Each year three remarkable Missourians, who have overcome many challenges to make life better for themselves, others, and their communities, are selected to receive the Missouri Mental Health Champions’ award at the capital Jefferson City. The presentation was made on May 9, 2023 at an awards banquet at the Capitol Plaza Hotel.
One of the 2023 awards was given to Merna Leisure-Eppick of Branson, MO.
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Berendt of Edmonton, Alberta and colleagues for being awarded the 2022 HQCA (Health Quality Council of Alberta) Patient Experience Award.
In Sugarcreek, Ohio, elder John Miller, partially affected but also motivated by the COVID-19 challenge, has innovatively used the pandemic to find ways to reach his community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Today we completed distribution of our third truck of food to the community. It has taken on a life of its own--we had people lined up 30 minutes before starting time and the food was all gone in an hour.
On Thursday, January 28, 2021 we had a Farmers to Families Food Drive at SUPERB Industries. It was a joint effort between UCG, SUPERB Industries, and Legacy School. UCG was the Non-Profit of record, SUPERB provided logistics and organization, and Legacy High School of Sugarcreek provided 15 volunteers to load food into cars.
I have asked some of our members in Hong Kong to give me their first-hand impressions of what's going on in Hong Kong during this time of protests being broadcast to the world. Is it safe to travel to Hong Kong. What about the Feast of Tabernacles? Read reports from Jimmy Wong, Terry Franke, assistant senior pastor living in Alaska and Mary Ong.
Bridgette Beam, daughter of Rex and Patty Sexton is featured in this Spotlight Alumni Award video from Orfalea College of Business. It features her work at Google. I had previously posted about Bridgette about an article featuring her standing up for her faith during high school days. Inspiring story!!
Bridgette Beam is in the business of making visions reality. As the Head of Global Programs at Google for Startups, she helps inspire and empower people worldwide to get their businesses up and running.
