Start an Adaptive Clothing Ministry to Help Wounded Veterans

When former Navy nurse Pat White read in a magazine that the organization Sew Much Comfort needed volunteers to make adaptive garments for soldiers with burns and other injuries, she urged the members in her sewing class First United Methodist Church in Oviedo, Fla., to help.

Within four years, the class had sewn 1,500 garments featuring Velcro closures, uneven-sized legs to accommodate casts, and more, according to sewing teacher Anne Dunson.

“Several of us have family in the military,” volunteer Carol Madsen says. “We’ve stretched our abilities learning how to do these garments. We know we’re helping.”

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 issue of Outreach magazine.

Reviving Personal Evangelism

If we are going to see more people saved in North America and more people engaged in personal evangelism, then we desperately need the Holy Spirit to work in all our hearts. Simply put, we need a mighty move of God in our land.

Oak Park Church: Outreach in the City

Rather than solely coming alongside communities following major natural disasters, the church decided to use the ministry’s life-saving—and life-giving—equipment year-round.

The Moment of Exposure

On Judgment Day, I won’t hide. I won’t run. Not because I’m innocent, but because I’m forgiven. Jesus paid it all.