These pictures are from our October Sisters Night Out service project. Service projects in Europe, even in the Church, are rare, and Humanitarian Services is trying to change that. So I jumped in to organize this Boviac Catheter Bag sewing project. Over 20 sisters participated, donating 75 hours in sewing and assembling the bags. These bags will hold a permanent catheter that delivers life saving medicine, enabling a child with cancer to move about freely. The bags will be shown at the European Year of Volunteering 2011 exhibit/booth of Mormon Helping Hands projects in Berlin, Germany. Five hundred of these bags will be given to children in hospitals. LDS participants always wear these yellow vests to identify thier group as Mormon Helping Hands.
But the night before the project, I had no sewing machines. Few people sew in Germany, so machines are scarce. So I prayed and made lots of phone calls, still finding only one machine. The next day, I made a ton of crepes to serve and went over to the church on faith that some sewing machines would show up. Four machines arrived! Heavenly Father does answer our prayers! It was a great evening of service and sisterhood!
Those are some sweet vests. Do you think you could bring one home for me? ;) Good work on organizing it, Mom. Looks like you did some good.
ReplyDelete