April 27, 2020 A Letter from Joyce

GOOD AFTERNOON

Good afternoon ladies.  What a beautiful day. 

I just thought I needed to pop in and tell you how much I miss each one of you and how much I appreciate each one of you.  Sometime soon I think we will be able to meet together.  We probably won’t get much done on the quilts the first time.  We just need time to catch up with one another.

Some of us enjoyed our Zoom night together on April 28^th.  Our next Zoom night is May 12^th at 7:15-8:15.  Put that on your calendar.

Many of you have helped to continue to make quilts.  Yesterday I counted….we have 20 quilts that are all done…. 16 that are done and just need the ties….6 are out getting the binding sewed…..8 need pinning….and 6 are in the process of sewing……total is 56 quilts….amazing.  I was hoping for around 56 so we got there.  We have around 16 on our list to give quilts to so we will be busy for the summer.  I was hoping that by fall that we could give to the firemen.  With your continued faithfulness that will be possible.

Remember  no matter what you do to make our Prayer Quilts a continued mission……….EVERY step is important…….but most of all the prayers……may we continue to pray for one another.

God loves you and so do I.

Joyce

Every day brings a choice: to practice stress

Or to practice peace.

April 7 2020. More Covid19 news..

As we are unable to gather to quilt together we decided to do a Zoom meeting; some of us old gals had a bit of a challenge but were able to make it work!  So good to see your faces, hear your laughs and comments (even though everyone wanted to talk at the same time!

Decided to make it a recurring event until we can finally get back together and back to work!

Joyce is still working hard to supply the hospital and health care workers with masks; and now isolation gowns!  Someday she will run out of supplies (elastic, bias tape, fabric...) but she will never run out of energy!

Bless you all my quilting friends!

(Delivered 20 gowns to Bethel Nursing Home 041320)

March 25 2020. Corona Virus

Thanks to those of you who have helped out with the surgical masks and those who have taken home work.  It is a great project that we can help out with.  If anyone wants to stop by and get some of the supplies that I have ready it would be great.

Hope that each one of you is doing fine.  God is good we just need to do what is right at this time.  We are making history……we thought 2019 was history but just look at today.

Put JOY in your day.

Love, Joyce

70 masks were delivered to Valiant Living on April 2 2020:
                                                                         

March 2020 681.Patty. 682.Rich. 683.Chris 684.Megan

March 12. 2020

Good morning ladies.  When I came downstairs it was raining.   Spring is here?????????????

We had a much quieter night on Tuesday night with only six of us but I really cracked the whip.  We only had one machine going…..Ann at the noisey one.  We did miss each one of you and hope that you had a good evening.

We prayed for four people.  That was very good.  

681. For Patty Anderson….Patty is the mother of a co-worker of Marci’s…Patty is going to have open heart surgery……

682.for Marci’s friends Dad, Rich, who has brain cancer…

683. for Holly’s friend’s mother who is in ICU…she needs a liver transplant….

684. for Megan Lang…Megan graduated from DSU in Dec….Megan has been on our list since Christmas but we have had so many really sick people.

You missed the Iron Woman’s delicious dessert.

Next quilt night is March 24^th.

I want each one of you ladies to know how special you are to me.  You have been my support over the last eight years.  My dear husband, Jim, went on to a better place on this date.  I love each one of you from the ones that help to start this group to all the ones that have joined over the years.  I pray that our mission may continue.  May we give a bit of cheer to many people.

Love, Joyce

                           Choose joy each day

February 25, 2020. 676.Karen. 677. Sherry and Don. 678.Cecily B and family. 679.Larry O. 680.Leon &Marsha A.

We had another wonderful night but I need to apologize my clock was wrong.  I dropped it in the afternoon when I set the sewing machine under it.  I did not look at the time when I put it back up.  It was 20 minutes fast.  I could have cracked the whip for another 20 minutes!!

