Group Members Make Mask for Healthcare Workers, Community, Family

During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, members of the group have made mask for healthcare workers, community members and family.    We appreciate those that have used their talents to provide protective mask for our community. 

Projects for Rachel's Blankets 2020

There have been many projects for Rachel's Blanket Ministry in 2020.

The group made prayer squares for a class of Kindergarteners whose school was destroyed by a tornado in February 2020.   Our church Douglasville FUMC, has a contact with one of the families in Nashville, Tennessee where the school was destroyed.   We sent gift cards for school supplies and prayer squares for the children.

During the Covid-19 pandemic in March, 2020, a group of the women made mask for the healthcare staff at a local hospital in Douglasville, GA.

Other members of the group continue to make hats.  Each year in the fall/winter we give away 250 plus hats to children and adults in our community.   So far, our group has made approximately 100 hats.   Mainly due to the "stay at home order" for our community.    Crocheters and Knitters always have something to do and have been staying busy making hats.

Rachel's Blankets received a donation for the Douglasville First United Methodist Church Family this month.    It will go to help purchase yarn for the many projects the group supports.

This fall the group has made hats!!   
47 for Little Scholars Academy - DFUMC
22 for School Backpack Ministry
130 for Burnett Elementary School
20 for Adult Homeless Backpack Ministry

All this was done while still making Prayer Shawls, Lap Blankets, Baby Blankets, Prayer Squares, Baby Bereavement Blankets.

Hats for Youth Villages - Deliver of Hats 2016

It was wonderful to visit Youth Villages and meet Kimmy and Chelsea.    We learned about the program and discussed future collaborations.   We will plan a crochet/knitting class for the youth in the winter.   We delivered 135 hats.    That still left us with hats that will be distributed to homeless in Douglasville by one of our Sunday School classes at DFUMC.   They have a backpack ministry and each winter pack bags of clothing, food, and include a hat.

Hats For Youth Villages 2016 - Dedication Sunday

This year after our group made hats for Burnett Elementary First Graders and the 2-5 year class of DFUMC Preschool we were asked to consider making hats for Youth Villages.   Youth Villages is a residential treatment center for troubled youth.    We agreed and 160 hats later we dedicated them in a beautiful service at DFUMC.

Rev. DeHart, Janet, Sandy and Shelia

Sandy and Shelia

Sandy and Shelia

Beverly, Sandy and Shelia

Beverly and Shelia

Hats for Burnett Elementary School and DFUMC Preschool

This year Rachel's Blanket Ministry Team has been hard at work making hats.   We have always made hats for the Burnett Elementary School clothes closet but this year they ask us to sponsor one of their classes and to make hats for each child.    We decided that we would also make hats for our Douglasville First United Methodist Preschool also.    These faces say it all!!

Some of our Team members with the bags and bags of hats!!

Our Team has also made blankets for the Pregnancy Resource Center and Wellstar Hospital.

This photo is from a few years ago, but once again Rachel's Blanket Ministry made military skull caps for soldiers.    The caps were dedicated this weekend in a service at Douglasville First United Methodist Church.

This month we met and collected the following:
32 hats for Youth Village
26 hats for DFUMC Preschool 2years - 5 years
24 military skull caps
11 baby blankets for Wellstar Hospittal
21 prayer squares
1  baby blanket for Pastor Elizabeth Lobello

Last month we delivered caps to donate to the First Graders at Burnett Elementary School and baby blankets to the Pregnancy Resource Center.    We gave baby blankets to a parent of one of our DFUMC Preschoolers and also to our former Youth Paster.