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Because of their unprecedented
This issue is dedicated to
Carole and Richard Johnson. Intracoastal Realty Corporation
generosity, our highly popular
Let’s Talk series returns to
our pages with a topic that
could not be more meaningful: end of
life care and hospice.
Even though I had, in the past,
served on a ministry team through my
church that sat with those who were
crossing over, as well as done a good deal
of nursing home visiting, I really didn’t
fully understand it. A series of events
changed that.
For the past three
years I have served
on a ministry team that
does outreach, primar-ily
with food. Included
in that is a free hot
breakfast each month.
One Saturday a year
ago, we had erroneously
over-prepared our
breakfast food quantities.
The question was
posed: Where should
we carry the overflow,
who could we bless?
The answer: The Lower
Cape Fear Hospice
LifeCareCenter. And we did. Then in
a leadership meeting, the Pastoral Care
Team requested, and we agreed, to the
transferring of the church’s monthly
volunteer hospice meal preparation to
come in under our team.
The next month, we prepared and
delivered hot breakfast to the hospice
center with pleasure. The following
month, however, suddenly, everything
came into sharp focus for us. As we
shopped, prepped, cooked, boxed and
delivered the meal, it was with tears in
our eyes, because now one of our team
members, Isabel Henry, was a patient in
the hospice center. Her daughter, Cathie,
also a teammate and friend, was by her
bedside. We now understand not only
what a privilege it is to take meals to
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the hospice center, but how incredibly
comforting it is to be on the receiving
end of that hot food.
Miss Isabel spent about five weeks in
the center, December into January, so
I got to know it pretty well. As I walked
those halls at odd hours, the idea was
born to tell you, our readers, the story
of hospice and end-of-life-care options.
The resulting effort is an amazing coming
together of love and knowledge, here
in our pages. To make it possible,
Carole and Richard
Johnson awed us by
donating their mag-nificent
Masonboro
Sound home as the
ideal setting for the
roundtable discussion.
And while there is
so much more great
reading in this issue,
one other feature
moves my heart. We
contacted The Harbor
Island Garden Club
with an idea to honor
those who battle breast
cancer that we could
photograph and share
with you. The club bowled us over with
its response. The amazing Pink Ribbon
Tree can be seen on page 18. Among
those 100 pink ribbons in the tree are
ones with my sister Dianna’s name as
well as my friends, Jenese and Sally,
plus, a young mother in Florida named
Erin, right now engaged in her battle.
The tree is located at the intersection
of Highways 74/76 as you come onto
Wrightsville Beach, behind the Harbor
Way Gardens, easily accessible from
either side of the Loop.
Trusting you enjoy this issue as much
as I do, to God be the glory.
Editor/Publisher
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MikeFarris
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