The original intent was to send bags to a Haitian orphanage to be used for school bags by the children so they would have a bag of their own for their belongings. It turned out that the school master let us know that they had enough bags for the current school year, so I needed to look for another group who has need for the bags.
As God would have it, a group at Walnut Street Baptist Church is planning a mission trip to Applachia later in the month of May. The group leader had asked me for any extra bags that wouldn't be needed for Haiti, so I called her and told her that I could provide her with 24 bags. Needless to say, she was thrilled!
One of my students called on a Saturday to say she had 11 more bags finished and could she meet me at church for pickup since she couldn't come to our April class. I picked them up and then delivered them to Walnut Street the following Monday. That made 35 bags for the Appalachia trip!
So, at our regular class meeting last week, two more students brought plastic bag, after plastic bag, full of more shoulder bags - 132 in all! They also brought a bag full of more Comfort Caps for two of our local cancer treatment centers (our community service project for last year)!
All of the fabric for these bags was donated to our group by a fabric store in a neighboring county. I want to throw out a tremendous thank-you to everyone who has contributed the fabric, thread, and their sewing time to this project! What a blessing all of you are, and will be, to the recipients who will have their very own bag for personal belongings!
I'll post another picture of the bags as soon as I can get them sorted out for a photo-shoot. Check back in a few days to see how beautiful these bags are!
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