September-October 2022 Letter from Diane

A Thank You Note from a “Housewarming Basket” Recipient: Good morning. I want to thank you for the moving-in gift. It was everything I could ever want. May God Bless all of you wonderful ladies. I’m from the Shelter. Ivy Ivy resided at the City Rescue Mission Women’s Shelter. The case workers help residents find …

July-August 2022 Letter from Diane

From time to time, people new to Grandma’s Comfort ask us the Why question. Why are we doing what we do through GC? The story of how we first began is on our website: grandmascomfort.org. But that isn’t usually what the question means. Why, as we are just about to finish 17 years and Tom …

May-June 2022 Letter from Diane

Dear Friend: As I write, we are about to celebrate Father’s Day, and as you receive this letter, we are about to celebrate the freedom established by our Founding Fathers on the fourth of July 1776. Fathers! Not all of us have been blessed enough to have had good fathers who met our needs and …

Spring-Summer 2022 Newsletter

Musings—We all value our names! During our lifetime, our name stands for our authorization, authority, even character. We don’t want our names used for wrong purposes! “Oh that Diane, you know she is . . . .“ Or, “You can’t trust name.” Or, “Name is so sweet and generous, but . . . .” Our …

January-February 2022 Letter from Diane

                “Jesus called the children to him and said,                  Let the little children come to me, for the kingdom of                  God belongs to such as these.” (Luke 18:16)       Dear Friend:    Recently I was invited to be interviewed about the nonprofit work of Grandma’s Comfort for a local newspaper. The Board had decided quite some …

End of Year 2021 Letter from Diane

Did 2021 go by as fast for you as it did for us? I know that many of you suffered grief and illness and even job loss that caused the days to seem mushed together and the calendar confused. And many others received some good news, like new babies born into the family or family …

Fall-Winter 2021 Newsletter

Musings—By a Shepherd What was it like being a shepherd on a cold, winter night on the hills outside Bethlehem? Maybe I would be the one watching over the fire, even heating a beverage. Surely munching on a cold supper. Watching the stars overhead that I now knew pretty well but always found to be …

September-October 2021 Letter from Diane

Thank You Notes from Recipients of GC gifts: Thank you all for the amazing gifts I have gotten from you. It put a smile on my face and warmed my heart. Sometimes we need that comfort and support to help us. You Rock!! Thank you for all your glamorous things and putting your heart and soul into …

July-August 2021 Letter from Diane

Thank you notes come in all forms—from torn-off notebook paper to handmade cards with flowers & butterflies. We love them all: *Thank You Lovely Ladies! I really enjoyed my 2 week bag😊 All those goodies are very useful as well as needed. The blanket and pillowcase are beautiful! I used the colored pencils to make …

May-June 2021 Letter from Diane

Grandma's Musings

Thank you notes from gift bag recipients:

I appreciate your time and talent to make me a blanket, and the hygiene kit really came in handy. I love everything. Please put my family on your prayer list–have covid.A mother

I can’t thank you enough for all the love and hard work to put everything together for my bag. It means the world to me. I came here with nothing.In Recovery

I just received my grandma bag and want to say a great big thank you. The quilt of many different colors and pattern is so gorgeous! The bag is so full of goodies.Signed, Lovingly
Thank you so much for taking out your time to do some-thing for a stranger—ME who has absolutely nothing. Thank you for my Christmas morning in May.From bottom of my heart

DearGCFriend:

Your generosity, creativity, and support are such a…

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