Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Happy New Year from Stitches of Hope!






Greetings!


We at Stitches of Hope pray you have had a blessed Christmas. Two of my grown children were home. We used the free online service of Skype to wish our third child a Merry Christmas from her home overseas.

The New Year is upon us and for some of us that always brings angst about resolutions the rest of the world seems to make and seems to expect us to make.

Have you thought about ways you’d like to improve your life in 2010? (That year is awkward to write!)

Perhaps you’ve resolved to help others in 2010, maybe for the first time or in a new way.

The 75 or so volunteers of Stitches of Hope have received many blessings from using our fingers and creative talents in making caps for people with medical needs.



I'm posting some pix of our members. The beautiful lady at the top is my mother, Joan Brewer. She has performed the awesome task of tagging nearly all of our 4,000 caps. In addition she has written thank you notes, picked up caps from friends, and made phone calls -- all of which lighten the administrative load of this organization. I love her to pieces!

The others are some members of our group at a recent meeting -- Cheryl, Pat, Tina, Marilyn, Marlene, Betty, Theresa, Delores. They and the rest of our volunteers are precious to me as volunteers but also as friends. I'll post more pix of other volunteers and our caps in future blogs.

The ministry of Stitches of Hope is unique in that it is affordable to the crafter, can be done by anyone at any age, and we make caps for men, women, and children. (I admit, a big plus for me is that I can crochet caps in front of the TV, thus validating the time I spend watching British mysteries!)

If this type of caring is something you’d like to know more about, please contact Kayleen Reusser or Karen Story. We’d love to have you join us!

Happy New Year!

Kayleen