for our kids ad jobs to tide us uder the Friday ight lights. You'll tell over. Some of us are still there. Ad us to stop tryig to barbeque. We'll tell whe the rest of the world told us ot you to lay off your crawfish boil ad to rebuild, you told us ot to liste. come have the real thig. But for as Keep our city ad traditios alive. log as you eed, we're here to help. Now, o two storms are the same. The way of life you love the most will Comparig risig waters is a waste of carry o. You taught us that. Your eergy whe you eed it most. But courage ad care cotiues to ispire kow this - i our darkest hour, we our whole city. We could't be more foud peace ad a scorchig, bright proud to call you our eighbors, our light of hope with our frieds i Texas. frieds, ad our family. Texas forever. Ad we hope you'll fid the same i us. Our doors are ope. Our clothes come We're with you, i every size. There's hot food o the stove, ad our cabiets are wellstocked. We promise to always share what we have.

6 YOU SHALL BE CALLED THE REPAIRER OF THE BREACH, THE RESTORER OF STREETS TO LIVE IN. ISAIAH 58:12 letter from the board chair ad presidet My husbad ad I wet to bed the ight of August 26, worried for our coastal eighbors but relieved we had escaped the worst of the storm. Whe I woke up ad looked out the widow the ext morig, my eighbor was stadig i the driveway, a stricke look o his face, with water up to his kees. Overight, our safe bucolic eighborhood had become a swarmig sea of icomprehesible dager, hurt, ad loss. Dear frieds, O August 25, 2017, whe Harvey slammed the Texas coast, the lives of so may people suddely fell apart, some i a istat, others i a matter of hours ad days. All shared a sese of disorietatio, helplessess ad utter loss. People from Rockport to Victoria to Housto became part of what Margaret Feiberg calls the fellowship of the afflicted, a group oe of wats to joi but all of us eed, at oe time or aother. Whether you lost every belogig ad every emblem of your history from the ferocity of wid ad rai, or whether you are a 42-year-old mother whose feverish visit to the ER resulted i the ubearable ews of stage four cacer, lives take heartbreakig turs, futures suddely caree ito ucharted, terrifyig waters. Ad you wat to kow, we all wat to kow, Where is God i all of this? The uiversal questio asked by most every perso overcome by adversity, strugglig to stay afloat ad scaig the horizo for a achor of hope. The people of New Orleas most assuredly members of that fellowship set a aswer to their afflicted Texas eighbors: We are with you. Havig experieced profoud loss ad sorrow ad life-givig love ad compassio their empathetic respose was oe of ope-armed solidarity.

7 That is TMF s message to Harvey survivors ad to our costituets throughout Texas ad New Mexico idividuals, families, churches ad other oprofits who respoded with creative ad courageous acts of grace: We are with you, ivestig our resources i rebuildig ad healig lives ad helpig ad empowerig you to be the presece of God, the hads ad feet of Christ, to those i eed. Like may others, i the immediate aftermath of the storm, TMF set a doatio to the Rio Texas ad Texas cofereces ad galvaized others to doate. We implemeted a disaster relief assistace program to existig loas i those areas to ease the burde of debt repaymet. TMF s grats miistry awarded grats to orgaizatios o the frot lies of Harvey relief ad recovery ad cotiues to egage with churches ad others to sustai the flow of aid as support tapers over time while eeds remai acute ad ogoig. the church is still there, steadfastly evisioig ad workig toward a future truly differet from the preset. Those are the stories you will read about i this aual report. A Amarillo couple reachig ito their savigs to exted a life preserver to those they will ever meet whose lives have bee obliterated by a calamitous storm. A metor befriedig a icarcerated youth caught i a vortex of poverty, crime, ad hopelessess, ad showig up, week after week, moth after moth, restorig imagiatio for a differet life. Courageous parters i miistry who have goe with their eighbors ito the messiess ad brokeess of life ad provided life-givig achors of hope, love, ad faith that poit the way forward. missios, we glimpse the sacred. We are eormously grateful for every door, ivestor, cogregatio, clergy ad lay leader whose relatioships mold ad shape ad empower us to live ad work as God s people i the world, ot apart from the world. Where is God? The truth that we teach ad believe i the church is that God is preset wheever love is o display. Where there is goodess, God is there. We are with you. How ca we help you be a achor of hope ad steadfast love? Churches ad other o-profits throughout the affected areas ad the state mobilized immediately, wadig through murky storm waters to rescue lives ad possessios, doig masks to muck out homes, fidig food ad housig for the tes of thousads who were displaced, ad doatig moey ad other resources to provide for dire, immediate eeds. I the wake of disaster, they were a lifelie of hope ad ow, moths sice the dramatic rescues ad as public cocer ad support wae, Isaiah says that God s people will be called repairers of the breach ad restorers of streets to live i. As we have partered together with followers of Christ to respod to Harvey ad to discer ad live out God s purposes, we have see both descriptios i actio. We repair what is broke. We restore commuity. Is t that a missio of the church we ca all embrace? Wheever TMF helps empower the Church i the achievemet of her God-appoited KAY YEAGER Board Chair TOM LOCKE Presidet

