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Sunday, December 13 at 12:00am
The Compassionate Friends/USA
For more than a quarter century Sascha Wagner's captivating poetry has comforted and provided hope for grieving families. Her unique perceptions of the world and an amazing gift for transcribing thoughts and emotions into words have set her poems apart and made them a favorite of TCF chapter newsletter editors and bere...aved families everywhere. This anthology of her writings was made possible, following her death, through the kind donation to TCF by her family of all rights to her poetry. Enjoy this complete collection exclusively through The Compassionate Friends online store.Read More
Source: www.compassionatefriends.org
Many resources are offered through the national office to aid grieving families and the people whocare about them. Please visit the following pages for additional items.
The Compassionate Friends/USA The Associated Press recently ran a story in its many newspapers about grief. TCF's executive director, Pat Loder, was interviewed and discussed the early days of her grief, how she found The Compassionate Friends, and about the videotape that constantly ran through her head. Several others incluiding the TCF members, the Chans (pictured below), were interviewed.
The Compassionate Friends/USA
We're in November already. The holidays are coming up with blinding speed and they are among the most difficult times of the year for bereaved families. For some helpful suggestions, visit our national website at the address below to read "Surviving the Holidays." If you've made it through the holidays in past years af...ter losing a child, please feel free to give us your personal tips on what worked for you to help you and your remaining family survive and make it into the new year!!Read More
Source: www.compassionatefriends.org
The holidays are among the most difficult times for bereaved families grieving the death of a child. Below are some helpful suggestions that may aid you in surviving the holidays.
The Compassionate Friends/USA
We now have information on an upcoming Compassionate Friends regional conference. With the theme "Remembering, Helping, Healing," the Frankfort, Kentucky chapter will be host to a regional conference March 19-20, 2010. Popular speaker Darcie Sims will keynote the opening ceremony and there will be a number of workshops..., as well as entertainment. Details including registration forms are available by clicking below on "Regional Conferences." Hope to see you there!Read More
Source: compassionatefriends.org
Regional conferences offer a rewarding opportunity to share an intimate time with families that have also experienced the death of a child and are seeking ways to learn more about the common path on which we walk. ...
The Compassionate Friends/USA As the Worldwide Candle Lighting approaches, make others aware of this day and what it means to you by wearing a Worldwide Candle Lighting button and giving them away to friends and family.
Source: www.compassionatefriends.org
Many resources are offered through the national office to aid grieving families and the people whocare about them. Please visit the following pages for additional items.
The Compassionate Friends/USA
Just a note to let you know that we've received a new shipment of the "Forever in my Heart" wristbands. These are made of durable silicone and have two butterflies framing the saying. Over the past four years, we've distributed close to 200,000 of them. They make a great memento to give to those attending a Worldwide C...andle Lighting service or for any other occassion, including just to say "I care" to someone who is grieving the loss of a child. These can be ordered online.Read More
Source: www.compassionatefriends.org
Many resources are offered through the national office to aid grieving families and the people whocare about them. Please visit the following pages for additional items.
The Compassionate Friends/USA
Slowly but surely we're getting donations (they only have to be $10 to be counted toward the awards being given in America's Giving Challenge). We really need our Facebook friends to help us so we can catch up with other charities that were able to register for the Challenge earlier. To find out how your donation can m...ake a difference in this Challenge, visit
http://www.causes.com/index.html. You may make your donation through the link below. Working together in memory of our children, we can move mountains!Read More
http://www.causes.com/index.html. You may make your donation through the link below. Working together in memory of our children, we can move mountains!Read More
Source: www.causes.com
If this is your first qualifying donation today, it will count toward the daily and overall awards. Thanks for your donation!
The Compassionate Friends/USA
The Compassionate Friends is taking on "America's Giving Challenge," a contest that could gain TCF from $10,000 to $50,000, if we can get just 2-3000 individual donations of as little as $10 per day over the next 14 days. We're asking our Facebook fans to think about how much support TCF has provided you and make a $10... donation as many days as you can at the link below. For more information about the contest, please visit http://www.causes.com/index.htmlRead More
Source: www.causes.com
If this is your first qualifying donation today, it will count toward the daily and overall awards. Thanks for your donation!
The Compassionate Friends/USA
We are often asked what someone can do to help us help others. And we are also often told of the great need to make certain a child who has died is never forgotten. Because we understand these feelings all too well, we have made available for sponsorship our 31 brochures covering most types of grief. At this time, we a...re seeking a sponsor for the brochure, "The Death of An Adult Child." Five thousand brochures will be printed and the sponsorship is $500. Without sponsorships, we could not sustain this brochure outreach program. If you are interested in sponsoring this brochure, please use the general donation page below and specify "Adult Child" sponsorship under "Comments." Sponsorship lines will be placed on the back of every brochure telling in whose memory the sponsorship was given. For more information on the brochure program, please visit http://www.compassionatefriends.org/reso
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Source: www.compassionatefriends.org
The Compassionate Friends exists thanks to the generosity ofmany wonderful people who either have been helped by TCF during their difficult grief journey following the death of a child, or are friends, relatives, or business acquaintances seeking to support them. ...
The Compassionate Friends/USA
Today The Compassionate Friends/USA Facebook Page surpassed 2,000 fans. We are glad to have our Facebook Page be one where those of us who are going through the natural grieving process after a child in our family has died can share the heartache we carry with each other, knowing that in sharing there is healing. TCF c...an help us to find our "new normal" with compassion and without the judgment we often face from others who, fortunately, have not had to survive and continue after the loss of a child. We are The Compassionate Friends!Read More
The Compassionate Friends/USA
Would you like to know if a Worldwide Candle Lighting service open to the public will be held in your area Sunday, December 13? You can now view submissions received by clicking on the link below. Then click on the state or country where you live. Services are being added every day so please stop back often! If you don...'t see one listed for your area, you are welcome to plan one. Visit the Worldwide Candle Lighting page by clicking on "Worldwide Candle Lighting" in the grey box on the left of the page linked below for more information. We do this that their light may always shine!Read More
Source: www.compassionatefriends.org
Communities across the globe will be joining in The Compassionate Friends 13th Worldwide Candle Lighting on December 13, 2009.
The Compassionate Friends/USA
We are happy to invite everyone planning a Worldwide Candle Lighting Service Sunday December 13, open to the public (in the U.S. and around the globe), to now submit information on your service to have it included on TCF/USA's national website. Within the next few days, we will start posting what last year was more tha...n 500 services from at least 20 countries around the world. Join with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of your compassionate friends in celebrating and remembering the lives of our all our wonderful children . . . that their light may always shine!!Read More
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