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Doubling down on our culture

ur nation’s most vulnerable are not receiving what they deserve, and neither are their direct caregivers. Lutheran Services Carolinas is doubling down on culture and advocacy to address this great wrong.

LSC has a strong culture in spite of two years of the pandemic and the worst labor shortage in modern history. LSC has made business decisions like wage increases and improving benefits, a priority.

Most teammates work at LSC for our

mission and for the love of our residents and clients. LSC is capitalizing on that through teaching The LSC Way — how to care the way our best teammates care.

That includes all 1,800 teammates being better leaders and supervisors, continuing education, and growing together. We are doubling down on our culture.

Society is not caring for our most vulnerable as we elect leaders who do not provide the necessary resources. Residents and clients who require 24/7/365 care need the most care from the best people.

Inadequate government reimbursement pays for inadequate care.

We can do better. Around-the-clock care teammates must be of the highest quality, and thus deserve the highest reimbursement. $15 an hour is no longer a living wage.

Adequate government reimbursement and adequate pay are justice issues. The race and socioeconomic status of clients and their direct caregivers are devalued.

LSC is doubling down on advocacy to explain this essential justice priority to the public and our elected representatives.

Thank you for your prayers and support as LSC strives for Abundant Life for all.

Kinard Manor Recovery Residence receives Open Granting funding

Pictured left to right: Jeff Smith, GCCF President; Mary Woodiwiss, GCCF Director of Grants and Projects; Brooke Epps, Amber Arflin, Kinard Manor; Melissa Parrish, Director of Foundation Relations for LSC; and Ashley Meyer, Kinard Manor House Manager.

Greenwood County Community Foundation (GCCF) recently awarded Open Granting funding to LSC for support of Kinard Manor Recovery Residence in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Kinard Manor Recovery helps women in recovery build life skills and develop healthy relationships to establish a strong foundation for success.

On the cover: Volunteer Christine Kyles built a blessing box at Trinity Living Center

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Rixman named chief development officer

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SC is happy to announce that Heidi Rixman has been named its chief development officer.

She has 25 years of experience in education and human services fundraising, including six years at LSC as director of development.

“We are thrilled Heidi’s call to serve and LSC’s needs are so aligned,” said LSC President and CEO Ted Goins. “Heidi has been preparing for this role her entire career which will benefit all of the residents and clients of LSC.” Rixman graduated with a bachelor of arts in English from Delaware Valley University and a master of science in nonprofit management from Eastern University, both in Pennsylvania. She has been a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) since 2020.

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In 2011, she was named Outstanding Fundraising Executive of the Year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) New Jersey, Southern Chapter.

Rixman is currently the president of the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Association of Lutheran Development Executives (ALDE).

She is a member of Community in Christ Lutheran Church in Cornelius, North Carolina.

“I am passionate about LSC’s mission because I have a deep and personal commitment to serving our neighbors across the Carolinas,” Rixman said. “LSC is a great place to work, and I am excited to be part of a team that is dedicated to expanding and growing our philanthropic support that will truly help meet the needs of our neighbors.”

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Hembree named Executive Director of LSC New Americans Program

SC is excited to announce that Matthew Hembree has been named the Executive Director of its New Americans Program.

LSC has provided refugee and immigrant services in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina for many years.

Recently, new service sites were established in Greenville and Charleston in South Carolina and Asheville in North Carolina. In this role, Hembree will manage all of those sites which assist hundreds of clients as they become acclimated to their new home in the United States.

“We are fortunate to have a long-term LSC teammate with Matt Hembree’s operational and quality improvement background to take on this important work,” LSC President and CEO Ted Goins said. “The New Americans Program is an exciting start-up in a fast-changing environment; Matt is the

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right teammate for the job!”

Hembree has over 20 years of experience in human services, with a focus in the areas of program development, senior leadership, and leadership development. He has been

with LSC for 13 years.

He graduated from Western Carolina University with a bachelors of science in sociology and went on to get his masters in sociology from The University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he had advanced studies in the field of online social interaction. In addition, Hembree has been trained by a founding member of the Results Based Leadership Consortium and works with leaders to achieve greater system-wide outcomes and effect deeper system reforms by creating influence strategies within their organizations.

“I’m excited to join this New Americans team because for me it’s about developing new leaders and I’m passionate about our cause and what we are doing,” Hembree said. “I want to be part of what they are already doing. They are phenomenal and so dedicated to helping people in need.”

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BLESSING Volunteer builds TLC’s new blessing box

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hristine Kyles grew up in a family of creators. Her mom made her children’s clothes, and her father had a shop in the garage where he worked with wood and metal. Her brother is a machinist.

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“That’s the environment I grew up in.

We did things for ourselves,” Kyles said.

“I’m a hobby person.”

As she grew up, Kyles learned how to sew, embroider, and cross-stitch. When she decided to put new tile in her bath-

room, she added that skill to her repertoire.

“I thought I’d give it a try, and it came out well,” she said. “Then I had more ideas of things I could do in my house with tile.”

When her sister wanted a new table, she said. “We just had a good time.”

Kyles followed in her father’s footsteps Since that day, Kyles has attended and taught herself woodworking. most of TLC’s events and supported “He had gotten to where he wasn’t the adult day service program in any able to do as many projects. He way she can. When TLC wanted to decided I would get the woodworking pursue a new blessing box ministry, tools and my brother would get the Moore knew just the person for the metalworking stuff,” she job. said. “He gave me his big Blessing boxes are honcommercial-grade table or system food pantries saw. I love that table saw.” where people in need can Kyles began volunteerfind non-perishable food ing at Trinity Living Cenitems and toiletries. Like ter (TLC) in 2020 right little free libraries, they before the COVID-19 are stocked by community pandemic began. Activities groups and individuals.

Christine Kyles Director Andrea Moore The idea is that a person reached out to her and asked takes something when they if she could lead a woodworking activi- need it, but when they have a little ty for male participants. extra, they are encouraged to put items After the first day, Kyles said she was in the box. hooked.

The project was supported, in part, “It was so much fun. The men were through an intergenerational grant so nice, and they laughed at my jokes,” from the Lutheran Services for the

Elderly Endowment at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Foundation. Moore used the grant money to purchase the wood, and Kyles got to work building the box.

On a sunny day in March, TLC participants gathered outside with Kyles as Trinity Oaks Chaplain Pastor Jill King prayed over and dedicated the new blessing box.

“It was really nice,” Kyles said about the dedication. “And people stopped by right off the bat that day to look at it.”

TLC is partnering with local community organizations to fill the box.

Church groups, Girl Scout troops, and individuals have stepped up to make sure there are plenty of blessings inside.

“I feel like I can be a lot of use to Trinity Living Center,” Kyles said. “I love the people. They really warm my heart, especially when we do an activity or something like the blessing box and they enjoy it. It makes me feel good.”

King named chaplain at Trinity Oaks After Trinity Oaks Chaplain Pastor Brenda Bynum retired, the community began its search for someone to fill her shoes.

That person was Pastor Jill King.

Pastor King’s move to Trinity Oaks was all about timing. After she was recommended for the position by Bishop Tim Smith from the North Carolina Synod, Trinity Oaks Executive Director Bill Johnson called her just as she was considering making a career move.

“I was very interested because I had been at my parish for 24 years and for various reasons, I was feeling a need to take on something new,” King said. “I was ready for a new challenge, new opportunities, and a new place.”

Pastor King is from Asheboro, North Carolina. She attended Western Carolina University and seminary at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Colum-

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bia, South Carolina. Before her ordination, she was a teacher and assistant principal in Cumberland County Schools.

It was during her time as an assistant principal that she started to struggle with

God’s call.

“I’d gone down to visit seminary and I liked the feeling there,” she said. “It was just like God has opened up a window and said ‘Go.’” So, she went to seminary and continued to follow the call, which she said took her to some exciting places. She had an internship in New Mexico, worked as chaplain in two hospitals, and then spent 24 years at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Durham, North Carolina.

In her new role at Trinity Oaks, she will tend to the spiritual needs of residents as well as participants at Trinity Living Center.

“I’m looking forward to continuing the work that Brenda had done over the years she was here, but also branching into some other areas of service and care,” King said.

“I’m really excited to be here.”

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Welcoming the stranger

LSC opens New Americans Program office in Greenville, South Carolina

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rinity Lutheran Church Senior Pastor Susan Crowell said she has always been passionate about refugee resettlement. She was introduced to the ministry as a child in Little Mountain, South Carolina when the church her family attended helped resettle refugees from Vietnam.

“We made sure we had personal relationships with the families we sponsored at the time,” she said. “I’m so happy that I’m still in this call and that this can still be part of my career.”

Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenville, South Carolina recently formed a partnership with LSC and the nonprofit opened a New Americans Program office in two of the church’s unused Sunday School classrooms. Refugees resettled through LSC are legal, fully vetted, and are here at the invitation of the United States of America.

Crowell said when the congregation was approached about the possibility of being involved, she knew the program perfectly aligned with its passion to welcome all.

“This ministry, it resonates with us deeply and fits so well with our mission. We are thrilled that it’s happening in Greenville and on our campus,” Crowell said. “We think it’s wonderful that people who are in danger in their homeland can come to the United States and that we here in Greenville can become a place of welcome and hospitality.”

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Americans Program office, said in just a few short months there have been so many miracles with the refugees that are coming into the area.

When the individuals and families come in need donations, volunteers find them.

LSC teammates are also working around-the-clock to provide transportation, find them temporary housing, and connect them with any services they might need to start their new lives in a new country.

“It’s inspiring to me the pow-

er people can have,” Chirolla said. “It has been amazing because of the people I’m working with. We have so many case workers and volunteers that are so passionate about refugees.”

The way Chirolla found out about her newly created position with LSC could also be categorized as a miracle.

She has always loved traveling and has a master’s degree in international development.

Before moving to South Carolina and deciding to stay home with her children, she managed

a study abroad office at Wayne State University in Detroit for 10 years.

When Chirolla saw the news about the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the families who were fleeing the country, she felt compelled to do something more.

It began with an Eagle Scout project by her son, Eric Chirolla, who expressed an interest in collecting donations for refugees. That led to a fateful phone call with LSC’s Columbia, South Carolina office where Chirolla was informed that the nonprofit was opening a Greenville office.

“I thought that they (LSC) would probably need employees, so I applied and thought I’d just see where it goes,” she said. “When they offered me the job, I felt so compelled that I came out of my stay-at-home retirement to do this important work.”

The partnership is seamless so far, with both LSC and the church working to better the lives of our Afghan allies in any way they can.

“This is part of what we are called to do. We really want to make room in our hearts for people who need and crave connection and belonging,” Crowell said. “We can welcome the stranger and make a home for the foreigner. The Bible is very clear that we are meant to do that.”

