The Weekly Yarn - June 16th

Meeting Notes:  Thanks be to God for the Prayer Shawls, Prayer Cloths, and Chemo Caps that came in last night!  Once again we had an abundance to pray over.  While attendance was light, the production goes on.  Thank you for working from home.  Conversation was happy and noisy as usual. 

Please continue to keep Zena in your prayers.  Her allergy to yarn continues to worsen.  There is still hope for her to work with cotton yarn…but even that is slim.  Her doctor is warning her to stay away from yarns right now.  As you know Zena is one of our most talented, productive members.

Another support connection was made during our meeting, thanks to Zena.  Robin M., a member of the new Beth Moore class being conducted a few classrooms away from ours, works for a Pregnancy Resource Center.  They give a pair of booties, a baby hat, or a baby blanket to teen moms who discover they are pregnant and don’t know what to do next!  Among other things, they conduct classes to teach them about motherhood.  http://www.prcg.org/

Hilary introduced me to this non-profit group when she was pregnant.  They got her started on the right foot.  Hilary and I happened to walk in just as the administrator of this group lost her husband unexpectedly to a heart attack, so I drove back to the church to bring back a Prayer Shawl for her.  We were able to help the group out with a few baby hats, booties, and baby blankets that had been donated to the Prayer Shawl Ministry.  God is good all the time.

June 20^th: Communion Sunday is June 20^th.  We have coverage to put out the shawls for the 8:00 and the 9:30 services; however, we still need help putting shawls out for the 11:00 service and putting away after the 11:00 service.  Please let me know if you can help. 

If you have been working at home this summer, we would appreciate your turning in anything you have completed on the 23^rd of June since the cabinet is often low after Communion Sunday.  Thank you for your diligence and faithfulness.

June 30^th:  There will not be a meeting on June 30^th due to the upcoming 4^th of July weekend.  This will give everyone an opportunity to take a little vacation.  We’ll meet again on July 7^th!

Prayer Cloths:  October 3^rd is World Communion Sunday which is the Communion Sunday we plan to offer Prayer Cloths to worshippers who attend services that day.  Our goal is to have 1500 available by that date.  We’re a little less than half way there.  The attached Prayer Cloth patterns take 10 to 20 minutes to make and just a little bit of yarn.  There is a bin in our storage closet with small balls of knitting worsted in all colors.  Please come by and pick out two or three colors to carry with you to make while you’re on the phone, riding in the car (not driving), or waiting at the doctor’s office.  Thanks.

Helmet Liners:  There was a question last year about the helmet liners and scarves being acceptable in the Care Packages.  After much research, we have received an answer stating “as far as the helmet liners go, …you aren’t violating any rule”.  We have a few helmet liners and scarves left from last year.  As soon as we start back at full strength in August, we’ll count them and decide how many we need for Care Packages this year.

Things We Do:  As the weekly updates are sent out, it’s often easy to overlook all of the things we are involved in as a group because they just come up a week or a month at a time.  When our activities are reviewed in a larger perspective, we’re a busy group of “Chicks With Sticks”.  Shown below are a few of our projects:

· Helmet Liners and Scarves for the Armed Forces Care Packages

· Chemo Caps for the Cancer Support Group

· Prayer Shawls for Communion Sundays

· Fall Festival Participation – a display of our projects, as well as other handmade items from our members

· Support of Grace Arbor once a year by taking projects in and explaining what we do

· Prayer Shawls to the Grief Support group at Christmas Time

· Prayer Cloths for the Upper Room

· Prayer Shawls for Mission to Chili and other special groups and projects

When you look at our activities over a year, the knitting needles are clicking and the crochet hooks are constantly going.  It’s no wonder we have so much fun at our meetings!  Don’t miss another moment.

Just A Note:  From a Women’s Devotional Bible:

“I need to slow down.  And I’m asking the Lord to help me do it.  I want to move slowly enough to be aware of all the joys he has hidden for me.  I want to slow down enough to grow as he wants me to grow.  I want to be quiet enough to hear his voice.  I need his wisdom to know how to spend my time and how to order my days.” – Kathryn Hillen

“But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.” – Romans 8: 25

Love and blessings,

Beverly

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."  — Corrie ten Boom