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
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We will definitely be praying for the supplies, the time, the drive to see it through. We will be praying for the Artist herself (and her sweet Mama too!)
ReplyDeletepraying for you... we love you girl and your heart! maybe I could learn to knit a hat and help. :)
ReplyDeleteI'll be praying for the artist and will have a lot of time on my hands when I get to Sweden. I would love to help, if you need some. Just let me know. :)
ReplyDeleteI have great admiration for Lydia and her sweet heart! I'll be praying for her as well as for the supplies that will be needed! I am going to talk to my granddaughter about this little girl and her project. I think it is something that she and I could do together to help.
ReplyDeletePlease contact me at drkbbg@hotmail.com I want to buy the loom but I need to know what size. I'd also like to get the pattern for the hat. Thank you so much! Betty
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