For more information about LSC’s New Americans Program visit https://lscarolinas.net/refugeeand-immigrant-services/.

Virtual open house

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the open house for the LSC New Americans Program office in Greenville, South Carolina was held virtually on Thursday, March 3. The office is located in Trinity Lutheran Church.

Speakers for this event included Greenville Area Manager Amberly Chirolla, Trinity Lutheran Church Pastor Susan Crowell, Ted Goins, and Bedrija Jazic. It also included a quick Q&A session.

Pastor Crowell concluded the open house by officially dedicating the office.

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Upstate teen helps Afghan allies as part of Eagle Scout project

hen he heard the news about refugees from Afghanistan coming to South Carolina, Eric Chirolla wanted to do something to help.

The Riverside Middle School student was inspired by the compassion that his mother, Amberly Chirolla, had for the cause as well.

Amberly is the area manager of the LSC New Americans Program in Greenville, South Carolina.

“I saw it on the news, and I just wanted a more meaningful Eagle Scout project,” the 8th-grader said. “It just seemed like a great thing to do.”

With the help of his troop, Chirolla collected furniture, clothes, kitchen gadgets, toiletries, and other items they would need as they settled into their new homes.

The troop organized the donations and helped one of the newly arrived refugees move in.

Completing the project also gave Chirolla “I could tell he was really grateful,” Chia chance to build his organization and comrolla said. “It just makes me feel good about munication skills. myself. I’m impacting a life in some way.”

He hopes to find more ways to help those

in need in the future.

“I would love to keep spreading awareness about this,” Chirolla said. “I’m just grateful for the opportunity.”

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LSC opens New Americans Program office in Charleston

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SC recently expanded its New Americans Program to Charleston, South Carolina, and partnered with Parkside Church to open an office in the church’s education building.

Rev. Colin Kerr, the pastor of Parkside, said the ministry is a perfect fit for his congregation and faithful use of the space. The church itself is relatively new, although it operates in a historic space.

In 2019, Parkside Church held its first worship service at the historic St. Barnabas Lutheran Church. The congregation’s members, which are a blended group from Parkside and St. Barnabas, are mostly millennials and Generation Z. Kerr says it is “two congregations working together to do ministry jointly.”

“Our new model doesn’t include a lot of space usage, so the question was how do we

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use the space faithfully,” Kerr South Carolina. said. “So, when we were apHer passion for helping these proached by LSC about looking populations started at a young at that space, it seemed like a age. great idea. Our congregation “I became passionate about has a heart for immigration and working with immigrants refugee issues.” when I went on a mission trip Once the partnership was to Mexico. I became really insolidified, LSC needed an area vested in learning Spanish and manager for its office. And as traveling,” Poppell said. it turns out, that person was This path led her to join already a member of the LSC AmeriCorps where she worked family. as a bilingual literacy tutor in Julia Poppell Julia Poppell started her career Austin, Texas. After that, she took with the nonprofit as a fulla position in a charter school time case manager for its Trafficking Victim teaching college seminar to first-generation Assistance Program (TVAP) in Wilmington, students. In the evening, she taught English as North Carolina. That program assists fora Second Language (ESL) classes. eign-born victims of trafficking in North and Eventually, she decided to move to Char-

lotte, North Carolina to attend graduate school and get her master’s degree in Latin American Studies. She then moved to Wilmington to start her career with LSC, which she said was one of the best decisions she’s ever made.

“It ended up being good for me to start with Lutheran Services Carolinas,” she said. “God worked everything out in my life in a way I wouldn’t have thought of myself.”

When the news about the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan started to spread, Poppell felt compelled to do something to help the families who were fleeing the country.

She quickly signed up with another organization to volunteer with intake and processing of the refugees. She worked with them for two weeks before coming back to Wilmington.

“I felt strongly about the work. On some of the bases, there were thousands of refugees, and it was heartbreaking,” Poppell said. “But it was empowering to see so many different sectors of society come together to respond to this crisis.”

When she returned from the trip, she felt like she still wanted to do more.

That’s when God opened the door for her to move to Charleston. She has family in the area, and she saw that LSC was

opening a new office.

She applied, and the rest is history.

“I’m excited. I feel really good about it,” Poppell said about the office. “I feel great about the support we’ve received all over Charleston from different organizations, churches, the school district, and law enforcement. I’m excited to be in Charleston. God worked everything out for my life.”

The office is located at 45 Moultrie St. Charleston, SC. For more information about LSC’s New Americans Program visit https://lscarolinas.net/refugee-and-immigrant-services/

Open house celebrates office opening LSC celebrated the opening of its New Americans Program office in Charleston, located in Parkside Church, on Sunday, March 6. The event was an open house and members of the community were invited to attend and learn more about the program.

Speakers during the event included LSC President and CEO Ted Goins and Parkside Pastor Collin Kerr. Following the speakers, Matt Hembree, executive director of the LSC New Americans Program and Julia Poppell, Charleston area manager, facilitated a Q&A session with the audience. SC Director of Refugee and Immigrant Services Bedrija Jazic also shared her own story as a refugee.

To conclude the event, Pastor Kerr performed the office dedication ceremony and refugee families, along with LSC teammates, participated in a ribbon-cutting.

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SC celebrated the recent opening of its New Americans Program office in Asheville, located in St. Mark's Lutheran Church in February.

The event was an open house and members of the community were invited to attend and learn more about the program.

Speakers during the event included LSC President and CEO Ted Goins, St. Mark’s Lutheran Pastor Matt Smith, and Buncombe County Commissioners Chairman Brownie Newman.

LSC SC Regional Director of the New Americans Program Bedrija Jazic also shared her own story as a refugee, and LSC teammates thanked the Asheville community and volunteers for everything they’ve done to welcome our Afghan allies to the area.

To conclude the event, Pastor Ken Albright of Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd performed the office dedication

ceremony and refugee families, along with LSC teammates, participated in a ribbon cutting.

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lmost every night, Norman and Marni McGee receive a phone call from Jawad saying he is coming to their house. Seconds after the phone call ends, there is a knock on the McGee’s door.

“He usually calls when he’s at the front door,” Norman said. “Or I open the door and he’s in the driveway waving at me.”

Jawad is one of the six Afghan refugees that Clemson Presbyterian Church’s Circle of Welcome, with the support of LSC’s New Americans Program, has been helping to resettle in the United States after they were forced to evacuate last August.

When Jawad calls, he says he’s going to ride his bicycle over to “Baba and Bibi’s” home, which means “Grandfather and “Grandmother’s” in Salam.

In the few months they’ve been in the City of Clemson, all six of the refugees have secured employment and housing and captured the hearts of the McGee’s and their neighbors.

The Long Welcome Norman and Marni, along with other members of Clemson Presbyterian Church, are walking with the refugees every step of the way on the long road to becoming acclimated and established in a foreign country.

They’ve driven them to job applications, found housing, helped them start bank accounts so they can send money back home to their families, made doctor and dentist appointments, and even taught them how to use a washing machine.

Wahed, another refugee, has a second shift job at BorgWarner which is one city over from Clemson. He doesn’t have his driver’s license yet, so volunteers take him to work and pick him up every day.

“We have several volunteers who are taking a nap at 10:30 p.m. and then going to pick him up,” Norman said. “This is totally changing their life and really accomplishing the long welcome.”

Along with the essentials, volunteers have also found ways to have some fun.

Jawad and Wahed ran a Cupid Shuffle 5K with Clemson Mayor Robert Halfacre in February, and they can often be found in a neighbor’s garage using their workout equipment. And even though they were hesitant at first, Norman said the refugees are getting to 10

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Norman McGee with Jawad and Wahed

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Jawad shows Marni McGee where his home in Afghanistan is.

know and love the family’s dogs as well.

“They all feel like family in different ways,” Norman said.

Norman believes that Jawad, who was a member of the Afghan special forces, comes to his house almost every night because he doesn’t want to be alone. Jawad and Wahed are roommates and since Wahed works second shift, he isn’t there at night.

On a recent evening visit, Marni and

Norman were asking Jawad about his home.

They pulled out their iPad and showed him a satellite view of the area.

“It was like he was flying an airplane toward his home. He was saying ‘This is the road to my house.’ ‘Here’s my house.’ ‘Here is the ice cream shop near my house.’ He was literally singing like he was walking up to his front door,” Norman said. “My wife and I were both in tears watching him in that moment.”

As for the City of Clemson, Norman believes that the normalcy of having international students living all around Clemson University plus the recognition that the refugees from Afghanistan are here because they helped Americans are the reasons that residents have been so welcoming and willing to do anything to help.

Currently, there are discussions about holding English as a Second Language (ESL) in McDonald’s since so many of the refugees work there.

“It’s a small enough town in a southern city where they recognize what these guys did in Afghanistan for Americans, and they (city residents) know they are here because they helped there,” Norman said. “The average South Carolinian realizes we owe them, and that’s what has been opening all of these doors.”

The Thompson family was all smiles on Jason’s adoption day. Pictured are Mel, Sherry and Jason with the judge on the day the adoption became official.

‘He fit in perfectly’ Thompson family shares foster care to adoption story

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hen Mel and Sherry Thompson met Jason, they knew he was meant to be part of their family.

“He fit right in with the family. We are very vocal and like to play and have fun together,” Mel Thompson said. “He fit perfectly into that, and the entire family loves him.”

The Thompson family lives in Sumter, South Carolina where Mel Thompson is the pastor of Lewis Chapel United Methodist Church. Even though they have three biological children, the couple decided to become licensed foster parents with LSC in 2020.

“My wife had done fostering before, it had always been on her heart,” Mel Thompson said. “Then being a pastor, we met a lot of children in the churches that I was associated

with that needed people or a place to stay for one night. It broke our hearts to see these children in need, so we started the foster care process.”

Once they were licensed, they didn’t have to wait long for a placement. Five days later, they got a call about Jason.

“They pulled up with him and he peeked over the door in the car. We started getting emotional and were immediately attached,” Mel Thompson said.

That was October 2020, and by Christmas, the couple knew they wanted to adopt him.

The couple began the adoption process in 2021 and in January 2022, Jason was officially adopted and became a member of the Thompson family. It was a natural fit in every way, even down to the names. The couple’s

biological children are Justin, Jake, and Julia.

And now they have Jason.

You can hear the smile in Mel Thompson’s voice when he talks about his son. Jason loves the outdoors, fishing, and all types of animals.

“We love him dearly,” Mel Thompson said.

“We asked God for this, and that’s why we believe it worked out the way it has.”

The couple is still fostering with LSC as well.

“It’s God’s calling for us. This is where we are supposed to be and who we are supposed to be,” he said. “We are here to show love to someone who hasn’t received love.”

For more information on LSC’s foster care program, visit https://lscarolinas.net/foster-care-treatment-parenting/.

