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From the Board President
From the Board
President - About 2008

Dear Friends
of the Kokomo Rescue Mission,
We express our thanks to the many people
who have supported the Kokomo Rescue Mission with prayers,
volunteer service, and financial gifts this past year. We can
report that 2008 was a most successful year for the Mission. We
grew in every way, in individuals and familes served, in finances,
and --we believe this is the most important--in the number of
lives reclaimed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But we are being challenged as never
before. Kokomo has gone in just a few years from a city with the
most affordable housing in the nation, to a city which Forbes
magazine says is one of the three most economically
disintegrating cities in the nation. The economic slowdown puts
pressure on every level of our community life. Our Rescue Mission
anticipates that we will see more hungry persons and more
homeless in the coming year. People will need help who have never
needed it before. There is the possibility of increased crime, to
say nothing of spiritual despair.
We desire your prayers for discernment
as we face the coming days. To be most efficient with our
resources we are partnering with groups like Kokomo Urban
Outreach and Clinton County Ministry of Hope, and other like-minded
groups. We are moving off campus to additional sites to deal with
needs where they are.
Until now we have been blessed with
support from churches and from the communities in our six-county
area so that we have not had to cut back any programs. At the
present time it costs more than $5,000 a day to keep the Mission
open and to maintain our programs. As the recession deepens we
realize that we will be dealing with increasing pressures. We
covet your support.
For RESCUE,

Rev. Riley B. Case
President, Board of Directors

Front Row:
Bonnie Maple, Curtis C. Welke, Rev. Riley Case, Esther McCauley,
Rev. Stephen Beutler
Back Row: Mike Fox, John Bingaman, Shan Sherian, Galen
Hodge, Rev. Gary Bush and Janet Yoder.
Not Pictured: Justin Alter, Ralph Grotrian, Dr. Walter J.
Ungerer and Jim Thrasher
Officers:
President: Rev. Riley B. Case, Retired Pastor
and Author
Vice-President: Esther McCauley, Retired Missionary
Secretary: Mike Fox, Coca Cola Bottling of Kokomo
Treasurer: Rev. Stephen A. Beutler - Pastor,
Grace United Methodist Church
Members:
Dr. Walter J. Ungerer, Retired Pastor
Jim Thrasher, HE McGonigals Inc.
Curtis C. Welke, McIntyre, Hilligoss, Vent & Welke
Justin Alter, Butcher, Ball, Lowry & Alter
Bonnie Maple, Retired
John Bingaman, Retired
Shan Sheridan, Clinton County Chamber of Commerce
Gary Bush, Cummins/Crosspoint /Pastor
Janet Yoder, Owner - Curves
F. Galen Hodge, Retired
Ralph Grotrian, Retired
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