IS THIS YOU? Then send your extra plastic bags to the General Assembly! Disciple’s women and the youth at the Assembly are joining forces to crochet plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. It takes 500 to 700 bags to make one mat. They are being collected at the Disciple Women Ministry booth at the Convention center. Volunteers will cut the bags into strips and roll balls of “plarn” (plastic yarn) to crochet. On Monday of the Assembly they will begin crocheting the mats in one of the convention hotel’s ballroom.
Those pesky plastic bags have a way of multiplying, so now’s your chance to get rid of them. We will begin to collect them in a box located in the Main Entrance gathering place. We will continue to collect them until the end of June. Crochet hooks and scissors are also needed. So if you wish we’ll take those donations too. The Schwarz’s and the Roy’s will be travelling to Assembly in July. We will transport them with us as we travel to Columbus Ohio where the Assembly will take place. Thanks for your help!
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Carolyn