Find out how charitable giving can help seniors at Fellowship Community.
From our humble beginning on a Center Valley dairy farm, Fellowship Community has grown to an organization that provides a continuum of care and services to more than 400 residents each day. Our mission has remained focused on improving the quality of life of our residents, and we have not wavered in our commitment to provide lifelong care to those who make their home with us. But we can’t do it alone. Because of the commitment of those who donate to charity, we can offer a sense of security to the more than 25% of our residents without funds, as well as comfort and mobility to residents with special needs, support for our highly trained and dedicated front line staff, and so much more.
Ways to Give
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Donor Spotlight
A tribute gift is a meaningful way to convey sympathy to the bereaved, memorialize a loved one, commemorate a particular occasion, honor a person’s life and accomplishments, or acknowledge someone special. Memorial benches, tree plaques and pavers also provide an opportunity to commemorate your loved one and beautify the campus.
Tribute gifts of any amount to Fellowship Community can be a deeply gratifying way to recognize someone that touched your life, while helping to enhance the quality of life of our residents.
There are several types of gifts to help you pay tribute:
- Gifts in Memory — Create a lasting memorial for a friend or loved one who has passed away by making a gift to Fellowship Community. A memorial gift offers a meaningful way to pay lasting tribute to the memory of a loved one while also extending sympathy to the family.
- Gifts in Honor — Show those closest to you the important role they play in your life, or recognize your gratitude for a caregiver by making a gift in their honor to support the mission of Fellowship Community.
- Gifts in Celebration — Celebrate life’s milestones — birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, retirements, Mother’s/Father’s Day, or any special occasion — by making a tribute donation to Fellowship Community (maybe even in lieu of presents). Your honoree will appreciate the thoughtful gift in support of our ongoing work.
In addition, tribute pavers, tree plaques and benches provide an opportunity to commemorate your loved one and beautify the Fellowship Community campus.
Engraved Pavers — Pavers may be purchased in our beautiful park in honor or in memory of a loved one with a donation of $300. Each paver may be engraved with up to three lines of 13 characters per line, including spaces. A portion of your donation will be used to maintain the natural surroundings of the Park.
Campus Tree — Sponsor a new tree to enhance and upgrade the campus grounds for a donation of $500. An $800 donation allows the addition of a tribute plaque to the new tree in honor or in memory of a loved one. Each plaque may include up to four lines of 16 characters per line, including spaces.
Tree Plaques — Existing trees may be dedicated in honor or in memory of a loved one for a donation of $500. Each plaque may include up to four lines of 16 characters per line, including spaces.
Tribute Benches — Benches for the campus may be purchased in honor or in memory of a loved one for a donation of $1,000. Each bench may include up to 2 lines of 25 characters per line, including spaces.
The Robert Zentz Memorial Scholarship Program was established to “grow our own.” Continued education increases opportunities for our staff to advance their healthcare careers and develop and refine their skills.The Fellowship LPN Scholarship Fund was created to help Fellowship grow the next generation of talented, caring and compassionate nurses. At least one annual scholarship will be awarded to offset the cost of tuition, books and fees for a current employee interested in participating in the Licensed Practical Nursing program at Lehigh Carbon Community College.
Recipients are selected based on leadership abilities, evidence of our core values in their daily living, and the positive impact advanced education will have on our residents.
Won’t you join us in this important work? You can rest assured that when you donate to Fellowship, your gift will be put to good use, whether designated for a particular area or for the area of greatest need.
Fellowship Community is an exempt organization as described in section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, EIN #23-1705204. The official registration may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free in Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. Your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
For more information on giving to Fellowship Community, please contact Tracy Bozik, Development and Communications Manager, at 610-769-9198 or tbozik@FellowshipCommunity.com.
Donor Spotlight
Sylvia McBrinn
Sylvia McBrinn
“I first learned about Fellowship Community when we were researching places for my parents to downsize. We heard wonderful things about Fellowship, and my parents, Lewis and Mathilde Stubits, moved into an independent living apartment in 2015. I was impressed with the amenities, the slate of social activities and the sense of community.
Dad ultimately required more assistance and moved into personal care on the campus. That’s what is so great about Fellowship – Mom could remain independent, and could spend time with Dad, who was only a short walk away. In 2017, Dad passed, and Mom moved through all the levels of care, passing away in 2024. Living in Utah, I always felt comfortable with care my parents received.
Donations truly help those that live and work at Fellowship. The availability of the Spirit Fund for charitable care enabled my mom to remain in Fellowship’s caring environment with the warm, wonderful people that she came to love.
In 2022, I made first gift in memory of my dad in response to a Valentine’s Day giving appeal I received. I continue to donate in memory of my mom, but really, it’s in honor of MY memory of our time at Fellowship.”
