Miwani for Mwanza: Quilt Raffle to Benefit M4M Mission

Monday, May 11, 2009

Quilt Raffle to Benefit M4M Mission

This past weekend we kicked off our quilt raffle to benefit our mission trip and the eye clinic in Mwanza. Ticket will be sold for the next three weeks and the drawing will be on Sunday, May 31st.

Tickets are $5 each or 5 tickets for $20. Tickets are sold at the Tanzania Table in the narthex during the weekend services.

The queen size quilt is beautiful and was donated for the raffle by our team members, Cindy and Don. Here Cindy and a couple other gals from the TZ team are showing off the quilt at the Palm Sunday brunch. The actual size of the quilt is 86" x 102".

Don's 85 year old mother hand stitched the detail on the quilt with loving care. This is one of the 35 quilts she has made over the past 25 years.

The quilt is on display at the TZ Table in the narthex where you can see it up close, check out the detail in the stitching and feel how soft and cozy it is.

More information to come in future posts.

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Miwani for Mwanza Mission

In July 2009 the “Miwani for Mwanza” mission team from Atonement Lutheran Church traveled from Overland Park to Mwanza, Tanzania. “Miwani” is the Swahili word for eye glasses.

While in Tanzania the team worked with International Health Partners to begin the construction of an eye clinic at the Nyakato Health Center. The eye clinic is critically needed to serve over 200,000 people in the Southern Lake Victoria area.

Dennis and Paula Lofstrom and IHP-TZ oversee the Nyakato Health Clinic through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania.

In June of 2012 another team from Atonement will travel to Mwanza with the goal to finish the eye clinic as well as to serve in various medical roles. Several members of the M4M team are Health Care Professionals and during the trip will be providing medical & eye exams, treatments and eye surgery for the people in that area of Tanzania.

$36,000.00 US is needed to to purchase the supplies to complete the Ahlrichs Eye Clinic, and $21,000 of that has been raised already through a Golf Benefit last fall and the "Spread Some Salt" Gala & Silent Auction this past March.

Your contributions toward the final $10,000 needed to complete the Eye Clinic are greatly apprieciated by the M4M teams, IHP-TZ and the people of Mwanza. Asante Sana!

Click here to make a donation.