Wendy Hagar, founder of Sew on Fire Ministries, believes that the more you give, the more you get."Our centre is full and overflowing," she says. "We redistribute to the poor in Canada and other countries as fast as it comes in."
Sew on Fire collects personal, household, medical and educational supplies, packages the goods in custom-designed cloth gift bags and sends them to other countries with short-term mission groups.
With the help of volunteers and donors, the organization has given away more than 200,000 gift bags and other items like mini-layettes to mission groups for distribution in 92 countries.
"They get creatively-designed and packaged gift bags," Hagar says, "to deliver personally to widows, orphans and the poor and suffering all over the world."
Local communities also get involved. Churches, schools, service groups and corporations pitch in to help at the centre.
"I couldn't do it without them," says Hagar. "Sew on Fire gives people a chance to help a hurting world and send God's love in a tangible form to people in need."
She adds that nothing ever goes to waste. Old flannel shirts and bed sheets become diapers and bibs. Bits of yarn are transformed into mitts and toques. Short pencils go into teachers' kits.
"We make use of it all," she says, "In North America we have so much excess. This centre is filled with our 'excess.'
"God is in this like He was in the miracle of the loaves and fishes. The more they gave away, the more it multiplied."
Sew on Fire opened a new, expanded distribution centre in Burlington this spring, as it celebrated its 12th anniversary.
More than 200 visitors, including Burlington's mayor Rick Goldring and MPP Jane McKenna attended the open house. In an aisle between rows of donated supplies, McKenna presented Hagar with a commemorative certificate for community work.
Sew on Fire collects personal, household, medical and educational supplies, packages the goods in custom-designed cloth gift bags and sends them to other countries with short-term mission groups.
With the help of volunteers and donors, the organization has given away more than 200,000 gift bags and other items like mini-layettes to mission groups for distribution in 92 countries.
"They get creatively-designed and packaged gift bags," Hagar says, "to deliver personally to widows, orphans and the poor and suffering all over the world."
Local communities also get involved. Churches, schools, service groups and corporations pitch in to help at the centre.
"I couldn't do it without them," says Hagar. "Sew on Fire gives people a chance to help a hurting world and send God's love in a tangible form to people in need."
She adds that nothing ever goes to waste. Old flannel shirts and bed sheets become diapers and bibs. Bits of yarn are transformed into mitts and toques. Short pencils go into teachers' kits.
"We make use of it all," she says, "In North America we have so much excess. This centre is filled with our 'excess.'
"God is in this like He was in the miracle of the loaves and fishes. The more they gave away, the more it multiplied."
Sew on Fire opened a new, expanded distribution centre in Burlington this spring, as it celebrated its 12th anniversary.
More than 200 visitors, including Burlington's mayor Rick Goldring and MPP Jane McKenna attended the open house. In an aisle between rows of donated supplies, McKenna presented Hagar with a commemorative certificate for community work.
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