We did quilts for 

676. Karen…an older lady that works at Sunshine..her husband has been in the nursing home and just passed away….

677. Sherry and Don Bauman who just lost their son in a grain bin accident near Elkton….Sherry is Billie Hoekman’s sister and went to West Center for years…

678. Cecily Bauman, the wife, and her three little children, Evelyn, Weston, & Sawyer…

679.  Larry Olesen…Larry is the father of one of Noah’s best friends……Larry had a stroke and is in ICU in Sioux Falls

680. Leon and Marsha Anderson who just lost their son in an automobile accident.  

Continue to pray for Holly.  It has been one year since her Mom went to her heavenly 

home.

Next quilt night will be March 10^th.

Thank you for your faithfulness.

Love, Joyce

“Joy points upward.”

February 12, 2020. 670.Jackie S 671.Susan N. 672.Justin T 673.Larry F 674.Sarah N 675.Betty N

Good afternoon ladies.  It is a good day to spend down in my basement quilting on the quilts.  The wind came just like they said.

Thank you ladies for making each quilt night a good one.  I appreciate each one of you.  We need each one of you and our prayer time is most important.  May we continue to thank God and raise up each one of the people getting quilts.  We did quilts for 

670. Jackie Salmen….this was a thank you quilt for all the work she does to help us out at the church….

671. Susan N. who works at the nursing home….Remember Susan as she has bladder surgery on Monday….

672.  Justin Tucek…a 21 year old Madison graduate who has had numerous heart surgeries…Justin’s story was in the Feb. 5^th Madison Daily Leader…….

673. Larry French dealing with cancer and the chemo issues…….

674. 675. Sarah and Betty Nelson…friends of Marci’s…Sarah has numerous health       issues…..Betty, her Mom, is Sarah’s caregiver. 

 Continue to pray for Reg and Marli Wiese  for the rest of her term in Pierre.  Pray for the young man Trent Hofer….Trevor’s friend who was killed in a skiing accident….for Trevor’s family going through some hard medical times.    Pray for Diann Balling who is going  through some hard times…pray for healing .  Pray for Joanne Jensen who has gone into the nursing home.  Pray that she may return to her apartment.

Next quilt night is Feb. 25^th.

Thank you Marian for the delicious angel food.  I enjoyed another piece for lunch today.

 (And Happy Birthday to this young Lady!)

Continue through it all to CHOOSE JOY.

Love, Joyce

• Loving like Jesus means you accept other people the way Jesus accepts us….and when 

His love flows through us its possible for us to love others unconditionally.

January 29, 2020 665.Erin 666.Corleen 667.Mark H 668.Kendrick 669 RogerS

Good morning ladies.  What a beautiful morning with all the frost on the trees……another one of God’s touches.

We had a great night last night.  We had a great night because of the faithfulness of EACH one of you……remember you are all very important in this mission.  May God continue to bless this mission…..it is all about the prayer’s.

We did quilts for:

665. Erin is a young 34 year old with two little boys and a husband.  She has very aggressive breast cancer……

666. Corleen, a relative of Joyce, dealing with breast cancer…..

667. Mark Hollingsworth who had back surgery…….

668.  Kendrick a little baby dealing with many health issues……

669.for Roger Schrepel who will be having extensive shoulder surgery on Friday.  

Keep each one of these individuals in prayer.

Don’t forget the bridal shower for Amanda (Rowland) Zacharias on Feb. 8^th.  Amanda came to help with the prayer quilts a couple of years ago.

Be on the alert for anyone who could use our prayers.  It is so wonderful to have a rack full of quilts again.  If there is a need they are ready.

Next quilt night is February 11^th.

You are all special to me and to God.

Love, Joyce

Like roses in a garden, kindness fills the air

With a certain bit of sweetness as it touches everywhere.

For kindness is a circle that never, never ends

But just keeps ever-widening in the circle of our friends.

For the more you give, the more you get is proven every day,

And so to get the most from life you must give yourself away.