St. Joseph, Mo. – InterServ held its annual meeting Monday and announced that it has already raised more than half the amount of money needed to build a new center in St. Joseph.

More than 170 were in attendance at the agency’s annual meeting held at the Wesley Center.

Highlighting the event was the presentation of the David G. Berger Community Services Awards.

The Berger awards are given to those who exhibit a commitment to faithfully serve people within the St. Joseph and surrounding community and are voted upon by the InterServ Board of Directors. Receiving Berger awards in 2015 were Mrs. Pat Meyer, Dave and Twila Gach, Mrs. Kim Warren, Mr. Leonard Moreno and Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Darrell Jones, Senior Pastor at Grace Evangelical Church was the keynote speaker and reflected on how exhibiting community service through an interfaith entity such as InterServ shows love towards the human family through God.

Mr. Joseph K. Houts Jr., chairman of “Building InterServ,” a capital campaign to build a new health and wellness center for InterServ, was present and gave an update on the campaign which was launched in mid- March of 2015. Mr. Houts reported that to date, $3,300,000 has been raised through cash pledges, foundation and corporate support as well as initial funding through InterServ.

The agency has a total goal of $5 million to construct the facility at the corner of Cherokee and King Hill Avenue that will replace the Wesley Center.