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Donor Stories

Donor Stories

Learn how others have made an impact through their acts of giving to our organization and others.

  • A Legacy of Familial Ties to Messiah Leads to a Legacy of Service and Giving Back
    A Legacy of Familial Ties to Messiah Leads to a Legacy of Service and Giving Back
    Messiah alum Lois Thuma's ties to the university started long before she came to campus as a first-year student in 1962. Lois's parents, Benjamin and Mary Ellen Thuma...
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  • Amos K. Stern Scholarships
    Amos K. Stern Scholarships
    Amos K. Stern was born April 2, 1912, near Roaring Spring in Blair County. As the youngest of seven children born to Rev. Aaron and Catherine....
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  • Bringing Pure Water and the Living Water to Nicaragua
    Bringing Pure Water and the Living Water to Nicaragua
    Anticipation rose as we turned off the bumpy dirt highway into off-road country surrounded by roaming farm animals, tiny huts and clotheslines.
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  • ROBIN FOLKERTS '98
    ROBIN FOLKERTS '98
    Messiah alum and generous supporter, Robin Folkerts '98, credits Messiah University with giving her the foundation...
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  • Michelle Summerson
    Michelle Summerson
    "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you." — Philippians 4:9
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  • Ken and Lois Stern
    Ken and Lois Stern
    Ken '68 and Lois (Brandt) Stern '70 credit their parents and grandparents with modeling the spirit of giving and instilling in them a strong spirit...
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  • Shirley M. Lolus '70
    Shirley M. Lolus '70
    It was September 1967, my youngest child just started kindergarten, and I wanted to get involved in an activity. A friend gave me a Messiah College...
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