Jean White- Prayer Stitches

Jean White - Southern Region

This past week I was blessed to meet Jean

 at a Professional Church Workers Conference

 at Resurrection Lutheran Church 

in Cary, North Carolina.

We have been friends on social media,

but we finally got to meet in Real Life.

 It didn't take long to see where the Lord 

has planted creative DNA

 into her sewing and quilting.

Tools of her craft

 But, then I was able to listen 

to the story that captured my heart.

This lap quilt is for her hairdresser.

He is a cancer survivor 

and very suddenly found out

 that he had a brain cyst,

 lost his vision and was headed for surgery.

And Jean began to pray and stitch

 and pray and stitch.

A lovely toile 

beautiful colors stitched together 

with a prayer heart- 
for a "neighbor in the world."

Joyfully, she was able to share 

that her hairdresser is recovering well

 and that the cyst was non-cancerous.

As she finishes this gift- her friend and his wife 

will use this and be comforted

 that the "body of Christ" surrounded them 

with the gift of prayer.

Tactile, Kinesthetic,Visual Faith.

The gift of time and prayer to bless others.

Jean White is also a novice Bible Journaling

 and we were delighted to share

 the journey of our stories.

 I joined with Megan Daub to thank God

 for the blessing of this

 Journey of Faith with friends.

Jean is a member of St Paul Lutheran Church
 inWhispering Pines, North Carolina

 where her husband- Rev. Denton White

 serves as pastor.