Giving Opportunity

I'm kind of excited about this post. It's one of the main reasons I started this blog: so I could advertise for upcoming events, recruit volunteers, and meet the needs we incur as we plan events for our families.

Here in a couple of weeks we will be hosting our annual parties. We'll be going to the 5th floor of Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis, IN on February 15, and 7 West at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, KY on February 25 to hang out with the families fighting childhood cancer there. Our annual parties are our biggest event each year, and are intended to "break the grey" of hospital life - hence our ministry's name!

Break the Grey party - 7 W Kosair Children's Hospital - February 2010

 Each year we take gifts to the patients on these units (the pediatric oncology units) and to their siblings as well so they don't feel left out. Additionally, we take gift baskets for the parents so that they feel supported. We bring food, decorate, and then just hang out, talk, listen, and pray with the families that come. These parties allow us to serve roughly 50 families between the two units each year!

Today I'm writing because we are in desperate need of items for our parent baskets! We need the following:

- Coffee mugs
- Coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate
- Lotion
- Devotional books
- Hard candy
- Gift cards

Parent baskets - 2010

If you can help us out by donating any of the above items, it would greatly appreciated! For those in the southern Indiana/Louisville area, you can drop off items at the Graceland Baptist Church offices or the front desk at Christian Academy of Indiana. You can also give any items to Danny or Terry Boesing or Kassandra Botts.

For those in the Anderson the area, you can give the items to me. If you're not in either of those places but want to give, message me or e-mail me and we'll work something out.

We need enough items to fill 50 baskets, so please pass the word along!

We would like to have any donations turned in by this weekend (February 4-6) so that we can take inventory next week and regroup and go from there. However, if you can't get them to us before then, we will still accept them after this weekend.

Thanks for hoping and believing with us.

Hoping, Believing, and Never Giving up,

Sarah