For a few hours one Tuesday each month, several women of many faiths thread themselves together at Copley United Methodist Church making patriotic quilts for critically wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan young men and women they’ve never met. The quilters are further buoyed in their material mission by letters, thank-you notes and photographs they’ve received from the wounded soldiers who are receive their quilts. Also receiving a quilt was Jessica Clements from nearby Coventry Township, an Army Reserve staff sergeant who was critically wounded with a brain injury in a roadside bombing in Iraq. Copley United Methodist Church, where the needle artists meet, had a recent ”Blessing of Hands and Feet” service in which the quilts were placed on the altar and prayers were said for those making them as well as for those receiving them. read more

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