Endowment Trust

View the Village Church Endowment Trust Annual Report.

Among many other organizations, grants from the Endowment Trust have benefitted:

• Operation Breakthrough
• Avenue of Life
• Artists Helping the Homeless
• Literacy KC
• Thelma’s Kitchen
• Reconciliation Services
• Care Beyond the Boulevard
• Cherith Brook Catholic Worker
• Jerusalem Farm
• Kanbe’s Markets

Each year, the Endowment Trust allocates funds to the following funds that directly benefit a facet of life at Village. When you give to the Endowment Trust, please specify in the memo line if you would like to designate your gift to one of the 10 Legacy Funds:

• Adult Programs Legacy Fund: Gifts are used to keep adults active in mind, body and spirit.
• Children, Youth & Family Legacy Fund: ​Gifts are used to help children and teens learn and grow in their Christian faith.
• ​Facilities Legacy Fund: ​Gifts are used to provide us with a place to come together in celebration and prayer.
• First Decision Legacy Fund: ​Gifts will provide grants to help establish new Presbyterian congregations, build new churches and support internships to prepare seminarians for their first call ministry through service in an existing congregation.
• ​Food Pantry Legacy Fund: ​Gifts are used to buy groceries to fill the shelves of the Village Church Food Pantry.
• For the Least of These Legacy Fund: ​Gifts will be used to award significant grants to local charitable organizations, enabling them to advance their mission to higher levels.
• Mission Legacy Fund: Gifts are used to provide the opportunity to share compassion with others locally and around the world.
• Seminars Legacy Fund: Gifts are used to offer opportunities for deeper learning, for growing in personal faith and for building stronger relationships with God and with one another. This fund supports the Meneilly Conference.
• Worship & Music Legacy Fund: ​Gifts are used to give children and adults special opportunities to express their faith through song.
• Youth Mission Trip Scholarship Legacy Fund: Award grants to youth who want to go on a mission trip but cannot afford the full price.

The Meneilly Society (named for our founding pastor, Rev. Dr. Robert H. Meneilly) recognizes an individual or couple who have named the Village Presbyterian Church Endowment Trust as a beneficiary in their will, trust, life insurance policy or through another estate-related gift plan. Their generous gifts ensure a bright future for Village Church as we continue to serve our congregation, community and the world well into the future. If you have or wish to include Village Presbyterian Church in your estate plan, contact Bob Sperry. Meneilly Society members are listed in the Village Church Endowment Trust Annual Report.