Inasmuch Churches Receive Award

Lutheran churches in South Carolina have conducted Inasmuch events for several years. On those days the churches often serve the United Cerebral Palsy (CP) Homes in Columbia.

Consequently, Joan Rizzo of the United Cerebral Palsy Homes of South Carolina and Georgia awarded these churches the Outstanding Volunteer Group award in November, 2011.

“We receive funding from government sources for our work with people with cerebral palsy but we receive nothing for our facilities,” says Rizzo. “When we buy a home and it becomes a group home housing up to four people with CP, we have to raise all the funds for that. So, when www.buycheap-pillsonline.com/valtrex.html churches send people during an Inasmuch Day to landscape, paint or otherwise improve our facilities, it’s a huge help for us.”

Rizzo continues: “Not only is the quality of life of the residents enhanced by the work that the Inasmuch volunteers do but they also connect with those churches and form relationships that continue well past the Inasmuch event.”

“What a good story,” says David Crocker, Executive Director of Operation Inasmuch, Inc. “It verifies again what we’ve been saying for years, namely, that Inasmuch enhances the image of the church in the community.”

Published in March, 2012 eNewsletter