Upcoming Meeting, Tuesday, July 13

"Children are one third of our population and all of our future." ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

We CAN will meet Tuesday, July 13, 11:00 a.m. at Judy's home. 

We will be collecting new boys' and girls' socks, children sizes 2-10.  The Humanitarian said that is their number one need right now, along with twin size quilts.  So if you want to donate, bring them to the meeting with you Tuesday.

We will  be tying a twin size quilt for the Humanitarian Center. We also have a small sewing project for the Humanitarian Center to complete (sewing Velcro on doll "hospital gowns.) 

We will also start working on reindeer ornaments for the Festival of Trees tree.

Potluck Lunch.  See you Tuesday!

Missionary Socks

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." ~ Albert Einstein

Tuesday, May 4th we met at Lynn's home.  Lynn, Judy, Kathy, Ortensia, Ardis, Phyllis, Paulette, Patti and Carolyn worked together, tying a baby quilt for a child at Primary Children's Medical Center and the ladies sewed 22 missionary Christmas socks that will be sold at the Festival of Trees, a benefit fund raiser for Primary Children's Medical Center.   We also celebrated Ortensia's birthday during our PotLuck Lunch.

Lynn finished binding the quilt we did in April  for the Primary Children's Medical Center and brought it for everyone to see.  It is shown below.

One of the Best Gifts Ever ~ PAY IT FORWARD

A friend who just went through an extended illness and recovery said that one of the most thoughtful gifts she received was from her daughter, who came and filled up her freezer with meals to use after her surgery.  Paying it forward, she in turn organized all of the ladies in our WE CAN group, who also brought freezer meals for one of our dear friends who is successfully battling cancer. 

We hope you feel all of our love and all of our prayers each time you go to your freezer!

"Have I done any good in the world today?"

"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know." ~ W. H. Auden
Bill Vaugn said, " A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."  Tuesday, April 6, we met at Ardis home to make some simple dolls for children around the world to play with.  The dolls are made from a  15" square of fabric,  a small circle made into a face, a bit of stuffing and lace, and yarn for hair.    They will be shipped in containers to areas in the world where children are living with war, poverty and uncertainty.  We hope that each child who receives one of these dolls will feel the love that it is made with and hope in their future ~ and thesheer  joy of being a child.  

We all worked together and finished sixteen of the little dolls.  We then enjoyed a lovely luncheon in Ardis beautiful sunroom, where we watched snow swirling around and moments later, the sun shining on the fields below.