8 Marilye Robiso i her ovel Gilead captures the essece of our call: THEOLOGIANS TALK ABOUT A PREVENIENT GRACE THAT PRECEDES GRACE ITSELF AND ALLOWS US TO ACCEPT IT. I THINK THERE MUST ALSO BE A PREVENIENT COURAGE THAT ALLOWS US TO BE BRAVE THAT IS, TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS MORE BEAUTY THAN OUR EYES CAN BEAR, THAT PRECIOUS 2017 key accomplishmets THINGS HAVE BEEN PUT INTO OUR HANDS AND TO DO NOTHING TO HONOR THEM IS TO DO GREAT HARM. AND THEREFORE, THIS COURAGE ALLOWS US, AS THE OLD MEN SAID, TO MAKE OURSELVES USEFUL.

9 Committed to Stewardig Resources toward Life-givig Commuity We are with you. Here are some of the ways life-givig chage was eacted durig The church s respose to Harvey is represetative of the church at its best: leadig the way as a aget of healig ad hope, repairig the world, restorig commuity. We expect the church to act swiftly ad decisively to tragic evets, but the truth is, critical eeds surroud us at all times. TMF s missio is to empower the church to aswer those eeds i life-givig ways, both immediate ad lastig. Whe discussig TMF s respose to this disaster with staff o Moday morig after the storm made ladfall, Presidet Tom Locke said, I wat us to be bold i respodig to these eeds. We thak all of our parters i miistry who have made it possible for us to respod boldly to this crisis, ad we ecourage others to be bold i respodig to the ogoig eeds of Harvey survivors ad i reachig out to others who eed a achor of hope ad steadfast love. Durig 2017 TMF cotributed more tha $1 millio i support to the cofereces, churches, ad ot-for-profits i the coastal bed of Texas. o o o o As a iitial respose toward addressig the acute eeds resultig from the storm, TMF doated $200,000 to disaster relief efforts - $100,000 each to the Rio Texas Coferece ad the Texas Coferece. TMF s Grats Miistry awarded $302,000 i grats to 16 churches ad ot-for-profits to assist with immediate relief eeds ad ogoig recovery. TMF also facilitated $21,000 i olie doatios from 55 costituets to be used to help those affected by the hurricae i the Rio Texas ad Texas cofereces. To aid i the recovery effort, TMF implemeted a disaster relief assistace program that provided a reductio i iterest rate ad optios to defer paymet for up to four moths to all borrowers i the affected areas. TMF ecouraged churches uharmed by the storm to use their savigs from the reduced iterest rate to help eighborig churches ad commuities heal ad rebuild after this disaster. I a sese, this was a way for TMF to provide fiacial aid, through them, to those most i eed. This restructurig resulted i a estimated $570,000 that remaied i the commuities served by these churches. Other key accomplishmets that have led or will lead to outcomes of aswerig real huma eeds, healig lives, ad makig commuities whole iclude: Begiig Jauary 1, 2017, TMF successfully implemeted our role as maagig aget for the Uited Methodist Developmet Fud (UMDF), a atioal leder to Uited Methodist churches with $120 millio i assets. I additio, durig 2017 the boards of UMDF ad TMF voted for TMF to trasitio from maagig aget to cotrollig aget of UMDF, effective Jauary 1, This collaboratio has positively impacted Geeral Board of Global Miistries ability to fulfill its purpose to coect the Church i missio aroud the world. The boards of TMF ad Heartsprig Methodist Foudatio voted uaimously to joi forces. Heartsprig, with curret assets of approximately $85 millio, has served the Texas Coferece sice While the joiig will ot be fialized util after the 2018 Texas Aual Coferece, TMF is lookig forward to brigig Heartsprig ito the TMF orgaizatio. Cosolidatig the tagible resources, strog leadership ad commo missio of both orgaizatios will ehace the ability of our Uited Methodist commuity to fulfill God s purposes. TMF received a grat of $1 millio from Lilly Edowmet Ic. s Thrivig i Miistry Iitiative to help establish TMF s Courageous Leadership Imperative (CLI). The CLI is a leadership platform for otable leaders at the ceter ad the edge of the UMC who are i positios to leverage chage. Desiged ad implemeted by TMF s Leadership Miistry, the CLI will build leaders capacity for sustaied impact by etworkig them with other leaders ad emboldeig them through peer learig ad support. Buildig o a partership that bega i 2003, Lilly Edowmet has awarded four major grat awards to TMF totalig $5 millio. These grats have eabled TMF to icrease its ivestmet i UMC leaders ad create ew opportuities for adaptive learig ad chage. What these metrics do ot reveal are the breadth ad depth of relatioships with Harvey survivors ad with all of our costituets throughout Texas ad New Mexico ad, icreasigly, across the atio, that remid us that it truly is about all of us, together. Life-givig commuity is the way forward.

