Prayer Shawl Ministry Update

Good evening to all.  We had a wonderful meeting again this week.  Wish you all could be there.  We need to set up our lap tops and do a “Skype” session.  If teens can talk face to face only through computer monitors, well, we can have a satellite campus running out of your own home as well!  Would that be progressive or what?

We added about 8 new items to the finished closet this week after distributing some right fresh off the prayer line.  Thanks to all who contributed and thanks to all who are praying.  Keep thinking of creative ways to invite friends to join us in our mission to place God’s comfort on the shoulders of all those in need, with unconditional love and limitless prayer. 

For those who are computer wise, and have lots of change just lying around…. I have taken to putting all my spare change daily in a jar and rolling it up weekly.  Well, it used to be earmarked for general spending money, then it was for youth activities at church.  Now, I gather up under $2 in change in less than a week, go to Michael’s or Joann’s with their 40 or 50% off coupons and buy one skein of yarn.  I love that because it is not a very big drain on my budget, yet it helps the ministry.  So, get out the piggy banks, mason jars, coke bottles, or whatever the spare change goes into and make something beautiful out of something small and seemingly unimportant.  Whereas one penny seems a small amount of funds not useful for any purpose, a week’s worth of daily pennies is enough to pay the tax on a skein of yarn.  If you decide not to do that permanently, try doing it for lent.  I try taking on a new habit in addition to breaking from something that is important to me.  Let’s make that our group challenge activity for the lent season.  God will take old, dirty, beat up pennies and make beautiful shawls out of them.  YEA!!! 

Have a great evening.  I hope to see you all very soon.  Feel free to email back just to catch up if we have not seen or heard from you in a while.  You will continue to be one of us no matter where you are. 

In Christ,

Dana

Quote for the day: Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.