Spring Thing and Sponsorship No. 4

This past weekend our guild was invited to participate in Open Doors Ontario at the "Spring Thing" at Springfield House in Escott. Open Doors Ontario is province wide and basically it is to get people interested in the "goings on" in their respective communities and for us in this part of the world, we were able to display in two historical buildings in the area.

Springfield House is now the Escott Library having been restored and it is a wonderfully, charming old building that once served as a resting place for those travelling between Montreal and Toronto in the the late 1800's.

We set up the Congo rug, as well as many other rugs belonging to the members of our very prolific guild, and over the course of two days there was always someone there to demonstrate how we rug hook. It was great!!

We had our flowers on sale and as a result of that we have been able to sponsor 4th woman and are very, very close to our Number 5 sponsorship. We are off to our Annual Ontario Rug Hooking Guild meeting in Kitchener so we are all very busy making flowers so that we can possibly sponsor number 5, 6 and seven!! I will be back to tell you how it all went. It usually is a great time and Rhonda will be talking about the rug again this year filling everyone in on our progress.

Thanks to all that so generously donated to the cause this past weekend.

P.S. You will note in the photo our little furry friend is wearing her "Women Matters" brooch. All of the women who have participated have opted to wear a turquoise flower with our Women Matters ribbon attached.

Sponsorship No. 3

Here is proof, on Friday, May 8th, we mailed out our third sponsorship money order. How appropriate that we were able to do this so close to Mother's Day.....hopefully we can give a Mom some hope for her and her children's future.

Thank you to the Evangelical Lutheran Women of Good Shepherd in Brockville that helped us to make this possible so quickly...thank you, thank you!

Women for Women in Brockville

The Evangelical Lutheran Women of Good Shepherd, Brockville, ON welcomed us to an evening of great food and an opportunity to display and talk about the Congo Project. Rhonda gave the ladies a brief history of what we are doing, why we are doing it and gave a brief synopsis of what is happening and why in the Congo.

Once again we took our flowers to sell and we would like to thank the ladies for their gracious donations for the cause. Some bought flowers while others just gave money and because of their generosity we were able to sponsor another woman through Women For Women International.

In the closing remarks for the evening, on woman reminded us to pray for these women in the Congo one cannot deny the power of prayer.

Thank you Sheila, for inviting us to this wonderful evening sharing with women for women. God Bless