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ian Life Center marks tenth anniversary
It, LEINGANG
Message editor
Christian Life
Is celebrating its tenth
service to the commu-
house on
4, from 1 to 3
Ann Gries, director of
said people will be
old Poor Clare
which now houses
of the
nomination
available
and the Office
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;he ninth annual
Teacher
Bishop Ger-
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of the
dliae for nomina-
8. To obtain a
contact the
424-5536.
nine different ministries.
Donors may also be able to see
the windows they "adopted."
The old monastery building
has approximately 370 win-
dows, which until recently
were 370 opportunities for heat
to escape into the winter out-
side. Now, some 330 windows
have been "adopted" by donors
and upgraded. Plaques near
each window thank the donors
or the persons the donors wish
to honor.
The old monastery building
was given to Bethel Temple in
February 1986, by a Bethel
Temple member, Jim Lud-
wyck. He had purchased the
building, intending to use it for
commercial purposes, but had
changed his mind and donated
it to be used as a site for inner
city ministry.
In 1990, Bethel Temple
turned over ownership to a 20-
member board of directors,
with 12 different churches rep-
resented in the board member-
ship.
Gries said the center now
works with "just about every
denomination" -- including 53
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Cooperating churches work
in various ways, She said.
Some help with finances, some
send volunteers. Some do spe-
cial events, such as St. Bene-
dict Church in Evansville
which has an annual ,Undie
Sunday" to collect needed
items for the center.
The Christian Life Center
tries to serve the needy from
the tri-state area, according to
Gries. She said that one of the
ministries, the New Life Home,
serves pregnant teens from a
much larger area.
It may be hard to measure
the positive impact the center
has on people's lives, but Gries
has statistics which measure
the services performed at the
center, by staff, volunteers and
contributors.
• A total of 2,500 more peo-
ple were served in 1995, com-
pared to 1994, with meals:,
clothing and other services.
• Meals served in 1995 were
26,601.
• Individuals and families
receiving clothing: 10,546.
• Clothing items distributed:
over 92,000.
• The Food Pantry served
2,852.
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• The Evansville Crisis
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performed 858 pregnancy
tests.
• A program to help needy
persons with rent, utilities and
emergency needs -- in ex-
change for their volunteer
work at the Center -- helped
300 individuals with a total of
$11,643.
• Grace House provided a
residence for 21 homeless
women.
• The New Life Home, a ma-
ternity home for unwed teens,
had seven residents.
The biggest change in ten
years, Gries said, is "all the
programs we have added. We
started With the clothing bank
and the New Life Home. As
more needs were seen, we
added new programs."
To a-question about new
needs in.the community, Gries
responded without hesitation:
"One real big need is some
kind of an after care program
for pregnant teens." She said
girls who choose to keep their
babies often dro p out of school
and don't have any kind of sup-
port.
Gries would also like to see.
the development of what she
calls "a Christian-based coun-
seling program" in the city,
and she hopes in the future to
open a West Side crisis preg-
nancy counseling service.
To help pay for bone marrow transplant
The family of Debbie Dockery in Evansville has
planned two fund raising events to help with the costs of
the bone marrow transplant she needs. Debbie is the
daughter ofJackand Gayla DockeD', and the sister of Lisa
Golini and Mona Winiger.
A letter from family members describes the need:
"Debbie has recurrent breast cancer and needs a bone
marrow transplant. She has been accepted at Duke Univer-
sity Hospital for the procedure. Insurance has refused to
pay for it and she must have $75,000 before treatment can
be started. Money is needed by Feb. 9 and time is running
out."
An "All you can eat Pancake Breakfast" will be held at
the MacDonalds fast food outlet at Eastland Place,
Evansville, on Saturday, Jan. 20, from 7 to 10 a.m.
A card party is planned at the cafeteria of St. Theresa
Church, Evansville, on Monday, Feb. 5, starting at 7 p.m.
Tickets for each of the events may be obtained at the
door, or by calling Gayla Dockery at 476-8843, Lisa Golini
at 853-9508, or Mona Winiger at 985-7603.
Family members said donations nlay be made to the
Debbie Dockery Fund at any of the Citizens Banks.
Following up on Women's Issues
The Women's Issues Task Force of the Sisters of St.
Francis, Oldenburg, Ind., will sponsor "Women Connecting:
Beijing and Beyond," a workshop on the Fourth World Con-
ference on Women which was held in Beijing, China, in
September 1995.
The workshop will be held at the Catholic Center,
Evansville, on Saturday, Feb. 17, from 9:00 a.m to noon.
It will include a brief report on the Women's Confer-
ence, according to Franciscan Sister Rose Lima Frerick. She
said there will be an opportunity to discuss the official gov-
ernmental commitments, and deternfine ways that they can
be implemented at the local level.
The fee for the workshop is $3, payable at the door.
Reminder: Project Rachel is available
Project Rachel is a healing outreach of Catholic Chari-
ties of the Diocese of Evansville, for women who have had
an abortion. Quoting a letter from Pope John Paul II, coun-
selors remind women that "what happened.., was wrong,"
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