The HOPE Group

Hello HOPE! This month’s meeting will again be virtual via Zoom on 5/12/21 @ 7:30 pm. If you need the Zoom meeting details, please reach out to us. We’ll gladly send the details to you. Going forward we still can not meet in person at Unicorn Park. Winchester Hospital has not given the green light allowing outside groups to hold meetings in their buildings. As the weather warms up, maybe we could meet at Horn Pond in Woburn by the Angel of Hope statue? We could all bring a chair or take a walk and talk. I’ll keep you posted.

The Angel of Hope Statue at Horn Pond in Woburn, MA is a beautiful memorial to children gone too soon. Several HOPE families have placed a memorial stone at the base of the statue. If you are interested in purchasing a stone, the details are below. The next installation will be in the Fall of 2021. Memorial Stones cost between $100 and $150.

Our next HOPE Group Meeting will be on 4/14/21 @ 7:30 pm via Zoom. Please let us know if you need the Zoom meeting details and we’ll send them to you. Please email Donna, HOPE Group facilitator.

UPDATE: We are still working with Winchester Hospital’s Center for Healthy Living as we try to find a new meeting location when in-person meetings resume. Due to Covid19 and reorganization of space, our meeting location will potentially change. We’ll keep you updated!

This year’s HOPE Memorial Service will be virtual via Zoom. The service is tonight 12/9/2020 at 7:30 pm. If you’d like to join us, please send us an email at donnamcd@me.com and we’ll send along the Zoom meeting details. Remember to bring a candle. We’ll have a virtual candle lighting ceremony.

Our regular monthly meetings will continue virtually via Zoom. Our next monthly meeting will be January 13, 2021. The meetings will occur on every second Wednesday of the month.

Let us know if you need support before then.

Hello HOPE! Our apologies for not posting an update here on Rindy’s Hope website in quite a long time. As of this writing (August 2020), the pandemic continues to prevent us from holding in person meetings. We have adjusting though and are holding meetings virtually via Zoom. If you’d like to attend please contact us via email, DM on Facebook or text us if you have our number. We will send out the Zoom meeting details privately to protect all of us.

Our meetings occur every second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm.

You’ve probably noticed that we did not send out a Hope Group Newsletter this Spring 2020. We are in the process of contacting all of you to announce that we will only be publishing a yearly newsletter in December as it coincides with our memorial service. It was a very tough decision to publish once instead of twice a year. Hope you understand.

We are going to make more of an effort to post every month going forward here on the website. Please spread the word to our members so that they can send us their email addresses. Everyone will automatically be notified of new posts. Our membership is also active on Facebook under Rindy’s Hope. If you haven’t followed us, please do so you do not miss any news.

We hope you are keeping healthy and safe during this pandemic. We will certainly let you know when meetings will resume in person. Please always know we remember you and your baby/babies and that we send you our best. Please let us know if you need more support.

If you’d like to be removed from new post notifications, please send us an email telling us so.

Stay well, Donna.

The group continues to grow.  It’s sad that we keep getting members but it’s a wonderfully supportive group that allows families to grieve.  Below is the latest newsletter.  In it is a loving memorial in print called Our Babies Remembered.  If you’d like to be added to the list, please fill out the form included in the newsletter.

2017 Fall Newsletter

Our next newsletter will be published in the Spring.  Any questions, please let us know.  Email Donna.

All donations should be sent to The HOPE Group, 5 Liberty Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803.