5K Team Update (May 2023)

Good morning 5K Team!

I hope this finds you well as spring is quickly moving toward summer.

I wanted to update the team of several things and also seek your input on a couple of matters.

First, since we have some new folks on the team, let me bring everyone up to speed on our ongoing/annual funding. Below is a list of those needs:

Lifeway StudentLife – we scholarship families with multiple children attending, chaperones, students in need, and we pay for transportation.
Approximately $6000

Boys State/Girls State – we send two to three, depending on the need, each year.
Approximately $700-1000

$1000 Annual Scholarship to a student At Williston-Elko High School who attends Aiken Technical College (this was Will’s high school and college)

$1000 Annual Scholarship for a Lifeway student pursuing ministry.

This is a list of some of the other things we’ve funded over the time the 5K has existed:
•Given a financial gift to a student in our community raising money for a mission trip to California $500
•Given scholarships to the YCHS football program for players to attend Fellowship of Christian Athletes summer camp $2370
•Provided meals for the football team and the band $1000-1500/yr
•Paid the cost for a special needs class to take a fieldtrip $300
•Given gifts to schools for special projects (money to help with a Sensory Pathway at Harold C. Johnson Elementary) $800
•Adoption Aid $8000-10,000
•Many more…

As the 5K becomes more popular and more people become aware of our resources, we will receive more requests for help. We will hold a meeting in late summer to kick-off our 2024 5K and at that meeting we will set a percentage budget so that we can continue helping in our ongoing areas and take on as many standalone needs at possible.

The money we receive through the 5K is meant to be used to impact children and students and we want to steward that money well. Likewise, it’s not our goal to maintain large accounts, but to be generous with what’s been generously given to us.

With that being said, we do have a couple of great opportunities before us and our current balance in the account is $14,852.94.

First, we currently have our on-going project of scholarships/transportation for camp that we need to fund. This is our most expensive cost because of transportation. We are still trying to secure vans (they are hard to find these days). This usually cost a total of about $6000.00.

Secondly, we have received a letter from Coach Boyd that they are planning to take the football team to FCA Camp again this year(this is the first camp offered since COVID). In the previous year they attended, thirty-four students and coaches received Christ.  This is a great endeavor. The need is $179 per student and $110 per coach, the total cost for 75 players and 10 coaches is $13,850.00.

Four years ago, we gave an initial gift of $1500 and then we covered their shortage of $870.

I would like to suggest we gift them no less than our last initial gift of $1500, but we could consider increasing that. I do know that only two churches have contributed to this need at a total of $1500. While the players are trying to raise money for this, this is a huge project, on top of having to fund the team’s equipment and travel. I am also going to present to our elders putting this before the church to give our church family the opportunity to sponsor a player or coach.

Secondly, Mandy Mull contacted me about a special needs class at York Intermediate School that is building a butterfly garden for which they received a grant from “Make York County Beautiful.” Part of the garden plan included a bench, but the grant stated that it cannot be used for the bench. The cost of the bench is $265 plus tax, but it is currently on sale for $176.99 plus tax.

I would like to suggest that we purchase the bench for the project.

Please respond to the group text with your recommendations.

Thanks,
Mark