June 2013
| Business World Magazine | 59
John Paul Jones once affirmed that with the cultivation of faith, mastery will
be achieved. Such sentiments could never be demonstrated truer than in the
example of Christian Homes, an independent, not-for-profit system of senior
care communities operating among areas of America’s Midwest. For those
who are blessed to live within these environments, the cultivation of faith
has led to the masterful delivery of skilled nursing care, social connectivity
and engagement from neighbors and a staff whose support is not simply an
expression of a unique service mission, but a vital ministry.
A little more than 50 years, a ministry com-
prised of nine men from several area church-
es in Central Illinois resolved to establish
a Christian-based health care service that
could cater to needs of senior adults from
their community. It was an initiative inspired
by a man named LeRoy McGeath of River-
ton, Illinois, who believed that area seniors
needed greater alternatives in terms of con-
necting with a quality of care that was not
only consistent, but compelled by Christian
values. So inspired, this group of men took
a leap of faith in 1965 and established the
very first Christian Home and campus in
Lincoln, Illinois. As St. Augustine once said,
faith involves believing what can’t be seen,
