About SOUL

Stitches of Unconditional Love (SOUL) is a group of men and women who volunteer to make quilts and Bags of Love for children who have been removed from their home because of drug use and abuse by their parents. A child may be removed from his/her home in the middle of the night after seeing a parent arrested and taken away in handcuffs, leaving the child or children frightened and alone. If Methamphetamines were being used, the child can take nothing with him/her but the clothes they are wearing. A Bag of Love, then, is something they can call their own and is a comforting item for that child. You can feel so rewarded to know you are helping a hurting child feel better.

The group meets every Monday from 11:00 a.m. to about 3:00 p.m. at the SOUL building (the small building in front of the Seventh-day Adventist Church), in Bonnerdale, Arkansas, west of Hot Springs, off Highway 70 (709 Adventist Church Rd) to quilt and put together Bags of Love. See map:

https://bonnerdalear.adventistchurch.org/

Bags of Love are age and gender specific containing:

a handmade quilt
a new toy
personal items (toothbrush, toothpaste, towels, etc.)
school supplies
an activity kit or puzzle
a new, large stuffed bear - 15" or larger
stuffed animal
a Bible or New Testament

We meet together once a week or as you are able, to socialize and be of service to others. You don't need to know how to sew or quilt. We will teach you what you want to learn, and we need people to wash and iron fabric and cut quilt squares and sew pieces together. Many of our quilts are hand-tied except those for children under 3 which we machine quilt for the safety of the children of that age.

We have a potluck lunch together at about noon. You don't have to bring food but, if you do, please make it vegetarian because some of us are vegan or vegetarian. You do not have to stay any particular length of time. Just drop in, stay as long as you like. see what we're doing and participate as you'd like.