The focus for August was the Navajo nation. Bill & Bettye Roberts, the directors of Native American Partnership Missions, will soon be receiving a box filled with very colorful baby blankets and warm fleece lap robes.
The girls took great joy in learning to sew while making these blankets. One of my favorite things during the month was watching as Mrs Pam and Sarah sat patiently with a child helping each work a sewing machine.
The baby blankets are made of 100% cotton fabric with a very warm flannel lining sandwiched in-between two colorful coordinating layers. The lap robes were made for the elders of the tribe and are colorful fleece, made plenty big to keep out the cold during the harsh winters on the reservation.
The girls of Child 2 Child also made bracelets with 6 different color beads signifying:
Black – North
Turquoise - South
White – East
Beige – West
Red – Earth
Blue – Sky
Genesis 28:14 = N/S/E/W
Genesis 26:4 = Earth & Sky
Revelation 20:11 = Cross
The following weeks they made leather wrist bands in the style of ketohs in two designs, one with a cross branded in the leather and another with a peace symbol brand.
New Hope was awesome in purchasing the blankets and yet leaving them to be sent to the Navajo. Their hearts are so generous in both their love for others in Christ's name and also in their giving. In addition to the baby blankets and lap robes, the girls will be sending a check for $370 to help the Roberts minister to the tribe.
And the King will answer, "Whenever you did it for any of My people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for Me." Matthew 25:40
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