East Lansing’s Peoples Church started its capital campaign in January 2024 with big ambitions. In addition to raising money for renovations to its 101-year-old building, the church collected an additional $300,000 to aid area adults living with disabilities.
“We began looking for impactful community outreach,” said Rev. Shawnthea Monroe, senior rector of Peoples Church since 2020. “We were imagining this big capital campaign that we were going to launch and it was very important to us to do something for others and not just ourselves.”
The $300,000 was donated to Lansing Intentional Communities (LINCS), a nonprofit organization that helps adults with disabilities build social connections and access resources needed to live independently.
LINCS was founded by a group of parents from the Mid-Michigan Autism Association, officially becoming a nonprofit organization in 2012…