Today is a special day!
Thursday, July 26, 2018 marks the one year anniversary of the opening of Milla’s House and in one year, we have been busy. We have always known the need to provide grief counseling to our community was essential, and we have tried to keep up with the increasing demands from year to year. Expanding our reach to the midtown area has allowed us to serve more grieving individuals and families in our community.
Because of your support, Milla’s House has been able to provide over 2,000 individual grief sessions in this first year!
This is incredible work you helped us accomplish and we would not be able to do this work without you, our gracious friends and supporters. We sincerely thank you for supporting Milla’s House which serves countless individuals and families in our community.
Ann Carlyle Gieselmann (pictured below: center, and her cousin Vance to the right) attended Camp Good Grief last summer and had a wonderful time with new friends, learned a lot about feelings, emotions, and coping skills, and worked really hard on her grief. This summer, she was thrilled to come back to Camp (alongside her parents, Dana and Frazer) to serve sno-cones to campers at our annual carnival afternoon. As a special surprise to Ann Carlyle, she was inducted as an honorary member to a special group of people called Team 1520. Not just anyone can be a member of this elite group – Team 1520 members are former Camp Good Grief Campers who come back to volunteer and serve at our camps. They are teenagers committed to working on their grief daily and when they are ready, have the unique ability to share their common experience with other children who have lost a special loved one. We are so proud of Ann Carlyle!
While Milla is no longer physically with us, her legacy impacts families in our community in big ways. In honor of the one year anniversary of Milla’s House, we encourage you to celebrate with a donut, share your favorite Milla story with someone, or share Milla’s House with someone in need.
Most sincerely,
Angela Hamblen Kelly
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Melissa Surles
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Executive Director, Baptist Centers for Good Grief
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Development Officer
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