1,100 items made for charity
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MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Some 235 Relief Society sisters gathered here recently to compile and make 1,100 items for charity.
"You could feel the strength in the number of women participating," said Marysville Washington Stake Relief Society President Lisa Williams. "Many women expressed a desire to do this again."
Completed newborn kits and baby quilts made on this spring day were later donated to the Maternity Center at Cascade Valley Hospital and Crisis Pregnancy Center. In addition, 87 medical baby dolls with gowns and baby quilts were made for the Children's Hospital. Other items completed, such as school bags, infant layette gowns, quilts, Berber blocks and bears, and crocheted bandages for leprosy or tropical diseases, will be distributed throughout the world through the Church's Humanitarian Services. The cumulative time donated at this service event totaled 775 hours.
"I was amazed at the flurry of activity," said stake President Keith Leonard. "Every room in the building was being used. Women who dropped in for a minute ended up staying for hours."