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One of the sessions was with a group of family caregivers who wanted to learn more about taking care of their loved ones with dementia.

Trinity Oaks team leads dementia training in Bethlehem

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rinity Oaks teammates Deana Burris and Deborah Tillman said they were forever changed after spending four days in Bethlehem leading dementia trainings for medical professionals and family caregivers.

“To have the opportunity to be able to go and do something like that has marked my life forever. It has changed me,” Burris, life enrichment campus director at Trinity Oaks and certified dementia care specialist, said. “It was just amazing.”

Discussion about the trip began over three years ago with Michael Connor, a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, North Carolina. St. John’s has a long-standing partnership with Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, who retired as pastor from that congregation, is also the founder of Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, where the training was held.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Connor was contacted by

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On the trip, Trinity Oaks teammates got the chance to tour the city.

These are some photos they shared.

Raeda Mansour, a registered nurse and the university’s intergenerational programs manager, about the much-needed training.

She said they had no resources and desperately needed help.

Connor reached out to Trinity Oaks Executive Director Bill Johnson about putting together a team for the training.

“He (Johnson) came to me and asked if I would be willing to go to Bethlehem.

I told him of course I would go and help develop a plan,” Burris said. “I’ve worked in dementia and Alzheimer’s for 30 years.

I’ve been to workshops and gotten numerous certifications.”

Tillman, social worker at Trinity Oaks, was also selected to attend due to her specific education and training in dementia care. She is certified in advanced clinical dementia practice.

The group began to meet monthly on Zoom to create the curriculum for the training. Even though the world was grappling with a deadly disease, they didn’t stop planning.

“I really felt like at this point, it was almost a commission from God. And I thought, where He sends me, I will go,” Burris said. “This was a mission that was meant to be. Lutheran Services Carolinas put so much work and effort into this. St. John’s put so much work into this. Raeda put so much work into this. We are going to do.”

The time finally came to go in March

With the help of a translator, Trinity Oaks teammates Deana Burris and Deborah Tillman lead a training session.

(Photo by Susan Shinn Turner/St. John’s Lutheran Church)

train more people.

For Tillman, the best part of the trip was training the families.

“It was very humbling, partly because I realized how few resources they had for dementia care and how much they valued the training, but also that they made me 2022. Burris, Tillman, and Connor were feel like I was imparting so much wisdom,” joined by Susan Shinn Turner, staff writer she said. “They made me feel like what we for St. John’s, and her husband, Jim, who gave them was so valuable. I felt like we provided communications support and were friends.” shared the experience on social media Burris added that what she took away along the way. from the trip was far more than she was The team led four days of training with able to give those she trained. the help of interpreters. The first two days “It makes me want to be a better person were for medical professionals and the and to help more people,” she said. “I’m second two were for family members and caregivers. The goal was to train these indi- very thankful I was given that opportunividuals and give them resources so they can ty.”

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Service is part of her legacy Dr. Kay Conrad has long history with LSC

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r. Kay Conrad was born and raised for a life of service as a Lutheran.

Her church was a firm supporter of Lutheran Children’s Home of the South when she was a teenager, she married a Lutheran pastor, and she spent part of her career as the director of development with Lutheran Family Services (LFS).

Most recently, she was the first donor to LSC’s For the

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Children Endowment Fund which is designed to meet the future needs of children in North Carolina through innovative programs and services. The fund is part of LSC’s Be The Light campaign.

“LSC has just been part of my life for a very long time,” Conrad said. “It’s in my DNA.” Conrad married her husband, Paul, immediately after he completed seminary. His first parish was Concordia

Lutheran Church in China Grove, North Carolina. She said that first congregation taught her about life and relationships.

“I married very young, and I knew nothing as I look back now. People in that congregation were so patient with me and so loving,” she said. “But the one thing I did know how to do was church, because I’d done it all my life.”

Paul’s next church was in Statesville, North Carolina and then the couple moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Paul became pastor at Epiphany Lutheran Church in 1971.

When Conrad decided to leave her job as an English teacher and pursue a different career path, she turned her attention to finding a full-time position in the church. As God would have it, LFS was searching for someone who had a relationship with Lutheran pastors and congregations to serve as director of church relations.

“It answered what I felt like was my call. It was just God’s timing,” she said.

In that role, Conrad got to know many of the nonprofit’s clients as well as its teammates.

“We trained a lot of young professionals in their chosen careers of social work. Seeing them grow and develop and then move into other jobs in the profession has been a pleasure,” she said. “We had a really great team.”

After two careers, one might think that Conrad would decide to retire. But during her time with LFS, she worked with GSB Fundraising & Nonprofit Consulting. She found that with her congregation connections, she had the skills and passion for supporting capital campaigns.

After retiring from LFS, Kay joined GSB as a consultant primarily working with congregations in North and South Carolina.

“I loved that work because it gets you in congregations and that feels like home to me,” she said. “Congregations are just like individuals. They are their own separate organisms, and they function in different ways, yet basically in the same way. It was just a great experience.”

Today, Conrad is still an active member of

By making a donation to the For the Children Endowment Fund, she knows she will be part of that work well into the future.

“I love to give to endowment funds because I think it’s a vehicle we have that really does pay a gift forward. It honors the past and keeps on giving long after I’m gone,” Conrad said. “An endowment fund lasts as long as an organization lasts, so I like the idea that 50 years from now when I’m no longer here, some child somewhere will be getting a benefit from my gift. That gives me great joy.”

For more information on the For the Children Endowment Fund and the Be The Light campaign visit https://lscarolinas.net/ be-the-light/

Kay Conrad with her Years of Service award from Lutheran Family Services.

Epiphany Lutheran Church. She has since retired from GSB but said when she turned 80, she decided she wasn’t being as useful as God intended her to be.

So, she signed up to become a lay preacher through the NC Synod’s Lay Preaching Certification class. Lay preachers are scheduled through the NC Synod office to preach in congregations with leadership vacancies.

Through it all, she continues to support LSC, which was created with the coming together of LFS and Lutheran Services of the Aging (LSA).

Conrad knows many individuals who have been impacted by LSC’s programs and wants that work to continue.

“Even today I could name children in group homes that I got to know or refugee families,” she said. “When I look at LSC I see individuals, I don’t necessarily see this huge organization. And I think that’s the way LSC views all of its work, as individuals. That just makes you feel good about supporting the organization.”

About For the Children Endowment Fund • To create a light that shines for years to come, LSC hopes to raise a total of $10 million in donations and legacy gifts within the next 10 years. The Be The Light campaign seeks to raise $1 million to establish this fund.

• Annual earnings from the endowment will be used to support services for children where they are needed most. These funds might be used to: • Offset unanticipated decreases in funding • Invest in training to support LSC’s clinical model of care for children, as well as ongoing updates and credentialing needs.

• Support training for youth in budgeting and financial matters.

• Invest in innovative tools to assess the needs of children coming into care.

• Provide direct assistance to children aging out of foster care, but below age 21, as they are seeking housing, education, and employment.

• Invest in updated software to help record and analyze the outcomes experienced by children in care.

• Provide support and services to survivors of human trafficking under the age of 21.

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Chef Jeremy Haley is ready to serve at Trinity Landing Story written by Love & Company

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eremy Haley, Trinity Landing’s new executive chef, plans to bring enticing entrees to residents’ tables.

Haley loved cooking from a very young age.

“I watched my mom in the kitchen, I admired her work ethic more than anything. She was a remarkable example for me growing up, an inspiration,” he said. “Just by watching her, I became interested in culinary [arts] and cooking. I started working in restaurants at a young age. I washed dishes at 16 and moved my way up the ranks.”

To hone his craft, Haley traveled the world, experiencing new flavors and techniques. His passion took him to many places, including Italy, Austria, and Ireland.

But it was his time in Europe that most influenced the culinary style that he will share with residents of Trinity Landing.

“When I was in Europe, I had the oppor-

tunity to visit specialty things about it that are shops. It felt like a farmers entertaining to me. I market every day,” he think of cooking as an art explained. This inspired — combining techniques, Jeremy’s love for the incorfresh and seasonal flavors poration of local and fresh with seasonings and spicingredients in each of his es,” Haley explained. dishes.

Chef Haley has exciting Haley continued to plans for the dining opfollow his passion and tions soon to be available enrolled as a full-time at our waterside comstudent at Le Cordon Bleu munity. Residents will Culinary Institute in Scottbe able to choose from Trinity Landing chef Jeremy Haley sdale, Arizona. He worked a variety of venues, all full-time as the executive without having to leave chef of Beau Regarde while attending school. the community.

This experience introduced Cajun cuisine to “We are so excited to welcome Chef Jeremy his repertoire. Haley boasts that he makes a to our team,” said Trinity Landing Executive “mean gumbo.”

Director Bonnie Skobel. “When you talk to Trinity Landing is thrilled to welcome some- him about food, his culinary passion shines one so obviously passionate about cooking. through! We can’t wait for our residents to “I love everything about the kitchen and experience his imagination and expertise everything about food—there are so many while dining in our beautiful venues.”

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elanie Bunn Bunn received her says she will undergraduate degree in teach anyone nursing from the Uniabout dementia. She is a versity of North Carodementia training speciallina in Chapel Hill, her ist for Dementia Alliance master’s degree in family in North Carolina and health nursing from has taught groups all Clemson University, and across the country. a post-master’s GerontoIn March, her work led logical Nurse Practitioner her to Salisbury, North Certificate from Duke Carolina where she spent University. the day with caregivers She is a skilled and from Trinity at Home experienced advanced Melanie Bunn speaks to a particand the evening with practice nurse and nurse ipant during a dementia training the Rowan County educator, conducting over session.

Alzheimer’s Support 200 presentations and Group that meets at Trinity Oaks. trainings annually for health professionals, “The right approaches can make things community organizations, first responders, a lot better, and the wrong approaches can families, and other groups focused on the make things a lot worse,” Bunn said. “What care and needs of people living with demenit comes down to is, we need to know that tia and their families. people are doing the best they can. That “It just became my passion,” Bunn said. person living with dementia is doing the best “It’s really a calling. I really get them (people they can, and we are doing the best we can.” living with dementia), and they really get me.”

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During her evening with the support group, which is facilitated by Trinity at Home Outreach Coordinator Teresa Dakins, Bunn talked to attendees about different approaches to moments that may arise with their loved one and used interactive role-play games to illustrate them.

She put the caregivers in the position of their loved ones with dementia and asked them to think about their point-of-view during interactions.

“I’m here to learn anything we can pick up that would be helpful on a day-to-day basis. We look for all the help we can get,” said Gordan Rutzen, who attends the support group to learn more about caring for his wife.

“I’ve learned that you have to keep your cool, be nice, be pleasant. They can’t help it, so you have to understand that.”

