{"id":921,"date":"2017-04-12T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:34:42","slug":"hope-spring-cancer-support-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mennosmartin.com\/blog\/hope-spring-cancer-support-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Gives Back: Hope Spring Cancer Support Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-929\" src=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MSM-75th-GiveBack500-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Art and his Mum\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\">One of the many campaigns we are running for our 75th year in business is for each of <a href=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/meet-the-team.htm\">our team members<\/a> to choose where our company should donate $500 in Waterloo Region.&nbsp;Art&#8217;s community donation will be to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopespring.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hope Spring Cancer Support Centre<\/a> in Kitchener.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/meet-the-team\/art.htm\">Art<\/a> says, &#8220;I wanted to&nbsp;use my funds to support an organization that is dear to my heart. In this order, my Grandmother, my Aunt, my Brother, myself and my Mom have all had personal battles with Cancer. My Mom is in the photo above, just before she passed. Of the five, two of us are still here to talk about it and grateful to organizations like Hope Spring for the great work that they do!&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-924 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Unknown.png\" alt=\"HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre logo\" width=\"381\" height=\"132\">Hope Spring is an independent community organization committed to empowering those whose lives are impacted by cancer to improve their emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;cancer diagnosis can be a devastating experience; the emotional strain can be as shattering as the physical disease itself. HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre exists to offer you information, emotional support, and the tools needed for empowerment, personal growth and self-help.<\/p>\n<h2>Hope Spring Vision Statement:<\/h2>\n<p>Inspire &#8211; Empower &#8211; Hope<\/p>\n<h2>Hope Spring Mission Statement:<\/h2>\n<p>We are an independent community organization committed to empowering those whose lives are impacted by cancer to improve their emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introduction to HopeSpring\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-V7kbdhDewg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is our pleasure to be spending our 75th year supporting wonderful organizations like Hope Spring, who support the Kitchener-Waterloo community so well.<\/p>\n<p>Use the form on this page to subscribe to our blog, to follow our give back stories and hear more about the great organizations in KW who are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/putting_people_first.htm\"><strong>Putting People First<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in their own unique way.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with us&nbsp;on social media as well:<br \/>\nTwitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renosbymenno\">@renosbymenno<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MennoS.MartinContractor\/\">@MennoS.MartinContractor<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/renosbymenno\/\">@renosbymenno<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many campaigns we are running for our 75th year in business is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,13,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-75th-anniversary","category-community-connections","category-menno-s-martin-team"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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