Lunch at a grocery store???

It was our last time to knit until next Fall. We are went to Laporte to eat lunch and then went to our pastor and his wife's home for dessert.  This made our final knitting session for the church really special.  We ate in a grocery store?? I wondered if we spilled something we would hear  Clean up in aisle seven. It was a great meal.  The part that made it good was the meat.  It was like old fashioned hamburgers.  They weren't processed over ground patties.  I had the bacon cheese burger and the bacon was thick cut and meaty.  I would go back again.  Then we were off to our pastors home and Jan had made a great dessert.  We laughed and told stories and talked of books that we had read.  What a great group of friends.  The word Sisu in Finnish means friend and I told them that that what I think of when I think of them .......Sisu ....friend.

Our group knits baby sweaters, afgans, and prayer shawls.  Most of these are for world relief and are sent to third world countries.  But the afgans are distrituted locally to families that are in crisis. 
The prayer shawl are distributed to people that are either in health crisises or a family member that is in crisis.  This is a very personal ministry. Anyone that knows someone or is about to visit someone that needs one can pick one out for them and send it or hand deliver it.  It is a very powerful message to send to someone in cirsis.  It tells a person that an entire church family is behind them and praying for them.

It is a small group ministry that has a big impact ---the First Lutheran Knitters.