A Big Big Thank You to Silver Sage Porsche Club for their support of the Garden City Community Clinic! Our current total for the IMI Match with Intermountain Medical Imaging is $14,386.50! There is still time to help us reach our goal of $25,000 before January 31st.
Do you work at a medical or dental clinic in any capacity, from front desk coordinator to nurse, doctor to maintenance? If so, we could use your help meeting the generous matching donation Intermountain Medical Imaging (IMI) has pledged to the Garden City Clinic Community Clinic. For every $1 donated to the clinic by medical or dental field personal who have not donated in the past two years, IMI will match the donation up to $25,000. We only have a few more months to raise this money and are just under half way there. Please donate and note “New Donor–Medical or Dental Employee” on your donation to double your gift and help us reach our goal of $50,000.
Donate Now!
IMI Match Challenge
The partners of Intermountain Medical Imaging and Gem State Radiology are continuing to encourage the healthcare community to support Genesis World Mission with an extension of a $10,000 matching gift challenge!
EVERY DOLLAR IS DOUBLED!
Help us take advantage of this generous match challenge with a gift today, and you will enables us to continue serving a vulnerable population whose needs are not yet met by the Affordable Care Act.
Thank you to the following investors who gave toward the initial match challenge in 2013-14.
Dr. Troy Clovis, DDS – Benchmark Family Dentistry
Dr. Sarah Hunt, DDS – Benchmark Family DentistryDr. Michael Bailey, MD, DDS, PA
Dr. Kevin Kempers, MD, DDS, PA – Boise Oral and Maxillofacial Center
Dr. Jacob Brown, DDS – Castlebury Dental
Dr. Ron O’Reilley, MD FACR
Carolyn Corbett, NP
Dr. Johnny B Green, MD – Idaho Surgical Associates
Ada County Medical Society
Intermountain Hospital
Saint Alphonsus Hospitalists
*Others who have given towards this match have requested to be anonymous
A Rewarding Evening of Generosity – Gala 2014
There is a certain element of anxiety and anticipation every year as we plan for our annual dinner: will things turn out OK. Do we have enough guests? Do we have enough items. Will the food be cold by the time it arrives at tables? I suppose it’s no different than hosting a party in your home.
But once again, at the end of this past Sunday’s Faith Hope and Love Dinner and Auction all those worries were laid to rest. We shared our stories. We had dinner together. People responded generously, as they always do.
One of the most poignant moments was when a patient stood up and great strength shared how the Clinic had helped him over the hump. Tracy Ritter and Lorrie Apel shared with emcee Mark Russell about how the work in Kenya is truly empowering an entire village.
This year we raised just over $73,000 to carry on the work of Genesis World Mission. Many thanks to all the volunteers, staff, board members, item donors and sponsors who made this possible.
Volunteers of the Year were recognized: Bill Renk, Andy Coombs, and Dr. Kaci Jensen at the Garden City Community Clinic. Digestive Health Clinic was recognized as the Volunteer Physicians Network practice of the year.
Thank you to Saint Alphonsus for being our Faith Event Sponsor this year. Thank you also to Muse Bistro and Wine Bar for sponsoring our wine wall.
I hope you enjoyed the couple of photos on this page from the event. There are more at our photographer’s personal Facebook Page. (Thanks to Donna and Roland Schimek for their photos.)
Getting Personal with Our Patients
Originally written by Steven Reames
I am always amazed when I make the time to sit down with the people we serve. The stories of individual 
change, challenge, and triumph humble me. It’s a very personal thing for people to share honestly what has happened in their lives: some are very reluctant to talk and others will go on for a long time. Just this past week, I sat down with a video camera to capture just a few personal stories that illustrate so many of our patient’s journeys.
-
One man was thrown out of a high paying job as a metropolitan-sized city police officer because he blew the whistle on shady dealings. Since then, he has come to the clinic and is finding a healthy way to cope with his loss and get help for his diabetes.
-
One woman who, because of her poor health, didn’t think she would live long enough to see her son get married. Not only did she get to do the mother-son dance with him, but now her second son is engaged and her health has improved markedly.
-
One man who decided to quit smoking here because the clinic gave him meaning back in his life.
We will be featuring some of these stories at our upcoming annual dinner, where you’ll get a snippet of the life transformation coming about because of amazing community support.
2014 Dinner & Auction Wrap-up
Thank you for your generosity!
The 2014 Faith Hope and Love Dinner and Auction was a smashing success, thanks to the generosity of both those who gave at the auction as well as those who gave for it. With over 250 people in attendance, the gala event helped raise more than $73,000 for the annual fund of Genesis World Mission. This allows us to continue our work bringing empowerment to remote villages like Burangi Kenya as well as to the neighbors in our own backyard in Boise Idaho.
We were challenged to think about treating with love, moving beyond just charity care, which involves a deeper relational committment to those in need. Not only did we hear stories of transformation by our patients, staff and board members, but those who attended have now become part of the story. To find out how you can deepen your investment, please call us at 854-3942.
Sponsored by
Transformation begins with Relationship
originally written by: Steven Reames
The goal of Genesis is not just to assist people in their time of need. It is to start with the need as a springboard for a relationship that leads to health transformation through an empowerment process.
There are some people who just need temporary health assistance and that is fine. But usually, the people we are helping have been in their desperate circumstance for a long time. The most loving thing we can do to assist them is figuring out why and together coming up with solutions to change that.
This is not an easy task because long-term problems require long-term investment and assistance in people’s lives, with successes and setbacks along the way. But it is well worth it.
We have seen the smiles of people who suddenly have an “AHA!” moment. Recently, we introduced our wellness wheel concept to a patient at the Garden City Community Clinic. As this woman began to see how different aspects of her life affected her health – relationships, recreation, food choices and so on – she sat back in her chair temporarily stunned. “Why didn’t you tell me this four years ago when I first came to the clinic?” It’s the beginning of a new phase for her as she starts on a pathway of holism.
It was about the same time, in 2009, that we began our work in Burangi and the road we’ve travelled – literally and figuratively – is not usually smooth or straight. But once again, we have seen dramatic changes during that time: people with new income opportunities, men whose livelihood is regained through medical treatment, a decrease in cholera related to flooding. The hope is even brighter as the assistance we’ve given them on their access road comes to completion.
Your investment and contributions have made this kind of change possible and we’re glad to have you partner with us in the work.
