Lynchburg Chapter - Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting

Name: Lynchburg Chapter - Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting
Start: 2025-12-14T18:45:00-05:00
Location: 4415 Boonsboro Road, 24503

Schedule

Sun, 14 Dec, 2025 at 06:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

4415 Boonsboro Road, 24503 | Lynchburg, VA

We will gather at The Church of the Covenant House on the grounds of Camp Kum-ba-yah (4415 Boonsboro Road) to each light a candle in memory of our children, grandchildren, or siblings. Feel free to bring a framed or loose photo to place on the Remembrance Table. This is an open event so you're welcome to bring family members or a friend.
Join us afterward for light refreshments.
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 people commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone too soon.
Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, 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.