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CHICAGO, IL (December 8, 2006) \u2013 Two awards were announced today as part of the recently implemented Cathy\u2019s Cup initiative, a new compassion-centered program operating on the campus of North Park University.
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\nUnder the direction of University Ministries, the program is designed to provide funds for student-designed projects of a compassionate nature. The program seeks to encourage students to experience first-hand the joy of compassionate giving, hopefully influencing them to continue lives of compassionate giving throughout their adult lives.<\/p>\n

Cathy\u2019s Cup is named to honor the life of the late Cathy Meyer (see accompanying photo), who served for a number of years as assistant human resources director for the university. Cathy died in September 2002 following a lengthy battle with breast cancer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the two recipients, Emily Nothnagel, a 20-year-old sophomore from Oak Brook, Illinois, was awarded funding for a project designed to help integrate families who are part of 400 Somali Bantu refugees being resettled in the Chicago area over a two-year period. Working with the United Nations, the United States is expecting about 2,000 resettled refugees during the next four years.<\/p>\n

In her proposal, Nothnagel suggests that North Park students be given the opportunity to become friends of a refugee family, to help make those families feel more \u201cat home.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Students will be paired with a refugee family based on the distance the student can travel to visit the family and how often they can visit, as well as the individual student\u2019s skills and personality.<\/p>\n

A January \u201cMeet Your Family Dinner\u201d will provide an opportunity for refugee families and North Park students to socialize, listen to music, and partake in a meal involving a variety of dishes prepared with the help of refugee women and youth who have been here for a longer period of time. Some of the project funds will be divided among the students who will account for how the funds are spent. \u201cThey could use it for bus tickets to teach a refugee the bus system, to buy a box of pencils at the dollar store, to put towards going to a museum or bowling alley, or perhaps provide a \u2018Welcome to America\u2019 fruit basket,\u201d Nothnagel suggests. \u201cThe gift will come from that student\u2019s heart for his\/her new \u2018family.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Nothnagel, whose home church is Faith Fellowship in Oak Brook, is pursuing a nonprofit management degree at North Park University. To read more detail of her project plan, please see Somali Bantu Refugees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Margaret L. Sebastian, a third-year graduate student, is the other recipient of a Cathy\u2019s Cup award. A part-time student in a dual-degree program (she works full-time), the 24-year-old Sebastian proposes a project to reach out to a specific individual\/family in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work at an after-school program with a group of 12 teenage girls, and one family in particular needs some help,\u201d she writes in her proposal. The family has experienced many hardships \u2013 the father committed suicide, leaving a mother who never graduated from high school to raise the children. Unable to hold a job that can support her family, she has survived on public welfare for 17 years.<\/p>\n

Sebastian wants to work with the mother to earn a General Education Diploma (GED) and complete job training. She proposes purchasing a CTA bus pass so the mother can attend classes, paying the registration and book fees for both the GED and job training classes, and purchasing clothes for job interviews.<\/p>\n

Sebastian\u2019s home church is Living Faith Community Church in Chicago. She is pursuing a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry degree as well as a Master of Management in Non-Profit Administration (Youth Ministry Concentration). To learn more about her proposal, please see Family in Need<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cAt her memorial service in Chicago, Cathy\u2019s life was characterized as one of compassion and humility,\u201d notes her husband, Don, who established the Cathy\u2019s Cup program and announced it during a September chapel service on campus. He serves as executive minister of Covenant Communications for the Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned even more about her compassionate activities following her death,\u201d he recalls, noting the many students and colleagues who shared stories of the ways in which she quietly reached out to them in times of need, providing money or a written note of encouragement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn thinking about her life, the question kept coming back \u2013 what made her a person of compassion?\u201d Meyer says. \u201cAs a family, we thought it would be meaningful to develop something that would encourage younger people to develop lifetime patterns of compassionate living and giving. Knowing Cathy\u2019s love for the students, Cathy\u2019s Cup seemed like a logical choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited about the launch of Cathy\u2019s Cup,\u201d says Richard Johnson, director of University Ministries. \u201cWe received over a dozen applications from a variety of students – each of them with great ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversity Ministries has on-going service programs for students including Urban Outreach and Global Partnerships, but Cathy\u2019s Cup provides the opportunity and the resources for students to do something creative on their own,\u201d Johnson notes. \u201cRecipients have encountered someone in need, and now they have the means to make a tangible difference in their future. What a great way to live into North Park\u2019s mission to prepare students for lives of significance and service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cathy\u2019s Cup was initially funded with more than $4,000 in memorials received during two services \u2013 one at North Park Covenant Church in Chicago, and one at the couple\u2019s home church, Zion Covenant, in Jamestown, New York. The funds, which are administered by Covenant Trust Company, have been increased to $5,000, with five percent of the fund\u2019s value to be made available each year to sponsor student projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, our desire is to see more projects funded and more student lives influenced,\u201d notes Meyer, who is seeking to attract other donors to help build the endowment fund. He also is working on an extension of the concept that would make Cathy\u2019s Cup programs available to local churches, targeting young people in grades six through eight. \u201cThe earlier we can engage children in experiencing the joy of giving of themselves, the more likely it will be that they will be influenced in later adult years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Individuals desiring to help build the fund further may do so by sending contributions to the Evangelical Covenant Church, earmarked for the Cathy Meyer Memorial Fund, at 5101 N. Francisco Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60625. The denomination will acknowledge the gifts for income tax purposes and forward the contributions to Covenant Trust Company.<\/p><\/div>\n

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