Leadership Team approves new Bridges distributions
3/27/2012
By Lisa Diehl, Kansas Area communications director
The Kansas East Leadership Team approved two requests for funds from the Bridges to the Future Capital Campaign at its meeting March 17 at Countryside United Methodist Church in Topeka.
Rev. Gary Beach, conference treasurer and assistant to the bishop, reported a balance of $154,363.78 in undesignated funds available for distribution at the March meeting and requests totaling $122,270.
The first request was for significant renovations of the...
Leadership Team approves new Bridges disbursements
10/19/2011
By Lisa Diehl, Kansas Area Communications director
More than $405,000 from the Bridges to the Future capital campaign was distributed Oct. 8 by the Kansas East Conference Leadership Team.
In addition, Rev. Gary Beach, conference treasurer, reported that the Bridges campaign has kept up with pledge payment projections even during a significant recession that started a couple of months after the pledge period ended. So far, $2,526,547 has been collected for Bridges to the Future.
Disbursements...
Testimonies highlight the need for Bridges ministries
6/11/2010
LEAWOOD - Rev. Gary Beach and Mary Lou Reece, president of Reece Construction Company and wife of Bishop Scott Jones, shared the principles of building a good bridge, for roads and for growing the church into the future in the 2010 Bridges to the Future capital campaign report.
“We’ve raised $1,743,364.40 for Bridges to the Future during the worst recession in recent history,” Beach said. “We are a people of faith. We’re a part of God’s construction...
