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Grace On Wings Annual Dinner Gala
Updated: March 1, 2013
On Friday, February 22 Grace on Wings held its 5th Annual Dinner Gala at the University of Indianapolis in the Schwitzer Center Banquet Hall.
The dinner gala’s mission was to celebrate our continuing opportunities to serve others and to raise funds. In our fifth year of serving we have flown 280,295 mission miles and have served 219 patients. The charitable assistance to the families served is $1,872,933.
Grace On Wings was honored in 2012 to receive the medical flight industry’s most coveted Award from the Association of Air Medical Services and graciously accepted the 2012 Fixed Wing Award of Excellence.
Another first in 2012 was the transport of our first NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) baby from northern Indiana to Omaha, Nebraska. As you can see God is continues to do amazing works through this ministry and you.
Learn more about our 400 Ropes Club in which members pledge $25 or more monthly. These funds cover our ground expenses so we may show Christ’s love to families in need.
Like the Bible story where the crippled man’s friends lowered him down on ropes in front of Jesus -- we need you to be the ropes. (Luke 5:18—26) You are the friends that help the helpless; you are the ropes that bring hope. It is through your donations and God's grace that we take flight.
God Bless,
Hal Blank
CEO / Chief Pilot
Grace on Wings, Inc.
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University of Indianapolis
The Schwitzer Center Banquet Hall
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46227
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For directions and campus map:
www.uindy.edu
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Grace on Wings Awarded by Association of
Air Medical Services (AAMS)
September 29, 2012
The Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) awarded Grace on Wings The FIXED WING AWARD OF EXCELLENCE for 2012.
The AAMS recognizes an individual/team that has made significant contributions to enhance the development or promote the improvement of patient care and/or safety, specifically in the fixed wing component of the air medical transport community.
The PROGRAM OF THE YEAR AWARD recognizes an emergency medical program (national or international) that has demonstrated a superior level of patient care, management prowess, quality leadership through visionary and innovative approaches, customer service, safety consciousness, marketing ingenuity, community service and/or commitment to the medical transport community as a whole.
ELIGIBILITY:
The program must have been in operation for at least 5 years in the emergency medical transport community (rotor wing, fixed wing, and/or critical care ground), accident free for the last 12 months, and a current Regular Member of AAMS.
JUDGING CRITERIA:
Number of years in operation, how the program has worked to be fiscally sound, accident-free for 12 months, customer-service indicators, QA benchmarks, improvements in reimbursement criteria/revenue generation, and winner or applicant of other awards. CAMTS certification is highly recommended, but not required.
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 Grace on Wings in the News > Video Available
February 21, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A mother was reunited with her sick son after financial difficulties kept them apart for nearly two months. The reunion was all thanks to a non-profit organization based out of Indianapolis: Grace on Wings.
Read the Full Article at wishtv.com
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2nd Plane for Grace On Wings Service
October 29 , 2011
As we celebrated our 4th anniversary
in our mission to “show Christ’s love
through aviation”, we were blessed to
be able to not only rededicate Nellie
but recognize our newest member to
our fleet, “Riley.”
She was graciously
given to us by a dissolving mission from
New York, “Able to Aviation”. Their
mission was to show disabled children
the joy of flying and actually teach them
how to be young pilots. When the
company lost their funding, they were required to donate the aircraft to another nonprofit agency.
The director and owner, Wayne Kaler , remembered seeing Nellie fly in to help get a little girl on a vent to her new home in Indiana. He contacted Hal Blank, Grace on Wings CEO, and Hal knew that God had brought us a new way to serve. We can now fly patients who need to go shorter distances that are ambulatory and do not need medical monitoring. (so-called Angel Flights) The only request from the agency was to name the plane after his grandfather and famous test pilot for Lockeed Martin, James Riley.
Riley is a Cessna 177 Cardinal and during her recent maintenance inspection, was described as a wellmaintained aircraft. If you or someone you know is in need of a medically necessary flight within 150 miles, please fill out flight request form on our website or call 1-877-75-GRACE.
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Grace On Wings Annual Dinner Gala
The 4th Annual Grace On Wings Dinner Gala was held on Friday, March 2, 2011 @ 6:30PM. Our guests were Brooke Billingsley and musicians Ben & Betsy Walker.
Contact Us for information about next years event.
Watch Video of the 2011 event.
University of Indianapolis
The Schwitzer Center Banquet Hall
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46227
 Musicians: Ben & Betsy James
Betsy (Walker) and her husband Ben James have been married for 4 ½ years and complement each other well in life and on stage
You'll enjoy hearing your favorite Christian songs performed with a blend of piano, vocals, and saxophone.
http://www.betsywalker.com |
 Speaker: Brooke Billingsley
For the past 20 years, Brooke has been inspiring audiences of all ages and backgrounds with her passionate and compelling approach to living life with God’s love. This funny, energetic woman shares her story about how God brought her safely and sanely out of a chaotic childhood to a place of well-being as a wife, mother and entrepreneur.
Brooke was President/CEO of the Indiana Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation for seven years. In 1999, with her husband of twenty years, Kevin, Brooke co-founded Perception Strategies, Inc., a market research company specializing in healthcare mystery shopping.
http://brookebillingsley.com |
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