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WELCOME…... to you who are receiving this newsletter for the first time and to our regular members. We are a self-help organization offering nonjudgmental friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings. Bereaved Parents purpose is to aid these persons in the positive resolution of their grief and to foster their physical and emotional health. Our chapter meets in a donated church facility, but no religious creed or affiliation is involved. Persons of all faiths (or no faith), creeds, and races are welcome! We have no dues, and no one is required to speak at any meeting. Listening is OK. If you need us, we're here for you. If you do not need help yourself, please bring your compassionate understanding to those who need the support of other bereaved parents, siblings, or grandparents. |
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(formerly The Compassionate Friends of North Texas) |
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BPNT Newsletter l 8 Crest CT l Hickory Creek TX 75065 l 940-321-3302 E-mail bethreyn@centurytel.net BP/USA l PO Box 95 l Park Forest, IL 60466 l Phone 630-971-3490 |
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September 2002 |
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Volume 14, Issue 9 |
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NEXT MEETINGS: 16 SEPTEMBER 21 OCTOBER |
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WHERE WE MEET The Bereaved Parents of North Texas meets regularly on the third Monday of each month: Social time 7:00pm-7:15pm (bring your own refreshment) and the meeting will start at 7:15 pm in the Flynn Hall Lounge of the First United Methodist Church, 201 S. Locust Street, Denton, Texas. (For directions, please see the map on the back page.) Babysitting available: SEE BELOW Please Note: Our meeting in January will be held on January 13, 2003 instead of our usual third Monday. February will be back on schedule. |
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BABYSITTING AT BPNT MEETINGS? Parents who need babysitting at our monthly meetings should contact Marsha San Miguel no later than the Friday before our Monday meetings. This way she can be available for babysitting. Contact Marsha at marshasanmiguel@hotmail.com 940-453-2009 (church) 940-271-2000 (home) |
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CHAPTER OFFICERS Moderator . . . . ..Shannon Ratliff-Johnson & Virginia Gallian Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Ottman Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Richardson Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Ottman Newsletter Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beth Reynolds Greeters. . . . . . . . . . . . Wanda Edington & Virgie Richardson Supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louise Ferry
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Submit any poems or stories that may remind you of your loved one, something that has helped you through a trying period or just to share with other bereaved parents to Beth Reynolds at the mailing address or email address above and I will include it in our newsletter. |
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LOVING LISTENERS Your telephone links you to a loving listener. Do you need to talk about your child's life and death with someone who truly understands your anguish? Those listed below have volunteered to listen and to try to help you. By allowing others to help you, you also are helping others. If no one answers at one number, please call another. Give us a call. It helps to talk! Shirley & R.D. Cawyer ♥ 940-668-7117 auto/train accident Beth Reynolds ♥ 940-321-3302 auto accident Dale & Shannon Johnson ♥ 940-591-8539 stillbirth |
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Our Credo We are the parents whose children have died. We are the grandparents who have buried grandchildren. We are the siblings whose brothers and sisters no longer walk with us through life. We come together as Bereaved Parents of the USA to provide a haven where all bereaved families can meet and share our long and arduous grief journeys. We attend monthly gatherings whenever we can and for as long as we believe necessary. We share our fears, confusion, anger, guilt, frustrations, emptiness and feelings of hopelessness so that hope can be found anew. As we accept, support, comfort and encourage each other, we demonstrate to each other that survival is possible. Together we celebrate the lives of our children, share the joys and triumphs as well as the love that will never fade. Together we learn how little it matters where we live, what our color or our affluence is or what faith we uphold as we confront the tragedies of our children's deaths. Together, strengthened by the bonds we forge at our gatherings, we offer what we have learned to each other and to every more recently bereaved family. We are the Bereaved Parents of the USA. We welcome you. |
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COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER… Brenda Hobbs, RN will be our presenter. Brenda works at a local hospital and is a Resolved-through-Sharing Counselor for miscarriages and stillbirths. Brenda also lost her three-year old son, Jesse in 1988. |
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© Copyright Bereaved Parents, USA Inc., 2002 |
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