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Thursday, December 18, 2014
N/Warren Town and County News
Page Seven
Norwalk Parks and Recreation Receives Grant Des Moines Couple to Return to Papua New Guinea
Pictured, left to right: Diane Bedwell, Nancy Kuehl, Louise Taylor-Seibert, Mark
Miller, Rick Wilson. Photo submitted.
Norwalk Parks and Rec has received a $5,000 grant from Warren County Philan-
thropic Partnership. Grant funds will help to achieve the purchase of a rider field
painting machine to be jointly shared with the Norwalk Community School District.
"Both entities have numerous soccer, football and practice fields to be painted.
With the number of youth participating in these sports, this should help reduce the
manpower and labor for painting these fields throughout the year," said Nancy Kuehl,
Norwalk Parks and Rec Director.
The Warren County Partnership was organized to promote and enhance commu-
nity-based philanthropy in Warren County. The WCPP recently received a state award
to facilitate endowment building and grantmaking. The contribution to the founda-
tion was made possible by the Iowa General Assembly. In 2004 the Iowa legislature
passed several bills to encourage foundation building and community-based philan-
thropy. Among these measures was HF 2032 which provides that non-gambling coun-
ties, initiating a county-wide community foundation would be eligible to receive
one half of one percent of the state's gross gambling tax receipts.
Twenty-one grant applications were received and nine organizations across War-
ren County from Norwalk, Milo, Indianola, New Virginia and Carlisle shared in the
funding allocations.
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Dan and Diane Folkers,
who after living and work-
ing in the local community
for 20+ years, followed a
spiritual calling to move
across the world to Papua
New Guinea in order to
work with Wycliffe Bible
Enjoy a West Des Moines address
and attend Norwalk Schools at Fox Valley.
Large walk-out
lots backing
to a pond or
Iowa's
countryside.
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Call for more info:
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453-6403 453-5103 453-6OO9
Directions: H 5 Bypass To SW Connector, South To MaIIitt Lake Rd, West To 8
20th Or Orilla Rd, South Through Orilla Development On The West Side 0f The Road.
Photos submitted.
Translators USA. After
two-and-a-half years
there, they have returned
to Des Moines and would
love to share their story.
Before heading to
Papua New Guinea, Dan
Folkers worked as an air-
craft technician for 30+
years at the Des Moines
airport and Diane Folkers
worked as a teacher for the
local school system for 20+
years. They are members
of Fellowship Community
Church in Norwalk and
felt the calling to have a
more intensive commit-
ment to religious service.
They began their journey
with two short mission
trips in Canada and Asia
and then found their long-
term calling in Papua New
Guinea.
Dan and Diane gave up
their careers and comfort-
able life at home in order
to work with Wycliffe, an
international organization
that is striving to translate
the Bible into the remain-
ing 1700+ unreached lan-
guages in the world.
Papua New Guinea
makes this goal particu-
larly difficult to achieve as
it is home to more than 800
different languages. They
were successful in helping
translate the Bible into
four language groups dur-
ing their stay.
While in Papua New
Guinea, the couple fo-
cused predominately on
the education of mission-
ary children and hosted
several Bible Study
groups. Dan focused his
work on the men of Papua
New Guinea and taught
them what it means to be
"an authentic Christian
man in today's world."
Diane focused her work on
providing food, clothing
and any kind of service the
people of the local com-
munity might need. Al-
though they sacrificed a lot
by leaving behind their
own families, they felt
their time was very re-
warding and plan to re-
turn in early 2015.