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Thank you!
Mon, Apr 19th, 2010
We send thanks to all who helped with Breakfast with the INN Crowd.
We were thrilled with the response to this year's Breakfast with the INN Crowd. More than 300 people attended - a 50% increase over the inaugural event in 2008. Preliminary calculations indicate that we raised more than $25,000! Thank you! These funds will go toward operating expenses, to provide shelter and services to the 200+ homeless women and families who find help here each year.
St. Louis radio personality Randy Karraker hosted the morning’s program and Mary Francis Fletcher, CDP, provincial director of the Sisters of Divine Providence, welcomed our guests. A former client, Regina Market, reflected on her experience of homelessness and explained to the audience how Room at the Inn helped her on her return to self-reliance. Steve Rupp, director of the Society of St. Vincent DePaul and vice president of Missouri Right to Life, was the auctioneer.
In addition to raising money, the event was an opportunity for us to recognize and thank the 21 interfaith congregations that have partnered with Room at the Inn for more than 15 years. Those congregations are:
- Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Church in Ferguson
- Christ Memorial Baptist Church in Cool Valley
- Congregation Shaare Emeth in Creve Coeur
- Eliot Unitarian Chapel in Kirkwood
- First Presbyterian Church of Ferguson
- First Presbyterian Church of St. Louis in University City
- Florissant Church of Christ
- Glendale Lutheran Church
- Glendale Presbyterian Church
- Kirkwood United Methodist Church
- Manchester United Methodist Church
- Marvin Park United Methodist Church in St. Louis County
- Maryland Heights Presbyterian Church
- McKnight Road Church of Christ in St. Louis County
- Mid County Church of Christ in St. Louis County
- New Horizon Presbyterian Church of St. Louis County
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Cool Valley
- St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in Crestwood
- St. Monica Catholic Church in St. Louis County
- Stephan Memorial United Methodist Church in St. John
- Webster Groves Christian Church
We would also like to thank the following, without whose donation, sponsorship or ad we would not have done so well:
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