HPC TeamMates program receives ‘gifts from heart’

Polk UMC brings games for High Plains mentors

Polk United Methodist Church members brought new games and cornhole sets for mentors and their mentees to play with. From left, Audrey Samuelson, Sharon Johnson, Pastor Duncan Ibuuri and Karen Stevens.
Polk United Methodist Church members brought new games and cornhole sets for mentors and their mentees to play with. From left, Audrey Samuelson, Sharon Johnson, Pastor Duncan Ibuuri and Karen Stevens.

The High Plains Community Schools’ TeamMates chapter hosted a lunch for mentees, their mentors and members of the Polk United Methodist Church as a thanks for the church’s $2,000 donation to the program Thursday afternoon. The donation was in part to a project led by grant writer Karen Stevens, the chairman of the church’s leadership board, alongside PUMC members Pastor Duncan Ibuuri, Sharon Johns…