Danforth to Donate Campaign Funds for New Ministry
Episcopal News Service. June 15, 1994 [94116I]
The U.S. Senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo.) has announced that he will donate his leftover campaign funds, which could amount to more than $600,000, to the Diocese of Missouri when he retires from the Senate next year. The funds will be used to establish and staff an Office of Interfaith and Community Affairs in the diocesan offices, and Danforth, an Episcopal priest, will be actively involved in that ministry, said Bishop Hays Rockwell of Missouri. "Senator Danforth sees this as a way of enabling and committing himself to the ministry of the church, and the donation of the funds is a mark of his commitment," Rockwell said.