10 WE HOPE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS. HOPE CONNECTS ME TO YOU, YOU TO ME, AND ALL OF US TO EACH OTHER. GREGG TAYLOR buildig kiship ad coectios before ad after harvey Charles Rotramel, CEO, ad Gregg Taylor, pastor ad commuity architect, with revisio Housto youth

11 By Rev. Gregg Taylor, revisio Housto, a TMF grat recipiet Our work at revisio Housto is to break the cycle of discoectio amog our most isolated youth. Most of these kids are experiecig isolatio, with o adults to speak of i their lives. May of them are ivolved i the juveile justice system. We coect oe kid at a time to a carig adult ad positive peers, ad the to a overall program ad resources to help them imagie more hopeful pathways. We wat to empower them to imagie. It s ot us sayig you eed to do this or that. Rather, the presece of a carig adult, someoe who will just show up, pay attetio ad liste, has a profoud effect o a kid s life. It takes a lot of differet parters to make this work. We help create commuities of kiship where people coect i relatioships that would ot otherwise happe. Whe all is said ad doe, kids experiece trasformatio as do the adult voluteers, commuities ad churches. Barriers break dow, biases are challeged, ad eve shifted eough to create a relatioal coectio that we thik God imagies for all of us. We are actually coected together i this life. ReVisio bega as a partership with St. Luke s Uited Methodist Church, Gethsemae campus i Southwest Housto, St. Marti s Episcopal Church, ad the Harris Couty Juveile Probatio Departmet. The idea was that you have two big steeple churches that have t doe aythig together ad a govermet agecy, ad together everyoe evisios how we break this cycle of youth discoectio ad violece. Presetly, we have a umber of church parters i differet stages of developmet icludig Strawbridge Uited Methodist Church, Bear Creek Uited Methodist Church, ad First Uited Methodist Church Pasadea. Ad I cotiue to build those church parters all across Harris Couty, ad beyod. Kids ages are referred to us through the Harris Couty Juveile Probatio Departmet. Most of their families are hagig by a thread, ad they come from very destabilized home eviromets. Whe Hurricae Harvey hit, those threads sapped. There were kids who rode out the storm locked up i juveile detetio facilities ad did t have ay commuicatio with their families or kow where their families were. We were the oly orgaizatio i Housto that was asked to come i ad work with these kids, especially those most severely affected by the storm. Ad we received may more referrals tha we re used to i a moth s time. We were able to work with our church parters, TMF ad others to come together to create a supportive structure of relatioships ad resources for these families ad kids who were o probatio, ad to help them meet some basic eeds for their families. We ve helped secure beds, food, clothig ad school supplies. But more importat tha all of that was the chace to eter ito relatioships with discoected youth ad the coect them to someoe who cares ad with a orgaizatio that would ot give up o them. We do t yet kow how log recovery from Hurricae Harvey will take. Some families ca t go back to where they were stayig. Wage earers who rely o daily work to put food o the table may have to relocate to fid work ad some kid of stability. Because of this, we aticipate seeig ad servig more discoected youth ad more childre i the child welfare system. The ripple effect of Hurricae Harvey could affect a lifetime for a lot of these kids ad families, reiforcig the cycle of icarceratio, poverty, violece ad discoectio. This is the cycle we are o a missio to break. We are grateful to parter with TMF because their support over the years has helped us do thigs we could ot do aloe. We eed parters that are aliged with the missio ad what it meas to be the church. The partership ad believig i us, that s what keeps us goig.

12 BEING WILLING TO RECEIVE IS A KEY FIRST STEP. GOD IS THE GIVER. WE ARE ALL RECEIVERS. CHARLES KING amarillo couple exteds geerosity to texas coast eighbors Whe asked why he ad his wife Ja made a gift to TMF s Grats Miistry i support of Harvey relief ad recovery, Charles Kig described a rough illustratio: Draw a vertical popsicle stick with God at the top ad me at the bottom ad a heart i the middle, he istructed. That s where the relatioship begis as a willig receiver of God s grace, acceptace, ad love. Beig willig to receive is a key first step. The draw a horizotal stick with a itersectig heart i the middle, he cotiued. That s what God wats us to do take God s love ad grace, with outstretched arms, ad exted it out ito the commuity ad the world. That s the meaig of the cross. Simply put, as you have received, so are you able to give. God has give God s ow life to erich ad trasform the lives of others. We should do the same.

