As some of you may already know, my daughter Sarah lives at the Mustard Seed in Brandon, MS. She moved there in May of 2008, and her life has been truly blessed.

I want to share with you a story that I received via email from Mandy Jones, the Director of Development.

“If you haven’t seen it already, check out this page on our website
http://www.mustardseedinc.org/support/press.html these ladies at Hillcrest Baptist Church (Byram, MS) have a Prayer Quilt Ministry. They have never personalized the quilts before with colors, names, picture etc. but they did for us.

They called me months ago wanting to make quilts for each of the Seedsters I gave them the group home residents thinking surely they wont be making quilts for everyone! But I was wrong.

They recently brought them out and they are amazing. They had asked me to send them pictures of each Seedster and get everyone’s favorite colors. It is so amazing how the quilts ended up matching the Seedsters individual personalities when the ladies knew nothing bout any of them. I won’t go into great detail but Sarah’s has many different pieces of material on her quilt, but the majority are these ladies with big, floppy, fancy hats. Not that Sarah wears hats, but it just fits her. . .

And every blanket has these knots on them that look like loose pieces of string and the church laid all 40 blankets over the sanctuary one Wednesday night and the congregation came around and held the loose strings in their hands, said
a prayer for that individual Seedster (each quilt has a tag with the
Seedster’s picture on there that says God Loves Sarah), by name and tied
the knot. So the quilts are covered in knots full of prayer for Sarah!
AHHHH tear jerker! I can’t wait for you to see them. They are all soooo
special. The ladies that brought the quilts were so touched too! You can
tell from the pictures on the website that I put up how excited the
Seedsters were to receive them.”

Digital Video Camera (used or new)
Digital Camera (used or new)
Pool cues
Basketballs
Outdoor sports equipment (volleyballs, sidewalk chalk, games, etc.)
Wire shelving for games & sports equipment (activity center)
Books (no higher than 4th grade level)
Children’s devotional books
Board Games
DVD’s (rated G or PG)
Event tickets (sports, movies)
Gift cards (Lowe’s, WalMart, etc.)
DVD player (women’s group home)
Craft supplies & Heavy-duty construction paper
Scanner (office)

If you’re interested in donating items to fill treat-bags for the Seedsters or Bingo prizes…they love writing letters (any type of stationary, cards or stamps are always great), as well as crayons, batteries (for their CD players), toiletries (the girls like lotions and perfume), coloring books, & card games.

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