DOMINION RESOURCES DONATES TO CSM
In this season of giving, CSM is the fortunate recipient of a major donation. The Dominion Resources Foundation has graciously awarded CSM $5,000 to help us fulfill our mission.
The award was announced by Robert C. Orndorff, Jr., Managing Director, West Virginia and E&P Local Affairs.
“We are very grateful for this donation and we will use it to help our agency meet the needs of those we serve,” stated CSM Executive Director Randal Johnson.
Dominion Resources is a major producer of natural gas with approximately 50 local wells. The West Virginia office is located in Clarksburg, WV. Thanks Dominion!!!
| FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
"Turning swords into plowshares." This phrase taken from the Bible has increasing meaning as the staff of CSM, a compassionate, service oriented agency, strives to turn buildings and practices once aimed at exclusion and elitism into harbingers of help, kindness and inclusion. The agency offices are now located in the old First National Bank of Keystone, the site of the third largest bank failure in the history of the united States , where many dreams were lost and lives destroyed. Now we serve the needy from the halls and rooms and instead of people meeting to increase their wealth through greed, we meet to determine how we can better serve and provide for those we are entrusted to help.
We now work from a skyscraper, the former West Virginia Hotel in Bluefield, where people won’t be excluded but welcomed in from hunger, cold and oppression. We now work with people whose hands reach out to help their fellow man along life’s way. We do this so when we are finished, the hands of the all loving and pure one will welcome us in, no matter how much we had or how we looked. The staff of this agency are ever mindful of our duty to love our neighbors as ourselves, whether they are in prison, cold and hungry or developmentally different. We are ever mindful of the day we will go home to welcome arms, loving words and joys unspeakable, having turned swords into plowshares.
Randal Johnson
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