UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

The University Methodist Church Foundation, San Antonio is a supporting organization to University Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas, and is an IRS approved 501c (3) corporation. The foundation was created in 1981 to be a legacy-giving program for the future capacity of ministry at University Methodist Church.

We are all indebted to those who have come before us, our spiritual predecessors whose efforts made it possible for us to know and experience the love of Jesus. At the same time, we are called to plant seeds for the future, to ensure that the gospel news of Christ will be shared for generations to come. We partner in faith with those who have gone before us and offer the best that we have to those who will follow.

Our mission is to encourage and establish endowments, trusts, bequests, and gifts that support and assist University Methodist Church in its mission of making disciples for Christ.

This fund ensures the continued care of our church home, making funds available to repair, remodel, upgrade, update, and/or replace needed items for our De Zavala facilities. Children, students, adults, families, those with special needs, and seasoned veterans of life have all found a home inside the walls of University, and this fund will secure the ongoing vitality of our buildings and site.

This fund ensures support of the worship and music ministry of University Methodist Church.

This fund exists to aid students preparing for ordained, full-time preaching ministry in a local church of the Methodist Church.

This fund exists to aid University members in pursuing an education in the field of Music.

This fund exists to aid graduating seniors who are University members in pursuing higher education.

Participants in the Foundation are acting out of their love of God by sharing a portion of their accumulated assets. This sharing is over and above their annual giving to the church. We encourage all members of University to remember the Foundation in their wills by designating a percentage of their estates or a specific dollar amount to the Foundation.

Ways You Can Give

• Bequests from a will or living trust
• Cash
• Property
• Life Insurance
• Marketable Securities
• Memorials
• Benefits from an IRA or 401(k) retirement plan

A donor may provide directives for how his or her gift will be used. Check with your advisors or the Foundation Board for more information.

Funded by the University Foundation, the University Memorial Garden provides a beautiful and meaningful final resting place on the grounds of the church that you have loved and served throughout your life. Inurnment in the memorial garden is an alternative to burial for those who consider University their church home. The garden is located outside of the Atrium, making it a welcoming, sacred and private place for loved ones to spend time in remembrance, prayer and reflection.

The design includes a columbarium, a baptismal font with walkways and benches. The columbarium is an arrangement of stone walls with openings in which urns containing the cremated remains of the deceased loved ones are placed for permanent inurnment. Plaques on the niches are engraved with the names and life dates of those inurned.

Niche Prices:
$5,000 Memorial
(Includes 1 or 2 urns 
& engraved niche faceplate)

Plaque Prices:
Full Size - $1,500
Half Size - $750

Bench Price:
$5,000
(Includes Memorial Plaque)

Ava Berios – University of Loyola, Chicago, Illinois
Lily Bowling – University of Texas, Austin
Ethan Richard – Texas A&M, College Station
Avery Thomas – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Isabel Thomas – University of Texas, Dallas

Melissa Supak – Duke University
Katherine Reiley – Asbury Theological Seminary

Sara Knoy - University of North Texas
Joseph Herron - University of Texas San Antonio