Dear Friends and Supporters,

Gateway-Longview is grateful for your friendship and mission support. You are a valued partner in caring for children, and your generosity has made a difference in so many disadvantaged young lives.

Won’t you now become a Gateway-Longview Legacy Maker and join our Legacy Society? This special group consists of faithful donors who have made Planned Gifts to support Gateway-Longview’s ministry.

These are accounts of a few of the Legacy Makers whose forward thinking, generosity, and bequest gifts in 2010 and 2011 have helped the children at Gateway-Longview.

Lotta V. Minehan

This past Christmas, Gateway-Longview received a legacy gift 53 years in the making of more than $750,000 from a generous supporter named Lotta V. Minehan.

Throughout her life, Ms. Minehan, gave gifts to support the orphans served by the Methodist Home for Children, now known as Gateway-Longview. Prior to passing in 1957, she named the Methodist Home as the sole beneficiary in her will.

Her Estate included 131 acres of land in rural Pennsylvania, and in 2010 due to gas excavation in the ...

During the month of February, Gateway-Longview will be commemorating Black History Month.

Shown above are participants in an event called "Celebrating the Drum." It featured ...

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Gateway-Longview's Family Resource Center, located at 347 East Ferry Street in Buffalo, recently launched a free children's music program aimed at providing music education and instruction to disadvan ...

Adoption Highlight: The Herman Family

Deb and Dave Herman of East Amherst added two new members to their family on September 14, 2010. They legally adopted Anna and Jaiden, ages 4 and 2, respectively. Deb and Dave were the grandparents of Anna and Jaiden, and became foster parents of the children in October 2008.

The adoption was attended by several family members, including new aunts Nancy Mohr and Kathy McCarty, as well as the children's new cousin, Kaylee McCarty.

"Jaiden is such a ham. He always enjoys being the center of attention," his new mother, Deb, noted. She added that both of her children are very outgoing.

There ...