Our Stake Service project is well underway. Sisters from various wards convened together on August 11, 2004 to measure, cut, and pack fabric, supplies, and instructions into individual kits. Each kit contains everything one needs to construct a quilt that will eventually be donated to the Jamiyah Children’s Home here in Singapore. Our goal is to make 100 quilts. Each ward has been asked to put together 7 quilts under the direction of specialists who have been designated by each Ward Relief Society presidency. We wish to emphasize that this is a “Stake” service project NOT a Stake Relief Society project. We invite all members of the Stake young and old, male and female to participate. In addition to the 7 quilts assigned to each ward, we suggest that individual families, priesthood quorums, young women’s groups, missionaries, family home evening groups, single adult groups, Seminary and Institute classes, and friends and neighbors volunteer to assemble a quilt or two. Please contact Alice Chiu at

6893-4980 or 9681-7928 to arrange for the quilting frames and kits.

We hope to have all of the quilts finished by October 1, 2004; so do not delay, and make every effort to participate in this project. When the quilts are finished the Public Affairs Counsel will arrange for them to be presented to the orphanage.

This is sure to be a rewarding experience for all who choose to participate. Many blessings will come into the lives of those who give, as well as those who will receive.

President Monson expressed it beautifully when he said, "What power, what tenderness, what compassion did our Master and Exemplar demonstrate.  We, too, can bless if we will but follow His noble example. Opportunities are everywhere.  Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight, ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart; yes, and a soul filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye or voice to ear, but in the majestic style that the Savior did, even heart to heart" (Ensign, Nov. 1994, 69-70).