Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Come and help!

Every Stitch a Prayer is a sewing ministry that meets at Taylor Road Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL.  It was established in 2008 for the purpose of providing children's clothing to send with our Mission Teams to foreign countries.  We have expanded as the Lord has blessed our ministry to helping local missions with various items such as curtains, blankets, scarves, walker bags, Comfort Pillows for Women of Hope, ponchos, Christmas stockings, and school uniforms.  We enjoy serving the Lord and meeting the needs of people and the fellowship is sweet.

ESAP meets every Tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m. on the second floor of Taylor Road Baptist Church just down the road from Eastchase shopping center on Taylor Road.  Additional sessions are on the first Thursday of every month from 5:00 - 8:00 PM.  At this session, we share a potluck salad buffet.

We also schedule extra sewing days as the need arises.  Please join us!  We need people to do a variety of tasks other than sewing, such as ironing, cutting, trimming, organizing, inventory, etc.  Whatever talent God has given you is one that we need!!

School Uniforms for Haiti

Today this blog will take a new direction as we begin a new project.  In September, Every Stitch a Prayer was visited by Charlie Elgin, a missionary to Haiti.  He came to share with our sewing ministry the need for school uniforms for the children in Haiti.  Charlie operates an orphanage with 23 children as well as five schools with over 600 children.  These children each need two uniforms, jumpers for the girls and shorts for the boys, which will be worn with polo shirts.  This project will cost us over $10,000.  With God, all things are possible!

We will be using this blog to share how God works out this miracle.

Children in Haiti cannot go to school with a uniform.  They are also very specific about the style and color of their uniforms.  It is a monumental task for our small sewing group and will require the help of other churches (besides Taylor Road Baptist Church) and financial donors.  We operate on donations.  Sound impossible?  With God's help, we can meet this need.  The importance of these uniforms goes beyond their physical need because these children are exposed to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as they study in their Christian schools.  They take the Gospel message home and their families are effected for all eternity.

And so it begins.......