One on the Ground: Life After Tragedy
Lunch and Learn. Thursday April 14 at 12 noon. This event is in person, and a $5 hot lunch with be served in the Social Hall, with the event following in the Sanctuary. Sign up is here: https://firstpresbyterian.wufoo.com/forms/maundy-mature-thursday-lunch-and-learn
The First Pres Mature Ministries Lunch & Learn speaker series continues in April with a presentation by Karen Wielinski. Karen is the author of: One on the Ground: A Story of Survival, Endurance and Continued Love. In her compelling memoir, Karen Wielinski has written a moving tribute to her husband along with her account of how she and her surviving family faced the myriad losses caused by the crash of Flight 3407. It is her story of life before, during, and after an unthinkable tragedy.
February 12, 2009 was an ordinary evening at home for the Wielinski family. Karen said good night to her husband Doug as he left their family room. Their daughter was reading in an upstairs room. Minutes later their world and their home collapsed into flaming wreckage around them. Karen and her daughter miraculously escaped. Doug did not.
The crash of Continental Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, New York resulted in the loss of her husband Doug along with 50 passengers and crew. Doug became identified as the “One on the Ground.”
Karen Wielinski, from East Aurora, NY, is a freelance author, mother and grandmother, and cousin of Stacey Pakela. Join us if you can on Thursday April 14 at noon! Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5502657984