In honor & memory of our children gone to soon. The second Sunday in December we lite a candle for one hour in each timezone from 7pm to 8pm no matter where you are

Buckhall United Methodist Church 10251 Moore Drive

Sunday, December 14th at 6 pm

If you are planning to attend the Ceremony, please respond with the following information:

How many people will be attending?

What snack will you be bringing to share during the fellowship?

Would you would like to read a poem?

Would you would like to sing a song?

Would you like to do any other type of memorial?

If you would like to read something but don’t have anything specifc to read, please contact me, I have a collection of poems I can send to you to see if you would like to read any of them.

If you would like your child included in the Memorial Video, please send 5 pictures or 5 collage pictures of your child to Shane Williams at swilliam@tcfprincewilliam.org by December 1st.

I hope to see you all on the 14th.

Schedule of Events

6 pm until 6:59 - Setting up your child’s picture on the Memory tables, getting your child’s name included in the reading of names, getting your candles and getting seated

7 pm Ceremony beginnings with the lighting of a big candle and Welcome from Jennifer Malloch.
7:10 until approximately 7:40 Memorial Video
approximately 7:40 until 8:00 Reading of Angels
approximately 8:00 until 8:30 Reading of poems, and other remembrances
approximately 8:30 - Go outside to release Memorial Sky Lanterns
approximately 8:45 until 9:30 Fellowship and refreshments

The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren who left too soon. As candles are lit at 7:00 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone too soon.

Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the 18th annual Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift to the bereavement community from The Compassionate Friends, creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. TCF’s WWCL started in the United States in 1997 as a small internet observance, but has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.

The Compassionate Friends and allied organizations are joined by local bereavement groups, churches, funeral homes, hospitals, hospices, children’s gardens, schools, cemeteries, and community centers. Services have ranged in size from just a few people to nearly a thousand.

Every year you are invited to post a message in the Remembrance Book which will be available, during the event, at TCF’s national website.