Baby Bag Party

 

While we were home for Christmas break Martha and Theda had collected enough items for well over two hundred bags.  I asked them to come to my home and we would put them together.  We had so much fun that afternoon in the middle of the living room floor.  There was laughter and there was excitement about how much they had collected.  Theda shared she has become addicted to collecting the items.  Any time she is out and about she will stop to see if a particular thrift store has any of the items needed for the baby bags.  During all the snow North Carolina had allowed Theda to make blankets and diapers while she was snowed in at home.  Martha goes twice a week to one location to check their stock to see if they have any of the items. 

Patricia, Carole and Ginger go to local yard sales and their church family assist them as well. Patricia shared during Christmas with me how she loves to get up on Saturday morning and hit the yard sales to hopefully find the items for the baby bags.  One interesting part to Patricia's story is Carole and Ginger have not ever met.  So you have five ladies serving the same Lord with the same calling to collect baby bags for the local hospital in Choluteca, Honduras. 

Martha was at an estate sell one day looking for beanie babies.  She met a lady who was coming on a mission trip to Choluteca, Honduras the next week.  It is a very small world we live in.  Sometimes when the different places find out where the baby items are going the merchants or yard sales will donate the items.  But a lot of the time the ladies are wheeling and dealing to get their best buy for their monies.  They all spend so much time going and collecting these items each week.  It is humbling for me to know the love which is going into each bag for these babies.  The ladies pray over the baby bags as they put them together.  Praying for the families as well as the newborn who will be receiving these baby bags. 

There is not enough words to say thank you for all you all have done for this additional ministry here in Choluteca, Honduras.  I started out with one hundred bags a month and thanks to you ladies I can sometimes take up to two hundred or at least one hundred fifty a month. 

 

The master replied, "Well done good and faithful servant!"

Matthew 25:23