The results are in! The September 13th golf outing at Coatesville Country Club raised more than $5300 for the church’s flood relief fund! Because of the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Ida, the Director of the Lord’s Pantry food bank of Downingtown directed the 2021 golf outing proceeds be given to the Messiah Lutheran Church flood relief fund this year.
40 golfers registered for the 2021 golf outing and donated several bags of nonperishable goods to the Lord’s Pantry Food Bank. Thanks to Messiah members Mike Petrillo and Sheila Yamasaki in supporting the event. Additional thanks to Joan and Chuck Gibson for sponsoring the event. We also want to thank and recognize our corporate sponsorships:
- ServiceMaster (Gold Sponsor)
- CCRES (Gold Sponsor)
- Tim Dean Plumbing & Heating, LLC (Silver Sponsor)
- Thrivent Financial (Bronze Sponsor)
- Weinstein’s Supply of West Chester (Hole Sponsor)
While we did not approach any of the local Downingtown businesses this year to sponsor the outing due to the burden placed on them by the pandemic in 2020, we distributed $1000 to them in the purchase of prizes that were raffled off at the golf outing. We wanted to give back to the businesses that have given to us over the last 8 events that include:
- Green Street Grill
- Amani’s
- Anthony’s Cucina Fresca
- Bakers of Buffington
- Downingtown Running Company
- Georgio’s Restaurant & Bar
- Lowe Riders
- Station Taproom
- 30 East Salon
- Estrella
We also would like to recognize the local golf courses who contributed golfing foursome packages for our silent auctions:
Thank you to all the Messiah Lutheran Church members who contributed money towards supporting the local businesses! Also thanks to Kathy Joyce and Carol Reiner for respectively donating a handmade golf quilt and a gift certificate to Amani’s BYOB.
See you next year for our 10th annual event! We hope to be back to a June date for 2022 and we will be pivoting back towards supporting The Lord’s Pantry food bank of Downingtown!