March 20, 2015 Editor: Wayne Wilson, Aide for Development: wayne@wesleyui.org

Inspiring Students, Transforming Lives, and Enriching Our World with Christ’s LoveWinter 2015 Newsletter

Wesley Foundationat the

University of IllinoisAt Green and Goodwin,

Entering a Second Century of Ministryto and with U of I Students.

Winter 2014 Capital Campaign photo by Susan Haney

“When we founded Illini Fighting Hunger at the Foundation, Wesley made it possible for me to pursue something that I am passionate

about --- addressing food insecurity in our community. What really strikes me, however, is that although I initially came to Wesley because of this opportunity I found much more than I had expected: a community of similarly passionate people who have been a great encouragement to me in my own spiritual journey.”

- Greg DamhorstCo-founder, Illini Fighting Hunger,Recipient of the Rev. Jean Cramer-Heuerman Peace with Justice Award

Bookmarkwww.wesleyui.org

Spring is here, and when internet users bookmark the Wesley website they

can stay informed of spring programs and activities by checking the calendar

and announcements, and read Wesley memories and testimonials contributed

by alumni.

There are many more ways to stay connected to Wesley:• Keep Wesley updated of your mailing address, as well as your e-mail address.• Join us for Sunday worship or Wednesday Midweek service when you are visiting campus.• Attend Wesley Foundation reunions.• Tell us your story. What are your Wesley memories?• Encourage U of I students from your area to participate in activities at Wesley Foundation and Wesley Church.

• Support our mission to serve students by making gifts to Wesley Foundation’s Annual Operating Fund.• Sign up to join one of Wesley’s inter generational service projects.• Help ensure a mission-ready building by making a gift to the Wesley Capital Campaign.• Lift up Wesley Foundation in prayer as it enters a second century of ministry with students at the University of Illinois.

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Thank you for the beautiful fall newsletter. I recall few in it. I’d love

to tell you my story:Don and I met at the U of I in Sept. 1943. As were so many in training

for WWII, he was transferred to Yale by the new year. We did not marry

until the end of the war and he remained in the Air Force Reserve,

saying ‘this is not over.’ He was called back to service in the USAF

during Korea.We raised six children during his 24

years in service, including Viet Nam. Our family rarely missed

Base Chapel Sunday services. Don was a confirmed Lutheran

but we were taught by a variety of chaplains over the years.

When Don retired in 1966, we were stationed here at Hanscom AFB

west of Boston. He continued working for the USAF as civil

service. I took advantage of the excellent education by adding an

EdM at Boston University in 1966. Then I had my career, after raising

the family.We enjoyed twenty-five years of

retirement: traveling these United States, fifteen of those winters in mild Arizona. But Sunday always meant going to the Lord’s house,

no matter where we were.After only four years of declining health the Lord called Don home

in July 2013, at age 94. The church is still pretty much the center of my life, together with

my younger daughter and family. Granddaughters and son-in-law

all sing in the choir. At age 90 I’ve found a service niche: sewing

for the various departments. Costumes for the religious drama

team; helping with quilts for the National Missions Board to

distribute during natural disasters; mending church year banners

when needed.My other retirement passion ---

keeping up with nutrition research --- grew from my Home Economics

education degree.Wishing you all

a blessed Christmas.Alice Ford Hilker (’46)

Wesley Foundation Legacy Circle

For Skyler Lipman, Wesley is “...a home away from home.”

Kerrith Livengood is an adjunct instructor, and teaches aural skills at the School of Music at the U of I. She brings her son to Campus Cooperative Pre-School located in Wesley’s education wing, so she frequently works on her laptop computer in Wesley’s daytime coffeehouse. Her husband, Jonathan, is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the U of I, and they both studied at the University of Pittsburgh before coming to Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Originally from Springfield, MO, Kerrithgrew up in the United Methodist Church, and when she visited Wesley Church

she learned that Contemporary Worship director Brian Sullivan was looking for a drummer., She has been part of the Wesley worship band since, and when asked what she likes about Wesley: “I like that Wesley blends, reaching across the school and the wider community.” At the School of Music, Kerrith teaches accurate hearing and singing of melodies, harmonies, rhythms, phrase structures, tonal progressions, comprehension of music scores, and in the mind, hearing how parts come together. She earned her Masters and PhD in Composition and Music Theory at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007, 2012, and her Bachelor of Music from Truman State University in 2003.

