Council for Health and Human Service Ministries
Gertrude spent 30 years working as a credit manager and saved for her retirement. She never thought she’d need financial or physical assistance. Gertrude moved from her home to CHHSM member St. Andrew’s Tower Grove Manor — an older adult community in St. Louis — 15 years ago and enjoyed the people and activities. But…
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This past September, 6th-grade students in various Southern Illinois schools discovered a different sort of curriculum on their class schedules, thanks to UCC-related Hoyleton Youth and Family Services: a life skills curriculum geared toward substance abuse prevention. The in-school partnership between Fairview Heights-based CHHSM ministry and the schools allows Hoyleton’s substance abuse Prevention Specialists to…
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Baby Boomers are greying: each day, 10,000 new boomers reach age 65. To serve the needs of this growing population of older adults, the United Church of Christ’s Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix has developed a seven-year Master Plan geared to meeting the influx of potential residents. The plan includes both new construction and the redevelopment…
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United Church Funds has added to its planned giving webinar series with “Introduction to Charitable Gift Annuities.” In this webinar, Milly Hernandez, UCF’s client service team leader and planned giving associate, and Don Hill, president of Don Hill Consulting, explain the key aspects of charitable gift annuities, one of the most popular ways to make…
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What do you do on New Year’s Day? While many people are comfortably at home watching parades and football, some 700-to-800 Baltimore residents turn out for the Resolution Run, an annual benefit for UCC-related Earl’s Place, part of United Ministries, Inc. The run has been a fixture in Baltimore since 2006 and has raised more…
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UCC-related Emmaus Homes, a CHHSM-member ministry that serves persons with cognitive and developmental disabilities, is in the middle of a year-long celebration of its 125-year history, and it’s doing so in the best way possible, says Steven Amrhein, Emmaus’ brand manager: through social media. “We decided social media would be a good platform to celebrate…
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How do you express your thanks? At two UCC Council for Health and Human Service communities, they use leaves. Angelus Plaza Senior Activity Center in Los Angeles — part of Retirement Housing Foundation’s largest affordable housing community in the United States — and Arcadia’s 15 Craigside in Honolulu are using autumnal trees to help residents,…
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Howard W. Hawkins III, United Church Funds’ director of business development, announced Nov. 19 the posting of UCF’s third quarter 2018 fund fact sheets. “The Fund Fact Sheets provide essential data and metrics such as investment strategy, annualized performance, asset allocation, characteristics and top ten holdings for each UCF fund,” said Hawkins. Questions on the information contained…
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When EHM Senior Solutions, a CHHSM-member ministry based in Saline, Mich., wanted to find a way to make sure the community knew about its services, board member Earl Roehm new just what to do. Roehm, a strong supporter of EHM within his local church, “approached EHM with the idea that EHM could benefit from having…
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We are pleased to welcome George Graham to the CHHSM staff as vice president. I asked him to write a few words to introduce himself to you. — Michael Readinger Author Frederick Buechner writes, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” This month…
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