In the March 2015 edition of Community Matters, discover how giving has played a pivotal role in PMMA's history — and why it continues to be an important part of campus life today. Plus, we reveal an on-campus gazebo donated in memory of a Farmington Presbyterian Manor resident.
Farmington Presbyterian Manor March 2015 Commun ty Matters GENEROUS, continued on page 2 Giving is a hallmark of PMMA’s history GIVING, continued on page 5 Generous donations and local relationships are the hallmarks of Presbyterian Manors of Mid- America. We often recall the story of Alice Kalb, who at 90 traveled to a 1947 Presbyterian Synod of Kansas meeting to ask for a retirement community in Kansas. According to Edwin Shafer, senior vice president of development, what Mrs. Kalb basically told the Synod was: “If I give you all the money I have, will you build a home for the aging?” Her heart-felt offer symbolized the plight of a growing number of seniors in need of the church’s help. Kalb’s initiative led a farmer from Wakarusa, Kan., to bequeath his farm to the new project. The sale of that land upon his death provided the funds for the first building of Newton Presbyterian Manor. Today, philanthropy at PMMA is evidenced through community partnerships, capital campaigns, Good Samaritan Program giving, special projects campaigns, and planned giving through wills, trusts and charitable gift annuities. Many of PMMA’s 18 communities were opened with the help of local fundraising campaigns. A generous nature Resident Carol Willman’s gifts continue to brighten lives Residents and employees are looking forward to gazebo weather as springtime draws near. Last fall, a gazebo was installed near the residential care facility. It’s a gift from resident Carol Willman to Presbyterian Manor in memory of her good friend, Leroy Dalton, who lived in residential care before he passed away last August. Willman said she was looking for a way to honor Dalton’s memory, so she asked Executive Director Jane Hull if the campus had a wish list of projects. Hull spoke with other staff members to brainstorm ideas, and former Marketing Director Jennifer Williams suggested the gazebo. Willman thought it was perfect. “Leroy so enjoyed living at the manor, and he especially liked being outside on good days,” she said. “I thought a fitting memorial to him would be something outside where friends could gather.”
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Farmington Presbyterian Manor March 2015Commun ty Matters
GENEROUS, continued on page 2
Giving is a hallmark of PMMA’s history
GIVING, continued on page 5
Generous donations and local relationships are the hallmarks of Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America. We often recall the story of Alice Kalb, who at 90 traveled to a 1947 Presbyterian Synod of Kansas meeting to ask for a retirement community in Kansas.
According to Edwin Shafer, senior vice president of development, what Mrs. Kalb basically told the Synod was: “If I give you all the money I have, will you build a home for the aging?”
Her heart-felt offer symbolized the plight of a growing number of seniors in need of the church’s help. Kalb’s initiative led a farmer from Wakarusa, Kan., to bequeath his farm to the new project. The sale of that land upon his death provided the funds for the first building of Newton Presbyterian Manor.
Today, philanthropy at PMMA is evidenced through community partnerships, capital campaigns, Good Samaritan Program giving, special projects campaigns, and planned giving through wills, trusts and charitable gift annuities.
Many of PMMA’s 18 communities were opened with the help of local fundraising campaigns.
A generous natureResident Carol Willman’s gifts continue to brighten lives
Residents and employees are looking forward to gazebo weather as springtime draws near.
Last fall, a gazebo was installed near the residential care facility. It’s a gift from resident Carol Willman to Presbyterian Manor in memory of her good friend, Leroy Dalton, who lived in residential care before he passed away last August.
Willman said she was looking for a way to honor Dalton’s memory, so she asked Executive Director Jane Hull if the campus had a wish list of projects. Hull spoke with other staff members to brainstorm ideas, and former Marketing Director Jennifer Williams suggested the gazebo.
Willman thought it was perfect. “Leroy so enjoyed living at the manor, and he especially liked being outside on good days,” she said. “I thought a fitting memorial to him would be something outside where friends could gather.”
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Farmington Presbyterian Manor’s annual Chicken and Dumplings Dinner and Silent Auction will be Thursday, March 19, to benefit Presbyterian Manor residents who have outlived their financial resources.
The event will be at Farmington Presbyterian Church, 403 W. Columbia. Meals are $7 each in advance or for carry-out, or $8 each at the door. A group of 10 or more are $6 each.
The Good Samaritan Program depends solely on donations from friends and supporters. Each year,
Farmington Presbyterian Manor has a fundraiser to support the local Good Samaritan Program.
“This event is truly a blessing to those in need, and so is everyone who participates,” said Executive Director Jane Hull. “The Farmington community provides tremendous support for this event each year. We look forward to a big crowd March 19.”
For more information about Farmington Presbyterian Manor, 500 Cayce St., Farmington, contact Jane Hull at 573-756-6768 or [email protected].
Annual fundraiser set for Presbyterian Manor
The white vinyl gazebo with the green tin roof will be easy to maintain, Willman said. A ramp has been installed to make it accessible to all. This spring, manor employees will finish out the project with landscaping and a concrete walk connecting to the main sidewalk.
Hull said the residents are looking forward to enjoying the gazebo. “Several have said they can’t wait to go out there and have a glass of lemonade.”
Willman has a long history of generosity toward Presbyterian Manor. She donated funds to help build the chapel, and she supports
the Good Samaritan Program, which assists residents who have depleted their savings.
“I believe in the mission of Presbyterian Manor, to provide excellent care to the people who come here,” Willman said. “And we never put anybody out. The Good Samaritan Program is one of the finest things we do.”
Hull said it’s gratifying to know that the work employees do every day has made a difference in residents’ lives, and to see that appreciation manifested in gifts like Willman’s. “You can see that they really buy into our mission when they continually support what we do,” Hull said.
