Hope Ministries – Signature Events

2011 Hearts for Hope Tea raises over $121,000!

Thank you so much to everyone who attended and participated in our 2011 Hearts for Hope Women’s Tea on Saturday, May 7. Your attendance and generous giving is a huge blessing to us!

This was a record year for our Women’s Tea with over 800 attendees!! In fact our event sold out one month before the Tea!

Also, we are so blessed to announce that the fundraising results of this year’s Tea surpassed our $100,000 goal. Thanks to the generosity of over 800 women, we raised a total of more than $121,000 at our 2011 Tea! These funds will help us serve homeless and displaced women and children in the year to come at our Hope Family Center. Thank you!!

Hope Ministries’ also wishes to express our sincere thanks to Community State Bank for donating $5,000 to our Tea as a corporate sponsor and to Life 107.1 KNWI Christian Radio for the numerous hours of promotion for our Tea.

We were all truly inspired by our keynote speaker Gracia Burnham. Gracia shared about her experience being held hostage—along with her husband—for more than a year in the jungle of the Philippines. We were also blessed by the testimonies of two Hope Family Center graduates.

Be sure to check this page in coming days for photos and video of the event.

Thank you so much to this year’s keynote speaker Gracia Burnham. If you missed the 2011 Women’s Tea and want to learn more about Gracia and her story, you can visit her Web site at www.graciaburnham.org.	We were thrilled to once again have Brooke Bouma, co-anchor of WHO Channel 13’s “Today in Iowa” show, as our guest emcee. This was Brooke’s fourth year as our emcee. Thanks, Brooke!
This year was Community State Bank’s fifth year as the Corporate Sponsor for our Women’s Tea. Thank you so much to CSB for your generous partnership. Our thanks also goes to Life 107.1 KNWI for serving as a Corporate Sponsor for this year’s Tea and for your promotion! Thank you to Jen Gustafson of Jenny Melle Photography for photographing this year’s Tea! Thank you, also, to Bill Kuhn of Kuhn Productions for videotaping our program. Be sure to check back soon for photos and videos of this year’s Hearts for Hope Women’s Tea.	Thank you very, very much to Rosario and Charnissa, both recent graduates of our Hope Family Center, for sharing your stories during our Women’s Tea. Table hostesses played such a key role in making this year’s Tea a success. Tea hostesses were responsible for signing up, inviting guests, securing payment and filling a table of 10 women. Thank you, hostesses, for your time and efforts!
During our 2011 Hearts for Hope Women’s Tea, representatives of corporate sponsor Community State Bank presented a check for $5,000 to support Hope Ministries programs and services for homeless and displaced women and children at Hope Family Center. Pictured (from left) are Jennifer Canelos, Vice President of Marketing at CSB; Kathy Williams, Senior Vice President of Retail Banking; Cheri Hahn, Assistant Vice President, Bank Manager; and Elizabeth Spragg, Director of Family Ministries at Hope Family Center.

It’s not too late to join together with Hope Ministries to help homeless and displaced women and children.

If you’d like to donate to Hope Ministries and our Hope Family Center, click here to give online through debit/credit card.

Or, send a check with “Tea” in the memo line to:
Hope Ministries
PO Box 862
Des Moines, IA 50304