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APRIL 2, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XL • NO 44
Gala to bring Hope Inspire Love’s work out of darkness and into light BY JEFF FALK
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ope Inspire Love takes both a realistic and an optimistic approach to its work. The human trafficking-fighting local nonprofit also takes its fun seriously. Hope Inspire Love’s upcoming event is a mixture of style and substance, of business and play and of joy and caution. “When people dress in formal attire, they feel elegant,” said Amy Thurston, Hope Inspire Love’s CEO and co-founder. “They’re meeting people who have similar beliefs. They’re excited. They feel beautiful. But they’re seeing that their support has purpose; it’s supporting the work we do. It’s a night of beauty while also bringing hope. They’ll be hearing hard stories, but the beauty outweighs them.” Hope Inspire Love ’s third
annual gala and awards ceremony - the organization’s largest fundraiser - will be conducted on Friday, April 11, at Eden Resort, 222 Eden Road, Lancaster. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the festivities will begin with a silent auction and an hors d’oeuvres hour. A keynote speaker who has been directly affected by human trafficking will deliver an address to the gathering, and a full-course dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Liz Ackerman, executive director of the Northern Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce, will serve as the master of ceremonies for the event, which will also feature music and an interactive live art experience. The deadline for purchasing tickets at www.hopeinspirelove .org is Thursday, April 10. “It’s an evening for people to celebrate the work that Hope See Gala pg 2 Members of the Hope Inspire Love team address the attendees at last year’s gala.
The 29th annual Lancaster-Lebanon IU13 Education Conference will be held Thursday, June 12, at Conestoga Valley High School, 2110 Horseshoe Road, Lancaster. “We want people to be aware of what we offer, but we also want to give them evidence-based practices to use with students,” said Chanda Telleen, who is an associate program director and supervisor of the training and consultation team for the
IU13. “People are coming to our conference as a way to enhance their professional learning. We have presenters from our par tner PaT TAN (Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network). We have presenters from institutes of higher education. We have practitioners presenting. We try to expose our audience to the latest evidence-based practices to support our students.” Registration and a continental breakfast will run from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m., followed by a welcome
Local event is about kids and for kids BY JEFF FALK
At the heart of the matter, it’s children helping children. Bethany Christian Services (BCS) simply serves as the mediator, the facilitator. Appropriately enough, the organization’s upcoming event is being called Walk in Love. “Kids are the motivation for what we do,” said Elaine Shenk, who’s been BCS’ director of family strengthening and empowerment for five years. “We want to protect children in our community. Everything we do at Bethany Christian Services revolves around children and family. We want families to come out, have fun and enjoy spending time together, being together as a family.” Bethany Christian Services of Central Pennsylvania is conducting its inaugural Walk in
See IU13 conference pg 5
See Walk in Love pg 3 Staff members of Bethany Christian Services, Lancaster
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