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Dinner and Silent Auction
dine-in or carry-out
$7 in advance or for carry-out$8 at the door
For more information call
Marketing Director Jennifer Williams or Executive Director Jane Hull at 573-756-6768 or email [email protected]
Thursday, March 21, 4 to 7 p.m.Farmington Presbyterian Church
Thursday, March 19, 4 to 7 p.m.Farmington Presbyterian Church
to benefit our local Good Samaritan Program
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Coming Up in Community MattersCommunity Matters will focus on Older American’s Month in an upcoming issue. The 2015 theme is “Getting into the Act.”
How were you involved in your community?
Did you serve in public office or otherwise participate in civic government?
What was your experience like?
If you have a story to tell, contact Executive Director Jane Hull to share your idea. Your story may be selected for the next issue of your community newsletter.
In 2006, SSM Health Care of St. Louis moved its St. Joseph’s Hospital from a site in Kirkwood, Mo. As part of this hospital relocation, SSM Health Care issued a request for proposals to determine what to do with the old hospital campus site. Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America’s proposal for a continuing care retirement community was selected as the project to be constructed on the old hospital site.
PMMA’s 18th senior living community known as Aberdeen Heights opened in September 2011. Upon completion, Aberdeen Heights would include 243 independent living apartments, 30 assisted living apartments, 15 residential-style memory care rooms and 38 private nursing rooms. Aberdeen Heights is PMMA’s fourth senior living community in Missouri, joining the communities in Farmington, Fulton and Rolla.
In August 2012, PMMA announced plans for a major repositioning of its Wichita Presbyterian Manor
campus. The project would encompass nearly two-thirds of the grounds by replacing existing independent living cottages and the assisted living and health care areas with new buildings, completed in two phases.
The first phase encompassed new assisted living apartments including 24 assisted living memory care suites and a new health care neighborhood with dedicated short-term rehabilitation suites and new common areas for all levels of care. The amenities include a new chapel, bistro, beauty salons for independent, assisted living and health care areas and a new kitchen for the entire campus. The first phase was completed in late 2014 with health care residents moving into their new building in November, and the assisted living residents moving into their new residences in December.
Phase II of the repositioning of the Wichita campus will include 90 independent living apartments in
a new three-story building known as The Westerly. This second phase began in December 2014 with demolition of the previous health care and assisted living buildings. The Westerly is slated to open in late 2015.
This month, we conclude our look at the history of Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America as we celebrate the organization’s 65th anniversary.
Missouri gets new campus; Wichita campus is reborn
A beautifully appointed sitting room at Wichita Presbyterian Manor.
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Aberdeen Heights, PMMA’s fourth senior living community in Missouri.
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There were donations of land for the Clay Center, Fort Scott, Olathe and Topeka locations. In addition, coalitions of citizens, churches and business leaders raised money for buildings in the Dodge City, Emporia, Parsons and Rolla.
Through the years, capital campaigns have enabled PMMA communities to continue expanding services and remodeling campuses.
Over the past eight years, Shafer said, there have been four capital campaigns. Ark City added a memory care assisted living neighborhood, and Clay Center added health care rooms and space for dining and activities. Newton
created several neighborhoods at the health care level, and Rolla added assisted living rooms and a community meeting room.
Good Samaritan Program
PMMA’s Good Samaritan Benevolent Care Program provides close to $4 million a year to touch the lives of nearly 400 residents, Shafer said. Mailings are sent throughout the year to enlist support from friends.
The Good Samaritan Program allows residents to remain in their apartments even after they have exhausted their financial resources.
A similar mail solicitation is conducted in late summer/early fall
to benefit the Employee Scholarship Fund, which reimburses employees for tuition for approved classes.
Some campuses have special event fundraising programs.
For example, a couple of months ago, Lawrence’s soft-serve ice cream machine, donated to the Manor 15 years ago, could no longer be repaired. To meet this need, residents kicked off a campaign to raise the money for a replacement. In a matter of two weeks, they reached the $15,000 goal.
For more information about planned giving, contact Ed Shafer at [email protected] or 800-336-8511.
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By Ray Chappell, Farmington Presbyterian Manor chaplain By the regenerating work of the Spirit the believer is made a legitimate child of God. God being actually his Father, he is impelled by the Spirit to say, “Abba, Father.” Being born of God, he is a partaker of the divine
nature, and on the ground of that birth, he is heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ ( see John 1:12-13 and 3:3-6; Rom. 8:16-17; Titus 3:4-7; and 1 Peter 1:4). The impartation of the divine nature is an operation so effective that the nature thus imparted is never removed for any cause whatsoever.
When the teachings of the Scripture relative to the present power and authority of Satan are considered,
added proof is given that all men are not children of God by their natural birth. In this connection the most direct and faithful sayings of Christ are in evidence.
Speaking of those who disbelieved he said, “Ye are of your father the devil” (John 8:44). Likewise, when describing the unregenerate , he said, “The tares are the children of the wicked one” (Matthew 13:38).
Ray Chappell
Soul Food: The father of all who believe in Christ (cont.)
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The Apostle Paul wrote of the unsaved as “the children of disobedience” and “the children of wrath” (Eph. 2:2, 3). Emphasis should be placed on the fact that it is not in the power of anyone to make himself a child of God. God alone can undertake such a transformation, and he undertakes it only on the one condition which he himself has imposed, that Christ shall be believed upon and received as Savior (John 1:12).
The fatherhood of God is an important doctrine of the New Testament (see John 20:17; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Ephesians 1:3, 2:18 and 4:6; Colossians 1:12-13; 1 Peter 1:3; and 1 John 1:3, 2:1, 22 and 3:1). The assurance of the love and care of our heavenly Father is a great comfort to Christians and encouragement to faith and prayer.
