Welcome to the
Waccamaw Chapter
of Compassionate Friends
Myrtle Beach & Georgetown, SC

The Compassionate  Friends is a non-profit, self-help organization offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents.  Its purposes is to support and aid parents in the positive resolution of the grief experienced upon the death of a child, and to foster physical and emotional health  of bereaved parents and siblings.

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Why the Butterfly

The Butterfly has long symbolized a renewal of life.

The caterpillar signifies life here on earth; the cocoon signifies death; and the butterfly signifies the emergence of the dead into a new, beautiful and more free existence.

Frequently, the butterfly is seen with the word "Nika", which means victory, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross movingly tells of seeing butterflies drawn all over the walls of the children's dormitories in world war II concentration camps.

Since children are intuitive, she concludes that these children knew their fate and were leaving a message.

The Compassionate Friends adopted the butterfly as a
symbol of hope that our children are living in another dimension with greater beauty and freedom, which is a comforting thought to many of us.

So, we the member of the Waccamaw Chapter purchased
two bricks, or pavers, as they are called. We had them inscribed and placed at the entrance to the Butterfly Pavilion, here in Myrtle Beach. Regrettably the Butterfly Pavilion has closed



2007 Candle Lighting Service


Meetings

Our local Chapter meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the
Grand Strand Senior Center
1268 21st Ave. North
Myrtle Beach

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 For information about TCF Myrtle Beach
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Chapter Leader
Marie Peeling
E-Mail at
Corporal8888@hotmail.com

Chapter Treasurer/Secretary
Jane Alirie
E-mail at:
angelinmyheartcf@aol.com

Bi-Monthly News Letter Editor
Vonda Cox
E-Mail at
slunkie724@yahoo.com

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Webmaster/Design
Rebecca Smith
E-Mail at
webmaster@tcfmyrtlebeach.com

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Our Credo


We need not walk alone.  We are The Compassionate Friends.  We reach out to each other with understanding and with hope.  Our children have died at all ages and from many different causes, but our love for our children unites us.  Your pain becomes my pain just as your hope becomes my hope . . . But whatever hope we bring to this gathering of The Compassionate Friends, it is pain we will share just as we will share with each other our love for our children.  We are all seeking and struggling to build a future for ourselves, but we are committed to building that future together as we reach out to each other in love and share the pain as well as the joy, the anger as well as the peace, the faith as well as the doubts, and help each other to grieve as well as to grow.  We need not walk alone. We are The Compassionate Friends.





Sibling Credo


We are the surviving siblings of The Compassionate Friends.
We are brought together by the deaths of our brothers and sisters.  Open your hearts to us, but have patients with us.  Sometimes we will need the support of our friends.  At other times we need our families to be there.  Sometimes we must walk alone, taking our memories with us, continuing to become the individuals we want to be.  We cannot be our dead brother or sister; however, a special part of them lives on within us.
When our brothers and sisters died, our lives changed.  We are living a life very different from what we envisioned, and we feel the responsibility to be strong even when we feel weak.  Yet we can go on because we under- stand better than many others the value of family and the precious gift of life. Our goal is not to be the forgotten mourners that we sometimes are, but to walk together as we face our tomorrow as Surviving Siblings of The Compassionate Friends.



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Our web site  provides suggested reading, online resources, online newsletters and programs and events  to help you in your grieving process. We offer monthly meetings where you can talk to other bereaved parents and siblings....
Remember You Need Not Walk  Alone. 

If you would like to add your child or sibling to Our Children's, "Our Sibling's" or "Our Friends" page click on "add my child" and fill out our on-line form. The Web Master will contact you for more information. There is no charge to add a page for your child. You can visit our photo gallery for new pictures of events. Make a love donation and add a brick to our Wall of Love.

The web master has a little corner of this site so she can add dedications from her. Take a stroll through The Web Masters Corner. Also take a look at our awards. Click here to see the Christmas page remembering our children and the 2006 candle lighting service.




 
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This web site was
designed and maintained
by Rebecca Smith
in the memory of her niece Trissie Fetter
and for all the parents who
has lost a child
Created May 1, 2005

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