The goal for the trainings comes down to one thing: being better.

“We can learn different things. We can practice different approaches. We can use different strategies,” Bunn said. “We can do better for them.”

LSC Giving Groups

2021 The following pages recognize gifts made to LSC, LSC senior services, LSC child and family services, and to LSC affiliates. We also recognize our Shepherd Volunteer Society members.

Every effort has been made to record all information accurately. If an error has been made, please contact the LSC office at 704-637-2870 so that we can correct our records and extend an apology.

Every gift is important, and we are grateful for each and every one. In order to conserve resources, in-kind gifts, gifts through third-party organizations, and gifts of less than $1,000 are not listed here, but please know that we appreciate every gift and act of kindness.

Multi-year pledges are recognized in the year(s) in which payments are received.

Our sincere and heartfelt thanks also go out to those who have already made gifts to the North Carolina Be The Light capital campaign. Those gifts will be recognized in specific campaign materials that will be published at the end of the campaign.

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The LSC

GOOD SHEPHERDS The LSC Good Shepherds is an honorary group of donors comprised of members of the Shepherd Legacy Society, the Shepherd Volunteer Society, the Shepherd Cumulative Giving Society, and the Shepherd Giving Society. The generosity of these groups sustains the LSC ministry.

The Shepherd Legacy Society

The Shepherd Legacy Society is made up of individuals who have blessed LSC with an estate gift or have made plans for the future benefit of LSC through a bequest, life insurance policy, ongoing trust distribution, annuity, or a similar gift-giving device. Such gifts are critical to the health and strength of the LSC organization. (A “+” indicates that the donor is deceased.)

Anonymous (25) Carolyn Adams+ Winnie Louise Aderholdt+ Marilyn R. Aitken Alene C. Alexander+ Hugh H. Almond+ William Alsobrooks+ Mac+ & Maxine Amos Ned & Dorothy Armstrong+ Elma Arndt+ Robert Arndt+ Harry+ & Esther Arne Mary T. Auger+ Baxter Austin+ Eunice Austin+ Ernestine Avant+ Laura Barger+ John Barrier+ Ray Basinger+ The Rev. Dr.+ & Mrs. Robert Q. Beard Carl J. Beaver+ J. David Benfield+ Nola Blackwelder+ Otto Bocher+ Barbara Boland+ Christopher & Nancy Bolen Sallie Bolick+ Candler & Eleanor Bond+ Herbert & Lucy Bost+ Mary Bost+ Delora Boswell+ John F. Bower, Jr. William A. & Glenna Jo Bradshaw+

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Denny J. & Sarah J. Brake+ Bill & Mary Ann Brittain+ Eugene Brittain+ Evelyn S. Brittingham+ Catherine S. Broyhill+ Lester Burnette+ Ann L. Burnick Delie M. Byrd+ Helen K. Campbell+ Mary Campbell+ Opal W. Cansler+ Julia Ann Canup+ Lewis Carpenter+ Virginia W. Casey+ Glenna E. Cason+ Cress Cauble+ Hugh E. Childers+ Naomi Cline+ Oren L. Cline+ Ray A. Cline+ James Cobb+ Kay Conrad Mary Elizabeth Conrad+ Edna M. Corley+ Elizabeth T. Craven Abba Crumpler+ Laurie Hoyt Culbreath+ Norma Zacks Currie+ Frances R. Daily+ Richard+ & Carol Daniel Elva Daniels+ Eugene E. & Evelyn S. Deal+ Mildred Deal+ Ralph Deal+ Catherine Deaton+

Louise & Tony Deely Verna L. Dennert+ Gladys E. Dicke+ Minnie Dietz+ Naomi Dietz+ William & Rosita Dudde+ Ethel Earnhardt+ R. Neil & Gladys L. Eckard+ Ethel E. Edwards+ Elizabeth V. Efird Harold & Evelyn Efird+ Mary Efird+ Oscar Efird+ Brady+ & Lois Faggart Mary M. Finklea Dorothy Fisher+ Martha Fisher+ Eloise Foil+ Jo E. Ford+ Ozell Freeman+ John & Darlene Fritz Flossie Frye+ John J. Frye+ Kathyrn Frye+ Nina Fuller+ Anna Funderburk+ Viola Gainey+ Frances Barringer Gamewell John D. Glowacki Margaret Goble+ Ted W. Goins, Jr. Paul J. Golding+ Prema Goode+ E. B. Grady+ James A. Graeber+

Cecil Graham+ Cora Gray+ Wanda Hackbarth+ Bette Brewbaker Hadden+ Samuel Hahn+ Anne O. Hales+ Vivian Hardie+ Floy Hartsoe+ Mike & Rita Hartzog Nellie Haynes+ Blanche Heilig+ Helen Herman+ Henry E. Herman+ Marshall Herman+ June Herpel+ Lucie Herrmann+ Edith Hinshaw+ Bertha Hoke+ Frances C. Hoke Allen & Inez L. Holderman+ Bryce W. Hollar+ Anne J. Hollenbeck+ Ed & Jean Holsten+ Lillian Honeycutt+ Evelyn Horner+ Anna Horvath+ Robert C. Huber+ Dorothy Hubner+ Jane & Jim Huddle Edward Huffman+ Vida P. Huffman+ Alan & Dene Hyatt Willie M. Isenhour+ Ida Jenkins+ Martin & Alice Jenkins

Effie Joyner+ The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. David R. Keck, Sr. Jane Kelly+ Nancy Keppel+ Craig & Robin Ketner Elizabeth King+ Dr. Larry D. King Dr. Glenn Kiser+ Adolphus & Elizabeth Kistler+ Voigt+ & Marie Kleckley Bruce Koontz+ Mary A. Koontz+ Jacob L. Lackey+ Mr. & Mrs. Allen T. Lamb Doris M. Lee+ Virginia C. Lee+ William & Frances Lefler+ Betty J. LeMay+ Harold Lentz+ Margaret B. Lesser+ Edith LeSueur+ Harry Lineberger+ Lillian Lineberger+ Dorothea Q. Lippard+ J. Paul Lippard+ James E. Lippard, Sr. Margaret Lippard+ Richard & Cheryl Little Minnie Lonergan+ Ervin & Mary Lown+ Ruth K. Luca+ Coit & Maude Lytton+ Clara T. Maguire+ Edwin Martin+ Ned+ & Phyllis Masenheimer Ralph & Gladys Mathias+ Carl Herman Mauney & Emily Fisher Mauney+ Charles F. & Lynne W. Mauney W. K. Mauney+ Alfred S.+ & Margaret S. Maurstad John Allen McDonald+ Cora Hoover McEachern+ Marion McMorris+ Kaneko “Connie” McNeill+ Harold A. Menius+ Mary H. Messinger+ Wilma Milam+ Elizabeth Miller+ John Miller+ Lelia Miller+

Louise Miller+ Pearl K. Miller+ Edith R. Misenheimer+ Margaret Misenheimer+ Charlotte N. Molrine June H. Moore Marie R. Moore+ Joe Moretz+ James W. Morgan+ William & Estelle Morrow+ Elmer Winfred Moser+ Frances Murphy+ William & Imogene Myers+ Weldon Newman+ Rosebud H. Nicolson+ Bertha Noles+ Henrietta O’Brien+ William C. Oelkers Edith Peterson Olin+ Callie Orr+ Glenn W. Overcash+ Walter H. & Helen C. Overcash+ Evelyn S. Owen+ Edward L. Pack Fred Park+ Dr. Hubert V. Park+ Hester W. Parker+ Merle & Toni Parker Clarence Pasour+ Bertie Patterson+ Karl Patterson+ Mary Patterson+ Lorna Paul+ Eric+ & Elsie Pearson A. Gregory & Christine H. Peeler+ Clifford A. & Lillian C. Peeler+ Elma Peeler+ The Rev. J. L. & Mrs. Ethel S. Peeler+ Larry Peeler+ Carrie Petrea+ Ruth Phillips+ Maude Plonk+ Alice S. Pollock Lela Pope+ Eleanor Poulton+ Maude Powlas+ Vinnie Lee Pressley+ Elias Propst+ Mary Propst+ Augusta Pugh+

Hazel Purkey+ Robert Query+ Lurline Rankin+ Ronald C. & Mei-Fang Rau Richard Reamer+ Dorothy E. Rehberg+ Bertha Reinhardt+ Rosebud W. Reubel Earl & Pearl Rhyne+ Henry H. Rhyne+ Verna Rhyne+ Crystal Ridenhour Ernest W. & Evelyn Ridenhour+ Shirley Ritchie+ A. Keith+ & Jean Roberts Edna Rockett+ Annie Roediger+ Asa Ropp, Jr.+ Joanne C. Ropp Barbara Rush+ Margaret Sasher+ J. F.+ & J. B. Scarborough Henry & Peggy+ Schatz Florence A. Schorschinsky+ Raymond & Ruth Schultz+ John Seagle+ Virginia Setzer+ Betty Shaver+ Miriam Shirey+ Mary V. Shives+ E. Ray & Betty K. Simpson+ Evelyn N. Simpson+ Joe L. & Hester Sims+ Henry Dwire Sink+ Mary Sink+ Pauline G. Sink+ Jack & Margaret Sipe+ Kathleen M. Sloop+ Lucille O. Sloop+ Jettie Smith+ Lilly Smith+ Wilson L. & Evelyeen W. Smith+ Arnold Snider+ Catherine A. Solomon Aileen Spencer+ James R. & Linda M. Sproat Erika Else Stallwitz+ Jane Stapf+ C. Marion & June H. Starr+ Lois Steamer+ James R.+ & Loretta D. Stephenson

Clara Stinson+ George O. Stovall+ Theda J. Suggs+ Elizabeth Summersett+ Elmina Surratt+ Dermont F. Swicegood+ Beverly Jean Taylor+ Margaret P. Taylor+ Hans & Sigrid Teich Kathryn W. Terry+ Katharine Theiling+ Mary T. Thomas+ Margaret E. P. Thompson+ L. Throneburg+ Rosa Todd+ Elizabeth Toler John Tracy+ Bertha Trexler+ Duke Trexler+ Willie E. Trexler+ Ernest M. & Kathryn O. Troutman+ The Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Tursi Clara Wade+ Nolena Wagner+ Annie Wagoner+ Martha Edith Walker+ Everett & Mary Waltman+ Margaret J. Ware+ Dorothy D. Watts+ Marvin+ & Betty Weant T. Carroll Weber+ Mary Anne Weiss Conrad Wessell+ Denny & Carol+ White Helen B. White+ Beulah Whitlock+ Lenore Wilkinson Elizabeth Will+ Beulah Williams+ John R. & Kathryn W. Wise+ Martha B. Wise+ Suzanne & Ray Wise Juanita Wolf+ William D. Wubben+ Curtis Wyatt+ Pauline L. Young+ William F. Young+ William R. Young Sally F. Youngquist+ Dallas E. & Ruth K. Yount+ Brenda M. Zimmerman

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The Shepherd Volunteer Society The Shepherd Volunteer Society is comprised of individuals who contributed 100 service hours or more to the organization. Their passion and dedication are truly at the heart of our LSC community.