13 Ispired by Grats Miistry Director Jacki Lammert s descriptio of how lives are beig chaged through the work of TMF grat recipiets, Charles cotacted Jacki after Hurricae Harvey slammed the Texas coast ad dropped historic raifall, displacig thousads of families i the affected areas. I kew the eeds were acute ad overwhelmig ad wated to help but also wated our gift to be put to the best, highest use, he explaied. Jacki s descriptio of the Grats Miistry s commitmet to carefully allocatig resources to outcomes ad systemic chage just cofirmed my experiece with TMF as a orgaizatio that optimizes resources. Eve i this eviromet of disaster relief, Ja ad I were cofidet our gift would be used to make lastig chage i people s lives, Charles observed. I ca t say eough how much we value the geerosity of doors like Charles ad Ja, said Jacki. As a Housto residet, I was i the midst of uimagiable loss, everywhere I looked. Receivig a call from Amarillo offerig a gift to help make families ad commuities up ad dow the coast whole agai, was a lifelie. Gifts like those from the Kigs, alog with TMF fuds, eabled the Grats Miistry to award $302,000 to 16 churches ad ot-for-profits to assist with relief ad recovery eeds. Ad, make o mistake, this effort is goig to require years, Jacki cotiued. We are there for the log haul Ja ad Charles Kig celebratig their 50th weddig aiversary with their family ad will cotiue to work closely with these orgaizatios ad others o the frot lies as they help lives heal ad reew. As a estate attorey, Charles kows the value of leveragig doatios to create deeper impact. I have always ecouraged cliets to focus o givig as a part of the greater good, he explaied. Combiig gifts with others ad parterig with orgaizatios like TMF isures your givig will have maximum effect. Ja ad I aloe could ot have focused our cotributio except through the collective ad kowledgeable maagemet of the staff at TMF. Through their hard work, our small gift became a part of the greater good. Charles ad Ja chose a IRA as the vehicle for their gift. Havig reached the magic age of 70-½ years whe oe must begi drawig from a IRA, Ja ad I decided to reach ito our savigs ad cotribute (with others) to the grats program for the recovery of the Gulf Coast disaster, Charles said. Doors ca direct charitable gifts from a IRA directly to a qualified charitable orgaizatio, such as TMF. The cotributio ca total up to $100,000 per caledar year ad must be directed from the admiistrator of the IRA to the charity. A double beefit for the IRA holder is that the cotributio amout is excluded from the door s taxable icome ad couts as a part of the aual required miimum distributio from the IRA. Charles log-time experiece with TMF, as a former board, executive committee, ad presidet s advisory committee member, shaped his perceptio of TMF as a orgaizatio that boldly goes where others have ot goe, ad i its travels lives by the priciples that we should do o harm, do as much good as we ca, ad stay i love with our Lord, Charles said. TMF is a trusted, self-fuded, politically eutral orgaizatio with a board ad staff of deep ad diverse religious, fiacial, ad busiess acume. TMF ca brig all of those disciplies, kowledge ad wisdom to fulfillig the purpose of the church to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the trasformatio of the world. Like the cetral heart of the itersectig popsicle sticks, If God is i our hearts, ad by beig oe of may, the arms of His commuity ca spread wide ad be fruitful.

14 JOY DOES NOT SIMPLY HAPPEN TO US. WE HAVE TO CHOOSE JOY AND KEEP CHOOSING IT EVERYDAY. HENRY NOUWEN housto couple eacts grace they received I have felt God s presece throughout all of this, said Rev. Mopsy Adrews, as she reflected back o the evets of the last seve moths sice the home she shared with her husbad Gary for 21 years was demolished i the floodwaters of Hurricae Harvey. Every day I saw the presece of God, the hads ad feet of Christ, givig us physical ad spiritual shelter from the storm. There s a part of me, of course, that wishes we ever had to experiece that horrific disaster, but, havig edured it, I do thik, like most tragedies, it breaks you ope to discover God i ew, uexpected places ad ways, she cotiued. There s brokeess, but the brokeess eables growth ad chage. Residets of the Lakes o Eldridge, a idyllic master-plaed commuity with waterfalls ad joggig trails, the Adrews felt safe ad secure i their eighborhood. Util Harvey hit. Located iside the Addicks reservoir, the Adrews home was oe of over 5,000 iudated by water that spilled over the Addicks dam. My husbad ad I wet to bed the ight of August 26, worried for our coastal bed eighbors but relieved we had escaped the worst of the storm. Whe I woke up ad looked out the widow the ext morig, my eighbor was stadig i the driveway, a stricke look o his face, with water up to his kees. Overight, our safe bucolic eighborhood had become a swarmig sea of icomprehesible dager, hurt, ad loss.

