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KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a local church is participating in the fight.
The First United Methodist Church in Kirksville is asking members to be 'Passionately Pink for the Cure.'
The congregation wore pink Sunday and also dedicated prayer shawls to local cancer patients. The shawls are prayed over as they're made and then dedicated during service..
The church also has a cancer support group that meets the first Monday of each month at 7pm..
“Cancer strikes or touches so many of our families. So many hearts and lives. I'm not a cancer survivor, I'm a cancer caregiver. But the group is just very important and it's not really a gloom and doom type group. We're very energetic. And it's just a time that we come and care and share. And we're available to anyone,” says cancer support group leader Linda Frazee.
Frazee says the shawls are meant to keep the cancer patients warm as they go through treatment. Once the shawls are dedicated, they stay in the Mid-Missouri area to help local patients.