U of I music teacher plays drums for Contemporary Worship.

Skylar Lipman is a sophomore from

Naperville, IL who is focusing on both music and ecology. She participates in

the Wesley Hand Bell Choir that plays at the

traditional worship services, she attends

the Contemporary Worship service

and Midweek Worship, and she is a participant on the

Wesley Green Team, a group of students

and Wesley members who cultivate

environmentally friendly practices at Wesley. Right now, she hopes to pursue both music

and ecology professions after graduation. Her hobby is music.

“Wesley is like a home away from home,” she says. Her father is Jewish and her mother has not been strongly affiliated with a church. “Although I’ve attended worship services at different churches and studied other faiths,

I guess you could say I’m closer to the United Methodist Church; I like learning about other religions.” She has attended Doubt Night and enjoyed the difficult questions about faith, the Bible, and religious ethics asked by students and other participants. She and Wesley’s (U of I senior) Tabi Nelson attended Imagine What’s NEXT in November 2014 in Denver, CO, an event designed by a team of college students, campus ministers, and other creative disciples from across the United Methodist connection to facilitate participants’ decisions on vocation. It is sponsored by the UMC’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry’s Division of Higher Education. “The conference had small group sessions with experts in different fields of interest for college students.” Skylar has volunteered for Illini Fighting Hunger, a program of Wesley Foundation at the University of Illinois that enables campus organizations and church groups to repackage bulk food items for local food pantries.

Photo: Skylar Lipman

100th Anniversary celebration photo by Jarod Spohrer, HotSpot Photography

Kerrith Livengood,

(left) and the Wesley band

lead a portion of the

Sunday service for the 100th

Anniversary weekend

of Wesley Foundation,

Oct.11-13, 2013.

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The Wesley Capital Campaign: To preserve and prepare facilities for ministry and

service with future generations.by Wayne Wilson, Aide for Development

Pledge payments for the Wesley Capital Campaign has to date provided money to clean, repair, and tuck

point the Social Center exterior and (below) replace an over-tasked boiler with a more efficient system.

2014 Wesley Capital Campaign photos by Susan Haney

Wesley Welcomes Your Stories and News.

Derek Attig, Wesley communications director, encourages alumni to get in touch with him (dattig@wesleyui.org) with stories for the website about their time at Wesley or their lives since. See the Wesley Foundation website and its alumni page for testimonials from former Wesley students.

Dear Wesley Foundation Friends:No doubt that I should say

Wesley friends, because Wesley Foundation meant so much to me

for friends, a place to continue and grow in my faith, AND a place to do custodial work to help pay my way

(partially) through college.Good luck to you to help others do

more of the same.

-Dean A. Shinneman (’43)

