Estes Valley Piece Corps is a small group who work together with the community to do big things. They are dedicated to making quilts for neighbors in need in Colorado, the United States and around the world to provide warmth and love in a concrete way. This year they completed a record 172 quilts.
The quilts will be a centerpiece of the special Women’s Thankoffering and Quilt Blessing Service at Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church on November 9 beginning at 9 a.m. with Pastor Todd Bertani presiding. Pastor Dan Johnson from the Pine Ridge Reservation Reconciliation Center is visiting and will be preaching that morning and lead a forum after the service. The quilting group will lead the congregation in a special blessing for the quilts.
Beautiful quilts will cover all the pews and adorn the altar that morning. 22 quilts have already been taken to La Puente in Alamosa, CO and given out in May and October. Pastor Johnson will be taking 24 quilts to the Pine Ridge Reservation when he returns to South Dakota. The remaining 126 quilts will be packed up after the service and are destined for Lutheran World Relief who will combine these with quilts from congregations all over the country and ship them where there is the greatest need. This is Lutheran World Relief’s 80th year of faithful service to those facing disaster, war, and violence around the world. It helps us share these concrete signs of warmth and love to neighbors both in the U.S and around the world wherever fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and wars strike…