MiteE Blankets

My Friend Dianne shared this story about the first project that she did with her MiteE Team.  She created a group to do service together.  This is her story of how their first project went.  Thanks for sharing Dianne, we look forward to hearing about more MiteE things that you are doing.

When I decided to form my own MiteE Team, I thought a lot about who I would ask to join with me to inspire, uplift and serve others.  I prayed for help.  I came up with a list of people who I know that are service oriented and motivated by positive contributions. I am drawn to others  who have talents and gifts in many different areas and are in different life stages and circumstances.  Many of the people I approached were ones that have blessed my life through service or have worked along side on different projects.  I had enthusiastic responses from everyone.  We were ready!

I had a team gathered, but I was having a hard time coming up with a kick off project.  One morning I prayed that I would be able to see a need and fill it through our project.  That day I got an email from the widowed husband of a friend of mine that had a 3+ year battle with cancer.  He was expressing his appreciation and love to those that helped, served and comforted him the last several years as they fought cancer.  At the end of his email he said that he wanted to do something to help others ease the burden of a chronic medical condition Degeorge Disease.  He has a grandson that suffers with it and wanted to bring comfort and hope to the support group of caregivers and the suffers of this disease.  He decided to make fleece blankets to give to all the people affected by Degeorge and the annual Christmas party.  Donations in time, fleece, and making were requested.  I knew I had found the project that I wanted to do! 

I called my team and gave them the details and we set the date and time which was earlier this week.  We had a great time.  We ended up making 16 blankets in 2 hours and had a great activity!

Making blankets...