Monday, April 19, 2010

The Story Behind This Blog

This blog has just been started by my oldest daughter, The Artist. She heard a story from my dad and his wife about their recent mission trip to work in a hospital in Nalerigu, Ghana, which is located in West Africa. The hospital delivers about 2,000 babies per year. One of the items that we as Americans take for granted are the hats that our babies are given in the hospitals. In Ghana, the babies have no hats. This is a need, especially for the premature babies.

The Artist already knew how to knit baby hats using a cool tool called the Knifty Knitter.  She developed an incredible burden for these babies without hats!  My parents will return to the same hospital in February of 2011, and The Artist hopes to send at least 1,000 hats with them!

This blog will be a journey of how this goal is met.  We ask you to pray for her and her friends that she will teach to make more hats.  Pray that God will provide girls and the materials needed to complete such a God-sized task for such a little girl (well, she's 9, but always my little girl).

Blessings!
The Artist and her Mama