LUM Camp 2023 Theme Announced |
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Wes's Weekly Wrap Up - Gala of Hope Recap |
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In this edition of Wes's Weekly Wrap Up, Wes Tillett, LUM executive director, gives a beautiful recap of this past Saturday's LUM Gala of Hope event with music, dancing, and more. Please take 59 seconds to watch the video and SHARE with others.
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Meet Yang - Volunteer of the Month - June |
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Hong-Yang Lin, Superstar Youth Programs Volunteer |
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Hong-Yang Lin is the LUM Volunteer of the Month for June. Yang is from Taichung, Taiwan and now lives in West Lafayette, where he is working on his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. Yang is being honored for his work with the LUM 5th Quarter Summer Learning and After School Programs . He was selected for this honor for his exceptional commitment and passion in engaging the students in STEM activities.
Yang enjoys volunteering at LUM because it is a smaller agency and close enough that he is able to ride his bicycle. The LUM students get excited when Yang is volunteering, especially when he has a special activity for them. On these occasions, he engages the children in a hands-on activity that gets them excited about math and technology. Recently Yang arrived with a few personal computer towers and led the students in opening them up, taking them apart, and studying what makes them work. It was a magical teaching moment. Yang stated that, “I just enjoy teaching and showing people that math is not hard.” Yang says volunteering at LUM is a great way to be involved in the community and encourages other Purdue students to do the same.
Join us in congratulating Hong-Yang Lin for being selected the LUM Volunteer of the Month for June. If you would like to volunteer with LUM, check out the LUM website or call or email the LUM volunteer coordinator, Terri Anderson (volunteer@LUMserve.org | 765-423-2691). To read more about Yang, click HERE.
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Gala of Hope - A Lovely Event & Great Cause |
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Raising Close to $25,000 for the Immigration Clinic |
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LUM Gala of Hope offered an enchanting evening with an opportunity to support the important work of the LUM Immigration Clinic. The lively capacity crowd enjoyed the captivating entertainment, delicious food & drink, and good company of each other.
The best part was that Gala of Hope raised close to $25,000. If you were not able to attend, you can help with a donation or by purchasing one of three experiences that are still available in the Marketplace ( Play with Clay, Asian Vegan Cooking Classes, and/or Tippecanoe County Courthouse Tour). Your support allows the LUM Immigration Clinic to help people like Kateryna, who fled to the US with her children to escape the war in Ukraine. To read more Mission Moments, including Kateryna's story, click HERE. To view more PHOTOS from Gala of Hope, click HERE.
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LUM would like to acknowledge and thank everyone who made Gala of Hope such a successful event, especially the Event Sponsors, Food Vendors, Entertainment, staff, board members, and volunteers. For a complete list, please click HERE. Please show your appreciation by visiting their business or attending their show soon and saying "THANKS."
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LUM Camp 2023 Theme is . . . M U S I C ! |
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Life Changing Experience for 80 Local Children |
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In less than a month, LUM Camp will be in full swing with more than 80 local children experiencing the best week of the summer. The theme of LUM Camp 2023 is “Music!“ and the program will focus on all aspects of music.
Marlena Edmondson, LUM Camp director, shared that, "We're scheduling performances from different genres of music and dancing — including the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra who let the kids play around on violins." There will also be a music teacher at LUM Camp who will break down the history of music and different ways music is made and heard. The campers will be making their own musical instruments during craft time and using musical instruments during the traditional sing-a-long of camp songs. There will also be a screening of a movie musical. LUM Camp will also include nature hikes, arts and crafts, boating, swimming, morning campfires, wall climbing, zip-lining, the giant swing, snacks, delicious meals, and diverse and caring counselors.
LUM Camp still needs donations to send children to camp, volunteer camp counselors (especially men), and eligible campers. LUM Camp is a scholarship-based camp, meaning LUM only invites children whose parents are not able to pay for the actual cost of camp, which is more than $300 per camper. Campers’ parents pay only $5 per child, and LUM needs donors like YOU to cover the rest. For more information on LUM Camp, click HERE or one of the buttons below.
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LUM Summer of Service – Meals Needed |
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Provide Shelter Meals or Daytime Bagged Lunches |
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Be a part of the LUM Summer of Service by providing a meal to your neighbors experiencing hunger, homelessness, and heat. Details on how you can provide meals are as follows:
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TO-GO MEALS — LUM offered simple to-go bagged meals all yearlong. Each weekday, to-go meals are available in the LUM Office during regular hours (M-F, 8:15 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.); and to-go meals are also given to the LUM Winter Warming Station guests from November 15 – April 15. Please consider providing bagged meals for our neighbors in need. It is a great youth and group activity. SIGN UP Today.
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SHELTER MEALS — Each night of the year, a simple meal is provided at the LUM Emergency Shelter. Planning and preparing a meal is a great activity for families, church groups, campus organizations, and civic groups. You may stay and serve the meal or drop it off in advance. No contact drop off is an option as well. Monthly meals are greatly appreciated. MORE Information.
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Shelter Meals NEEDED this weekend (July 1 & 2) & these other dates: July 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 & 31 — and lots of dates in August. To SIGN UP, click the month you’d like to prepare & serve meals & sign up: | July | August | September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June |.
Thanks to the members of the Jesus House at The Redeemed Christian Church of God for providing and serving a meal to the shelter guests earlier this year (pictured above). Please SHARE with others, and THANKS.
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