Galveston Ronald McDonald House receives gift from caring people

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Bay Vue United Methodist Women’s Ministries provide many services to our church and community. They were searching for a good project during the 2016 Advent Season. All agreed that sponsoring a donation drive for the Galveston Ronald McDonald House would be the perfect gift to give to a most deserving charity. The house serves families from the University of Texas Medical Branch and the Shriner’s Hospital for Children and Transitional Learning Community. These hospitals have large Neo-Natal Intensive Care Units and provide lodging for the families of these tiny miracles. Ronald McDonald House is an alternative to expensive, isolated hotel rooms, and families can remain together. It has a caring environment where parents can share their worries and concerns with families in similar situations. This emotional support is a crucial factor to the well being of pediatric patients.

Bay Vue UMW quickly provided congregation members with lists. Folk filled up the altar area with everything from cleaning supplies to food to clothing to small appliances for babies, children, and adults. Boxes, cartons, cans and sacks decorated the church along with traditional greenery and a Christmas tree. The gifts spilled out onto the front pew row.

Members organized the articles. Then Jane Loose and Cleo Phillips set out in their “sleigh” during the first week of January to deliver the presents. Jane and Cleo met some of the recovering patients, and toured much of this facility which has 20 fully furnished, air conditioned private bedrooms. It features a huge, fully equipped modern kitchen, two dining rooms, 2 elevators that are handicapped accessible and free laundry facilities. The bilingual staff serves 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Jane and Cleo reported back to the United Methodist Women’s Ministries and the congregation that this gift from caring people was most greatly appreciated. “Well done, thou good and faithful servants.”
[1-16-2017]

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