Our First Meeting

Dear Knitters,

Our first meeting was great! We have two new knitters who have joined us and we are excited to get started on our projects.

K1,G2: A Knitting Ministry has two successful years under its belt now and we have a lot to be proud of. Last year we really cranked out our projects, which were prolific. From red scarves to wash clothes for our home bound members to gift bags for the mothers at Renewal House, we produced a plethora of hand-knitted gifts. We also raised over $1000 for Heifer International for whom we bought a pair of lamas and sheep that are hopefully now being loved and enjoyed by a few families in South America. Last year was tempered with the loss of one of our own knitters, Ellen Dahnke. As a memorial to Ellen and in solidarity with all our friends with cancer, our inaugural project will be making chemo caps for patients at Vanderbilt hospital. A pattern will be posted soon.

It was suggested by Mary K. that we each commit to starting a Sunshine scarf so that we can begin to have those on hand when they are needed. This is a great way to add variety to your knitting projects and would really help our ministry. Sunshine scarves are given to a member of our church family during hard times due to illness, times of transition, and in times of joy and celebration. As a group, we lay hands on the scarf and pray for the recipient, that he or she will find healing and peace while feeling God's love through the token. Made of bright and colorful yarns, Sunshine scarves are representative of hope, like a ray of sunshine! We are currently working on revising and adding patterns to our library for this ongoing project.

Please keep our friends in your prayers: Gram, Barbara, Laura, and Jane.

Gracious Creator,

You know us and love us, yet we don't understand how or why such bad things happen to our friends. While we are so thankful for our blessings, while we rejoice in your presence when we fellowship with one another, even while we praise you there is a hard place in our hearts. It just doesn't seem fair. You know we are angry and sad that our friends are in pain and we wish so hard to be able to do something, anything to ease their suffering. Our frustration tempts us to run from you and shut you out, yet we know we cannot escape your loving hands.

Even though we can't understand and we wrestle with our anger, you put needles in our hands and yarn at our feet. Just as you knit us, we hope to knit all our hopes for recovery into the gifts we make for our friends with cancer. We pray for healing and for a cure. We pray for perseverance and patience. And we pray for grace so we can reconcile this incomprehensible disease with your wondrous love.
Amen.