Sew 'n' Sew

Sew 'n' Sew is a group of women who meet on the second Tuesday of every month to sew and enjoy fellowship. Theirs is a ministry of love and compassion, as much of what they do goes to help people in our community and beyond.  Our United Methodist Women's group is now combined with Sew 'n' Sew.

We are currently concentrating on the following mission projects: 
     

• Our latest mission has been Days for Girls supplying Sanitary needs for girls in  Africa to keep them in school. To date over 400 kits have been supplied including sanitary pads and draw string bags. See https://www.daysforgirls.org/. 

• Knitting woolens for children and the elderly at a Lakota Native American reservation in South Dakota, via Project Hawkwing
• Donating material and sewing school bags for Church World Service kits, and with the help of our church family, United Methodist Women (UMW) and our Sewing Circle we will fill 50 school kits and 50 health kits.    
• Providing masks in 2020 during the pandemic.

       
If you are able, please join us at 10 a.m. on the second Tuesday of every month, and bring a sandwich for lunch. You can help make a difference to people who need our help.  

Bringing JOY to others is our goal! 

Please take the time to read this beautiful article about our group, Sew 'n' Sew, written by Joan Fisher. 

Acts 16 recounts Paul going to Philippi. On the Sabbath he went to the city gate by the river where women gathered to pray. (v. 13) It was unusual that he, as a trained religious leader, would go outside the temple to a marginalized group of people, as women were in that culture. There he met Lydia, a seller of purple [dye], who opened her home to him while he was there. Perhaps they walked back and forth together each day to go to the river and pray and minister and then home again-like a church conference. His presence disrupted business in the city as he testified to Christ and it got him arrested and imprisoned. He was freed on a legal Roman technicality. But it didn't end there. Because of his experience, his ministry opened up to the larger world as reported in Acts. In parting to go to Thessalonica, he visited Lydia, one of the women of the river prayer group. We don't know if he bought anything from her as a seller; their relationship was more important than the product. 

Ten to twelve women meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month to sew. and womenship at Heritage Village Commons. Newcomers are always welcome, even if they don't sew. One member, a non-sewer, uses her gifts of helping to serve coffee, and pick up donations from those who are now home-bound and participate by making things in the quiet of their home. Lunch and conversation is shared; no one is excluded. Women as the keepers hold the confidence of their sharing and steadfastness of doing after the spirit of Hebrews 3:14: For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. The mission uses their hands as the hands of Christ with sacredness to its cause and trusting where it all goes.  

They often reach anonymous people in hospitals and institutions that mandate confidentiality. Through a letter of thanks from an institution is an encouragement they never really know how far and to whom a scarf or hat made its way. They trust, like the women at the river, that what they are doing goes forth with Gods blessing.