In this edition of Wes's Weekly Wrap Up, Wes Tillett, LUM executive director, celebrates Linda Hicks and her 17 years of service to the community through LUM. Please take 59 seconds to watch the video and SHARE with others. Read more below about yesterday's Celebration Lunch for Linda Hicks.

Jubilee Christmas is here! This Saturday (December 10) is a joyous day in Greater Lafayette. At 29 different events across Tippecanoe County from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 653 local families will receive Christmas assistance impacting close to 1,750 local children. 

Jubilee Christmas is a special LUM program for families with children ages 12 and younger. Participants will attend an event at one of our 29 host sites and select new toys for their children. Each parent is assigned a host who will assist them in shopping and wrapping their gifts. Each family also receives a food gift card and homemade Christmas cookies to make their Christmas dinner more special.

After 17 years of service to the community through her work at Lafayette Urban Ministry, Linda Hicks has decided to start a new journey. Yesterday, LUM honored Linda with a lunch as she steps down from her position at LUM to pursue a few of her other passions. The lunch was a bright and fun celebration. In attendance were many of her friends and colleagues including Joe Micon, LUM executive director emeritus, and Mary Anderson, Linda’s predecessor as the director of the LUM Financial Assistance Program. {Pictured: Mary Anderson & Linda.} Linda was presented with a memory book, which is filled with wonderful memories of her incredible work as well as the strong connections she made over the years. To view more PHOTOS, click HERE.

Since 2017, Linda has been the director of the LUM Financial Assistance Program and ID Clinic. With LUM, she was the Office Manager and LUM Camp director. Linda will work through the end of this year, at which time her successor will be announced. Linda and her staff of volunteer caseworkers view their daily work as a calling. She believes in those she helps. She provides the care and encouragement they need to overcome difficulties. Linda always does her job with grace rather than judgment. She is a blessing to each person she meets.

Linda’s work is made possible because people like you give generously to the LUM Good Samaritan Fund. Please continue to give, so that our community’s most important financial safety net can continue to be available. Will you be a blessing like Linda? Share a generous tribute gift in honor of Linda Hicks to the LUM Good Samaritan Fund.

LUM was excited to partner again this year with the Neil Klemme State Farm Insurance Agency, a local small business, for the annual November Match Program.

Thanks to the generosity of Neil Klemme, the Klemme Insurance team (pictured), State Farm, and all of our November donors the effort raised more than $8,145. This will give LUM a tremendous boost in the effort to support local families and children in our community with Christmas assistance.

LUM is fortunate and grateful to have this support from the Neil Klemme State Farm Insurance Agency — and YOU! Please contact Neil Klemme when you get a chance and thank him and his team.

LUM is hiring an Accounting Assistant who will primarily be responsible for the accounts payable of the organization and general support for the Business Office.

Please see the details below to find out more and to apply today. For more details, click HERE. If interested—please apply online.