Quilts and Kits

The final stitch has been put in the last quilt and the baby kits we collected items for in the spring are all assembled. Last year our quilts went to the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Honduras; Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Liberia, Mali, and Tanzania; Georgia and Ukraine, and Sri Lanka. In all, our quilters made 125 quilts and DMLC donated items for 14 baby care kits.

Lutheran World Relief distributed its first quilts in 1945 to families in war-torn Europe following the Second World War. By the end of the 1950s, the ministry expanded and reached around the globe to places far removed from the world’s attention. Today, an average of 300,000 quilts are lovingly given worldwide each year.

The quilts and kits have been boxed up and will be taken to Madison on September 14th where they will be put on a train bound for Minneapolis, and eventually to places all around the world!

Let us pray for our neighbors around the world who will receive these quilts and kits – neighbors we have never met, neighbors who are far away, and neighbors who, like us, long for God’s grace and mercy. May these quilts and kits wrap our neighbors in love and fill them with the hope and peace that is found in God’s love.

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