“I picked her up on a street corner in Flint, Michigan,” Leonard laughs, a joke no doubt told innumerable times during their almost 66-year marriage. Leonard explained that he had just come home from a two-year stint in the Navy aboard a ship. His mother and father had met a young lady named Gayle who needed an escort to a dance. Leonard waited for her on a street corner with another man as Gayle and a couple of other girls approached. "I took her from the curb to the dance." And a love story began.
Rev. Leonard and Gayle Shults are two among more than 800 older adults living in one of five Methodist Homes care communities, each person bringing their own unique background and story. And like Gayle and Leonard, most residents will never need the assistance of the
Fountain of Love Fund. But for those who do, the Fountain of Love is a lifeline.
Last year the Fountain of Love provided more than $383,000 in support to people who would not have been able to remain in the place they call home. This is why we ask for your support of the Fountain of Love Fund, so that we can continue to say, "No one has ever been asked to leave a Methodist Home due to their inability to pay."
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