{"id":5842,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/miss-mildred-blankets\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:57","slug":"miss-mildred-blankets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/miss-mildred-blankets\/","title":{"rendered":"MISS\n  MILDRED BLANKETS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Attitudes; Compassion; Good Deeds; Ministry; Needs; Outreach; Servanthood<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 1:3\u20137; 1 Timothy 4:12; 1 Peter 4:10<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When she was thirteen, Lauren Blakemore was diagnosed with a rare form of neuroectodermal cancer, in which tumors invade bones and often lead to amputation. She had fourteen rounds of chemotherapy and twenty-five radiation treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Throughout her battle, Lauren was comforted with a multicolored quilt that a neighbor, Mildred, had made for Lauren when she was a baby. Lauren snuggled with this \u201cMiss Mildred\u201d blanket through childhood and then through the nausea, fatigue, and sleepless nights that came with battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>After Lauren\u2019s dad visited a children\u2019s cancer ward in India, he returned home to tell her about the kids. Immediately, Lauren began to raise money by speaking at Rotary Club meetings and schools. She wanted every child to have a Miss Mildred blanket because \u201cchemotherapy makes you cold all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Thanks to women in Bosnia working at Peace Crafts, a cottage industry started by Southeast missionaries, whom Lauren asked to make the blankets, each child\u2019s bed in the cancer ward is now warmed by a Miss Mildred blanket.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cWhen I was first diagnosed with cancer, I knew God had a plan for my life,\u201d Lauren said. \u201cThis is part of that plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Ruth Schenk, \u201cLauren\u2019s Mission,\u201d <i>Southeast Outlook<\/i> (November 24, 2005)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Attitudes; Compassion; Good Deeds; Ministry; Needs; Outreach; Servanthood References: Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 1:3\u20137; 1 Timothy 4:12; 1 Peter 4:10 When she was thirteen, Lauren Blakemore was diagnosed with a rare form of neuroectodermal cancer, in which tumors invade bones and often lead to amputation. She had fourteen rounds of chemotherapy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/miss-mildred-blankets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MISS<br \/>\n  MILDRED BLANKETS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}