CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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CityViewNC.com | 19 Your gifts made to the Cumberland Community Foundation for Cumberland Choral Arts will be amplified during the Giving Tuesday campaign. For more information, please contact CCA at 910.303.0463 or cumberlandchoralarts@gmail.com. Serenading the Sandhills Since 1991 GIVE THE GIFT OF SONG! Donate to Your Community Chorus Shop local this holiday season and use our Downtown Fayetteville E-Gift Card at over 30 locations. Purchase your mobile E-Gift Card conveniently on your phone by scanning the QR Code. with Cape Fear Valley Health and in private practice. Lucy found her way volunteering, with Wes joining her. e couple have been giving back in numerous ways in the Fayetteville community and beyond over the past four decades. ey have worked in local and international mission groups through their church, Haymount United Methodist Church. Wes has made 31 international mission and leadership trips since 1970. He and Lucy traveled to Kenya in September to help orphans and vulnerable families get back on their feet. eir pastor says they are leading the church in the missionary effort in Kenya. "ey both have a generous heart for missions and for the least, the last and the lost," says Allen Bingham, pastor of Haymount United Methodist Church. He adds that they have been instrumental in creating endowment funds at the church that will leave a legacy. Enhancing stability for organizations and encouraging giving are two of the Joneses' goals. ey were instrumental in building the Cumberland Community Foundation into what it is today. "At the time Wes joined the board in 1992, we were just getting started as a foundation," says Executive Director Mary Holmes. "He served for 12 years on the board and was really one of the reasons that Cumberland Community Foundation became a real community foundation. He is a fearless fundraiser and a brilliant investor." "One of my memories was watching him tell a friend, 'If you give half a million, I'll give half a million.' He was not only asking for someone to give, but he was also asking them to match his gi," Holmes says. Wes served the maximum term allowed by the foundation's bylaws. But the agency went from a $2 million endowment to a $22 million one. "e percentage growth was huge," says Holmes. Wes says his intent was to get the foundation to $5 million because he had looked at another city's foundation and that seemed to be the magic number to ensure success. Initially, he and Lucy pledged anonymous gis, but they quickly realized that putting their names on their gis