LSC CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES

John Brooks - Brooks Drywall Carla Clevenger Julie Fox Beth Gonzalez Darren Margolias – Beast Philanthropy Mary William Perkins Amy Polic Veronica Roberson Mengshi “Cary” Tang Shane Zoccole – Spokes of Hope

TRINITY GROVE

Lora Clark Beverly Fitzgerald Carolyn Walls

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TRINITY LIVING CENTER

Ann Wallace Nancy James Whitaker

TRINITY OAKS

Marie Magaletti Char Molrine Georgina Ryon Frances Trexler

TRINITY RIDGE

Ava Bowman Isaiah Covington Sara Killian Reagan London Daniel Medina Megan Parsons

The Shepherd Cumulative Giving Society Members of the Shepherd Cumulative Giving Society include those individuals and family foundations that have made $50,000 or more in cumulative gifts to LSC during their lifetimes or organizations that have made $100,000 or more in cumulative gifts to LSC. (A “+” indicates that the donor is deceased.)

Anonymous (7) Eugene C.+ & Sarah W. Benbow Mr. & Mrs. Howard Benson The Bolick Foundation, Conover, NC (Mr. & Mrs. Jerome W. Bolick) Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Bumgarner Dr.+ & Mrs. John H. Bumgarner E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Conover, NC Central Carolina Community Foundation, Columbia, SC Church World Service, Inc., Elkhart, IN Raymond & Kay Coltrain The Rev. Dr. Paul+ & Dr. Kay Conrad John W.+ & Peggy S. Davis Dogwood Health Trust, Asheville, NC The Duke Endowment, Charlotte, NC ELCA Foundation, Chicago, IL Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, IL Foundation For The Carolinas, Charlotte, NC Friends of Rowan, Salisbury, NC Pat & Tom Gipson GlobalGiving Foundation, Washington, DC Ted & Cheryl Goins The Rev. Dr. Harold+ & Mrs. Ruth M. Haas The Efird L. & Maria F. Hine Fund of Augsburg Lutheran Church, Winston-Salem, NC Dr. Harold+ & Mrs. Frances C. Hoke The Rev. Ina Hoover & Mr. Ronald E. Hoover Mr. & Mrs. Eric N. Hoyle Jane & Jim Huddle The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hurlocker Mr. Frank+ & Mrs. Frances K. Jenkins The Glenn E. & Addie G. Ketner Family Foundation, Salisbury, NC (Mr. & Mrs. Glenn E. Ketner, Jr.) Dr. Larry D. King

Ms. Joyce Kohfeldt Mr. & Mrs. G. Leroy Lail Mrs. Frances Roper Lamb Mr. & Mrs. John E. Lavery Mr. & Mrs.+ James E. Lippard, Sr. Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, Winston-Salem, NC Lutheran Disaster Response, Chicago, IL Mr. & Mrs. Kevin C. McIntosh Mr. Bill Moore Mr. & Mrs. George A. Moretz O. Leonard Moretz Foundation, Charlotte, NC (Mr. & Mrs. George A. Moretz) NC Healthcare Foundation, Cary, NC NC Synod of the ELCA, Salisbury, NC North Carolina Community Shares, Holly Springs, NC North Carolina Department of Commerce, Raleigh, NC A. Gregory & Christine H. Peeler Endowment Fund of the Salisbury-Rowan Community Foundation, Charlotte, NC Clifford A. & Lillian C. Peeler Family Foundation, Inc., Salisbury, NC (Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Ritchie) The Michael Peeler Fund of the NC Synod of the ELCA, Salisbury, NC Philip Morris Employee Community Fund, Concord, NC Mr. & Mrs. Everett B. Poore Mr. Eric C. Presley Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Winston-Salem, NC Mr. A. Keith+ & Mrs. Jean Roberts The Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation, Inc., Salisbury, NC Mr. Archibald+ & Mrs. Frances Rufty SC Synod of the ELCA, Columbia, SC Mr. & Mrs.+ J. Banks Scarborough

Raymond & Ruth Schultz Christian Education Fund, Chicago, IL Mr. & Mrs.+ Wilbert W. Seabock Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Sigman, Jr. Joe L. & Hester M. Sims Family Foundation, Inc., China Grove, NC (Mrs. Barbara S. Corriher) Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation, Belmont, NC Mr. & Mrs. Tom E. Smith St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Salisbury, NC State of North Carolina DHHS — Division of Health Service Regulation, Raleigh, NC State Of North Carolina DPS Dr. & Mrs. S. Scott Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Hans Teich Thrivent Financial, Appleton, WI Mr. & Mrs. Mark K. Tonnesen Truist, Charlotte, NC United Way of Central Carolinas, Inc., Charlotte, NC United Way of Greater Greensboro, Greensboro, NC United Way of the Midlands, Columbia, SC United Way of Rowan County, Inc., Salisbury, NC Mr. & Mrs. Eric Vaughn We Raise Foundation, Itasca, IL Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Weeks Wells Fargo Foundation, Raleigh, NC The Winston-Salem Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC Mr. & Mrs. David E. Yount

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SC teammates understand better than anyone the needs of our ministry. We see firsthand how even the smallest things can make a huge difference in the lives of our residents, participants, and clients. LSC is a not-forprofit ministry that relies in part on charitable donations to provide the LSC quality of care and services. In 2021, not only did employees continue to provide abundant living for clients and residents, but more than 1,100 employees gave to LSC financially as well. Our teammates donated more than $74,300 to our staff campaign. We appreciate the generosity and team spirit of LSC staff throughout North and South Carolina.

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GIVING

LSC Honor Gifts Gifts are often made in honor of someone. Individuals who have been honored by such a gift are acknowledged here. The donor name is listed in italics.

The Rev. Floyd & Mrs. Judy Addison Mr. Andrew Addison Heather Bachelder Mrs. Judith F. Mountjoy Matt Beam Senator & Mrs. David W. Hoyle Peggy Blank Ms. Janet L. Blank Mr. & Mrs. Henry Brown Mrs. Martha L. Crist Mabel Brown Mr. & Mrs. John L. Barger Elizabeth Bruce Ms. Marcie B. Tingler Barbara Bumgarner Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Bumgarner The Rev. Brenda & Mr. Leon Bynum Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Stanfield-Switzer The Rev. Brenda Bynum Mrs. Joyce P. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Harold C. Mesimer Nancy Clement Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Wurster Ila Coble Carol & Rick Honeycutt Amy Cook Anonymous Beau & Colette Cook The Rev. Pamela R. Cook & Mr. Larry T. Cook Pastor Dan Duke Mr. & Mrs. Garry K. Bradshaw Richard D. Duncan Capt. & Mrs. C. Richard Duncan, CHC, USN Ret. Paul Dunn Ms. GeoRene Jones Ruth Efird Mr. Derek Efird Mrs. Julia Efird

Betty Evans Mr. Nicholas Lee The Rev. Mary M. Finklea Saint Catherine’s Episcopal Church, Florence, SC Front Line Heroes at LSC Mr. & Mrs. Will McKaughan Eva S. Fullbright Ms. Elizabeth F. Barger Millie Futch Ms. Julia Anderson Laura Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Larry B. Shoffner Gabrielle Garringer Mr. JoDon Garringer Barbara Garwood Harold & Peggy Mowery Ted & Cheryl Goins Senator & Mrs. David W. Hoyle The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Rhodes Woolly Ted W. Goins, Jr. Mrs. Carrie Beard K. W. Arthur & Son, Inc., Salisbury, NC Mr. & Mrs. Kevin C. McIntosh

Jason & Jennifer Heilemann Ms. Nancy Ewing Roy and Matt Hembree Mr. Cliff Adair Kendra Hendren Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring Megan Herman Mr. & Mrs. William R. Pleasant Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring Frances C. Hoke Mr. George H. Taylor & Ms. S. Candice Hoke Rev. Thomas & Connie Hurlocker Mr. & Mrs. Henry Brown Mrs. Charlotte N. Molrine Melba & Joe Isley Mr. & Mrs. Graydon A. Miller Joshua Jean Anonymous Bill Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Henry Brown Mrs. Kaye R. Leonard Madeline F. Johnson Ms. Ellen B. Fink

Mary Ann Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Ed Cook Katie Scarvey Willa Johnson Mr. & Mrs. James C. Hoffman Jenny Jones Mr. Stephen Jones Ken & Kitty Kelly Ms. Jordan Kelly Gail Kimball Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Wurster Sybil Lackey Mrs. Martha L. Crist Frances Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Martin N. Noble Kaye R. Leonard Mrs. Barbara N. Smith Nicole Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring Cole Lippard Mr. James E. Lippard, Sr. Barbara Litwack Mr. Josh McIntyre The Lloyd Family Mr. & Mrs. Todd M. Lewis

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Betty P. Lohr Mr. & Mrs. Stephen H. Mason Ms. Kelly Sapp LSC Development Team Richard Duncan & Christine Post-Duncan Karen Maddry Mrs. Kaye R. Leonard John Martin Mr. Justin Boyd Glen & Lynn McCoy Mr. & Mrs. James McCoy James & Tricia McCoy Mr. & Mrs. Glen L. McCoy Mr. & Mrs. John McWhorter Mrs. Martha L. Crist Roselyn Misenheimer Anonymous Char Molrine Mrs. Martha L. Crist Sue Kuhn Moorefield Ms. Betsy K. Brittain Dr. Fred & Mrs. Alicia Myhrer Dr. James Kellogg My brother Dan Ms. Michelle Miller The Rev. & Mrs. James Nichols The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. David A. Donges Catherine Novack Ms. Legna Lotus Raven Judith Otten Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Otten Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Mills Rev. & Mrs. Richard Paschall, Jr. Mrs. Martha L. Crist Ernest C. Pasour, Jr. Adaline Pasour Terry Pearson Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring The Rev. Russell Peek Mrs. Judith F. Mountjoy Lauren Perkins, MSW Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, NC Mildred Peterson Anonymous

