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Featured Person- Beverly Lane

1/4/2014

 
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I’ve been serving for others for about 35 years.  In 1998, I started serving for Binky Patrol which is an organization out of Los Angeles, California. I broke away from them and decided to just sew on my own thinking I wouldn’t be so busy. Instead, my ministry mushroomed even when I moved from Wisconsin to Illinois.

I’ve been asked why I do this…truthfully; I ask myself that question from  time to time. The best answer is God has given me the grace to sew for others and it seems I can’t stop. I have received many thank you notes, but the one I tucked in my heart was from a girl at Hands of Hope – “Thanks for sending us blankets and let us know someone cares for us even though we make some mistakes.” So I guess this thank you from year 2000 has kept me going.

Since 1998, I have made over 5,000 “HUGS” in the form of security blankets, twin size blankets, tote bags for ages 0 – 100. In all of this, I only have personally given one “HUG” to a recipient and it was to a blind boy. The rest have been taken by missionaries. Right now, in between making baby blankets, I am taking blue jeans apart so I can make 40 blue jean blankets for the beds at Bible Witness Camp in St. Anne, Illinois. That’s a lot of blue jeans.
Some of the places Beverly has sewn for:
Thuy Smith International (Vietnam & Local) ,Dr. Patch Adams (All over the World), Honduras, Philippines, Guatemela, Peru, Mexico, Israel, and all over the midwest. Children Hospitals, Orphanages, Foster Care, Hospice, and other Missions.

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