Topeka Presbyterian Manor
AUGUST 2020
Local quilt group donates cloth masks to staff at Topeka Presbyterian Manor Employees at Topeka Presbyterian Manor benefitted from the generosity of local quilters, who donated reusable cloth face masks in March.
Make a joyful noise By Roger Cook, chaplain
“This was started because you couldn’t buy them, so quilters and home sewers made masks from fabric in their stash,” said Lori Finney, who volunteers with the Kansas Capital Quilters Guild. “And then quickly you couldn’t get elastic and you couldn’t get bias tape.”
As the coronavirus lingers, we can find emotional, spiritual and mental benefits from listening to music and by lifting our voices in song. For many, these days can be depressing and disheartening. We can find joy and lift our minds above the heaviness of this time through musical expression.
The Topeka-based quilters group has been an active part of an effort to provide reusable cloth face masks to organizations in Shawnee County.
Rose Dahlgren, marketing director, models a cloth mask Alone, the group of more than 100 quilting aficionados donated like the hundreds donated to Topeka Presbyterian Manor. While more than 1,000 masks in the employees are no longer wearing first couple of weeks. They cloth masks due to the availability then joined forces with other of manufactured masks, the cloth volunteers, who communicated masks were a blessing when mask through the Facebook group 1,000 Masks for Shawnee County. supplies were low. MASKS - continued on page 4
In the Bible, there are more than 1,000 references to music. Have you ever wondered why music plays such a prominent place in the scriptures and such an essential role in the world today? Consider just a few benefits of music. I have discovered that Christian music cuts through the cares in our minds, and ushers us into God’s presence. For example, as we sing a hymn such as “In the CHAPLAIN - continued on page 2
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