Sew on Fire Ministries

Sew on Fire Ministries is a humanitarian organization that sews and sends cloth gifts bags all over the world. Enjoy these pictures and the reception of God's love through practical gifts. Join with us as we partner with people that are sew on fire to make a difference in someone's life. We are driven by our goal to care for widows and orphans. James 1:27 Sew on Fire exists only because of people that partner with us and open their hand wide and give free will donations.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Louise shares her love for knitting and helps us by donating her beautiful cotton face cloths for our ladies gift bags. Thanks Louise!

Children from the Kibera slums in Kenya receiving our gifts with joy. Pastor Karanja states, 'we have prayed many times for God to enable us to do what we can to help meet the tremendous needs represented by the people who come from this slum. Please say a big thank you to everyone who was able to give and to be a blessing. We pray that God will increase you tremendously and meet your needs as well. Pastor Judy Karanja, Nairobi, Kenya

100 quilted blankets, 4 sewing machines, 2 knitting machines, 412 back packs, 46 baby layettes and much much more was sent to Nigeria.

Beautifully knit and crocheted items donated to Sew on Fire. We just sent 8 - 4 cubit foot boxes of wonderful handmade gifts to the Ukraine.

Sample Layette includes
handmade blanket
receiving blanket
new born clothing
bottle
bib
face cloth
soap, shampoo, lotion
booties socks
soft toy or rattle

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Brenda displays the cake and the group celebrate the wonderful accomplishment completing 7500 gift bags and sending them to 20 nations.

Alberta Branch volunteers stop for a photo, but work hard sort and organize incoming donations and pack up gift bags.

Brenda Clark from Sherwood Park, Alberta Branch celebrates with a cake, sending 7,500 gift bags.

Community Church in Waterdown pack up gift packages for Lift church outreach.

Lakemount young people packing bags around the big table. They brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the event.

Katharine organized a mission group to come help out at the warehouse and pack up bags for an outreach mission project in Ottawa.

Three hours later all those bolts cut to size and ready to sew.

We need your help cutting material into our cloth bags.
We are just now developing 'a new bag' .
15" x 20" double draw string bag and the ends will be sewn into the corners and they will serve as the straps.

Betty has volunteered for several years now. Here she displays a layette that she has lovingly made, the layettes have 15 to 20 items and are hand delivered to single moms, in hospitals and sent all over the world. We have prepared over 5000.

Carol has sewn this beautiful hockey bag. She is a gift to us, as she comes with lots of expertise in sew many areas.

Evelyn, Val, Dawn and Ruby are preparing our mini layettes for new born babies. The layettes are colour coordinated and beautiful displayed in our packages.

Beautiful boots recently donated.

Bill and Ed help unpack and sort a recent donation of boots and shoes. These boots have been sent to Ghana, Guatemala, Zambia, Sri Lanka and Ukraine.

Chrys helped by sorting all the bags that come in from all across Canada. We receive many parcels from the US as well. Ladies sew the most beautiful and decorative bags.

Carol and Milfid have volunteered for the past year. They are organizing and sorting the school supplies and preparing them for the gift bags.

Bill is a great example and wonderful volunteer and brings a lot of skill and he is the jack of all trades.

Thanks Crystal ... for bringing friends to work at the warehouse and cut mountains of material for our bags.

Thank you all for the successful
Garage sale .
We raised monies to purchase school supplies and personal hygiene items and also made lots of contacts and brought awareness to Sew on Fire Ministries.

Christmas Trees
for sale,
these ones you don't
have to water.

desks
books
dishes
shoes
purses
dresses
tools
jewelery
toys
furniture

Yes we had Chandeliers hanging from the trees.
Pretty classy sale.

Our Garage Sale Mascot
attracted lots of customers.

I had an offer and sold him for $10.

Stock girls

Cashiers

Labourers

Blue skies...Warm day... Wonderful volunteers...Awesome wagons to display our wares...People, people where's the people?

Transporting the clothing racks to the front lawn - never done before with a front end loader.

Special Thanks to the Paterno's for the invitation to hold our 2nd annual garage sale in their barn and on their beautiful property. Thanks Mike for all your help!