Fern Creek Highview United Ministres

Coming Together to Make a Difference!

From Rev. Ron Loughry, Executive Director of FCHUM

FCHUM Ministries News - Volume 11 Issue 1 - Winter/Spring 2009

More than ever, after a full fiscal year in our new facility, we realize what a blessing we have been given. This past year, our Individual & Family Assistance Center has seen, on average, approximately 50% more people coming in for assistance. At the old site we would have had to turn people away. The new Adult Day Center space, specifically designed for Adult Day, has allowed our staff and volunteers to better meet the needs of our frail older adults and their families. The generosity of individuals, churches, civic groups, government, foundations, and many others have also afforded the blessing of having the building almost completely paid off .... read more (this link opens an Adobe Acrobat PDF) .....

St. Stephens Church Youth help FCHUM during Metro Brightside Event.

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Open House

On Thursday Oct 16th, ADC celebrated its 18th anniversary with an Open House and Blessing ceremony. representatives of member churches, participants and their families, representative from Congressman Yarmuth's office, several pastors, volunteers and staff and others enjoyed a nice autumn afternoon on October 16th with refreshments supplied by the Fern Creek Papa Johns and the Fern Creek Women's Club.

Beulah Presbyterian pastor Ken Hockenberry joined Director Ron Loughry in conducting a blessing ceremony of the facility.

FCHUM recently held its annual James O. Leach Hunger Awareness dinner at Beulah Presbyterian. Attendees enjoyed a simple meal of salad, soup, and homemade bread while IFAC Dir Rene Bryant and Dare To Care Dev. Dir Stan Siegwald shared statistics on hunger in our community. Money collected from this event supports both FCHUM's IFAC and the Community Hunger Walk which took place the next day Sunday Oct 19th (see CJ article on Monday 1020 regarding WALK). Among recipients were all 15 of the local Community Ministries- FCHUM received a grant of $10,000 to help with our operations in serving the community.