We are grateful for the financial gifts made to the mission budget. The Mission Distribution team meets 10 times a year to make decisions about how to share these resources. Some costs are fixed. For instance, we support our missionaries each month and buy bus tickets each month.
Then each year the team picks two areas on which to focus gifts, giving between $10,000 – $14,000 to those areas. This year the focus areas are housing and healthcare. In the area of housing, we made gifts of $2500 to:
- The Center of Hope which works with people to keep them in their homes by helping with bills. We have partnered with them for many years.
- Mennonite Housing which provides housing for people who are low-income, seniors, and those with special needs; does home repairs; offers financial education for future home buyers.
- Hilltop Urban Church – This is a church Kirk Anderson is connected to through a ministry group with their pastors. This church is in the Hilltop neighborhood and helps with home repairs and rent assistance.
- Family Promise of Wichita – This organization houses families in churches as they seek to get back to permanent housing.
The team is currently studying and discerning ways to support healthcare needs.
Many of you continue to use your Dillon’s Reward Cards with Grace as the beneficiary. The money Grace gets from Dillons goes to the team and is shared equally between Partners for Wichita and Giving the Basics. In 2021 the total we received from Dillons was over $1500.
If you have questions about any of this, contact Pastor Catherine Neelly Burton or committee chair Shelley Duncan.
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