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Ms. Marguerite Pitts Ms. Brandy Morrison Terri Potter Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring Mr. & Mrs. William R. Pleasant Marie Primm Mr. & Mrs. William R. Pleasant Nancy Propst Ms. Lisa Widener Linda Raffety Ms. Legna Lotus Raven Cindy Rentz Mrs. Barbara N. Smith Debbie & Raymond Reynolds Johnny and Kathy Lindsay Steve Ridenhour Mr. Mike Hix Nancy Riggins Ms. Teresa Gosnell Gloria Schaberg Mr. & Mrs. S. J. Schaberg Norman Schmidt Anonymous Ruby Scott-Singleton Dr. Ralph Singleton Senior Services Operations Team Chris & Kesha Smith Barbara Setzer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Wurster Patricia Sharkey & Robbie Robertson Mr. Mike Hix Pernelle Shaw Ms. Cathy Alexander Kim Shelton Mrs. Kathy Barton Michelle Sigmon Mr. & Mrs. William R. Pleasant Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring Tina Singleton Ms. Julie Hussey Gary & Jane Smith Ms. Gayle Ryan Kesha L. Smith Ms. Jill Nothstine Debbie Snyder Ms. Beatrice S. Hall

The Rev. Maurice E. Staley+ Anonymous* Josh Stroup Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Ring Holly Swanson, RN Mr. & Mrs. Tommy J. Bradshaw Carole Tate Mr. & Mrs. Joe Isley Hans & Sigrid Teich Mr. Jonathan Teich The brave people of Afghanistan hoping to make a new life here Ms. Carrie McMillan The services you offer The Rev. & Mrs. Charlie L. Hoyle Odrie Thurio Anonymous Ilham Thurston Ms. GeoRene Jones Trinity Elms assisted living staff Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Adams Trinity Elms health & rehab staff Mr. & Mrs. George R. Bradshaw Ms. June G. Gregory Ms. Mildred Tetzlaff Trinity Elms skilled care staff Mr. & Mrs. James J. DeCristo Trinity Grove staff Mr. Tyson Cathey Ms. Pepper Dedrick Mr. & Mrs. Ted Y. Prevatte Mr. & Mrs. David F. Southerland Trinity Landing staff The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. John R. Nagle Trinity Living Center Staff Mr. & Mrs. Joe F. Davis Ms. Andrea Moore Trinity Oaks health & rehab staff Mrs. Dorothy Bradshaw Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Granberry Mr. & Mrs. Perry D. Hood Mr. & Mrs. Harold C. Mesimer

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Poole Mr. & Mrs. Ned Thomas Trinity Oaks independent living staff Mrs. Charlotte N. Molrine Trinity Place staff Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Davis Dr. & Mrs. William O. Jolly Chris & Kesha Smith Mr. & Mrs. Rick Summers Trinity Ridge staff Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Money Trinity Village staff Ms. Gill B. Abernathy Mr. & Mrs. Larry S. Herman Mr. & Mrs. Bobby D. Hollar Ms. Janet Painter Mr. & Mrs. William R. Pleasant Mr. & Mrs. Randall L. Sullins Mr. Steve Wallace The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Royall A. Yount, Jr. Beth Trump Mrs. Judith R. Woolly Earnestine Wagner Ms. Tanya Y. Johnson Schelly and Ken Wagoner Ms. Sandra Tiller Harjes D. P. Washburn Mrs. Christine V. Higgins Mr. Terry Weeks The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. John L. Setzler Stephen & Peggy Whicker Cozart Lumber & Supply Co., Inc., Rockwell, NC Cindy Whisenant Mr. & Mrs. William Weinel III Heidi Efird White Mrs. Ruth Efird Ron and Anne White St. Mark Lutheran Church, Prosperity, SC Hannah Christina Williams Ms. Crystal Williams Betty Willis Mr. & Mrs. James G. Shaver Max Wolff Mrs. Judith C. Wolff

LSC Memory Gifts Gifts are often made in memory of someone. Individuals being memorialized are acknowledged here. The donor name is listed in italics.

All the Wagoners who were in TOHR care Ms. Sandra Tiller Harjes All those who lost their lives to COVID Ms. Casey Bennett Alfred (Jerry) Anderson Mrs. Carolyn M. Anderson Jean Alice Anderson The Rev. & Mrs. Steven P. Ridenhour Joan & Chuck Angevine Anonymous Susie Aschenbach Mrs. Charlotte N. Molrine Krampus Baer Mr. Siymon Baer Joyce Balthazer Anonymous Kenneth Ray Barger Mr. & Mrs. Darvin J. Bruce David L. Barnes Mrs. Barbara S. Bumgarner Lula Bass Mrs. Roana A. Bost+ Todd Beam II Senator & Mrs. David W. Hoyle Gerald & Edith Beane Mary Catherine Belk Rev. Dr. Robert Beard Mr. & Mrs. Larry A. Bowman Ms. Libby Brown Mr. & Mrs. Glenn P. Deal, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Keith Frye Ms. Laura M. Just Mrs. Janice Larew Mr. & Mrs. Nels Lindquist The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mannen Mrs. Marjorie S. McDaniel The Rev. & Mrs. Russell Myers, Jr. Ms. Sandra K. Parker The Rev. & Mrs. Robert H. Shoffner

Mr. & Mrs. Hans Teich Mr. & Mrs. Jerry R. Tolley Mrs. Nancy J. Wilfong Cynthia Bost Begbie Derek & Christina Joyce Joe T. Belk Mary Catherine Belk Louise Bell Ms. Sharon Adams Robert Steven Benson Mrs. Frances C. Hoke Stephen Benson Mrs. Edith A. Benson Hilda Berry Ms. Margaret F. Bleynal Mr. & Mrs. Dennis R. Eckard Christine Adamas Boone Ms. Alice J. Thompson Banks O. Bost Derek & Christina Joyce

Sue Boyajian Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Keoleian Helen Boyd Mrs. Roana A. Bost+ Ilene P. Boyles Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey D. Sahol Joseph Warren Bretz Mr. & Mrs. Karl A. Bretz Coyte & Mabel Brown Mr. & Mrs. John L. Barger Daniel Brown Mrs. Betty M. Brown Georgia Brown Ms. Faye M. Gardner Kathleen Brown The Rev. & Mrs. William S. Ketchie Rev. Gene & Pat Bruce Mrs. Sue L. Bruce The Rev. Gene Bruce Mr. & Mrs. Darvin J. Bruce

Dr. John H. Bumgarner Mrs. Barbara S. Bumgarner Riley Burton Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Echerd IV Henny S. Caldwell Ms. Nancy E. Catron Ms. Joanne O. Cole Mr. & Mrs. Bastiaan N. Kalt Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Schuster Ms. Mary S. Spaanbroek Mr. Steven G. Spaanbroek Pastor James Wilson Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Richard O. Koon Carmella Carnevale Ms. Tamra DeLauro Paul & Lois Carter Anonymous Mrs. Charlotte N. Molrine The Rev. Leland M. Caulder Mr. & Mrs. Leland M. Caulder, Jr.

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Curtis H. Caulkins, Sr. Ms. Susan E. Caulkins Lena Louise Cecil Mr. & Mrs. Roy Bain Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Ballantine Mr. & Mrs. Anthony B. Cecil Mr. & Mrs. Harrison Gaskins Mrs. Susan E. Shearin Mr. & Mrs. William J. Williamson Wilhelmina “Billie” Chase Mr. Charles O. Chase Ila Coble Carol & Rick Honeycutt Larry Comer Ms. Kimberly Comer Sylvia Comer Ms. Kimberly Comer Nicole R.Conforti Anonymous Jack Connery Mrs. Juliet Connery Mr. & Mrs. C. Carey Deckard, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Rains Carolyn Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Timothy F. Brown Pastor Paul Conrad Dr. Kay Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Macher Pauline Cook Blue Knights NC XI, Claremont, NC Milly Cooper Mr. Keith W. Cooper Edith Cosgrove Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Cosgrove, Jr. Joan Creamer Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Benson Ms. Mary I. McKinney Dr. Michael H. Palmer Trinity Oaks Cottage Memorial Fund, Salisbury, NC A. Brooke Crist Mrs. Martha L. Crist Renee “Nikki” Blanche D’Amour Mr. & Mrs. Edgar D. Warren Bernie Davidson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McCoy Hope & Hayden Davis Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. LaBarge Hope Davis Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. LaBarge

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Martha Rebecca “Becky” Davis Mr. Patrick Davis & Mrs. Graham Hyder Mr. & Mrs. Skip Downs Tina Davis-Land Ms. Jo Ellen Desmet Wilba & Earle Day Anonymous Kay Beeker Deese Ms. Diane S. Beason Mrs. Cheryl Berge Ms. Doris S. Bostian Mr. Paul F. Edmond, Jr. Mr. Thomas M. Gwyn Leonard Ryden Burr Real Estate, Winston-Salem, NC Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Martin Ms. Jean M. Messick Mr. & Mrs. James Weavil Elizabeth B. Dellinger Mr. Everette L. Dellinger Ed Denker Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Loosley Detective Mike Doty Mr. Dylan Gunnels Linda Drum Ms. Teresa A. Rhyne William Drum III Ms. Rita L. Crouch Arthur Edwards Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Mills J. C. & Christine Eller Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eller Clayton R. Ellis Mrs. Melinda M. Ellis Jr. Emery Ms. Tina Coffey

Devin Ezzell Ms. Sheena English C. Morrison Farish, M.D. Ms. Luanne G. Farish Carleen (Daisy) Fink Mrs. Georgina D. Ryon Hazel Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Reefe Terry Fisher The Rev. Susan M. Bame Linda Flowers Ms. Sharon Adams Verline Fortson Anonymous Ms. Tina Marshall Maryland Friend Anonymous Lou Ann Frye Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Lail Mr. & Mrs. Chris D. Richey Dorothy Fulp Mr. & Mrs. David B. Yarbrough Brian Gamble Mr. Ryan Miller Gerard Anonymous Marjorie Gibbs Browns Creek Baptist Church, Burnsville, NC Ms. Marilyn S. Young Jan Harrison Gillespie Ms. Zandra H. Spencer Levy Grady, Jr. Ms. Tanya Grady

Martha A. Graham Mr. Joe Ellis, Jr. Mr. William Nance Mr. & Mrs. Greg C. Taylor, Jr. Essie Griffin Anonymous Claude W. Gullett Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Whitesides Derrick Ryan Hallman Ms. Frances H. Hallman Charlie Harris Mr. Bruce Rufty Paulette Harris Kim Hathcock James L. Harvey Mr. Charles F. Albrecht Mr. & Mrs. William J. Bagley Mr. Vernon L. Burns, Jr. & Ms. Sharon L. Meadows Fletcher Industries, Inc., Southern Pines, NC Mr. & Mrs. Ritchie L. Flogstad Mr. & Mrs. Jeff B. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Meadows Van Hellman Ms. Dolores G. Walker Dr. John C. Herion Mrs. Mary M. Herion Betty Hewitt Ms. Dana Moore Helen Hill Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas S. Matarese Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Hillman, Sr. Col. Kenneth W. Hillman Carol Hollar The Rev. William K. Hollar, Jr. Mrs. Marjorie S. McDaniel Myra Yount Hollar Mr. Bill Hollar Lucille Holman Ms. Debbie L. Holman Gene Carroll Holmes Mr. & Mrs. Larry A. Smith Hazel Hubbard Ms. Tonimarie Knight Emma L. Huber Ms. Sandra L. Svoboda Moses Osita Ikegbunam Ms. Benedicta Ikegbunam The Rev. Rick Inman The Rev. Lisa Beery Mr. Andrew Boozer The Rev. Emily Edenfield

