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November 2009

 

 

All of us know to collect pull tabs.  They go to Ronald McDonald House, who sells them to be made into fine needles for children’s chemotherapy shots.  I know it’s a great ministry, but do you really realize how much they help out?

Ronald McDonald House is for those families that need a place close to hospitals. They enable families to stay in a safe place where other understand what they’re experiencing.  They don’t charge the families for this. They’re run by donations and different fund-raising projects..such as selling the pull tabs others have collected and given to them.

The Memphis Conference United Methodist Women recently received a thank-you card for their work in collecting these. It reads, “thank you so much for collecting pull tabs. We could not offer a home away from home with out support from friends!”  It was signed, “Ronald McDonald House”.

Ladies, those pull tabs helped raise $15,000.00 last year!  That goes a long way toward paying utilities, buying groceries and giving cheer to people in some pretty tough circumstances!

The next time  you think that those small little tabs can’t really do that much, remember the families at Ronald McDonald House.  They can stay with their child because of your generosity.

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So-Sew and The Dog Bone Pillow  (see picture on back page)

 

     The So-Sew group of Raleigh United Methodist Women has made over 2,000 bone-shaped neck pillows.  That means cutting, sewing, stuffing and hand-sewing all of those pillows.  We have given them to nursing homes, hospitals, rehabilitation

centers, shut-ins and homebound persons.  They are well-received by recipients.  One dear lady was so fond of her “dog-bone” that her husband buried her with it.  We got the idea of making these from a UMW member who had experienced another church’s similar project.  Grace United Methodist Church of Merritt Island, Florida had given her a pillow when her daughter was ill.  Our present project was to make “patriotic dog-bones” for the 200 patients in the Veterans Hospital at Memphis. They were delivered for Veterans’ Day.  That’s a lot of cutting, sewing, and stuffing.  Praise God for this opportunity.

 

- Charlotte Smith, Raleigh United Methodist Women