Outreach - St. Mark's Lutheran Church

LYDIA'S PIECEMAKERS:

LWR QUILTERS

Next Meeting Date:

February 27, 2012

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

A 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 Lower Level Hall once 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!

Can't join us during the day? Look for our 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 used, 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.

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.

St. Mark's continues to host PADS the 2nd Saturday of each odd-numbered month. Each time we host, we prepare dinner for up to 200 men, women, and children. During the three coldest months we serve cranberry chicken over rice with vegetables, and fruit. Members of Rejoice Lutheran Church of Geneva, our PADS partner, prepare the chicken dish. St. Mark's supplies the non-perishable items. During the three warmer months, we serve a picnic-style menu featuring Sloppy Joes, fruit, and baked beans. Rejoice Lutheran Church prepares the Sloppy Joes and St. Mark's supplies the non-perishable items.

Look in the January issue of The Vineyard Press for a complete list of non-perishable items we are collecting for these meals.
If you would like to be a PADS volunteer, please look for our sign up sheet at the Welcome Center, where you will find a brochure with information about the PADS program. If you would like to learn more, please contact Janet Guinnane.

St. Mark's hosts PADS
March 10
VOLUNTEER FOR 1 OF 2 SHIFTS:

6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
11:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Sign Up at the Welcome Center!
When we host PADS, we also provide a craft or game time for children staying at PADS. If you can help with activity time from 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. please volunteer at the Welcome Center, or call Janet Guinnane.
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.

FOODS RESOURCE BANK is an organization that is helping eliminate hunger world wide. Go to www.foodresourcebank.blogspot.com to read a blog brought to you by Dean Lundeen, a Foods Resource Bank cooperating farmer, and learn why he and area groups like St. Mark's congregation support FRB. You'll find lots of interesting information about our fall Harvest celebration!