"Bonnie Blankets..."

Our home church in Lynden, Washington-Grace Baptist Fellowship, has an incredible ministry.  The women of the church get together and make this amazing blankets for babies. 

These blankets are being made on honour of Bonnie Penner Witherall.  Bonnies served God by working in a medical clinic in the country of Lebanon, taking care of new mom's and babies.  Bonnie went to be with the Lord in November of 2002.

The team of ladies who have been making these blankets, asked me if they could send some of the blankets to the ship. Last year in Togo, we were able to deliver at least 75 blankets to an orphanage. (In all honesty I have lost count of how many blankets they have sent...over 200 I believe...)  This year, we were able to take another large bundle to the Aberdeen Women's Center.

The Aberdeen Women's Center (originally established by Mercy Ships) provides free surgery to women injured in child birth and has a children’s outpatient clinic. The facility has the capacity to deliver 1,200 babies each year in the maternity clinic, treat up to 500 women each year in the fistula clinic, and treat more than 6,000 children each year in the outpatient clinic.

The women were delighted to receive these wonderful blankets to give to the new born babies.

Thank-you ladies of Grace Baptist for blessing the women of Sierra Leone!