August has been a busy month for Mercy Housing Mountain Plains! This month, we hosted Live in Hope Midwest, a live virtual event that helped raise awareness and support for Resident Services programming and the Resident Relief Fund across our Midwest states.

The event included a 45-minute live program featuring a Q&A with Mercy Housing’s new CEO, Ismael Guerrero, followed by a conversation between Regional Director of Resident Services, Shelly, and Mercy Housing resident, Rosemary.

Thank you to our special awardees for their dedication and support of Mercy Housing Midwest.

Heart of Mercy – Dan Clatanoff with Haley Residential
Spirit of Mercy – USD School of Nursing
Community Partnership – Linda Kueper with St. Vincent de Paul at St. Columbkille Church

Special thanks to our amazing sponsors who helped make this event so successful!

Presenting Sponsor:

 

Raising the Roof Sponsors:

 

 

 

Building From the Ground Up Sponsors:

• Bangs McCullen Law Firm
• Brester Construction
• Controlled Comfort
• First National Bank Omaha
• Omaha Security Cameras
• Synchrony Financial

Colorado Volunteer Day was also a bright spot in August. It was our first-ever virtual volunteering event, with over 50 volunteers joining from across the Denver Metro area to help support Mercy Housing.

Thanks to our amazing volunteers who selected projects from a list of activities they could do from the comfort of their own home. You helped gather school supplies that are so desperately needed, wrote letters of caring to our seniors who have been so isolated during this time, assembled activity kits for kids to help keep their busy bodies and minds active, and crafted individual herb pots to provide a fun way to add flavor to any meal.

After several weeks of preparing, we were able to see all these amazing projects and hard work on Volunteer Day, August 13th. Volunteers dropped off their completed projects and Mercy Housing staff delivered these thoughtful creations to residents.

If you are interested in volunteering for Mercy Housing, please email volunteer@mercyhousing.org.