LYDIA'S PIECEMAKERS:

 LWR QUILTERS

Next Meeting Dates: 

September 27 & 28

9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

An Lutheran World Relief (LWR) quilt is special!  It brings warmth on a cold night, shelter from the sun on a hot day. It becomes a bed, a room divider, a backpack to carry belongings, and at times even a home.  Quilts distributed by LWR to refugees and other people in need were first made by recycling old but good clothes, blankets, and other items. Most LWR quilts are still made this way, although fabric samples, remnants, or other new pieces of fabric are also used. Each quilt is one of a kind, with a beauty all its own, made as a gift of hope by caring people.

Lydia's Piecemakers Quilting Group was organized to create LWR quilts.  We meet in the St. Mark's kitchen and hall in the basement twice monthly.  No experience is needed.  If you can operate a safety pin we have a job for you!  We will be cutting fabric, assembling quilt layers, and pinning them together.  You can bring a lunch or send out.  Please join us!                  

We try to keep Piecemaker Packets in a basket by the Outreach bulletin board in the Narthex.  Please take one home and bring it back to the basket after you have sewn it together.

We need fabric lengths for the quilts and gently used blankets and mattress pads for quilt fillers.

We continue to collect gently usesd, clean lightweight cotton shirts or Onesies, sleepers, sweaters, and sweatshirts up to size 24 months, as well as cloth diapers and receiving blankets.  These items are for layettes for Lutheran World Relief.

If you knit or crochet we would welcome baby sweaters.  We have some knitting worsted available you can use.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

If you have any questions or donations, contact Virginia Biltgen.

St. Mark's hosts PADS

September 11

PADS is always in need of hotel size soap and shampoo, lightly used bath towels, wash cloths and sheets.  Please contact Janet Guinnane at to donate these items (do not leave them at church).

Harvesting Hope

The therapeutic play group is in need of immediate additional volunteers on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.   If you can help, please contact Hesed House at (630) 897-2156, extension 247.

Transportation Committee

Folks are needed for the transportation team...driving a guest to a dental or doctor appointment, or helping with a much anticipated move.  If you can help, call Hesed House at (630) 897-2156, extension 247.

Working Together . . . We Make a Difference

The spirit is at work in our community, helping us reach out beyond ourselves.  We are honored to be a congregation whose ministry truly extends outward to the whole world through our mission partnerships.

At. St. Mark's in Aurora, we are passionate about connecting the WORDS of faith with WORKS of love.  These works take many forms: advocacy, volunteering, item contributions, and financial support.  Cooperation and teamwork make it all possible.

Join us in continuing to bring hope to the hopeless by sharing the abundance of Christ's love.

SEPTEMBER OUTREACH

"Hungry and Cold in our Community"

Gently Used Coats

St. Mark's is collecting used coats (all sizes) for distribution by the Warehouse Church in Aurora.  This is your opportunity to find a good home for that old beloved coat that you do not have the heart to throw away.  Give it an opportunity to become the beloved warm coat for someone in need.  Please replace that button and sew up that small tear before you donate the item.  Most of us do not really know what it is to be constantly cold.  You can change that for someone else.  Thanks for your support!

Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry   

During this economic downturn, more and more families rely on the area food pantries to help feed their families.

St. Mark's is collecting non-perishable food items to help stock shelves of the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry.  The Food Pantry is currently feeding about 375 families each week.  In 2008, they made more than 14,000 distributions of food to hungry families.  They have seen a substantial increase in the number of requests for food assistance; 2010 will see that trend continue.              

All items must be non-perishable.  Suggested items include canned fruits and vegetables, canned meats, soups, rice, beans, cereal, baby formula, baby food and diapers.  Please give generously in support of these ministries.  Have you ever been really, really hungry and there is nothing to eat?

FALL KALEIDOSCOPE LUNCHEON

Saturday, September 25

Sanctuary Hall

Calling all women, young and old! 

Lydia's Piecemakers will be celebrating the Joy of Serving with a chicken salad croissant luncheon by Catering Gourmet of Sugar Grove beginning at 11:45 a.m.

This event includes a presentation by Dotty Johnson appearing as Martha from the New Testament. 

Tickets are $15.00 each (order by mail).  Look for order forms at the Welcome Center and in the weekly St. Mark's Courier.

You may direct questions to Charlotte Shanks.

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