Legacy Garden Honors Historical Benefactors
Methodist Children’s Home recently completed the Legacy Garden, designed to honor benefactors and their families whose gifts helped build the historical homes and buildings on the Waco campus.
The garden is adjacent to the Mulkey Memorial Garden next to the Administration building at the front of campus and displays plaques mounted on pillars that provide information about each home and its benefactor. Each plaque was previously displayed at the entrance of its corresponding home.
“This garden is a way we can celebrate the legacy these donors had in constructing these homes,” said Trey Oakley, MCH president/CEO. “As we continue progress with the Building Hope capital campaign to build new homes on campus, we wanted to have a place to honor those who gave these homes and where our alumni, supporters, friends, and family members of those who gave could pay tribute to the thousands of lives that have been changed through these homes.”
The Building Hope capital campaign is a strategic initiative launched in 2015 that challenged MCH to develop a new home design that considers the needs of its current population, cost and maintenance efficiencies, and expertise gained through cutting-edge methods of care such as Trust-Based Relational Intervention. MCH is currently in Phase 4 of the campaign which includes construction of four additional homes.
Top 20 Churches for Direct Gifts and Total Giving in 2019
DIRECT GIFTS
Offerings and donations received directly from churches.
1. First UMC – Grapevine 2. First UMC – Big Spring 3. First UMC – Center 4. First UMC – Rockwall 5. First UMC – Boerne 6. First UMC – Mansfield 7. Coker UMC – San Antonio 8. Marvin UMC – Tyler 9. Mt. Zion UMC – Panola 10. University Park UMC – Dallas |
11. Matador – UMC 12. The Woodlands – UMC 13. First UMC – Coppell 14. White’s Chapel UMC – Southlake 15. Kress UMC 16. Salado UMC 17. First UMC – Celina 18. First UMC – Georgetown 19. First UMC – Graham 20. Wheelock UMC |
TOTAL GIVING
Direct gifts from churches plus church credit requests from individual donations.
1. First UMC – Big Spring 2. Sierra Vista UMC – San Angelo 3. First UMC – Rockwall 4. First UMC – Grapevine 5. First UMC – Richardson 6. Highland Park UMC – Dallas 7. Travis Park UMC – San Antonio 8. First UMC – Boerne 9. First UMC – Center 10. Coker UMC – San Antonio |
11. The Woodlands – UMC 12. Marvin UMC – Tyler 13. First UMC – Nacogdoches 14. First UMC – Mansfield 15. Christ Church UM – The Woodlands 16. Kingwood UMC 17. First UMC – Fort Worth 18. First UMC – Lockney 19. First UMC – Lubbock 20. White’s Chapel UMC – Southlake |
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