Wear Red for Women donates an AED to Sedalia Seventh-Day Adventist Church

December 11, 2025

Wear Red for Women, a Bothwell Foundation committee, recently donated an automated external defibrillator (AED) to Sedalia Seventh-Day Adventist Church. An AED is a small, portable device used to treat sudden cardiac arrest. Administering defibrillation within the first three minutes can increase the survival rate by up to 70%, underscoring the importance of placing AEDs in public gathering spaces.

Funds for the device were raised during the 2025 Wear Red for Women luncheon and auction. The committee’s goal is to place AEDs in every place people work, learn, play or pray in Pettis and Benton counties, and it has already placed or committed over 100 AEDs in the Sedalia area since the luncheon’s inception in 2020. The 2026 Wear Red for Women event is Feb. 27, 2026, tickets will be available in January.

Sedalia Seventh-Day Adventist Church received an AED from the Bothwell Foundation’s Wear Red for Women committee. From left to right, Megan Elwood, committee member; Lori Wightman, Bothwell Regional Health Center CEO and committee co-chair; Lesley Jackson, committee member, Leisha Nakagawa, Bothwell Foundation specialist and volunteer coordinator; Rebecca Eldenburg, Church Sabbath School Council; Lauren Thiel-Payne, Bothwell Foundation executive director; and Dianne Simon, Thompson Hills Investment Corporation vice president and Wear Red Committee co-chair.
Sedalia Seventh-Day Adventist Church received an AED from the Bothwell Foundation’s Wear Red for Women committee. From left to right, Megan Elwood, committee member; Lori Wightman, Bothwell Regional Health Center CEO and committee co-chair; Lesley Jackson, committee member, Leisha Nakagawa, Bothwell Foundation specialist and volunteer coordinator; Rebecca Eldenburg, Church Sabbath School Council; Lauren Thiel-Payne, Bothwell Foundation executive director; and Dianne Simon, Thompson Hills Investment Corporation vice president and Wear Red Committee co-chair.

Bothwell Regional Health Center is a regional health center serving west-central Missouri with state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive health and wellness services including primary care, specialty care and emergency care. For more information about Bothwell and its services, visit www.brhc.org or find us on Facebook.

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