Churches United of the Quad City Area is extremely proud and thankful to announce the award of a grant in the amount of $5,000.00 from the Harold R. Bechtel Charitable Trust to be utilized for our Food Pantries in Scott County.

We are very grateful to the Harold R. Bechtel Charitable Trust for their support in this endeavor.

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Churches United of the Quad City Area is extremely proud and grateful to announce the award of a grant in the amount of $2,000.00 from Modern Woodmen, to be utilized in support of our shelter ministry at Winnie's Place.

Winnies's Place has served our community as a shelter for women, homeless or victims of domestic violence, since 2006. Winnie's Place stands for Women In Need - Nurtured Into Excellence.

We thank Modern Woodmen for their support in this endeavor.

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Churches United of the Quad City Area is extremely proud and thankful to announce the award of the following grants:

The Mary Iva Gittens Knouse Trust, $1,754.00 for Winnie's Place

The Mary Iva Gittens Knouse Trust, $1,754.00 for our Hunger Ministry

The TJX Foundation, Inc., $5,000.00 for Winnie's Place

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, $3,000.00 for our Hunger Ministry

Winnies's Place has served our community as a shelter for women, homeless or victims of domestic violence, since 2006. Winnie's Place stands for Women In Need - Nurtured Into Excellence.

Our Hunger Ministry supports 25 food pantries and 3 hot meal sites in the Quad City Area.

We thank these donors for supporting our ministries to help those in need in our communities.

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All are welcome to join us for Churches United's 53rd Annual Delegate Assembly on March 27 at 7:00 p.m. at Bettendorf Presbyterian Church, 1200 Middle Rd.

Learn about Churches United's ministries and our accomplishments in the past year. Come and join us for an interesting, inspirational gathering!

Our featured speaker will be Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes:

*Senior Minister at the Riverside Church, New York.

*President of the Healing of the Nations Foundation

*Hailed by Newsweek magazine as one of the 12 "most effective preachers" in the English-speaking world

Churches United is trying to engage the faith community and the art community together. Through this new endeavor, there are some Christian artists of faith who will be sharing some of their artworks at the Delegate Assembly. They are:

Ted McElhiney, sculptor and painter, whose life-sized portrait of Bix Beiderbecke is one of his most recognized works.

William Karl Smith, conceptual sculptor, whose spiritual themes are prominent.

Kimberlyn Aust, Bettendorf photographer, whose Redemption and Grace series has been called "thought-provoking, meditative and moving."

Once the Delegate Assembly is over, the artists, along with other Christian artists, will move their works to the Bucktown Center for the Arts, for a showing called Expressions of Faith - 2D & 3D Art on March 28.

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