15 LEFT: Chapelwood UMC reliet team members Mopsy with her twi graddaughters That bega a saga of harrowig rescue ad arduous recovery. We grabbed some clothes, medicie, ad importat papers, stashed them i garbage bags ad waded out, scaled a 8-foot fece, caoed dow a draiage ditch to a big couty truck, maybe a garbage truck, ad made our way, 6 adults ad 3 dogs, to higher groud, she described. It also bega a edless stream of acts of hospitality ad goodwill. Frieds immediately offered their homes, food, clothig, people appeared to ferry us to our home to retrieve what we could ad oh, the flood teams from Chapelwood UMC who paistakigly packed the thigs we could salvage, Mopsy described. Jacki Lammert, TMF director of grats ad also a Housto residet, was aware of a TMFmaaged edowmet fud that desigated that distributios be used to assist retired Uited Methodist pastors for maiteace ad repair of their resideces. We were thrilled to be able to offer this assistace to Mopsy ad Gary, commeted Lammert. We were so grateful for the help from the TMF edowmet, Mopsy said. Whe your life carees off course like ours did, it s a surreal experiece. We did t eve kow what to ask for. We did t kow what we eeded. Jacki ad so may others held us i their lovig, protective hads ad gave us directio. ABOVE: Debris from gradchildre s home, icludig their mother s childhood piao There have bee may twists ad turs i this jourey. What they thought would be six weeks of displacemet dragged ito six moths. By Thaksgivig, after weeks of calls to their cotractor wet uaswered, they texted him: You are part of our team. He respoded with his ow story of fiacial loss ad persoal heartache. Everyoe is suig me, he respoded. You are my oly customer. Others threateed to sue Ramo; we took a differet path, explaied Mopsy. Whe you lose everythig, I thik you double dow o what s truly importat. We saw God i so may acts of grace ad words of comfort. I thik that makes you more aware of God s presece tucked away i the lives of those aroud you. Whe we show mercy, we share God s presece. After servig for over 30 years as associate pastor at Chapelwood UMC, Mopsy retired i 2010, the year her daughter Laura gave birth to twis. The Adrews life took aother heartbreakig tur i 2013 whe Laura was diagosed with cacer. She died i 2015; her twi girls were 4 years old ad her so was 7. Laura gathered gifts ad wrote letters to celebrate the childre s birthdays each year util they are 18, Mopsy explaied. Eduardo, a fried of my so-i-law Steve, built a special closet i their home to keep them. Steve ad the kids home flooded, as well, with water up to the ceilig. The gifts were lost, but Steve was able to save the letters. Now Eduardo is helpig us with repairs o our house. This is the grace that holds the world together whe all is fallig apart. Where is God? I eighbors helpig eighbors, i a fried from a city miles away who buys a used bass boat ad brigs it to Housto to help with the rescue, i a mother s waterlogged letters that her childre will be able to read, every year, ad kow that i the midst of pai there is beauty ad truth ad love that defies our life together. Icarate love.

16 Photo by Uited Methodist News Service 2107 year i review

17 TMF eded 2017 with a deeper uderstadig of what it meas to be called to be a repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live i. The sigificace of the followig developmets, activities, ad fiacial reportig is i how they reflect the may cogregatios, leaders, families, idividuals, ad orgaizatios we are privileged to work with who are about the work of repairig the world. FINANCIAL As of December 31, 2017, total assets uder maagemet by TMF were approximately $569 millio, a icrease of $44.1 millio from Our Methodist Loa Fud eded the year at $330 millio. Methodist Loa Fud ivestmets support TMF s loa program which curretly fuds 442 loas to Uited Methodist churches ad agecies. Our loa balace eded 2017 at $341.5 millio. Our Udesigated Edowmet grew durig the year by approximately $3 millio, edig the year at $38.1 millio. The relatioship betwee our loa portfolio ad our edowmet has ever bee healthier ad, i fact, exceeds guidelies established by our board. Additioally, this edowmet growth diversifies ad ehaces our operatig icome stream by geeratig additioal reveue for operatios. Not icluded i the amout above, edowmet dedicated to our Leadership Miistry ow totals a additioal $8.1 millio, up from $7.1 millio. Highlightig a sigificat year of fiacial support for TMF was a gift of $1 millio from the Lilly Edowmet to fud TMF s Courageous Leadership Imperative (CLI). Buildig o a partership that bega i 2003, Lilly s gift allows TMF to sustai its ivestmet i UMC leaders ad create ew opportuities for learig amogst leaders from both the ceter ad the edge of the church. Gifts to Leadership Miistry ad urestricted support to TMF totaled $1.4 millio, icludig more tha $110,000 i ew gifts to the Dr. Gil Redle Learig & Leadership Edowmet. Durig 2017, through a combiatio of permaet fuds, outright gifts ad cotributios from TMF, the Grats Miistry awarded more tha $1 millio i support of 34 churches ad otfor-profits. Of that total, a estimated $491,000 came from restricted edowmets ad $540,000 from TMF operatios. The Grats Miistry received idividual ad o-lie gifts of $31,517, which added to the fuds available to support churches ad ot-for-profit miistries across Texas ad New Mexico. The Grats Committee of the TMF Board of Directors determies distributio decisios for these discretioary fuds. Shortly after Hurricae Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast, the Grats Miistry awarded $302,000 to 16 churches ad ot-forprofits to assist with immediate relief eeds. This storm, which caused catastrophic floodig, will cotiue to impact the miistries ad residets of the Texas ad Rio Texas cofereces for years to come. I 2017, grats fuds were distributed as follows: o o o o 30% to outreach miistries ad evagelism targetig systemic chage 33% to miistries which systemically beefit families livig i poverty 8% for scholarships 29% for Hurricae Harvey relief TMF s history ad future are liked to our parterships with idividuals ad families ad a commitmet to help implemet their philathropic goals. I 2017, TMF worked with families to fud gifts totalig more tha $3.3 millio i the form of door-advised fuds, charitable gift auities ad permaet edowmets. Distributios from these fuds will support a rage of miistries from a ew Youth ad Commuity Ceter i Moody, Texas, to assistig with Wesleya Home s missio to be the premier provider of supportive care ad services to seior adults i Cetral Texas. TMF distributed approximately $1 millio from permaet edowmets, predomiatly to Uited Methodist causes i Texas. Operatios staff made sigificat progress i movig TMF s software systems ad processes forward. They digitized records; orgaized ad shared stadardized iformatio betwee software systems; ad are curretly i the process of automatio, workig to elimiate maual processes ad improve accoutability. LEADERSHIP TMF s Leadership Miistry seeks to eable courage, learig, ad iovatio amog leaders. The primary method by which we do this work is through facilitatig trasformatioal coversatios; some take the form of o-goig peer groups ad others as stad-aloe coversatios aroud a adaptive issue. Durig 2017, Leadership Miistry hosted 40 Learig Commuities ad Learig Projects coveig more tha 525 clergy ad lay leaders from across the coutry. TMF hosted 16 peer-learig groups, ivolvig over 250 clergy ad lay leaders from across Texas ad New Mexico, as well as drawig from the other cofereces of

