Sponsor a Flag for a Child Sponsor a Flag for $100 pick it up at the field or have it shipped for an additional  $6 . You can also make a donation!  Just select the button below.   Flags will be available for pick up at the Healing Field site (Metropolitan Park) July 18, 2009 until 7:00pm.  If you are unable to pick up your flag July 18th, you can pick it up from North Florida Lincoln Mercury 4620 Southside Blvd. July 20-25 9:00am to 6:00pm Please use the showroom entrance An Order Form is Available if you would rather mail in your payment or donation. Thanks to our Sponsors: Platinum Gold The Exchange Club of Charlestson, SC Silver North Florida Lincoln Mercury Haught Financial Services   Baptist Health Jacksonville Auto Dealers Assoc. In Kind   Printable Flyer  We have less than 6 months to raise the funds for the Healing Field. A gift to the community of Jacksonville in thanks for their hospitality and support.    Your club or district can help Print the Order Form and Flyer and get your entire club or district involved. Turn in your flag sponsorships to a committee member or mail it into the Healing Field offices and we will post your clubs numbers on this web page Or sponsor online at the secure PayPal link above.  Sponsorship levels Flag Sponsors to date See who is supporting the Planting the Seed Healing  Field through flag sponsorships and donations.  (Click)

Child Abuse Prevention Healing Field® 1530 large US flags will fly at Metropolitan Park July 15 - 18 2009 during the 91st annual convention of the National Exchange Club.  These flags raise awareness and fly in memory of the 1530 children who die each year in our country from child abuse and neglect. Flag sponsorship, donations and corporate sponsorships are being pursued by the leaders of the local Exchange clubs and volunteers are invited to join the organizing committee. Hosted by  the Jacksonville Exchange Club & the Jacksonville Beaches Exchange Club  Each yaer in the Untied States, an estimated 1530 children die from the results of child abuse and neglect.  (source: Child Help USA)  "These are America's Children, this is America's Responsibility!" Play Video  Supported by: Exchange Clubs Across America The Planting the Seed Healing Field will Benefit: National Exchange Club Foundation The Exchange Club Family Center of Jacksonville, FL  --Helping to Heal-- The Deepest Wounds   Metropolitan Park, Jacksonville, what it will look like

View our Assembly Video from the News Reflections and Comments From Visitors  Photo Galleries   Healing Field Gallery National Exchange Club Gallery   Prevent Child Abuse Healing Field Poem  Walk softly through the Healing Fields Where flags in gentle breezes wave In memory of these little ones Who no longer run and play Hear their cries upon the wind As someone reads their names And tell the tender age at which They ceased to play young children’s games Through no fault of their own they lived With daily pain and many fears With no one there to rescue them To hold them close and dry their tears Walk softly through the Healing Fields Say a prayer for the children gone And when you leave take home with you New love and patience for your own   ***Ray Wathen***   n Partnership with: In The News!!! Florida Times-Union 7/4/09 Video (click) Video  (Click) Florida Times-Union 7/15/09 News 4 7/18/09 Video (Click)  Press Releases March 27, 2009  National & Local Organization Committee Mike Jernigan Lori Oakason Pam Sudlow Jim Addis Mark Izzi John Messal Floyd Culver Doug Klippel Glenn Smith David Ledbetter   Peyton Rowland Wanda Simmons Karen Askew Josh Rogers Hal Lynch Steve King Eric Menger Albert Marchant Amanda Rolfe Tise Child Abuse Statistics and Facts

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