The Wesley Capital Campaign set a $1,690,000 goal in October 2012, and by October 2013 campaign chairperson, Wesley member Susan Haney, announced that total pledges had reached $1,029,916. Fulfilled pledges since then have enabled Wesley Foundation’s trustees to repair and seal the exterior walls of the Social Center (finished in Sept. 2013) and replace the old over-demanded boiler that served both the Social Center and the sanctuary with a new, more efficient system, an upgrade phase finished in Nov. 2014. The 94 year-old Social Center is in need of various upgrades for not only the roof and work on the rooms under it, but also changes to inadequate electrical wiring. The campaign proceeds in 2015 with the goal to raise the remaining $690,000 in pledges by alumni and other friends this year. Mailings seeking pledges will begin in March. Pledges may be paid by installments over five years. A capital campaign differs from annual giving: Wesley’s capital campaign addresses needs significant to mission. It invests its return in permanent property; it seeks larger amounts than the annual budget can cover; it requires sacrifice above and beyond normal, annual giving; it schedules pledge fulfillment over a longer period, so donors may select a giving plan.Investing in the building is an investment in future generations who come to Wesley Foundation. Wesley’s Social Center is not only a place of informal worship, study, and fellowship, but also where programs such as Illini Fighting Hunger and the Wesley Evening Food Pantry utilize large spaces of Wesley’s facility for their respective projects, from Goodwin Street to the sanctuary at Mathews and Green. The ETC Coffeehouse door near Goodwin and Green has been a familiar access to Wesley’s service ministry, including the ETC. Coffeehouse since 1964, International Coffee House since 1988, and since 2007 a daily coffeehouse open in fall, winter, and for contemporary worship services and international programs in summer. During weekdays, the coffee house is open for study or conversation, and it features a menu of fair trade coffee, Wi-Fi internet access for laptop computers, and opportunities to contribute cash to the Wesley food pantries. The coffeehouse is able to operate and donate proceeds to the food pantry or other missions because of a sustaining gift from Jan and Jim Robinson of Urbana.

Wesley Foundation’s Legacy Circle is a special group of alumni who believe

in the purposes and traditions of our first Wesley Foundation, and who

want to help assure that its programs and facility are available to future

generations at the University of Illinois. The Wesley Foundation

Development Committee and Legacy Circle members hope that interested

faithful supporters who have made annual gifts to operations, gifts to

endowment, a special pledge/gift to the Wesley Capital Campaign, or

designated Wesley Foundation as a beneficiary in their will or insurance

policy will consider joining the Circle and make plans for their legacy gift

for ministry and Christian service with future generations.

While faithful giving to Wesley Foundation’s Annual Operating

Fund will always be vital, it is crucial now to strengthen long-term

support through planned giving to Wesley’s general endowment,

if we are to sustain our work with future generations. Gifts to general

endowment are invested by the Foundation, and income will be

available without restrictions to the Board of Trustees.

You may already be eligible for the Legacy Circle, if you have given in

past years to any Wesley Foundation endowment. For information about

Wesley Foundation’s Legacy Circle, contact Wayne Wilson at

217-344-1120, mornings, M-F or e-mail:

wayne@wesleyui.org

The Legacy CircleEncouraging planned giving in support

for ministry with future generations.

2015

Contributor Kathy AlexanderDiane E. JeffersDonna M. Skinner

Century Club ($100+)Keith and Sara KelleyKevin Read Mrs. Joyce Reeves

New Century Club ($250+)Sheldon Jacobson Norman & Eureath Schoeppel

Memorial Endowment FundE. Paul & Judith M. Unger

Chairpersons Club ($500+)Anonymous Karin Ellison & Clark Miller Annette & Charles LansfordLinda A. Linke

Directors Club ($1,000+)Lloyd & Jean Helper Paul Reimer & Melissa Miller Kay Romans Mr. Donald Walden

Heritage Club ($2,000+)Tod & Belinda Courtney

Upholders Club ($5,000+)

Sustainers Club ($10,000+)

2014

ContributorKathy Alexander Bob & Connie Atkins, in memory of

Walt Lewis Arthur L. Brighton Virgil & Marilyn Butler Jerry Crisel Marvin E. & Lela K. Criswell Mrs. David L. Drake, in memory of

David L. Drake Mrs. Catherine Edmiston, in memory of Dorothy “Dottie” Beal Mr. Richard A. Eppler Ms. Gunilla Goulding Mr.& Mrs. Douglas & Robyn Graves Mrs. Gwendolyn Grymonprez Mrs. Marsha Haworth Ranger David Hemenway Donald R. Mann Dan McQuown Mr. Bruce Nesmith Mr. Thane Peterson, in memory of

Winnie Wilson John G. Putta Dr. & Mrs. George Provenzano Ken & Dorcas Rose Mr. & Mrs. David & Janet Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Swaar Beverly Ujcich Century Club ($100+)Anonymous Fern H. Armstrong Mr. Kenneth E. Baughman Elaine Bearden Craig Chamberlain Mrs. Jean A. Castle David & Barbara Davis Bob & Mary Deem Virginia & Rondal Downing, in memory of