Ms. Theresa Johnson Ms. Marie Jordan Living Springs Lutheran Church, Columbia, SC Dr. Susan & Mr. Alexander W. McArver Mrs. Hazel Messer Mr. & Mrs. James E. Stewart The Rev. & Mrs. John M. Stoudemayer Mrs. Kathy Stricker Ms. Kerry Stubbs The Rev. Dr. James Vigen Willie Isenhour Ms. Dana Moore Jeannette Anonymous Ray & Lois Jenkins Mrs. Vickie Black Jen Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Conoley Jasper W. Jones III Mrs. Katherine Jones Joe Kamees Ms. Kendra Hendren Blanche C. Keller Mrs. Peggy K. Mann D.B. Kepley Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Mills Jeff Kinney Ms. Deborah DeLong Eva Kluttz Ms. Abby Kluttz Reece A. & Janie S. Kluttz Mr. & Mrs. Mike Crowell Evelyn Kubes Ms. Sharon Adams Isaac & Gilda Kuhn The Rev. Doug & The Rev. Beth Kearney Hattie Kuykendall Mr. & Mrs. Randall J. Bryant Susan “Beth” Lackey Mr. & Mrs. Jay Kepley Mr. & Mrs. Jack S. Kepley, Jr. Chris and Melissa Parrish George W. Lester Anonymous Ms. Julie A. Hood Ms. April Lyerly Ms. Sara Ramsey Ms. Allison Sandin

Lucy Cole Lippard Mrs. Susan C. Gunter Mr. James E. Lippard, Sr. Eric Ljungstrom Ms. Linda Bush Geraldine Lloyd Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Weeks Anne Loeblein Anonymous Coreta Loflin Ms. Doris T. Elvington Mrs. Georgina D. Ryon David Longacre Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Loosley Willma B. Lowder Mr. & Mrs. Rick D. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Huber Derek & Christina Joyce Chris & Kesha Smith Mary Ruth Mabe Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Walkertown, NC Lori Madjdteymouri Mr. & Mrs. Arman Assa Omolbanin Madjdteymouri Mr. & Mrs. Arman Assa Bonnie Marple Ms. Janet Insley Ida Marshall Anonymous Benjamin E. Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Mayer Carrie Mayer-Cowan Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Mayer Judith B. McBride Ms. Faye B. Peeler

Mary Ann McCormick Anonymous Charles McCray Mr. Corbin McAdams Virginia McCurry Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church of Morganton, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Aaron Tosky The Rev. Dr. Michael C.D. McDaniel Mrs. Marjorie S. McDaniel Jackie McGill Ms. Dorothy Lawson & Mr. Leonard McGill Dr. Henry McKay Mrs. Sue L. Bruce Mr. Donald A. Caughman Ida Diane McKenzie Mrs. Margaret McKenzie Peggy McKnight Ms. Tonimarie Knight Ruth Crowder McSwain Ms. Betty L. Commee Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Commee Mr. & Mrs. James Flechtner Ms. Nellie Jepsen Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. McSwain Mr. & Mrs. David W. Royster III Harry Lee Meyers Ms. Lynn C. Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Scott D. Elliott Mr. & Mrs. Joe C. Stone Edna Millsaps NASMHPD, Inc., Alexandria,VA The Rev. & Mrs. Robert H. Shoffner

Nicole Minckler Anonymous Peggy Mintz Mr. & Mrs. John W. Sandel Diane Molnar Mrs. Charlotte N. Molrine Jerry Morgan Ms. Tara Winkelmann Catherine Moshier Ms. Legna Lotus Raven Lisa Jo Mummert Mr. & Mrs. C. Richard Mummert Robert Nielsen Mrs. Lois Nielsen Marie Norris Rev. & Mrs. Richard C. Paschall, Jr. Mary Lou Null Mrs. Roana A. Bost+ Anne Graham Oliver Ms. Martha Alston Victor Olson Ms. Sharon Adams Our residents lost to Covid Ms. Pepper Dedrick Dr. James Patti Mr. & Mrs. Darvin J. Bruce Shirley Pfaff Ms. Freida Matthews Isaiah Phifer Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Graham William Pike Mrs. Charlotte N. Molrine Estelle P. Poovey Mr. & Mrs. Ronald B. Poovey

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Sammie Propst Mrs. Kim Breitzman Ms. Heather B. Little Ms. Lisa Widener Logan Scott Rabon Ms. Karen C. Owen Fritz Ramsten Ms. Linda Bush Thelma Rast Ms. Loretta A. Beam Lorna Reasor Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Graham Genny Reed Ms. Manie G. Richardson Salisbury-Rowan Unit of Church Women United, Mooresville, NC Evelyn Reichley Anonymous Mary Rex Mr. & Mrs. Bill Jarrett Mr. & Mrs. John D. Trexler The Rev. William R. Rhyne Ms. Sally Davis Bill and Heidi Rhyne Mrs. Susan D. Rhyne B. Patricia Rice Ms. Kendra Hendren Evelyn W. Ridenhour Mrs. Ann K. Dasher Ms. Manie G. Richardson Gene Ridge The Rev. & Mrs. Michael G. Weaver Jane Riesz Mr. & Mrs. F. Saville Riesz Brenda Ritchie Ms. Connie B. Fincannon Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Wilson Betty Rockett Mr. Forest Rockett The Rev. Lester O. Roof, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tom Eanes Ann Sachtleben Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. William H. Beilfuss Mildred Salley Ms. Freida Matthews Mardell Scronce Ms. Gretchen Scronce Mary Alice Sellers Mr. & Mrs. David L. Beam Pastor Peter Setzer Mrs. Laura Diviney

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PFC Francis Bryant Shannon, Jr. USMC Ms. Carolyne Sigmon C.P. Shaw, Sr. Mrs. Nancy J. Wilfong Clementine Battle Shaw First Baptist Church of Greenville, SC Mr. & Mrs. M. Todd Milford, Jr. Ms. Barbara B. Watson Ray Shelton Anonymous Frances Sherrill Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Brinkley Mr. & Mrs. Jackson A. Phelps Mr. & Mrs. Gene T. Walker Margaret Sherrill Ms. Jennie R. Wright Mary Helen Shive Ms. Abby Kluttz Nina Ray Y. K. Shuford Mr. Roy L. Johnston Mr. Siebert Mrs. Laura Diviney Catherine Bolick Simmons Mrs. Opal E. Bolick Willard Sink Mr. & Mrs. Barrett A. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Victor N. Nasrallah, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Shumaker Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Watson, Sr. Ms. Teresa D. Williams Robert Slice Nth Degree Computer Solutions Inc., Chapin, SC

Troy Smart Ms. Jeanne Smart Franklin D. Smith Mrs. Barbara N. Smith Ruby Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Litwin Calvin Spring Ms. Michele Moore Lin Stafford Ms. Sue Weddington Woodrow “Peewee” Stillwell Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Crearley Mr. & Mrs. Ben T. Loftin, Jr. The Rev. James Stirewalt Dr. & Mrs. Dalton E. Dove The Rev. & Mrs. Michael G. Weaver Marcy Strickland Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Agner Neal B. Sumrall The Quirk Family Mary Belle Tate Mr. David N. Webber Rowe & Connie Teague Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eller Hugh Tews Mrs. Delana Jones Teresa Thomas Anonymous Barbara V. Tolen Dr. & Mrs. Robert Schiffel Leo Torrens Ms. Sharon Adams OT Travis Ms. Bekka Crull

Laura “Myrel” Traylor Mrs. Daisy Boyd Ms. Anita L. Kennedy Mrs. Debra McNeil Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Steven E. Traylor Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Traylor, Jr. Charles Jackson Tucker Mr. & Mrs. John C. Tucker Martha Umberger Mr. & Mrs. Marc K. Shideler The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, Winston-Salem, NC Molly VanHavere Mrs. Roana A. Bost+ Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Loosley Ralph D. Wagoner Mr. & Mrs. David P. West James Wallace III Ms. Cheryl Wallace Frances Weaver St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church Women of the ELCA, Hickory, NC Mary Katherine West Mr. & Mrs. Carl Bovender Ruby Mae Leverett White Mr. John H. White Randall Widener Ms. Lisa Widener Steve Williams Ms. Andrea Moore Ms. Linda Williams Dr. Trevor Williams Dr. Gail Hounshell Cleo Williamson Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hudgins Jean Wilson Ms. Wendy Wilson Robert S. Wyly Mrs. Ruby B. Wyly Dr. Ray A. Yount Mr. Roy L. Johnston

The Shepherd Giving Society The Shepherd Giving Society includes donors whose gifts in calendar year 2020 totaled $1,000 or more. Note that multi-year pledges are recognized in the year (s) in which payments are received.

$500,000 AND ABOVE

Glen Raven, Inc., Burlington, NC

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Attindas Hygiene Partners, Greenville, NC Dogwood Health Trust, Asheville, NC Friends of Rowan, Salisbury, NC The Estate of Betty K. Simpson State Of North Carolina DPS, Raleigh, NC Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Weeks

$50,000 TO $99,999

Anonymous (1) NC Synod of the ELCA, Salisbury, NC

$25,000 TO $49,999

Central Carolina Community Foundation, Columbia, SC ELCA Foundation, Chicago, IL Lutheran Services for the Elderly Endowment Fund, Chicago, IL Rowan County Senior Services Dept., Salisbury, NC SC Synod of the ELCA, Columbia, SC State of North Carolina DHHS, Raleigh, NC Mr. Walter L. Tatum

$10,000 TO $24,999

Anonymous (4) Faith Lutheran Church, Faith, NC Gipson Family Foundation, Raleigh, NC Mr. & Mrs. Jeff B. Harvey The Estate of Lucie Herrmann Jane & Jim Huddle

The Rev. & Mrs. William S. Ketchie Dr. Larry D. King William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family Foundation, Wilmington, DE (Mr. William Newkirk & Ms. Cheryl Tschanz) Mr. & Mrs. Zachary Osborne Clifford A. & Lillian C. Peeler Family Foundation, Inc., Salisbury, NC Reformation Lutheran Church, Columbia, SC Restoration Chapel, Lexington, SC The Estate of Evelyn W. Ridenhour Mr. J. Banks Scarborough

