Saint Luke's Lutheran Church
401 Scammel St. Marietta, Ohio 45750 (740) 373-1716
  An ELCA Congregation

"Embraced by God's love, we connect, worship and serve."
LCW
Penny Jar for Red Eye Victims

“GOT PENNIES?!" Our Penny Jar remains in the back of the church on the table, please help us collect money for this important  ministry.  This is important work that is being done through Outreach. With a new beginning in a new year, we have $15.28 filling the jar.
Please make note that their is no need to roll your change because the
  bank prefers to have the money "spun" out at the bank.
This project was started in 2006 and over $30,000 has been raised by all, but more is needed.  This money provides medical help, education for the women, safe housing for them until they become self-reliant, and also clothing and personal essentials.
Thank you for your dedication.




















Helping Hands
Sponsored by
The ELCA and the Women of St. Lukes
Lutheran Church
Items are sent to Lutheran World Relief
and, if needed, given locally.

Layettes
In refugee camps, hospitals, and villages
around the world, gifts of layettes convey a
warm welcome to newborns and their
mothers.
Include the following items in each layette:
•Two shirts
•Two gowns or sleepers
•Two receiving blankets
•F our cloth diapers
•One sweater
•Two washcloths
•One bath-size bar of soap
•Two diaper pins
Tips
•Wrap items in one of the receiving
        blankets and secure with diaper pins.
•Good gently used items can be
       substituted for new ones. Sizes up to 24
       months may be used.
•Sweaters may be knitted or crocheted
        from leftover yam. They may also be
        made from heavy double knits.
        Preferred styles have buttons or ties
       down the front. Infant sweatshirts may
       be substituted for the sweater.
•A bolt of flannel can furnish a number of
        receiving blankets, diapers, and gowns.
        A square cut the width of fabric (Usually
        36" or 45") easily makes a blanket.
•Diapers can be made by using a pinking
        shears to cut pieces 22 1/2" wide X 36"
        long.

Sewing Kits
In the Ivory Coast, young girls who are
Liberian refugees learn to sew with the help
of LWR sewing kits in an after school home
economics program. In Angola, women and
men use sewing kits to help learn a trade and
earn an income in an LWR -supported
sewing workshop.
Include the following items in each sewing
kit:
•Three yards of 44" or 45" cotton or a
        cotton blend fabric; four yards if 36"
•One package of needles for hand sewing
•One spool of matching thread
•One card of buttons
Wrap sewing notions inside fabric and tie
with string, yam, or strip of fabric.

Health Kits
People who must flee their homes quickly
often do not have time to pack essential
items. A health kit can help children, men,
and women who are refugees maintain
personal hygiene while living in exile.
Items may also contribute to a new start for
those who can return home.
Include the following items in each health
kit:
•One hand towel
•One washcloth
•One bath-size bar of soap, any brand
•One toothbrush
•One comb, wide tooth preferred
•One metal nail file, or nail clippers with
        file attached
•Six Band-Aids, preferably 1/2" to 3/4"

Wrap items in the towel, and tie securely
with ribbons or yam.


School Kits
A school kit may provide the only supplies for children returning to school after the disruption of war. For example, after a 30- year war, Angolans have established schools and provided teachers but have little access
to supplies. School kits may help parents continue their children's education, even while living in a refugee camp. A school kit may also be used in adult literacy classes. Include the following items in each school kit:

•Spiral notebooks of ruled paper approximately 8 '/z" by 1 OS' containing
        150-200 sheets of paper or (3- 70sht. Notebooks)
•One blunt scissors (safety scissors with imbedded steel blades work well)
•12" Ruler showing both centimeters and inches
•One pencil sharpener
•Six new pencils with erasers
•One eraser approx. 2 1/2" long
•12 sheets of construction paper in asst.colors
•One box of 16, or 24 crayons
•One cloth bag approx. 12" by 14" with cloth handles

Pack items in the bag, fold the handles over, and secure with two large rubber bands or
tie with yarn.
Here is a no waste pattern for three clothbags with handles made from a 30" X 45"
                             piece of sturdy fabric. Seam allowance is 1/2".

30"
13".
13".
13".
.3"
.3"
Sew 3 panels into tubes.
Cut into three pieces for six handles

Introducing a new jar,"Nickels for Nets"

The United Nations Foundation, in an effort to save lives by containing malaria, has engaged the Lutheran Church, world-wide, to "Halt and reverse the incidence of malaria and other diseases".  The Lutheran Church is recognized, arguably, as having one of the most efficient disaster relief, distribution, and educational network in the world.
Malaria thrives in Africa, Central and South America.  People living in these areas, and in poverty, cannot afford nets to protect themselves from malaria-carring mosquitos.  Malaria exacerbates poverty when people are too ill to work.  For many, poverty is an insurmountable barrier that prevents them from purchasing nets and medications that treat and cure malaria.
The Southern Ohio Synod is a pilot synod for the Lutheran Malaria Initiative.  "A child dies every forty-five seconds from malaria. A $10.00 treated net can help to eradicate this disease.
Please consider donating some or all of the price for one net.  We will be setting up a jar in the back of the church labeled "Nickels for Nets" or money can be given to Sue Brothers.

Dental and Health Kits
We are saving for Lutheran Social Services now. We need dental kits that consist of a toothbrush, tube ot toothpaste and floss in a quart sized plastic zip bag.

Please see 'Helping Hands' below on how to assemble Health Kits!
 
Prayer Shawls
If you have an interest in knitting or crocheting, we have a job for you.  Ask Joye Smolenski to show you the beautiful shawl she is crocheting for Lutheran Social Services.

Quilting On Wednesdays at 9:30am.

On Wednesday, February 1, at 9:30am.  The quilters have already begun getting several quilts readied for this new year. In the attached chart please see just how well we did for this past year in getting items ready to send with other churches in the Muskingum Conference to Lutheran
World Relief. Thanks to all of you for your continual support. If you can, please meet in our
fellowship hall to help put together and tie more quilts.  Lots of fellowship to be had and then afterwards come join the Senior Lunch Bunch at noon.

We could use more material at this point; having used up just about all we had.