The Intentional Grown Center Receives Bequest

Lake Junaluska, NC: The Intentional Growth Center (IGC) at Lake Junaluska has received a major bequest from the estate of Martha and Elizabeth Morgan. Martha and Elizabeth were personal friends of Mark and Phyllis Rouch and established the trust in 1987 while Mark was the first Executive Director of IGC. The sisters lived in a home within a block of the Atkins House where the IGC offices are located at Lake Junaluska. They were frequent volunteers to assist the work of IGC.

IGC is to receive on an annual basis 60% of the income from their estate valued at approximately $2.5 million. The purpose of the Trust to The Intentional Growth Center is for “teaching and/or perpetuating classical languages, English literature, music, Christian discipleship, or church leader development.”

Daughters of the late Francis Burt and Ethel Robinson Morgan, the sisters, Martha Frances Morgan and Ethel Elizabeth Morgan resided in Greenville, SC and were members of Buncombe Street United Methodist Church. They also owned a home at Lake Junaluska, NC.

Martha Frances Morgan died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005, followed by her sister on Friday, June 22, 2007. Martha was a graduate of Furman University and Scarritt College and received her master's at Emory University. She was a member of Zetosophia Academic Honor Society at Furman University. She was an educator in the Greenville County Schools and taught English and Latin at both Hughes and Greenville High School.

Ethel Elizabeth Morgan was a graduate of Greenville High School and Furman University and studied at the Teachers’ College at Columbia University in New York. She was an educator in the Greenville County School System and taught at both Stone School and Augusta Circle, where the library was named in her honor.

This bequest will allow IGC to strengthen and expand its programming fulfilling its mission of “transforming leaders for shared, Christ-centered ministry.” IGC has a staff of nine persons and continues to draw on many friends who serve as volunteers helping to carry out its extensive programming including about 60 events per year involving about 3,700 participants. Larry Ousley is the Executive Director. IGC is located at 959 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, NC 28745 and can be contacted at 828-454-6720 and by email at info@intentionalgrowthcenter.org.