A few of the people from First United Methodist Church in Huron, who have been instrumental in the creation of Chemo Kits for patients undergoing treatment at Huron Regional Medical Center, pose with a few of the fleece blankets. From the left are Jared Cass, Elaine Bales, Amanda Roberts and Emma Roberts.Photos by Curt Nettinga/Plainsman, and Amanda Roberts.

HURON — Seeds that were planted as part of a youth group ministry and mission project have bloomed into a lasting reminder of how the smallest act can be meaningful beyond belief.
Amanda Roberts, the seventh grade teacher of  Huron First United Methodist Church’s (FUMC) Wednesday Night Alive group, and her students were looking for an outreach project last year. Many ideas were floated in the group, but then someone suggested creating what became the FUMC Chemo Kits.

A sampling of items that make up each kit.

Her group made six of the kits over the year, and the need for more has spilled over into the church’s Vacation Bible School, which begins Sunday. Registration for VBS is still open and kids need not be a church member to participate.

The Wednesday Night Alive seventh-grade class, Huron First UMC, delivered the first batch of Chemo Kits to HRMC this past spring, taking a moment to offer a prayer in the treatment room, for those who will be using the kits.

“The kids got to talking and it turned out that many of them had a friend or family member who had been touched by cancer,” Roberts said. “We started with a fleece blanket, and then the kids shared things that had been important to the person they knew, while they were going through chemotherapy. It kind of grew from there.”

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