The Good News Class is sponsoring The Richard Ministry.
I experienced first hand what a wonderful ministry a single bud vase of flowers given to a hospital patient can be when you feel down and out.My mother was in the hospital in Myrtle Beach.Away from home and without friends nearby, my mother and I felt alone.Then a nurse walked in with a small bud vase of flowers and set it down on the windowsill.The bud vase was a gift from the King of Glory Lutheran Church to patients who needed some cheer and a blessing.This is the kind of ministry that Richard was all about, using flowers and doing for others.
Linda Ridout
How it works:
Each week the altar flowers would be used to create the bud vases.Approximately 25 or more bud vases can be created.A single Gladiola, a piece of fern and a palm leave is all it takes. The bud vases, and ribbon are purchased by the Good News Class. Included on the bud vase is a card with the following message:
Hymn of Promise
In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons a hidden promise; butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter, there’s a Spring that waits to be, Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.
By Natalie Sleeth
The Richard Ministry
Centenary United Methodist Church
Market Street
Smithfield, NC
919 934-2333
Bud vases will be taken to local patients
First Monday:Smithfield Manor
Second Monday:Home Delivered Meal Clients
Third Monday: Hospital
Fourth Monday:Hospital
Bud Vases will be pre-assembled ready for flowers. A plastic tie will hold the ribbon and special card. Only the flowers will need to be arranged in the vase on Sunday night or Monday morning.
Church members are needed once a week to deliver a box of filled vases to the appropriate patient facility.
The Altar Guild will ask each weekly Altar Flower Donor if they would like to donate the flowers to The Richard Ministry after the Sunday service.Flowers may not be available each week.
Start Up Date:January 3, 2010.
What a wonderful way to honor our beloved Richard!
Contact Linda Ridout 919 9347247 or the Good News Class if you can you help!!
