More Sewing For Missions

Greetings from Graham, NC where the beauty of Spring is in full bloom! This is a great season to enjoy some work outside in the gardens when the weather is warmer and dry. However, on those rainy or cold days I still enjoy burrowing into my sewing room to see what projects are waiting to be created. One of my projects of late is making soft cases for glasses to be used by a ministry called, "That All May See". Don and Karen Stauffer of Global Outreach Mission arrange mission trips to various places around the world several times each year to distribute glasses to those who might otherwise not have vision good enough to perform their daily work. Meeting this physical need allows the opportunity to also provide for their spiritual needs by sharing the Good News of Jesus.

Our local church collected more than 160 pairs of used glasses that we will deliver to Don & Karen when we go to Canada in July for Global's candidate orientation. They will be sorted by prescription and readied for transport for their next mission trip. Used eye glass cases do not lend themselves to being thoroughly cleaned and are generally too bulky/heavy to be practical for traveling. That's where  my latest sewing project comes in! I am able to make simple, soft cases that travel easily for the ministry to take so the folks who get glasses have a place to keep them safe and clean.

The latest cases I just finished

 I've been able to make 105 cases so far. They are packed and ready to go and will be delivered for use when we get to Canada in July. I'll also take the glasses we collected at church.

105 eye glass cases ready to go!

If you follow my Facebook page you may have seen a post about sewing a door into a wall. Odd you say? Our children's ministry at church needed to "perk up" a corner of a room to be used for story times on Sunday mornings and for Wonderful Wednesdays when the kids meet for Bible stories, fellowship and activities. These fabric "walls" are about 7 or 8 foot long. There will be four "walls" hanging. Here are the two walls that have a door and a window. The window will hold a poster about the story or any lesson they might be learning.

"Walls" to hang for the kids story corner at church

Sewing comes in seasons. I love having sewing projects that I can fit in whenever I have time to work on them. It's even more fun when I know those projects will help in some small way to share the love of Christ with others.

"And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father." Colossians 3:17