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*”Visions are quite often the simple part, with the hard part being the execution – turningthe vision into reality.”
CAM is a place to encourage dreams, vision, and assisting people called to ministries. Mary and Brenda are two such people. The Kokomo Urban Outreach Hands of Hope have been coming to CAM the 3rd Friday of each month, setting up outside, and feeding those needing a hot meal – giving blankets, coats, toilet paper, laundry detergent, various items needed by those with little money and/or those living from carts.
Mary and Brenda have also begun to volunteer as Case Managers with our homeless families.
At the last meal outdoors at CAM, these two were given the vision of delivering these meals to the elderly at the Civic Center Towers and Terrace Towers. This vision is in development.
Pray for Mary and Brenda and CAM as we continue to minister to the homeless, nearhomeless, and those financially disenfranchised.
* http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/visions.html
January 22, 2010 ~ Kokomo First Baptist Church Preschool Presented 94 Mittens to CAM, Inc. Teacher - Ms. Amanda Arbuckle & Ms. Lenora Burtch This is their third year of collecting up to 100 mittens for the community. KUO Hands of Hope Ministry served a meal at CAM tonight and gave out hats, scarves, these mittens & gloves, coats, blankets, and hygiene items.
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The Kokomo has awarded our Executive Director, Rev. Ruth Lawson, with the Perspective Lifetime Achievement Award for the Year 2009. To see the article, go to http://www.kokomoperspective.com/news/article_d908aa5e-f576-11de-817a-001cc4c03286.html.
Thank you to Kokomo Perspective:
I would like to express my gratitude to you, The Kokomo Perspective, for granting me your Lifetime Achievement Award 2009. The Family Hope Center is a community effort and will be a blessing to many families in time of crisis for many years to come.
CAM, Inc. is a wonderful organization. I would personally not be able to reach out into the community, if it were not for Kathy Esslinger, the CAM Supervisor, who keeps all the many components of CAM running. Also, CAM works because of Gwen Melton taking care of over 50 Payees; Darrin Bogue working with supplies, volunteers, and clients of CAM; Teddy White who drives our van; and the many churches, organizations, Volunteers, and CAM Volunteers that keep our doors open.
Imagine the faith of the CAM Board of Directors, seeing CAM scrap by financially like many agencies last year, yet willing to give the o.k. for CAM to reach out and meet the need of our community for a family shelter! They are to be commended, under the leadership of the CAM Board Chair, Rev. Paul Sutherland.
In thanking you for the year of the Family Hope Center, I would be remiss not to greatly credit Pastor James Bradley and Family Worship Center for their leap of faith and concern for local mission to purchase the home at 320 East Walnut and being willing to lease the facility to CAM, Inc. for $1.00 a year.
With sincere gratitude, Rev. Ruth Lawson, Executive Director of CAM, Inc.
CAM Clients, each year, pick one personal gift from $10 to $15. 401 gifts have been selected that range from perfume, kitchen items, jeans, shirts, to toys for children. CAM, Inc. would like to thank the 27 Churches and Organizations who have taken tags and families – Abundant Life Church, American Legion Auxiliary, Bible Baptist, Brookside Free Methodist, Calvary Baptist, CAM Board of Directors, Carpenter Tools Church, Center Road Church of Christ, Christ Lutheran, Courtland Ave. Friends, Faith Presbyterian, Family Worship Center, First Baptist Kokomo, First Congregational Christian, Grace United Methodist, Greater Mt. Olive Temple, Judson Baptist, Judson Road Christian, Kokomo High School Basketball Team, Main Street United Methodist, Northview Christian, Paar United Methodist, Parkview Mennonite, St. Thomas Orthodox, Second Missionary Baptist, Upper Deer Creek, and West Middleton United Methodist.
Thanks for the work of Paul Hunt, who organized the sign-up for gifts; Darrin Bogue who organized the pick-up and delivery of all gifts and food; and Karen Snow with her Helpers who changed “numbers to names” and made sure everyone had a gift. This year Karen and I were very pleased to have a “Shopper” in our midst – Brittany Maggart from the CAM Family Hope
Over 200 CAM Clients attended the Annual CAM Christmas Party at Grace United Methodist Church. Santa, Girl Scout Troops, school, and church organizations lined up to assist. Dottie Burns organized the food and servers, and thanks to the Realtors Association who decorated beautifully.
For food and serving, thanks to Ameriprise Financial, Bible Baptist, Calvary American Baptist, Christ Lutheran, CAM Clients and Volunteers, First Baptist Kokomo, First Christian Kokomo, Howard Regional Healthcare System, Hillsdale United Methodist, Indian Heights Southern Baptist, Kroger, Liberty Financial, Literacy Coalition, Lutheran Women, Maple Grove, St. Joan of Arc Catholic, St. Patrick’s Catholic, Second Missionary Baptist, Subway, and WWKI.
