"Love Notes"

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Issue #6 - April 2003

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Faithful Friends
Nursing Home Ministry

National Nursing Home Week May 11-17, 2003

Dear Friends and Ministry Partners,

Sandy and I would like to wish you a blessed and joy filled Easter Holiday. We truly serve a Risen Messiah.

In less than a month we will again be celebrating National Nursing Home Week, which starts on Mother's Day, May 11, and continues until May 17. This year's theme is "Reflections of a Lifetime" in which we are to help the residents of care facilities reflect on the past and to contemplate the future.

This is the ideal time to make a caring visit to that friend, relative, or church member, who is confined at a local health care facility. A small gesture like a flower, a card, or a hug, can have a huge impact on their lives.

For those of us who are involved with regular visitation, this is a great time to recruit new volunteers and to promote our ministries. Look for opportunities in your local church, radio stations, newspapers, and nearby nursing homes.

For more information please visit our special web page for National Nursing Home Week located at:

http://www.faithfulfriends.org/NNHW.html

We also have many other resources on our web site that may be of assistance to you.

http://www.faithfulfriends.org/resources.html

As we help our special friends to reflect on their past, we can share with them the Wonderful Hope of the Future that they have in Eternal Life through Faith in Jesus Christ.

Thank you all in advance for any "random act of kindness" you may give to God's Special Saints during this week of recognition.