Paul and Elizabeth Burt Mrs. Selma N. Duvick, in memory of Donald N. Duvick, ’48 Scott Ellerthorpe Mr. Earl Eugene Evans, in memory of

Deloris Evans Mrs. Urla M. Golden Donald Greeley Edward T. & Priscilla H. Gruber Mr. Jeffrey Hansen Alice F. Hilker, in memory of

Max Ford Roger Icenogle Alice B. Jenks Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin A. Jones, Jr. Mr. & Mrs.Keith & Sara Kelley, in memory of S. Dean and Mary J. Sims Harold E. Kieler Tom Klug Iris Brown Knell, in honor of Ben and Joe Michael & Renee Lake Dr. Janet V. Leonard, in memory of

Dr. Colleen J. Kirk andRuth Helen Burlison Roberta Lindstrand

Mrs. Eleanor Icenogle Markwell, In memory of Doc GoodellLiliana & Gonzalo Mariano David Martin Nancy Maxwell

Century Club, cont’dStephen L. Miller, Mary Lou Stokes Miller Mrs. Lillian Mink Mr. & Mrs. Neil Mottinger, in memory of Florence E. Hall Tom & Sharon Neufer Emswiler Raymond & Barbara Norton Ms. Brenda Pacey Jean Peters Leroy & Mary Joyce Pickett Rev. Leah Pogemiller Mr. Richard L. Raymond David Sattazahn Dr. Luisa Sandoval, in honor of Mrs. Germana Sandoval Mr. John Shackleford Mrs. Jean O. Shelly Mr. & Mrs. James E. Stephens Mrs. Joyce Taylor, in memory of

Donald Taylor Mrs. Judith Taylor Tom & Jen Unger Kroc Steven Varble Donald & Kay Weaver David Wernette Mrs. Kim (Wolfgang) Wittel, in memory

of Sharon Scott New Century Club ($250+)William L. Augur Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Bettenhausen Frances Cramer, in memory of

Jean Cramer-Heuermann Mark D. Elder Kedzie Davis Fernholz Rick Firkins Judie Heck Sue & Ron Kiddoo Mr. James R. Kuhn Mrs. Melody Neumann Donald & Martha Pellikan Steven Rodgers Mr. John Shackleford Myrna Wheeler Smith Marjorie Ann Sullins Ernest N. Thorp Chairperson’s Club ($500+)John & Willa Almlof Don & Ann Brush Drs. Ron & Alisa Clapp-Itnyre Jeffrey J. Decker Ann M. Dillner Steve & Mary Gritten Mike & Susan Haney Dr. Roberta Harrison Morris Huck Diane E. Jeffers Pat & John JordanLinda Linke Kevin Read Ann Saterbak Ralph & Janet Simmons Paul & Judith Unger Marilyn Whittaker Director’s Club ($1,000+)Brad & Davon Cook Ernest & Lois Gullerud Lloyd & Jean Helper Don C. & Mary W. Hopkins Barbara Lowis Lehmann & Dr. John R. Lehmann Mike & Jane McCulley

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Director’s Club cont’dPaul Reimer & Melissa Miller Judson F. Parker Mrs. Gretchen Rauschenberg Kay Romans Mr. & Mrs. Dean & Bonnie Shinneman Mark D. Syverson Donald Walden Wayne Wilson T. Alan Yungbluth Heritage Club ($2,000+)Robert & Connie Atkins Mr. & Mrs. Gerald D. Brighton Tod & Belinda Courtney David & Julie Klenske Mrs. Charlotte Wilson Don & Martha Zimmerman Upholders’ Club ($5,000+)Mr. & Mrs. Arnold W. Thompson

THANK YOU, for your gifts for the 2014 Annual Operating Fund.Annual Operating Fund donations during January 1 through December 31, 2014

Gifts for the 2015 Annual Operating Fund, as of Mar. 7,‘15