18 2107 year i review (cotiued) the South Cetral Jurisdictio (SCJ). I additio to ogoig groups, such as the SCJ Bishops Coclave, New ad Cotiuig District Superitedets, Executive Pastors, Musicias, ad the Miistry with the Poor group, TMF facilitated several large group coversatios for the sake of helpig leaders wrestle with importat challeges as they seek to lead i this rapidly chagig eviromet. These groups icluded: a gatherig of deomiatioal leaders from eleve differet faith traditios aroud the challeges of upholdig the orms ad values of our traditio while seekig iovatio ad ew ways to create faith commuities; a gatherig of large church leaders seekig to stay focused o missio i a ucertai ad chagig ladscape; a learig laboratory which gathered teams from fiftee aual cofereces to egage the work of settig outcomes ad aligig resources; ad a gatherig of all the SCJ bishops, alog with other leaders from each coferece, for a immersio experiece i the Rio Grade Valley i a attempt to deepe ad chage the coversatio aroud how to be i miistry with the diversity of Hispaic ad Latio persos who live i our commuities. As TMF cotiues to work tirelessly to help stregthe the church we kow today, we also see great value i helpig the church live ito a future, which udoubtedly requires deep chage ad a ew kid of leadership. cogregatios i Dallas, Deiso, Sa Agelo, Bellville ad Bay City through the Holy Coversatios spiritual discermet process. Two ew elemets i Holy Coversatios were a bi-ligual team at Elmwood/El Bue Samaritao UMC i Dallas, ad a process at First UMC Roud Rock that combied the discermet work of Holy Coversatios with the bradig/marketig muscle of Austi s MGroup. The team also ispired courage for the may churches that started edowmet fuds, sharpeed their goverace systems, or tackled leadership issues. STAFFING Durig 2017, TMF staff wished Godspeed to Eric McKiey, Seior Area Represetative for the Cetral Texas Coferece sice 2009, as he retired from his log, faithful service to the missio of the Uited Methodist Church. Eric s multi-faceted experiece i the UMC was eormously valuable i implemetig TMF s Holy Coversatios process of helpig clergy ad lay leaders discer their purpose ad create ew or ehace existig miistries to alig with that purpose. TMF welcomed Joh Mollet as he stepped ito the positio of Seior Area Represetative for the Cetral Texas Coferece vacated by Eric McKiey upo his retiremet. Joh most recetly served as seior pastor of First UMC Grapevie. We said goodbye to Joh Rivas who helped shepherd the joiig of the New Mexico Coferece Methodist Foudatio ad TMF ad cotiued to empower vibrat miistry i churches throughout New Mexico. Joh also worked with idividuals ad families to help them steward their resources to alig with their faith values through legacy givig. TMF recetly aouced that Scott Sharp will begi servig as Seior Area Represetative for the New Mexico Coferece. A ordaied elder i the UMC, Scott has served i churches i New Mexico ad Oklahoma for the past 30 years. TMF also welcomed the additio of two ew staff members i operatios Natha Va Alle, who moved from temporary to full-time status, ad Laura Castillo who replaced Lashudra Buford ad two ew staff members i the loa departmet Tyler Sprigg ad Kristi Todd. Recetly joiig Foudatio Relatios, is Leia Williams as director of commuicatios. TMF s team of Area Represetatives coducted more tha 500 i-perso meetigs ad hosted 30 churches i learig sessios ivolvig more tha 500 idividuals, helpig them discer a deeper sese of what it meas to be a purposeful ad geerous cogregatio. I 2017, the Area Represetatives more fully embraced their role as ecouragers, realizig that our churches wat to make a differece i their commuities, but struggle with how to do that. The team empowered courage i the form of a comprehesive Year-Roud Stewardship program for six leadig churches i the Dallas area, i additio to three i El Paso ad three i Las Cruces. The team eabled courage by leadig Photo by Uited Methodist News Service

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20 R E M E M B E R Y O U A R E N O T A L O N E : Whe you pass through the waters, I will be with you. I S A I A H 4 3 : 2

