Clare Bridge

Earlier this summer, I was contacted by a long-time parishioner of Newman, Carol Reuss, who is now a resident of Carolina House, an assisted living facility here in Chapel Hill. Carol asked if our ministry might be interested in providing prayer shawls/lapghans to the residents of Clare Bridge, a wing in Carolina House dedicated to those victims of Alzheimer's and dementia. Wow! Would we ever!

I arranged with Carol to meet her in the lobby on the morning of August 7. One of her many frequent visitors, Connie Eble, another Newman parishioner joined us. Together with the staff of Clare Bridge and Bill Friese, Executive Director of Brookdale Senior Living at Carolina House in Chapel Hill, we walked down to the unit to give the Clare Bridge residents our shawls and lapghans.They were warmly received and appreciated.

Later, Carol let me know that the residents were loving the warmth, prayers, and love that accompanied our gifts to them. She generously gave me a check to be used by our ministry for whatever we might need. I have already used some of it for yarn and needles and hope to find more yarn soon.

Carol, Connie, and Chris ready to walk down to Clare Bridge