Breast cancer healing tree: 'It has been powerful and amazing'
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EUGENE, Ore. -- The Breast Cancer Warrior Foundation is using a traditional holiday decoration to promote both physical and mental healing for breast cancer survivors at the Oakway Mall in Eugene.
The non-profit organization put up a “healing tree” in an atrium at Oakway Center.
The Christmas tree is covered in pink lights and ribbons, each sporting the names of breast cancer victims and survivors.
Several people held hands and prayed for loved ones around the tree on Sunday afternoon.
Brooke Jones of the Breast Cancer Warrior Foundation lead the prayer, and said that it was an emotional moment for everyone involved.
"There have been amazing notes on these ribbons that have brought me to tears many times,” said Jones. “I watched a woman write her mothers name and then I watched a three year old write her grandmothers name. I just thought I would melt. It has been powerful and amazing.”
The group plans to keep the tree up at Oakway Center until New Years Day.
You can color me sceptical if you want, but I want to know why I should donate money to this organization, which was first established in Eugene on October 1, 2012, and was then 'pending' its 501c(3) tax exempt designation instead of Susan G. Kome, or the Amercian Cancer Society or all the other warm and fuzzy organizations who want my money to 'do good' with? What are their goals, how much is going to 'administration', who are their officers, what is their history with similar organizations?   Are they warm and fuzzy do good people or are there just some of them with a bunch of 'let's make some money' types who really run the show?