12/16/2019
It was another successful year for Mission Ingathering, having received $570,837.95 in monetary and in-kind gifts from the 40th Ingathering on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The Mission Ingathering Task Force met today at the Conference Center to review last year’s ingathering and make changes for 2020. “We talked a lot about the changes in the kits that we will be requesting churches make for 2020,” said Judy Brotherton, Ingathering Secretary and Mount Pleasant Site Coordinator. The task ...
11/2/2019
Mission Ingathering, formerly known as Thanksgiving Ingathering, marked forty years of making a difference on Saturday, November 2. “The Mission Ingathering is a way for Iowa United Methodists to address humanitarian problems locally and around the world, including hunger, poverty, and disaster,” according to the Ingathering statements. It’s a way “to show the love of Christ to the world’s people by ministering to their needs.” What began as a small collection of blankets, kits, animals, and...
