RETA’s Celebrating Life Benefit Dinner will be moving online-only for 2021.

Nappanee Missionary Church has graciously agreed to host our livestream which will still take place at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 6. We'll have individual and host home streaming options for attendees, with registration opening on January 11. Host homes (the equivalent to someone purchasing a table) will receive a $100 restaurant gift card as part of their registration as well as a packet similar to what they would have on their table at the live venue to have up to six other couples join them. We're going to be talking with restaurants in several cities throughout the county to see if they'll work with us on specials the evening of the event.

After spending several hours deliberating recently, our dinner planning team felt that it was best to move RETA's Celebrating Life Benefit Dinner to an online-only event in 2021.

Just as you've experienced at work or church, folks are all over in how they feel about and respond to COVID, attempting to walk the tight rope of faith and freedom while also being concerned for the health and safety of others. The dinner planning team talked about what the Governor's executive order means for the event, with Elkhart County currently being in the orange zone for COVID (which allows for 50 individuals to attend a fundraiser in person and knowing the best that it could be at blue would allow for 250 individuals). With invitations and promotions going out in January, we felt it was best to make the decision this month and so decided to take the event virtual for this coming year.

The benefit dinner brings in roughly 40% of our operating budget each year, so we hope you’ll join us virtually and invite some friends to do so as well!