Sewers We Need YOU!

Calling All Sewers: Help Us Build Student Kits

If you can run a sewing machine, we need you.

This year our Missions team is assembling Student Kits for Midwest Mission — bags of school supplies that travel to children around the world and close to home. Each kit holds notebooks, pencils, crayons, scissors, and more, all carried in a handmade one-handled cloth bag. That bag is the piece we need most: when none is available, kits go out in plain grocery sacks, but a bag sewn by hand turns a bundle of supplies into something a child can carry with pride.

The handmade bags are our single biggest need — and something you can make right at home. To the left are the instructions.

Whether you make one bag or a dozen, every one helps a child start the school year ready to learn. Please drop off finished bags at Community United Methodist Church, 337 SW 2nd Street, Ogden, Iowa, by October 11, or contact the church office with any questions. Thank you for sharing your gifts to bless children we may never meet.