21 2017 fiacials LIFE FUNDS TOTAL FUNDS INCOME ENDOWMENT MANAGED FOR ASSETS 2017 OWNED FUND FUND INVESTORS CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 12,008, ,335 94, ,644 10,587,165 ACCRUED INTEREST RECEIVABLE 2,470, , , ,176 1,417,445 CONSULTING FEES RECEIVABLE 3,000 3, PLEDGES RECEIVABLE LOANS 356,735,137 23,045,813 2,694,073 15,073, ,922,079 BOND FUNDS 3,222,756 2,227 38, ,703 3,062,665 STOCKS 184,734,167 22,431,424 13,848,354 73,889,888 74,564,501 CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT 4,993,752 17,191 58, ,976 4,732,616 LAND AND BUILDINGS 751, , OIL AND GAS INTERESTS 524, ,304 1,867 3,000 OTHER INVESTMENTS 54, ,668 - FIXED ASSETS, NET 2,574,288 2,574, INTANGIBLE ASSETS 464, , PREPAID EXPENSES 587, , , TOTAL $569,124,565 $50,577,310 $17,746,592 $90,511,192 $410,289,471 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS LIABILITIES: DISTRIBUTIONS, GRANTS AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 1,676, ,352 41, , ,050 DEFERRED REVENUE 95,450 95, DEFERRED GRANT REVENUE 1,210,000 1,210, LINE OF CREDIT NOTE PAYABLE 23,750,000 1,556, ,529 1,045,862 20,961,642 FUNDS MANAGED FOR INVESTORS 388,908, ,908,779 FUNDS HELD AS AGENT 79,158,290-17,383,039 61,775,251 - TOTAL LIABILITIES 494,798,641 3,708,769 17,610,560 63,189, ,289,471 NET ASSETS $74,325,924 $46,868,541 $136,032 $27,321,351 - TOTAL $569,124,565 $50,577,310 $17,746,592 $90,511,192 $410,289,471 T M F S C H E D U L E O F S E L E C T E D F I N A N C I A L D ATA F O R E A C H O F T H E S E V E N Y E A R S I N T H E P E R I O D E N D E D D E C E M B E R 3 1, AT YEAR END: FUNDS MANAGED FOR INVESTORS $301,622,524 $326,374,476 $319,980,087 $393,454,064 $389,012,350 $387,592,620 $388,908,779 LOANS 310,396, ,359, ,256, ,804, ,696, ,417, ,735,137 OTHER SECURITIES 67,356,467 86,024,802 92,080, ,758, ,664, ,772, ,950,676 OPERATING AND MEMORIAL NET ASSETS 20,183,904 23,531,390 27,451,359 29,928,607 31,798,055 35,033,406 38,707,384 TMF LEADERSHIP MINISTRY 4,026,196 4,197,890 4,687,298 5,652,360 5,819,173 7,131,045 8,161,157 PERMANENT GIFTS (FOUNDATION TRUSTEE) 64,635,125 71,918,876 81,824,737 92,574,608 94,420, ,877, ,965,143 TOTAL ASSETS $383,922,117 $419,390,976 $425,941,318 $510,478,159 $505,052,287 $524,934,382 $569,124,565

22 board of directors ad pac TMF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kathry Yeager, Board Chair Dr. Clayto Oliphit, Chair-Elect Tom Toevs, Secretary CENTRAL TEXAS CONFERENCE Dr. Chris Hayes Dr. Leah Hidde-Gregory Hery Joyer Dr. Dale Kobel Bishop J. Michael Lowry* Wesley Millica Hiram Smith** NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE James Adams* Mary Brooke Casad Patricia Deal Robert Dupuy Dr. William Gree Larry Hayes Joseph Holmes Rev. Katherie Glaze Lyle Bishop Michael McKee Dr. Clayto Oliphit Dr. Owe Ross Dr. Adrew Stoker Kelvi Walker Julie Yarbrough Kathry Yeager NORTHWEST TEXAS CONFERENCE Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe* Dr. Craig Curry Judge Ro Es Dr. James Hut RIO TEXAS CONFERENCE James Cox** Dr. Daiel Flores Rev. Thelma Flores* Rev. Scott Heare James Horbuckle Teresa Keese Rev. Laura Merrill Robert Rork** Judge Hery Sataa Bishop Robert Schase* Robert Scott** Robert Suderlad** Amy Shaw Thomas TEXAS CONFERENCE William Bleibdrey Gee Graham Dr. Doald House Rock Houstou Thomasie Johso Bishop Scott Joes* NEW MEXICO CONFERENCE Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe* Joh Goodwi Rev. Jeff Lust Dr. Eduardo Rivera Sid Strebeck Tom Toevs Byum Miers** Rev. Morris Matthis Dr. Thomas Pace, III Dr. Matt Russell Dr. Ro Swai James Walzel Rev. Jim Welch *Advisory ** Emeritus

