A BUSY AND PRODUCTIVE 2025!
With the help of all our crafters, quilters, knitters, and Mission Morning volunteers, St. John’s Women have produced and sent the following this year:
QUILTS:
237 quilts made and sent – to Lutheran World Relief, Global Health Ministries, Three Links Care Center, Community Action Center’s Operation Joy, and Wallflower House – for youth in Northfield
3 quilts auctioned; two to Runway Revival and one to Laura Baker – flannel gala
LWR:
- 120 Personal Care Kits
- 250 School Backpack Kits
- 108 Baby Care Kits
- 16 Fabric Kits
GHM:
- 148 Newborn Kits
- 7 Knit baby blankets
- 14 Knit hats
- 140 Hospice kits
- 1071 Rolled Bandages
- 40 Twin Flat Sheets
- 25 Pillowcases
- 3 Suitcases
St. John’s Members
- 27 Prayer Shawls
- 3 Baby Baptismal Blankets
World Vision
- 62 Knit sweaters
Sara’s House & Ruth’s House
- 3 Boxes of supplies
Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
Quilts awaiting processing, and white bundles of kits and supplies ready for shipping.
Each September we sponsor an Intergenerational event for Lutheran World Relief (LWR) packing school kits.
Education is one of the strongest tools a community has for breaking the cycle of poverty. Ensuring that girls attend school, especially in places where their access is deprioritized, has even stronger results. Lutheran World Relief School Kits contain essential supplies to help children — and in some cases, adults — continue learning in the face of serious obstacles. That learning leads to a better life for them, their families and their communities. These kits join tens of thousands of other kits from Lutheran churches across the nation and are sent to countries around the globe. We even packed over two hundred school kits during the pandemic in 2020:
Our Knitters!
These darling infant and toddler sweaters, knit by St. John’s Women, are made for LWR baby care kits, and World Vision Knit for Kids.
Our Quilters
GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES
We pack hospice kits, and roll bandages for Global Health Ministries. Twice a year a group of women volunteer at the headquarters in Minneapolis, sorting and packing supplies.
TORCH
St. John’s Women donate to TORCH, whose mission is to support and empower students in graduating from high school and pursuing future goals, with an intentional focus on partnering with Northfield’s students of color, youth from low income families, and first-generation college attendees.
