ATTENDANCE:
June 14, 2013

Fines Balance:  $1213.25

Cathy Obrecht is the Blessman Ministries Development Coordinator.  She has the opportunity of meeting with individuals, schools and organizations to share the work that Blessman Ministries is doing with the orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa.  She also helps to raise funds for them, so their efforts can continue and expand. Prior to working for Dr. Blessman, she worked for 14 years with Insurance Brokerage Firms helping companies with their  Employee Sponsored Health Plans.

Cathy was introduced to Blessman Ministries in 2011 through Lutheran Church of Hope, where she traveled to South Africa  to serve the orphaned and vulnerable children.  After experiencing the work Dr.Blessman is doing in South Africa, she returned to the U.S. as a changed person, and a deep sense of respect for the work that Jim and Beth were trying to achieve for these children.  

Cathy will be speaking on the work that Dr. Blessman is doing through agriculture, textile programs (sewing), construction, water well projects, shoe ministry, and his eye glass ministry.  He is in the infantile stages of the possibility of beginning a fish farming enterprise as well. 

Blessman Ministries will be submitting a Rotary International application this year, with the hopes of being able to obtain grants in the future as well.

Cathy lives in Winterset with her daughter who is a senior in high school.  Her son is in the 82nd  Airborne Division of the U.S. Army stationed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina with his M O S being in Field Artillery.

Gary Kadow works hard, sleeps little, and talks fast.

That sense of urgency served him well as a volunteer government liaison officer for a Red Cross disaster response team: “I was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 right after the planes hit,” he recalls. Kadow published a book about the experience titled 10 Days of Hell and Heroes.

He had started with the Red Cross after a career in government; he’d worked as an administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in New York State and as a special assistant to the secretary of housing in Washington, D.C. In 2005, Kadow and his wife of 44 years, Barbara, decided to head south, settling in the Villages retirement community. “I didn’t know a thing about Rotary,” he says. “I was always going 80 directions with my hair on fire.”

He joined his club in 2007, and by 2010, he was leading a project to send unused medical supplies from Florida hospitals to the U.S. military in Iraq, where his son-in-law was serving, and to Afghanistan. With the support of his club and the Rotary Club of Leesburg, Fla., Kadow turned the effort into a nonprofit called Project SOS – Support Our Soldiers, which has evolved into a local initiative to help homeless veterans and those with disabilities access medical care. The group is also working with the nonprofit Haiti Help Med Plus to equip a hospital in a remote part of that country, and to provide villages with necessities including clean water.

Though formally retired, the 66-year-old Kadow is a full-time volunteer. “When I heard Rotary’s motto was Service Above Self, I was sold, because I always lived my life that way."

Cammeo Medici is a Chariton native and a graduate of Chariton High School.  Our club sponsored her as an Outbound Youth Exchange student to Italy in 2003-04.

Cammeo received the 2012-13 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and is in Bogota Columbia studying towards her Master's in Public Health at the University of Columbia.

July 5
Program:  No Meeting
4th of July Holiday

July 12
Program:  Kris Patrick

July 19
Program:  Club Assembly

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