This Sunday, May 5, Lennoxville United Church will be hosting its annual “Service of Hope and Inspiration” for those who are living with cancer, their family, and their friends. Kristan McKercher, who organizes the annual service along with Nancy Suitor and Frankie Noble, shared that the idea developed gradually out of a practice she brought home from a church she visits in Florida each winter. “I had read an article in a paper in Florida about a church that makes the cancer bags or hope bags for patients in the hospital,” McKercher said. “I read the article, I went to the church, and I actually helped to prepare these bags.” Shortly thereafter, she brought the idea home with her, and the local church community started its own version. The bags, known as “hope bags” contain items such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, bottled water, tissues, lozenges and hand lotion as well as comfort items like small pillows, lap robes, small books or magazines, puzzle books and other items intended to help pass the time during treatment. See full story in the Wednesday, May 1 edition of The Record.
