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For those of you who have found this site because of the death of a child or sibling, we are sorry for your loss and extend our hands in friendship. We have no easy answers, but offer understanding through our shared experiences.
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| Our Credo:
We need not walk alone. We are The Compassionate Friends.
We reach out to each other with love, with understanding, and with hope. The children we mourn have died at all ages and from many different causes, but our love for them unites us. Your pain becomes my pain, just as your hope becomes my hope. We come together from all walks of life, from many different circumstances. We are a unique family because we represent many races, creeds, and relationships. We are young, and we are old. Some of us are far along in our grief, but others still feel a grief so fresh and so intensely painful that they feel helpless and see no hope. Some of us have found our faith to be a source of strength, while some of us are struggling to find answers. Some of us are angry, filled with guilt or in deep depression, while others radiate an inner peace. But whatever pain we bring to this gathering of The Compassionate Friends, it is pain we will share, just as we share with each other our love for the children who have died. We are all seeking and struggling to build a future for ourselves, but we are committed to building a future together. We reach out to each other in love to share the pain as well as the joy, share the anger as well as the peace, share the faith as well as the doubts, and help each other to grieve as well as to grow.
We need not walk alone. We are The Compassionate Friends. ©2007
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The Compassionate Friends is a non-profit self-help organization dedicated to offering love, caring, friendship, and understanding to bereaved families on the death of a child of any age. Join us at our next local meeting, Monday, July 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM. The meeting is held at Grace Presbyterian Church, Old York and Vista Roads, Jenkintown, Pa. There is some street parking on Vista Rd, but you may also park in the parking lot of the Jenkintown Library or on the other side of the church at the Sunrise Nursing Home, nearest spaces to the church.
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For more information, you may email us at chapterleader@abingtontcf.org, complete the form at right.
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Abington Chapter, Co-leaders, Janis and Larry Murphy
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