Rob and Angela Vaughn
Rob and Angela Vaughn
“My wife, Angela, and I love the fact that Fellowship has a Christian sensibility as part of its ‘operating system’ – a desire to serve Christ by serving people in a loving and caring way. That makes our giving part of the way we worship God with our finances. Our hope is that we can help Fellowship Community to thrive.
Not all senior living organizations serve their constituents as well as Fellowship does – its ratings by evaluating agencies prove it – nor do all have values that align so well with our own, namely, to be a part of honoring God through service. That means Angela and I can, with great confidence, support Fellowship financially, in hopes that we are helping, if only a little bit, to make a great organization be all that it can be.”
Jim and Betty Henderschedt
Jim and Betty Henderschedt
For the last three years, Jim and Betty Henderschedt have been hosting an ice cream social for their neighbors in Musselman Court in honor of their wedding anniversary.
“Musselman Court residents like to get together; we appreciate and enjoy one another’s company. What better occasion to bring everyone together?” says Jim.
This year, they were doling out banana splits in celebration of their 64th anniversary.
All they ask in return is well-wishes for another year of wedded bliss, and for guests to consider donating to Fellowship’s Spirit Fund for Charitable Care.
This year, most of their neighbors, and also some family members, contributed $630 for The Spirit Fund.
The Henderschedts have been living on the Fellowship campus for 10 years. After looking at several other senior living communities, they were struck by the warm and caring atmosphere on the campus, reflecting Fellowship’s mission.
Since arriving on campus, they have always supported Fellowship’s mission, in particular, the Spirit Fund. Betty shared, “It’s frightening to know that you can run out of money – but at Fellowship, you’re allowed to stay because of charitable care and the generosity of donors. It goes a long way toward alleviating worry as we age.”
Ronald C. Mahurin
Ronald C. Mahurin
Our dad, Ronald C. Mahurin, has devoted his life to serving the Lord and caring for others. Ordained in the Bible Fellowship Church in 1960, he faithfully pastored for decades. After our dear mom, Darlene, went home to be with the Lord in 2001, Dad stepped into a new season of ministry as the first BFC Conference Pastor—a pastor to the pastors—serving in that role for fifteen years until his retirement in 2016.
Fellowship Community has long been part of our family’s story. Both his mother and our mom’s mother were residents there, and over the years Dad spent countless hours visiting and ministering to them, to residents from Cedar Crest BFC where he served as senior pastor, and to many missionaries, pastors, and Bible Fellowship Church families and friends throughout the conference. In 2020, after a brief respite stay, he sensed it was time to make Fellowship his permanent home.
From the very first day, even as his body and mind have gradually slowed, Dad’s desire has remained the same: to look for “Divine appointments”—opportunities to encourage staff and fellow residents. Now at 90 years old, each passing year brings new challenges, yet he continues to be a blessing to so many.
It has been an unspeakable joy for our family to see him so tenderly cared for and ministered to—especially by Fellowship’s pastoral staff, some of whom he once served alongside and mentored, and who are now faithfully serving him. What a beautiful full circle of God’s goodness.
The Charitable Care program has been an extraordinary gift, allowing this faithful servant of God to remain in a place he has loved for so many years, surrounded by compassionate care and deep community. We are profoundly grateful—for the care, the love, and the dignity shown to our dad each and every day.
Harold and Joyce Mante
Harold and Joyce Mante
When driving down Eberhart Road in Whitehall, you can’t miss the gigantic US flag that adorns the side of the American Fence & Flag building. This enormous 30′ x 50′ flag, the largest hanging flag in the Lehigh Valley, stretches almost as tall and as long as the office building.
Harold Mante founded what evolved into American Fence & Flag in 1983. The business truly is a family operation, with wife Joyce handling administrative duties, while daughter Jenne and son-in-law Tyler are in sales. Sadly, they lost a son, James, at the age of 14.
The enormity of that flag hanging on the building mirrors the philanthropic and community-minded spirit of the couple.
They stand by the business’ stated purpose – to glorify and trust in God by being faithful stewards of all that has been entrusted to this company – and since 2001, have given 1% of gross sales and 10% of net profit to a variety of non-profits.
“We focus on organizations with Christian values and/or those which directly help people who are challenged in some way,” Joyce stated. “That’s why we support Fellowship. As a faith-based senior living community, their values align with ours.”
American Fence & Flag and the Mante family have been giving to Fellowship for well over a decade.
“We appreciate their Christ-like compassion and caring, and the fact that the Spirit Fund (charitable care) ensures that residents are not forced to leave Fellowship if they run out of resources.”