Boxes of handmade, colorful quilts, school kits and personal care kits were packed on a truck outside St. Andrew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on Saturday morning.
They will be sent to St. Louis, then to Baltimore and then to people in need all around the world.
St. Andrew’s took part in Lutheran World Relief, a program that aims to end poverty, injustice and human suffering, by preparing and collecting the items. The church serves as a gathering site for the other 13 churches in mid-Missouri collecting donations.The additions focus on key tag and impact socket combinations,
Last year the program was able to send $11.8 million worth of quilts and kits to 24 different countries. This year the kits and quilts sent out from St. Andrew’s might end up at a Philippines warehouse to be distributed in that part of the world.
“These items that Lutheran World Relief makes and collects across the United States just really make a difference to the people in need because they know it’s not like somebody just giving them money,” said Karon Speckman, the organizer of the church program. “They are getting something that somebody is putting together with love and concern.”
A quilting group with about six members met twice a month during the past year to prepare the quilt donations. This year they made 40 quilts.
“We tried to make 50 (quilts),When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction, but we had a couple of months when the weather was so bad that we didn’t meet,” said June Hughes, the founder of the group who started the program at St. Andrew's four years ago.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
On the second and fourth Friday morning every month, June Hughes and Pat Luedders designed and made the quilt tops from all the material that people had donated. Other women tied the tops, bedding and back part together, and Hughes sewed the outside edging on it.
The twice monthly quilting gathering was like a social hour for the women. They sat together in the room and talked while doing the needlework.
“All the people I quilt with know my children and grandchildren by their first name,” Hughes said.Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year.
They shared a lot when they were together and affirmed their evangelical faith by “giving” of themselves.
“We are solving world problems as well as our family problems when we are quilting,” Annette Molitor said with a laugh.
They also discussed what kind of quilts they wanted to sew. This year they said they were trying to make more masculine quilts because they realized that most of the quilts they have sewn in the past were feminine colors or had flowers on them.
Although they do not know who will receive their work, they are often inspired by the stories the national Lutheran World Relief organizations tell them about these people.
Hughes told a story about a widow in Africa who received one of their quilts.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. One night when the woman's house caught on fire, she only had time to save one quilt. She cut the quilt in half and made a dress with one half and kept the other part to cover herself for the rest of the night.
They will be sent to St. Louis, then to Baltimore and then to people in need all around the world.
St. Andrew’s took part in Lutheran World Relief, a program that aims to end poverty, injustice and human suffering, by preparing and collecting the items. The church serves as a gathering site for the other 13 churches in mid-Missouri collecting donations.The additions focus on key tag and impact socket combinations,
Last year the program was able to send $11.8 million worth of quilts and kits to 24 different countries. This year the kits and quilts sent out from St. Andrew’s might end up at a Philippines warehouse to be distributed in that part of the world.
“These items that Lutheran World Relief makes and collects across the United States just really make a difference to the people in need because they know it’s not like somebody just giving them money,” said Karon Speckman, the organizer of the church program. “They are getting something that somebody is putting together with love and concern.”
A quilting group with about six members met twice a month during the past year to prepare the quilt donations. This year they made 40 quilts.
“We tried to make 50 (quilts),When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction, but we had a couple of months when the weather was so bad that we didn’t meet,” said June Hughes, the founder of the group who started the program at St. Andrew's four years ago.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
On the second and fourth Friday morning every month, June Hughes and Pat Luedders designed and made the quilt tops from all the material that people had donated. Other women tied the tops, bedding and back part together, and Hughes sewed the outside edging on it.
The twice monthly quilting gathering was like a social hour for the women. They sat together in the room and talked while doing the needlework.
“All the people I quilt with know my children and grandchildren by their first name,” Hughes said.Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year.
They shared a lot when they were together and affirmed their evangelical faith by “giving” of themselves.
“We are solving world problems as well as our family problems when we are quilting,” Annette Molitor said with a laugh.
They also discussed what kind of quilts they wanted to sew. This year they said they were trying to make more masculine quilts because they realized that most of the quilts they have sewn in the past were feminine colors or had flowers on them.
Although they do not know who will receive their work, they are often inspired by the stories the national Lutheran World Relief organizations tell them about these people.
Hughes told a story about a widow in Africa who received one of their quilts.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. One night when the woman's house caught on fire, she only had time to save one quilt. She cut the quilt in half and made a dress with one half and kept the other part to cover herself for the rest of the night.
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