Prayer and Deadlines

Early Thursday morning I confirmed that we are supplying a group of volunteer ministers Jessie’s bags as gifts during their pioneer school.

Starting around 2 pm Thursday 7 volunteers started working  to put together 30 bags. We needed the bags completed and delivered by Friday night to give as gifts to the first group of full time volunteer ministers. We pray that we will have the help and be able to finish on time. Their last day of class is Saturday.  Our supply of webbing was depleted so we were working to create handles out of fabric. This is a bit time consuming and none of the volunteers enjoy this task.

 About 6 pm 2 more volunteers showed up after work and brought in the door with them a box UPS had just dropped off. One of the suppliers we contacted earlier this week to see if they would support our work with their trash sent us a large box of webbing!!!!!! Yea!!!  We immediately stopped laboring on making handles. They sent us a whole variety of colors and sizes. Thank you!  Thank you!!  Thank you!!!

We quickly said a prayer of thanks for the willing suppliers, and in appreciation for the volunteers and supplies to complete this project. God definitely answers prayers!

We had some bags already completed (except for handles) we quickly got to work pinned on handles. We now have least 15 more bags ready for sewing and completion. Friday morning Jessie will finish attaching these handles and we will tag the bags and wrap them with bows for giving out Saturday.

We don’t usually wait till the last minute to finish projects. The pressure and stress of a deadline is a pain. We usually just work on bags making a few every day. This time the last minute rush was a good thing we didn't have to change the handles on bags.

We love the finished look of the webbing as handles on Jessie’s bags. The only problem we have is finding belts and paying for them, sometimes our funds run low. Sometimes there are no belts available.  We like to up-cycle the supplies we use. So a lot of our supplies come from Thrift stores. Recently we don’t see any belts around.  This supplier sent us his short ends and out of date webbing. His trash! we love that also. Up-cycling!

Prayfully  this project will finish on time. We will start on the next 30 bags for the class that starts Monday. We want to give Jessie’s Bags to 4 classes (30 Students in each class) in July and August 120 bags. Now we have handles to complete the process.

Did I mention I hate deadlines…?  Oh well it’s only a month.

All of Jessie’s bags are Hand made using recycled supplies. Most of the fabric, supplies, time and labor are donated to make Jessie’s Bags.

Thank you Jehovah for the volunteers and suppliers willing support Jessie's bags!