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If you are new to our site, this blog is sort of a hodge podge of our ministry and family life, and whatever else God lays on my heart to share. The Home Page above will link you to our Sufficient Grace Ministries page. You can read more about the 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization and the outreaches of this ministry whose mission is to offer comfort and hope to grieving parents. The Blog button brings you to the page you are currently reading, featuring a variety of subjects...some ministry updates, some family news, and some biblically-based encouragement. The Walking With You page is a place for bereaved parents who have lost a baby or child to find encouragement and hope. It is an online support group created so that families would know they are not walking this path alone. On the Dreams of You Shop page, you can learn more about the products and services we offer, place an order, or sponsor a family. The Encouraging Women blog is a work in progress. There, we hope to offer biblically-based encouragement to all women. The Resource page has been newly updated with a list of resources that are helpful for grieving parents. Our blogroll is also located on this page. Thank you so much for visiting our site. Blessings to you...

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Our New Look and a Big Thank You...

If you've visited before, you've probably noticed that we have a new look! Thank you so much to Danielle at Blogs by Danielle for our beautiful new blog. I love how she incorporated our family picture and the footprints of our Faith, Grace, and Thomas into the header...love the colors, love the design...just love it all! Danielle is a true artist and I so appreciate her work.

We also want to give a huge thank you to Raechel Feehan for the beautiful family photos in our header and on the sidebar. Raechel is just branching out into the photography business, and she did a wonderful job "capturing" our family. It is truly a blessing to have friends like Raechel. And, if you are a regular reader, you know how excited I get to see how God uses others to work together for His purpose, and to bless others with the gifts and abilities they have been given to share.

And, while we're giving thanks...I just wanted to add a special thank you to all those who help create Dreams of You Memory products for Sufficient Grace Ministries for Women. Thank you to Cindy Roller for making the beautiful infant gowns for little ones who leave this earth too soon. Thank you to the team at Helping Hands Ministry, led by Kaye Shively for all the love and prayers they put into sewing our Comfort Bears. We also give thanks to Marlene Carpenter from Creations From the Heart for the beautiful memorial bracelets she makes for mommies and babies. Thank you to Dawn Marshall for her encouragement, support, friendship, and dedication to serving grieving families...not just as a NILMDTS coordinator and photographer...but as my dear friend. We are so grateful to our church family at Harvest Fellowship...to our supporters and friends...to those who participated in our Sufficient Grace Ministries Golf Outing...to our participating hospitals: Defiance Regional Medical Center, Lima Memorial, Henry County Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital. Thank you to Shipman Advertising for printing our Dreams of You Memory Books. Thank you to Tim, Tracy, and Becki for giving your time, love, encouragment, resources and support. Thank you, Lynette for your prayers. Thank you to our new blog friends for your support and encouragement and for sharing our ministry with others in need. And to anyone else I've failed to mention...we are so grateful to everyone for their generosity and willing hearts.

Please continue to keep our efforts to offer comfort and hope to grieving families in prayer as we say goodbye to 2008 and look forward to the coming year. We look forward to serving with all of you in 2009.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
Philippians 1:3-7

1 comment:

Megan said...

hi kelly...thank you for your encouraging words and prayers. i most definately need them! i want to add your button/logo to my blog, and am unsure how. i saw it on my friend lynette's site and would love to have it as well. please let me know!

i still would love to talk to you. so much to ask about starting a non profit etc. we will connect at some point! talk to you soon.