Children’s Trust of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Cosgrove Charitable Giving Fund of Vanguard Charitable, Warwick, RI (Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Cosgrove, Jr.) Ms. Christine R. Crater Ms. Joye C. Groff The Efird L. & Maria F. Hine Fund of Augsburg Lutheran Church, Winston-Salem, NC The Estate of Bryce W. Hollar Mr. Allen T. Lamb Mrs. Frances Roper Lamb Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, Winston-Salem, NC Mr. & Mrs. Joseph McDonald A. Gregory & Christine H. Peeler Endowment Fund of the Salisbury-Rowan Community Foundation, Charlotte, NC Mr. Herb Silverman & Ms. Sharon Mr. Sam Poole Fratepietro Ms. Ann Rachel Quesada St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Raymond & Ruth Schultz Prosperity, SC Christian Education Fund Mr. & Mrs. Hans Teich of the ELCA Foundation, Trinity Lutheran Church, Chicago, IL Greenville, SC Mr. Peter J. Reinhart & Ms. United Way of the Midlands, Rachel Dieter Columbia, SC Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, Columbia, SC $5,000 TO $9,999 Springs of Grace Lutheran Anonymous (1) Church Lutheran Men in The Estate of The Rev. Dr. Mission, Inman, SC Robert Q. Beard The Theda J. Suggs Endowment Brooks Drywall Inc., Greenville, Fund of St. James Lutheran NC Church, Fayetteville, NC Central Piedmont Builders Inc., Thrivent Financial, Appleton, WI Salisbury, NC Vertex Construction Company, Charleston County Budget LLC, Salisbury, NC Department, Charleston, SC

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The Estate of Margaret J. Ware Mr. James G. Whitton The John R. and Kathryn Walton Wise Fund of Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Minneapolis, MN (The Estate of John R. & Kathryn W. Wise)

$1,000 TO $4,999

Anonymous (10) Aldridge Forestry PLLC, Albemarle, NC Mrs. Carolyn M. Anderson Ms. Elizabeth Aravena Mr. & Mrs. William M. Ardrey Augsburg Lutheran Church, Winston-Salem, NC The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. James S. Aull Ms. Judith B. Bachelder Ms. Elizabeth F. Barger Dr. & Mrs. Dan Bartel Dr. Jill S. & Mr. Sean R. Bates Mr. & Mrs. Clarence B. Beaver III Mr. & Mrs. Peyton E. Becton Mrs. Judith A. Beise Benjamin H. Bridges, III Col. Frederick H. & Dr. Sylvia S. Black Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Blair Mrs. Opal E. Bolick Mrs. Roana A. Bost Mrs. Betty M. Brown John Wister & Bobbie Ann Brown Mr. & Mrs. Henry Brown Mrs. Elizabeth C. Carswell Christ Church, Raleigh, NC Church of the Apostles, Columbia, SC City of Salisbury, Salisbury, NC Cola Town Bike Collective, Columbia, SC Raymond & Kay Coltrain Combined Federal Campaign, Washington, DC Concordia Lutheran Church, China Grove, NC The Rev. Pamela R. Cook & Mr. Larry T. Cook Mr. & Mrs. J. David Cooke Norma Zacks Currie Memorial Endowment Fund of the ELCA Foundation, Chicago, IL

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Mrs. Linda Dolan-Ruggiero The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. David A. Donges Mr. Toby Drake Mr. & Mrs. John A. Dreher Mr. & Mrs. William B. Dukes Capt. & Mrs. C. Richard Duncan, CHC, USN Ret. Elite Fire Control, Inc., Salisbury, NC Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eller Mr. Joe Ellis, Jr. Ms. Doris T. Elvington Mr. & Mrs. Curtis M. Erickson Mr. Nicholas Esposito F&M Bank, Salisbury, NC Mr. Patrick C. Fahey Faith Lutheran Church, Batesburg-Leesville, SC Ms. Angela Fawver First Lutheran Church, Albemarle, NC First Lutheran Church, Lexington, NC First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, SC First United Church of Christ Foundation, Salisbury, NC Mr. & Mrs. John Fox

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Frye Ms. Tonya Frye The Rev. Loyd A. & The Rev. Jennifer M. Ginn The Rev. & Mrs. James K. Glander Ted & Cheryl Goins Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Raleigh, NC Grady Hedrick Landscaping & Hydroseeding, LLC, Lexington, NC Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Granberry Mr. & Mrs. Cary M. Grant Greenwood County Community Foundation, Greenwood, SC Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Gresham Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Gresham, Jr. Mr. Daniel Haas Ms. Beatrice S. Hall Mr. & Mrs. G. Parker Hatchett Dr. & Mrs. Robert Heller Mr. & Mrs. Raymond L. Hendrix, Jr. Mrs. Mary M. Herion Dr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Herman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Herman

Col. Kenneth W. Hillman Mr. & Mrs. David W. Hinshaw Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chapel Hill, NC Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Troutman, NC Mr. & Mrs. Perry D. Hood Dr. Gail Hounshell Senator & Mrs. David W. Hoyle Eric N. Hoyle Advised Fund of the Winston-Salem Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC (Mr. & Mrs. Eric N. Hoyle) Greg & Jeanna Hudgins Mr. & Mrs. Sigmon Huitt Mr. & Mrs. Alan W. Hunsberger Hurley Trammell Foundation, Salisbury, NC (Mrs. Gerry T. Hurley) Ms. Jane I. Hutchins Incarnation Lutheran Church, Columbia, SC Incarnation Lutheran Church Development Foundation, Columbia, SC Industrial Supply Solutions, Inc., Salisbury, NC Mr. & Mrs. Joe Isley Mr. Jim Jetter Mr. Charles Johnson Mrs. Katherine Jones Mrs. Helen Just The Adolphus and Elizabeth Kistler Fund of Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Minneapolis, MN Mr. & Mrs. Mark Kline Mr. & Mrs. Norman E. Knecht, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Keith R. Kooken Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. LaBarge Ms. Sybil Lackey Mr. & Mrs. G. Leroy Lail William & Frances Lefler Irrevocable Trust of Augsburg Lutheran Church, WinstonSalem, NC Kay Rentz Leonard Lievense Foundation, Saint Helena Island, SC Lifeway Church, Inc., Salisbury, NC Dr. Kathryn Lindeman & Mr. Albert Nunez

Mr. James E. Lippard, Sr. and Lippard Traumatic/Acquired Brain Injury Fund of the Winston-Salem Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC Living Springs Lutheran Church, Columbia, SC Mrs. Betty P. Lohr Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Garner, NC Lutheran Church of the Atonement, Wilkesboro, NC Macedonia Lutheran Church, Prosperity, SC Ms. Marie Magaletti Davis and Beverly Marksbury Foundation of the Blue Grass Community Foundation, Lexington, KY (Ms. Logan Marksbury) Martin Luther Lutheran Church, Charleston, SC Mr. & Mrs. Van Matthews Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Mauney Mr. & Mrs. George A. Max The McGrew-Ivy Charitable Giving Fund of Vanguard Charitable, Warwick, RI (Mr. John G. McGrew II & Ms. Barbara A. Ivy) Mr. Herbert McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Kevin C. McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Will McKaughan Mrs. Margaret McKenzie Mr. & Mrs. Peter Milbery The L. David Miller Adoption Fund of Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Minneapolis, MN Pastor Ray & Ann Mohrmann Harold and Peggy Mowery Family Fund (Harold & Peggy Mowery) Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church, Hickory, NC Mr. & Mrs. C. Richard Mummert Dr. & Mrs. Todd Nichols Mr. David F. Norlander Novant Health, Inc., WinstonSalem, NC Mr. & Mrs. James T. Owens Mr. George L. Paul, Jr. & Ms. Diane F. Frady Dr. & Mrs. David W. Potts

Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Reddel, Jr. Mr. Walker Reed The Susan Reiser and Frank Patton Charitable Fund of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Asheville, NC (Mr. Frank C. Patton III & Ms. Susan L. Reiser) Dr. & Mrs. Richard L. Richter Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Ritchie Mrs. Jo Anne H. Ritchie Riverland Hills Baptist Church, Irmo, SC Mr. Forest Rockett Mr. Bruce Rufty Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Ruse III Ms. Rachel W. Safrit Salisbury-Rowan Community Foundation, Charlotte, NC

Mr. & Mrs. Arnie A. Sampson Mr. & Mrs. Avery L. Seifert Shandon Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC Sherpa Industries, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC Shugarman Family Charitable Fund of Fidelity Charitable, Cincinnati, OH (Mr. & Mrs. Bob Shugarman) Joe L. & Hester M. Sims Family Foundation, Inc., China Grove, NC (Mrs. Barbara S. Corriher) Chris & Kesha Smith Tom E. Smith Donor Advised Fund of Salisbury-Rowan Community Foundation, Charlotte, NC (Mr. & Mrs. Tom E. Smith) St. James Lutheran Church, Rockwell, NC St. John’s Lutheran Church, Spartanburg, NC St. Luke Lutheran Church, Florence, SC St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Lumberton, NC St. Paul Lutheran Church, Aiken, SC St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Salisbury, NC St. Peter Lutheran Church, Chapin, SC St. Philip Lutheran Church, Myrtle Beach, SC

St. Thomas Lutheran Church Women of the ELCA, Charlotte, NC The Staley Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable, Cincinnati, OH (Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Staley) The Erika Stallwitz Gift Fund of Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Minneapolis, MN Dr. & Mrs. S. Scott Stewart The Susan and Eric Van Tassel Charitable Fund of Vanguard Charitable, Warwick, RI (Drs. Eric D. and Susan B. Van Tassel) Mr. Mark Thompson Mr. Lucius E. Thornburg & Mrs. Michele Winter Mr. & Mrs. Mark K. Tonnesen Trinity Lutheran Church, Fairfax, SC Trinity Rehab, LLC, Dunn, NC The Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Tursi, Jr. University Lutheran Church, Clemson, SC WDAV-FM Davidson College, Davidson, NC Mrs. Barbara A. Weaver Whispering Pines BBQ, LLC, Albemarle, NC Mr. John H. White Mr. Mark Whittaker The Rev. & Mrs. Gregory B. Williams Mr. & Mrs. David C. Wilson Mr. Steve Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Ray Wise Mrs. Judith C. Wolff Wood Family Charitable Fund of Schwab Charitable, San Francisco, CA (Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wood) Margaret C. Woodson Foundation, Inc. of Foundation For The Carolinas, Charlotte, NC Mr. & Mrs. John D. Yongue Mr. & Mrs. David E. Yount

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Disney magic comes to Trinity Oaks National Virtual Vacation Day was March 30, and Trinity Oaks health and rehab traveled to the happiest place on Earth.

The life enrichment team used virtual reality, and a little Disney magic, to plan a dream-filled day for residents.

They virtually enjoyed some of Disney’s iconic rides, sipped frozen treats, and posed for photos with some of their favorite characters.

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