In June’s Questions with Kathy webinar, we take a look at one of the biggest moves any of us will ever make: selling our home. With real estate prices soaring and a sizzling hot market, is now the right time to sell? It could be, and if you’ve ever considered living at Epworth Villa, you can take the extra profit from the sale of a home and invest it in your own retirement living so that it’ll last you the rest of your life!
Realtor Christopher Bennett of Metro Brokers of OK Elite Group joins us to explore a range of topics including: Are we in a seller’s market? How quickly are most homes selling now? How can I maximize profits through better staging? How can I know what I might get for my house if I were to put it on the market? And how long will this active market last? You don’t need a crystal ball, you just need Questions with Kathy!
Let’s talk about the Brill Chapel here at Epworth Villa and Pastor Laura Glover. Simply put, the Brill Chapel is the spiritual center of Epworth Villa. Pastor Laura comes to Epworth from the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church. While she may belong to the Methodist Church, the services at Epworth are ecumenical and open to all faiths. Each Thursday, a Vespers service is held generally with a local clergy member. There is a choir, pianist, and organist to complete the traditional service. The services are broadcast on Epworth’s own closed-circuit TV channel (EVTV.) On Sunday mornings, Sunday School is held in the Brill Chapel, and a musical worship service on Sunday evenings. Our Residents are so blessed that Kenneth and Evelyn Brill had a vision and created an action plan for the construction of the chapel. It was dedicated in November of 2002 and then received a slight renovation in 2016 with sound and lighting updates throughout the years. We are confident that the Brill Chapel will continue to serve our Residents well. At Epworth Villa, we value Faith-Based Service. We respect all beliefs. We pray with each other and those we serve. We value diversity. We invite you to come and visit Pastor Laura, the Brill Chapel and tour our entire campus. You are WELCOME at Epworth Villa!
As a noun, Merriam-Webster defines mission as a calling or vocation, or a ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propagate its faith or carry-on humanitarian work. It goes on to define missions as a plural as organized missionary work. At Epworth Villa it is defined as caring for others – even those we may never meet or know. To celebrate May Mission Month, Epworth Villa’s Religious Life Committee and newly appointed Chaplain, Laura Glover, have teamed with Epworth community volunteers including Delphine Jewell, Jimette McLean, and Cathy Nichols.
The group sought out speakers to share their stories of missions throughout the month and led the community in two large projects. The first mission project was a clothing drive to benefit Skyline Urban Ministry. The community gathered 881 pounds of new and gently used spring and summer clothing. This broke their previous record of 550 pounds. The flood buckets were the final project of Epworth Villa’s Mission Month. On March 28th, residents, employees, board members, and special guests met to celebrate all the current and former missionaries in the community and assemble the flood buckets. The group had a goal of completing 10 buckets at a cost of $60-75 per bucket.
Flood buckets contain the essentials needed to enable those affected by floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes — locally and globally — to begin the overwhelming job of cleaning up. A specific list of supplies for the flood buckets is provided by UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief). They are a global relief agency that helps with relief efforts both here in Oklahoma and around the world.
Glover said in her short tenure at Epworth Villa, she has been so delighted at how busy and involved the residents of Epworth Villa are in their community. “We have so many residents who have given of their time and talents in missions throughout their lifetime – and there is no stopping them now!”
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Epworth at Home has always been here for us. Al and I have each had surgeries while living here at Epworth Villa. A registered nurse, physical therapist, and occupational therapist worked with Al here in our home. I have had two surgeries and needed help with bathing and housework. Epworth at Home provided health care nurses for me. All brought big smiles and friendly talk as well as doing their jobs efficiently. They also followed through and checked back with us to see if we needed more assistance. They provide all the home health services that we needed.
We know if we need help again, we can always count on Epworth at Home to send the appropriate professional to help us! -Al and Sonie Lieber
Epworth Villa has been named a Telligen QI Connect™ Community Quality Champion! Recipients of this inaugural Telligen QI Connect™ award.
Telligen is pleased to present this award in recognition of outstanding activation by organizations located in your home community who have utilized relationships to recruit individuals and partner organizations to join together to focus on the most challenging issues facing us all today in this time of COVID-19 and beyond: opioid misuse, increasing access to behavioral health services, ensuring smooth patient transitions with changes in level of care, patient safety, chronic disease prevention, and self-care, and nursing home quality.
We want our teammates who work so hard to care for others to feel acknowledged and recognized for their efforts and have a renewed energy in these trying pandemic times. We know our team is passionate about their work. We honor them for making a meaningful impact on the quality of life for our family, friends, and loved ones.
