Day of Giving and Receiving

What a day it was Tuesday. Lena, Vivian, Bill and I went on a little trip to give out caps and to receive donations. Our first stop was to the Cathedral Of Hope Church in Dallas. It was a beautiful church and the people there are just wonderful. Dan Peeler met us there. I knew that they were going to give us a donation but WOW! They collected money for our project and some of the members made caps for us. Twenty five caps. Here are some pictures of the caps. And then, Dan brings us to a room where there were boxes of yarn for us! I'm talking about YARN! Great yarn for caps, beautiful colors. They were counting yards of yarn that they were collecting but decided to stop counting when they reached 50,000 yards of yarn!!Now thats a lot of caps!





Dan is the minister for children and families at the church. He gave the eulogy for Joyce's memorial and had had such comforting words. He's also an artist! Here is a small sample of the murials that are on the walls in the children's rooms at the church.




Our next stop was the Cancer Center at UTSW. Huge hospital. We met Angela and Leslie there and had a good talk with them. This is where Joyce had her treatments. Such nice people. They are really interested in our project. They said that everyone is so happy to pick out a cap to wear. That's what we love to hear and why we make the caps.



Our last stop was to Parkland Hospital. We didn't go into the hospital. A volunteer came out to meet us and get the caps. It's quite a busy hospital.

After our visits, we went to lunch and back to the center to get our cars. I started to use one of the skeins of yarn when I got home.

We have to thank Bill for the help and encouragement he is giving us with our project. Like I told Bill, 'Joyce is still with us in this project and it's because of her that we continue'. We miss her dearly.

And to top everything off, Kate brought us a bag of yarn today! God Bless her.

Now we sure could use some more knitters and crocheters!