C&M Lifeline
Humanitarian Legacy of Charles and Mary Anders
Honoring the Life and Charity of Charles and Mary Anders
Chuck and Mary Anders established a legacy of humanitarian service dating back to 1955, inspiring youth to serve others regardless of background. In 1972, they founded C and M Lifeline, Inc. to develop emergency devices for the elderly. Despite initial challenges, they used personal and nonprofit funds to aid various causes, including providing shelter, education support, transportation, and overseas volunteering. Their projects ranged from assisting unwed mothers to supporting the middle class. Chuck's dreams included establishing church camps, educational programs, and providing for cyclone refugees. Many of these ideas remain unfunded but needed in communities.
On May 1, 2025, C&M LifeLine's project directors, Dr. Jose Delgado Elvir and Edenia Elvir Batres de Delgado, visited the Nightingale Nursing School campus. They met with students, inspected facilities, and reflected on this meaningful project, especially noting the vital support from the Dana Beck Fancher Foundation, affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church of Dunedin, Florida.
This foundation recently provided a significant grant for scholarships, empowering highly qualified, yet impoverished, young women with a clear calling for Christ-centered healthcare in Honduras. Housed on the Saint Bartholomew Episcopal Church campus under Bishop Lloyd Allen and directed by Rev. Jackie Ruiz, the school thrives thanks to the original design and construction led by Architect Victoria Delgado (with substantial assistance from Carolina Batres, Gracia Delgado Lavallee, and Daniel Hammond).
Victoria continues overseeing maintenance, and Gracia serves on the school board. Our entire team remains deeply inspired by the school's founder, Rev. Vaike Madisson, whose persistent and prayerful outreach continues to guide us all.
Family
The family histories of both Charles and Mary Anders, as well their own immediate family, can be characterized as being inspired and led by dedicated educators, health care providers, and Christian ministers…along with hard-working entrepreneurial business owners and multi-generational Mid-West farmers.
The family’s humanitarian service theme goes back 125 years to Rev. Andrew Jackson Stemen, preacher-teacher-farmer in Ohio. He guided our founder, Charles Anders, as a young boy, to appreciate the true joy and value of “serving others before self” and always seeking the wisdom of God’s guidance through the presence of the Holy Spirit in each one of us. The model of Christ’s unconditional loving service was held as the ideal. C and M LifeLine, Inc. is the living corporate legacy of the Anders-Rohn-Sullivan-Hiatt family values and service lineage
The family histories of both Charles and Mary Anders, as well their own immediate family, can be characterized as being inspired and led by dedicated educators, health care providers, and Christian ministers…along with hard-working entrepreneurial business owners and multi-generational Mid-West farmers.
The family’s humanitarian service theme goes back 125 years to Rev. Andrew Jackson Stemen, preacher-teacher-farmer in Ohio. He guided our founder, Charles Anders, as a young boy, to appreciate the true joy and value of “serving others before self” and always seeking the wisdom of God’s guidance through the presence of the Holy Spirit in each one of us. The model of Christ’s unconditional loving service was held as the ideal. C and M LifeLine, Inc. is the living corporate legacy of the Anders-Rohn-Sullivan-Hiatt family values and service lineage