23 PRESIDENT S ADVISORY COUNCIL Gle Adrew Laura Armstrog Robbie Ausley Ro Barger Jorda Baucum Tray Black Jay Brim Da Chaey Kathlee Chaey Dale Cherry Suday Coffma Kaycee Crisp Joh Curry Mike Feto Alliso Fogle Douglas Fogle Ady Heradez Elle Key Charles Kig Dr. Bill Marr Lida Marr Dr. Tom McHorse Gerald Meiecke Neil Moseley Dr. Oscar Page Mary Percifield Hal Peterso Jeff Roper Kim Simpso Abel Vega Jr. Rev. Aliso Youg Kerrville Albuquerque Austi Plao Housto Dallas Austi Athes Athes Rockwall Sugar Lad Austi Pampa Waxahachie Fort Worth Fort Worth Motgomery Athes Amarillo College Statio College Statio Austi Dallas Dallas Sherma Alvarado Austi Colleyville Arligto Sa Atoio Meadows Place

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25 AREA REPRESENTATIVES JOHN THORNBURG M E LV I N A M E R S O N RICHARD EDWARDS ELIZABETH HOFFMAN JOHN MOLLET CAROL MONTGOMERY SCOTT SHARP TOM STANTON LEAH TAYLOR Vice Presidet of Area Staff Seior Area Represetative, Resource Specialist Seior Area Represetative, Northwest Texas Coferece Admiistrative Assistat Seior Area Represetative, Cetral Texas Coferece Seior Area Represe ative, North Texas Coferece Seior Area Represetative, New Mexico Coferece Seior Area Represetative, Rio Texas Coferece ad Geeral Cousel Seior Area Represetative, Texas Coferece CHARITABLE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT JUSTIN GOULD EMILY CROW KARYL SEIBERT CHARLES SMITH EXECUTIVE TO M LO C K E CURTIS VICK TERI FICHERA LAURA FUQUA FOUNDATION RELATIONS Vice Presidet of Developmet Admiistrative Assistat Door/Developmet Edowmet Admiistrator Charitable Services Represetative Presidet Executive Vice Presidet Director of Evet Plaig ad Executive Support Executive Admiistrative Assistat ad Corporate Secretary PATTI SIMMONS Vice Presidet of Foudatio Relatios LEIA DANIELLE WILLIAMS Director of Commuicatios GRANTS MINISTRY JACKI LAMMERT PATTI GLANZER Director of Grats Miistry Grat Associate LEADERSHIP MINISTRY BISHOP JANICE Leadership Formatio RIGGLE HUIE LISA GREENWOOD Vice Presidet of Leadership Miistry MARY ESSLINGER Leadership Miistry Assistat JANET KLOSTERBOER Seior Admiistrative Assistat METHODIST LOAN FUND SERVICES DAVID MCCASKILL Seior Vice Presidet of MLF Services ROBERT HOPPE Vice Presidet of Loas ad Real Estate SARA BELTRAN Assistat Vice Presidet of Ivestor Services PAULA SINI Assistat Vice Presidet of Loas VIRGINIA ADDINGTON Loa ad Ivestor Services Assistat RANDI FORREST Ivestor Services Assistat JENNY KING Loa Fuder/Closer/Aalyst TYLER SPRIGG Loa Fuder/Closer/Aalyst KRISTIN TODD Loa /FuderCloser/Aalyst OPERATIONS CANDY GROSS Seior Vice Presidet of Operatios GERRY SCHOENING Assistat Vice Presidet, Cotroller PATSY WILSON Assistat Vice Presidet, Huma Resources LAURA CASTILLO Office Operatios Admiistrative Assistat THERESA MCGEE Office Assistat, New Mexico Office LINDA PARNELL Receptioist SUSAN PUHAR Process Aalyst TERESA RICE Data Aalyst SONIA RILEY Office Maager ad Accoutig Assistat NATHAN VAN ALLEN Records Specialist/Process ad Procedure Writer BARBARA WARREN Accoutig Support CINDY WARREN Director of Database ad IT OFFICERS TOM LOCKE Presidet CURTIS VICK Executive Vice Presidet CANDY GROSS Seior Vice Presidet DAVID MCCASKILL Seior Vice Presidet JUSTIN GOULD Vice Presidet LISA GREENWOOD Vice Presidet ROBERT HOPPE Vice Presidet PATTI SIMMONS Vice Presidet TOM STANTON Vice Presidet JOHN THORNBURG Vice Presidet SARA BELTRAN Assistat Vice Presidet GERRY SCHOENING Assistat Vice Presidet PAULA SINI Assistat Vice Presidet PATSY WILSON Assistat Vice Presidet

26 Before you kow what kidess really is you must lose thigs, feel the future dissolve i a momet like salt i a weakeed broth. What you held i your had, what you couted ad carefully saved, all this must go so you kow how desolate the ladscape ca be betwee the regios of kidess. How you ride ad ride thikig the bus will ever stop, the passegers eatig maize ad chicke will stare out the widow forever. Before you lear the teder gravity of kidess you must travel where the Idia i a white pocho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someoe who joureyed through the ight with plas ad the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you kow kidess as the deepest thig iside, you must kow sorrow as the other deepest thig. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows ad you see the size of the cloth. The it is oly kidess that makes sese aymore, oly kidess that ties your shoes ad seds you out ito the day to gaze at bread, kidess Naomi Shihab Nye oly kidess that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have bee lookig for, ad the goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a fried.

27 Empowerig the church i the achievemet of her God-appoited missios."

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