GCW donates $15,000 of Fall Fair Funds

Gethsemane’s Scandinavian Fall Fair is valued as a colorful experience of friendship and creativity, but funds raised by the Fair do solid work in meeting needs both at Gethsemane and beyond our walls.

A distribution of funds from the 2008 Fair recently approved by the Gethsemane Church Women reveals a broad array of contributions to a variety of projects.

A total of $7,950 given in support of outreach includes gifts ranging from $200 to $1,500 to: Chapel View, Amazing Grace, Luther Seminary Friends, Lutheran Social Service, Hopkins-Minnetonka Family Resource Center, Sojourner Shelter, Peter and Solvei Stohl, Vail Place, Feed My Starving Children, Simpson Housing Services, Dinner at Your Door, Community Emergency Services, Lutheran World Relief and Coral Rose.

Gifts ranging from $200 to $2,000 were made to programs at Gethsemane for a total of $8,050. These included: After School for Kids (ASK), wages for our Kitchen Coordinator, Gethsemane Children and Youth Ministries, Choir, Habitat for Humanity, the Gethsemane sound system, and the GCW reserve fund.