What a day!!! Our neighbors were gracious and grateful, but they were also tired, discouraged, and feeling hopeless. At least six of our volunteer team spent their entire morning having one-on-one listening sessions with neighbors who needed to be heard..... (And that six doesn't include the care they got from the pantry and clothing teams and from Tom, our resource expert.) It was a morning of giving grace.
It was the perfect day to have Mercy Watch nurses Gail and Joyce with us to assess and treat wounds, discuss aches and pains, and to do blood pressure checks.
Thank you, Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church, for breakfast burritos and also for the individual attention you gave to neighbors.
We wish you hope.
Joan
for NiN leadership