The Hugs and Hope Club for Sick Kids is a ministry devoted to encouraging children battling critical illness and their families.

*The HUGS and HOPE Club provides the rare gift of friendship: a listening ear, a sympathetic heart.*

Their mission is to share God's love and provide friendship and support to families of sick children who live within the United States by sending happy mail and offering various activities.

The Hugs and Hope club fills the gap left by similar organizations that help ill or injured children (between the ages of 2 and 17). They do this through the following projects and programs:

• Mailing cheery cards (a.k.a. "happy mail")

• Providing balloon bouquets to hospitalized children

• Granting children's wishes

• Sending Birthday Party Boxes

• Providing Christmas gifts through our Elf Project

• Assigning a personal "parent pal" who encourages, cheers, and supports the family in crisis.

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ." (II Corinthians 1: 3-5)