Imagine A World Where Every Little Girl Owns A New Dress

I mentioned in one of my first posts that when I first heard about trafficking I didn't know where or how to get involved.  One of the things that God layed on my heart to get involved in was sewing dresses into pillowcases for Dress A Girl Around The World.   At the time, I didn't know how this would work, how I would get the materials or even how I would get the volunteers.  But God knew.

Each summer, our church has a summer camp for kids up to 5th grade.  Last summer they wanted the kids in summer camp to have a serving project built into a portion of their day at camp.  They heard about what I was wanting to do with the sewing project and asked if we could partner together.  From that partnership God provided enough pillowcases and trim materials to make over 175 dresses!  We are still using the kits those little hands put together for us last summer.  Along with God providing the dresses he also provided an opportunity for over 175 kids to hear about little girls in Africa who don't own even 1 dress.

We have been doing the sewing circle monthly.  Everyone brings their sewing machine and supplies and we have a time of fellowship, devotion and sewing.  There's a soft hum of machines if you walk by our room on a Tuesday night.  My passion for this ministry is still strong, but the number of people attending each month has slowly been dwindling.  I was starting to get discouraged and began to wonder if  maybe this was not where the Lord wanted me to be serving.  After our sewing group last month I prayed once again for God to use me how he wanted. 

God continues to show himself in amazing ways!  This week I received an email that our pastor was going to be mentioning our ministry at one of the weekend services.  Another person, not knowing this, inquired about me dropping off some of the dresses that have already been made to have on display during our Celebration of Hope. 

This is such an encouragement to me and a renewed sense of faith.  God is opening doors for more people to hear about our ministry.   I pray that more volunteers will be inspired to join our sewing circle and that more dresses can be sent to those sweet little girls in Africa. 

What if every little girl in the world owned at least one dress? 

What if that dress was sewn by you?