Our Young at Heart (YAH) senior adult group shared their experiences Loving God, Loving Others, and Living the Mission:
For several years our YAH group has dressed bears for the Salvation Army as a mission project. A few weeks before Christmas the Salvation Army supplies the bears and individuals dress them however suits their fancy. The bears are returned to the Salvation Army and needy children are given their choice of a bear to take home for Christmas. In 2011 our group dressed and returned 220 bears!
The YAH group also participates in Project Linus, a non-profit organization dedicated to “Providing Security through Blankets" for ill or traumatized children and teens. Project Linus is named after the character from the Peanuts comic strip and was inspired by a picture of a young cancer patient holding her security blanket. Project Linus has donated more than 4,000,000 handmade blankets to comfort children in hospitals, shelters, and hospices across the nation. Our YAH group contributes fifteen to twenty blankets each month to area hospitals and ministry/outreach organizations. This past year our blankets were also sent to Joplin, Missouri following the tornados.
For more information or to get involved, contact Betsy Daughtridge at bdaughtridge@firstnorfolk.org or 461.3226 ext. 251.
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