Posted by La3fan LSU - 2007 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!! Have a GREAT day".-Les Miles12/1/07
on 11/8/2009, 7:15 pm
GARDEN OF ANGELS
To donate for this week go to ----------> http://pitboardcharity.com/ and click on the donate button.
DON'T FORGET!!!
Remembering Jr's first win at TX, the PBC is having a special promotion for this week. Everyone who donates at least $10.00 this week will get the chance to win a T-shirt of their choice from the JRM store (max $30.00 including shipping). The names of qualifying donors will be placed in a hat and the winner's name will be drawn. The money collected will go to the winning charity for the Texas race. Remember your donation to the PBC is tax deductible.
For your chance to win, go to http://www.pitboardcharity.com/ and click on the donate button. Donations (or an email saying it is on it's way) must be in by midnight TONIGHT. GOOD LUCK!
GARDEN OF ANGELS
In 1996, while Debi Faris-Cifelli had one eye on dinner and the other on the evening news, she heard a story that would change her life. She stood frozen as she listened to the reporters account of the tragedy a newborn baby boy had been stuffed into a duffel bag and tossed from a speeding car along a freeway. She couldn't move, she just kept thinking about this child and wondering how we could have become a society that just throws their babies away as if they were a piece of trash. Debi contacted the authorities and with the blessing of my family, asked the Coroner's office to release the baby to her family for burial. While waiting for the investigation to end on this child, she learned that there was another newborn baby boy that had been found in a dumpster, and a little girl about two years of age, who was found washed up on a beach. On August 26,1996, her family had their first burial service for the three children. They were given the names of Matthew, Nathan and Dora. Each name means the same; a Gift of God.
In the beginning, this was an act of love from her family. However, as the word of what they were doing for these little ones spread, they knew that it was not enough for these children to touch just our hearts they were being shown that God wanted their tiny footprints to touch the hearts of many more. Garden of Angels came into existence.
She knew the answer was to educate and help young mothers and their children before it was too late.
Debi began the Safe Arms for Newborns program when she contacted Sen. Jim Brulte and asked him to write legislation that would decriminalize 'safe' abandonment. Safe Arms for Newborns (SB 1368) was created to honor all babies who have lost their lives to newborn abandonment. The Garden of Angels works passionately to prevent the tragedy of newborn abandonment through our educational and outreach programs.
http://www.gardenofangels.org/
Geaux Jr.
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