THE
GOOD SAMARITAN
QUILT PLAZA
Every day, guests to LWR headquarters in Baltimore are greeted by the beautiful Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza, featuring colorful bricks arranged in a quilt pattern called “Many Trips Around the World.” Each engraved brick represents a $500 donation to LWR’s Project Comfort Fund to help ship quilts, layettes, soap, and school, health and sewing kits to people in need around the world.
The proceeds from a Quilt Plaza brick can ship more than 220 quilts to people who have lost all they have to disaster or war. It can deliver 500 sewing kits to women who can use them to generate income for their families, or nearly 385 layettes to welcome newborn babies into the world. When all 10,000 bricks have been purchased, more than $36 million in quilts, kits and layettes will have been distributed throughout the world with the proceeds!
That’s all in addition to the legacy your brick will leave for generations to come.
Anyone can donate a brick to the Quilt Plaza. Consider these special uses for a brick:
• Honor your church’s quilting ministry or a faithful leader in your congregation.
• Memorialize a longtime quilter or other special person.
• Commemorate a special event such as a birth, marriage or anniversary.
What better way to honor a special group, individual or event than to make possible God’s love extended to those in need?
How to purchase a brick
on the Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza
Please complete and send us your Brick Order Form. You may purchase as many bricks as you like. Please complete a separate form for each brick you wish to purchase.
You will receive a confirmation letter from LWR within three weeks of sending in your form. After that, it can take up to six months to install the brick. We will tell you in the letter when the next installation will take place. After installation you will receive a certificate of appreciation for your support that includes a photo of your brick.
Can't donate a brick right away?
If you’re not able to donate a brick right away, you may reserve a brick now and raise the $500 within the next year. Consider what others do to raise money for the Project Comfort Fund:
- sell, raffle or auction two or three specially designed quilts
- take orders for quilts as wedding and baptism gifts
- hold a Quilt Sunday and sponsor the church coffee hour
- ask other members in the parish to consider honoring the quilting group or a special member from the group
- apply for matching funds from local organizations, businesses and employers
- work with one or two other congregations in your community
QUESTIONS?
Write, call or email Fred Longhenry at:
Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza
Lutheran World Relief
700 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
410-230-2816
flonghenry@lwr.org
