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A group of United Methodist women has taken on the responsibility of wrapping newborns at a Dallas hospital in love-and a cozy crocheted blanket! Although they never meet the mothers, who often lack health benefits and other amenities, “the thank you is what you feel inside,” says one volunteer. | ||
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EVERY DAY, ALMOST ONE HUNDRED BABIES ARE BORN AT DALLAS’ PARKLAND HOSPITAL...MOST TO MOTHERS WITH NO HEALTH BENEFITS AND VERY LITTLE OF ANYTHING ELSE.
Lisa Miller / Volunteer Crotcheter: “I just can’t imagine having a baby and going home without anything.”
THAT’S WHAT MOTIVATES THE “COVER GIRLS.” THE WOMEN AT GRACE AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN FRISCO, TEXAS PUT THEIR CROCHETING SKILLS TO WORK TO MAKE SURE NEW MOTHERS AND THEIR BABIES KNOW SOMEONE CARES FOR THEM.
Kara Hodgekiss / Volunteer Crocheter: “Hopefully, through touching their lives, they come to know there are people who care and a God who cares.”
IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, THE GROUP HAS DONATED OVER SEVENTY BLANKETS FOR PARKLAND HOSPITAL NEWBORNS.
Jan McMillan / New Crocheter: “Kara says she does one in a week, I do one in a month.”
JAN MCMILLAN DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO CROCHET AT ALL, BUT SHE IS A QUICK STUDY - SIX BLANKETS IN SIX MONTHS.
Jan McMillan: “I like to do things for other people, and I especially like babies.”
THE IDEA GREW FROM A CHURCH TRADITION OF PRESENTING A HAND-CROCHETED BLANKET AT EACH NEWBORN’S BAPTISM.
Reverend Billy Echols-Richter: “It was a wonderful expression of ‘this is a gift we have’ and it’s another way of saying we can use all of our gifts to glorify God.”
ALTHOUGH THE CRAFTY WOMEN NEVER MEET THE BABIES OR THEIR MOTHERS, IT DOESN’T SEEM TO MATTER.
Dee Parker / Volunteer Crocheter: “The ‘thank yous’ are what you feel inside.”
AND EVERY COUPLE OF MONTHS, THEY SEND THEIR GIFTS OF LOVE.
“These are from the Cover Girls at Grace Avenue United Methodist.”
Lisa Little / Parkland Hospital Volunteer Coordinator: “To be given a beautiful, spectacular, magnificent afghan like this is heaven sent.”
AND JUST IN TIME FOR ANOTHER SPECIAL DELIVERY.