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415 West 13th Street, Kansas City, MO, 64105
5:00 PM
Episcopal Community Services, home of the Kansas City Community Kitchen, Episcopal Hunger Relief Network and Culinary Cornerstones Training Program, is excited to welcome their new President and CEO, Beau G. Heyen. Members of the Greater Kansas City Episcopal Community, along with other partners and community members, will host a Celebration of a New Ministry, including a community choir, as they install Beau in this new position.
Donations of non-perishable food will be collected, as well as a Love Offering in support of the continued work of Episcopal Community Services.
About Beau:
A graduate of Northwest Missouri State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in educational guidance and counseling, Beau brings to ECS a record of growth and innovation in anti-poverty services and hunger relief. Prior to joining ECS, Beau led Community Mobilization at the Food Bank For New York City, including leading a national awareness campaign to protect funding for SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, with strong support from Feeding America, Kevin Bacon, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain and anti-hunger organizations across the country, and was COO and Chief Development Officer for Masbia, a network of kosher soup kitchens and food pantries that provided over 1.5 million meals to New Yorkers in 2014. Beau was previously Director of Public Relations for West Houston Assistance Ministries, an ecumenical agency providing support to children, families and individuals who are homeless or in crisis. A graduate of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Beau directed youth ministries for Dallas-based Cathedral of Hope, a large United Church of Christ congregation with locations in Houston and Oklahoma City and a strong LGBT following. From 2004-07, he worked in the Kansas City area as a school counselor and was a member of the Heartland Men’s Chorus.
