You may remember my May 17 blog about making dresses for "Dress A Girl Around the World." I'm excited to share that girls in the village of Msholozi, South Africa are now wearing those dresses!
Holgar & Maria, friends of ours from Germany who serve in South Africa, connected with us prior to their recent visit to the US. When Maria learned that my friend Cindy and I had sewn the dresses, Maria shared that she worked in a camp with a group of girls that desperately needed new dresses! And to have dresses sewn by hand specifically for them and sent with Christ's love would be even more special to the girls. While Cindy and I had made 13 dresses, Maria said she needed 31!
Keith's Mom in California financed the project so I had everything needed to keep sewing. Our friends Chris and Kathy from Ohio were vacationing on the Outer Banks, heard about the dresses, and offered to stop on their way home and take them back to Coshocton. Holgar & Maria would stop in Coshocton, pack the dresses, and hand-carry them to South Africa, and the girls in the camp.
Chris & Kathy stop in Graham to pick up the dresses.
Maria delivered and distributed the dresses to her girls. Here are photos of some of the girls in their dresses. Thanks for sharing these, Maria! The smiles on the girls' faces makes my heart glad!
Here we are with the first of the dresses back in May.
Gods hands worked in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, Germany, and South Africa to create and deliver these dresses to bless girls in a tiny camp in a small village. Faith relationships going back 20 years...bearing fruit in ways unimagined. Can dresses have eternal impact? Maybe not the fabric itself, but the hands and hearts that sewed, drove, stored, packed, traveled, and delivered the dresses...just might.
Thanks for being part of this Kingdom Adventure through your gifts and your prayers!
If you'd like to have your hands and heart involved in projects like these...you don't have to be able to sew, leave your home, OR know girls in Africa!
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If you'd like to have your hands and heart involved in projects like these...you don't have to be able to sew, leave your home, OR know girls in Africa!
Just CLICK HERE!
3 comments:
It's so much fun to see the girls wearing their dresses--beautiful! It looks like the pockets were appreciated too!
I have heard that pockets are a very precious item. Usually the only place for something special they want to keep.
What a blessing to see the work of your hands blessing someone else! 😍 Thanks for sharing.
Love & Blessings...Sue & Stu
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