Several women that meet weekly at Denver United Methodist Church

Several women that meet weekly at Denver United Methodist Church have made a global impact with their sewing machines.
Church members Faye Helton, Jean Durham, Connie Berry, Wanda Reynolds, Judy Martin and Margaret Reep came together in May of 2011 after seeing a dress

pattern on a television show. With that dress pattern, they’ve impacted men, women and children in the countries of Haiti, Armenia, China, Belize, India,

Peru, Honduras and Guatemala and in various countries in Africa.
“There’s a show on television called ‘Nancy’s Notions,’” Reynolds said. “And they were talking about these little dresses. So we got the pattern and
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started making the dresses.”
“We did pillow cases for another group,” Helton said.
The small sewing group gets the fabric for the dresses mainly from donations, although some of the trim and incidental sewing needs that are required to

complete the dresses are out-of-pocket expenses. To date, the ladies of Denver United Methodist Church have sewn 47 shirts, 60 pants and 1,650 dresses. The

dresses are donated for mission trips for various churches in Lincoln County and the surrounding area.
“If we hear of someone going on a mission trip,” Reynolds said, “not necessarily from our church, then Faye talks to them or we talk to them and tell them

that we have these little dresses that we will give to them for no charge.”
The standard number of dresses any group takes usually runs between 20 and 25, but there are large orders.
“We’ve sent out up to 100,” Helton said.
The group has an efficient assembly line. One woman cuts the pattern while another irons the fabric to prepare the dress for sewing. Another woman adds trim

and yet another laces the elastic. Dress sizes run small, medium and large.
“The large can fit a small adult,” Durham said. “And we’ve made special requests before.”
The women are passionate about their work and have gone to great lengths to make sure their mission remains intact.
Helton and Reynolds have traversed through large containers full of bolts of fabric and the entire group will pay out of pocket to make sure all of the items

required to make the dresses are available. The church donates finances to the cause and they have a few patrons, but the women are always on the lookout for

any help they can get to help the little girls around the world that wear their dresses.
The group meets on Mondays from 9 a.m.–noon at Denver United Methodist Church at 3910 Highway 16 in Denver.
Donations of fabric, materials or finances should be sent to the church.