The local Bereaved Parents Support Group will host the Annual Memorial Candlelight Service to honor all children and other loved ones, on Sunday, December 14, 2014, inside Heartland Mall, Early, Texas, around their Angel Memorial Trees. This is a casual evening for family and friends to gather and spend one evening this holiday season with their loved one. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. to make sure that all candles are lit by the 7 p.m. time of remembrance in conjunction with the Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting.
Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the 18th annual Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift to the bereavement community from The Compassionate Friends, creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. TCF’s Worldwide Candle Lighting started in the United States in 1997 as a small internet observance, but has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.
All candles are provided by the Bereaved Parents Group, to honor their children, and anyone wanting to honor a loved one is welcome to join the event for a lovely evening of remembrance and honor. For further information please contact group leader LaFreda at 325-998-1567.
