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100
golfers raise $45,000 for
Nelson Children's Center
Oct.
20, 2006
DENTON,
Texas -- A
record 100 golfers, sponsors, families and businesses
recently raised more than $45,000 for abused and neglected
children at Nelson Children's Center in Denton during
the Tomorrow's Child Golf Benefit at the Oakmont Golf
Club.
Dallas
Cowboy's legend and pro football Hall of Famer Rayfield
Wright served as the golf benefit's honorary chair.
Wright said his humble beginnings growing up in a
poor Georgia neighborhood with his grandmother, mother
and three siblings helped provide him with inspirational
words for the Nelson Center's children and volunteers.
"These
young people here today at the Nelson Center want
to do what's right, and we need to reach out and help
them," Wright said. "You can make this place
a better place and a better world."
Eight Nelson
Center children attended the event and met the golfers
and Wright, a longtime supporter of the center. To
express their gratitude, the children presented a
hand-crafted piece of art to Wright, bringing tears
to the eyes of Wright and the other golfers, said
Kristy McKinney, the volunteer services coordinator
for the Nelson Children's Center.
The Nelson
Center provides care and treatment to emotionally
disturbed boys and girls, ages six to 15. The children's
emotional and behavioral problems are the result of
past abuse and neglect. Most children at the center
arrived with no personal possessions and traumatic
family memories. The center uses intensive therapeutic
care in a safe environment to help heal these deep
wounds. As a result, the Nelson Center has earned
a strong reputation for making a positive difference
in the lives of the boys and girls it serves.
The Tomorrow's Child Golf Benefit helps make up the
difference between what it costs to provide quality
care to the children and what the center is reimbursed
by the state for providing that care.
"Events
like these make an impression on the children who
come to the Nelson Center with the hope of a new beginning,"
McKinney said. "The money raised will support
our legacy of providing shelter, hope and healing."
McKinney
expressed her gratitude to the sponsors who made the
golf tournament a success. Platinum sponsors included
Component Electronics Corporation. Titanium sponsors
were Bill Utter Ford, Blue Bell Creameries, Jason
and Allison Mull, Mike Popejoy and Family, and Thrivent
Financial for Lutherans - Dallas-Tarrant Chapter #30133,
East Dallas Chapter #30116, North Central TX Chapter
#30138 and Trinity River Chapter #30151.
Silver
sponsors were Debt Relief of America, Inc., Garland
Kitchen Solutions, Robertson Inc., Ronnie Mac's Auto
Sales and University Behavioral Health of Denton.
Bronze sponsors included, AblazeRevolution.com, Dr.
Peter Kahle, CrosswaysCounseling.com, Glen Oaks Hospital,
Greater Denton/Wise County Association of Realtors,
G. Forrest Green Jr., Lewisville Morning Rotary, Ronnie
Mac's Too Auto Sales and Dr. Kurt and Laurie Senske.
Nelson
Children's Center is an affiliated ministry of Lutheran
Social Services, the social service arm of The Lutheran
Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. LSS affiliated ministries serve
more than 35,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas,
Louisiana and Mississippi, regardless of religious
beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. Its ministries
include children's centers, therapeutic foster care,
adoption, disaster response, emergency assistance,
senior health care, retirement communities and adult
day care.
For more
information about the Nelson Center,
click here.
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