Worldwide Candle Lighting Scheduled in Flagler Beach for Sunday, December 13, 2015

PALM COAST, Fla. - Dec. 1, 2015 - PRLog -- Donna Lunsford, founder of Parents in Mourning, is pleased to announce that the Worldwide Candle Lighting event to remember young loved ones that have passed too soon, is scheduled for December 13^th, 2015 at 6:30pm at 1112 South Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach.

“I have organized this event locally for the past 13 years,” said Donna. “This year we are excited to be hosting the event, and partnering with Beachhouse Beanery in Flagler Beach once again,” she added. Donna also said that the community has been helpful in volunteering their time throughout the years at various locations. Last year, someone suggested that Donna contact Carol and Jeff Fisher, owners of the Beachhouse Beanery about having the service there since the Fisher’s and Donna have the commonality the loss of a child.

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 19th 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 around the world. The Worldwide Candle Lighting gives bereaved families everywhere the opportunity to remember their child(ren) so that their lights may always shine!

Donna launched “Parents in Mourning” after her son Jonathan and his cousin Eric were tragically killed by a drunk driver. Jonathan is laid to rest in the mosque at Craig Flagler Palms Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens in Flagler Beach. It started as a support group meeting with bereaved parents in the community. Donna is a certified grief counselor and psychiatric registered nurse and offers workshops from time to time. After losing her son, Jonny, she knows what depression/anxiety feels like and she likes to help and give people hope. “Giving people hope after their child has died is how I found my way to cope with my loss,” said Donna. “I have been contacted by many parents as time goes by to thank me for helping them and that's very satisfying,” she added.

More information on the event can be found at https://www.compassionatefriends.org/News_Events/Special-....