Pastor's black and white collar

Menu:

Web site topics

MAIN COLUMN

Piece Corps at St Mark

home > community at st. mark > piece corps

If you can’t find the information you’re looking for, please send us an e-mail message or call (386) 445-3420 so we may help you.

posted: 14 FEB 2010

More than a quilt

“When you are covered by a quilt, you are covered by love.” So goes the old saying. For several years, the women of St. Mark by the Sea have gathered each week to make quilts to give to those in need. Each quilt is lovingly assembled and then a special dove block is sewn on as the women's “signature” before it is sent on its way.

Over the years, St Mark Piece Corps quilts have been sent to local women and children’s shelters. They have given comfort and shelter to hurricane victims in Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bundles of quilts have been shipped across the ocean and have warmed shoulders and babies from the Balkans to southern Africa. Recently, one of our Piece Corps members saw a picture of a quilt covering a woman in Africa, and there on the quilt was the St. Mark dove block signature — half a world away. The love of St. Mark by the Sea truly surrounds the world.

You are invited to join this hard-working group of women each Wednesday morning. You don't have to be an exert quilter or even an expert sewer. The helpful hands that have made so many quilts are eager and willing to teach you all you need to know. There are several jobs to be done — and there is always the need for more hands.

Not only will you help to provide warmth to those who need it, you yourself will also be warmed by the love you share and receive from the other Piece Corps members. The coffee break chat is a very important ingredient that makes up the love these women put into each quilt. You are always welcome to join us!

For more information contact Jackie Carlson or Mary Eichen
Call the church office for their telephone numbers (386-445-3420).

page created: 14 FEB 2010
Go to top