Welcome to "Quilts of Honor - the Travis Project"







Quilts of Honor - the Travis Project, was created out of a desire to honor not only the memory of SSG Travis Hunsberger, but to show honor and respect to the men and women he served with. I made a quilt for Steve & Ronda, Travis' parents, and presented the idea of making more quilts for the soldiers at Fort Bragg. There are numerous wonderful organizations who provide quilts to wounded and hospitalized soldiers, but I felt led to do something different. We decided our first project would be to provide a quilt to each of the men in Travis' unit at the time of his death. Our goal was to accomplish this by Christmas. I am happy to report that we have exceeded our goal, and on December 10 2008, two men from our church, Wakarusa Missionary, headed off to North Carolina to deliver 19 quilts!! In May of 2009, we were able to deliver another 33 quilts!! Since then, we have delivered approximately 40 more quilts to families of the fallen and also to Wounded Warriors. Your help is still needed in lots of ways if we are to keep this project ongoing. First and foremost, pray for these brave men and women who serve each day to keep us free and protect us from those who would seek to do our nation harm. If you are a sewist or quilter, I can use you, if you would like to donate fabric or funds, I can use you. If you'd like to leave an encouraging word, or perhaps you knew Travis and would like to share a memory, I can use that too!



For more information on how you can help, contact me through this blog, by phone @ 574-849-7930, or by email, mamabech@msn.com.



To mail donations, send them to:



Quilts of Honor, c/o Dawn Bechtel, P.O. Box 613, Wakarusa, IN 46573. (Checks should be made out to Quilts of Honor.)



Thanks for stopping by, God bless you, and God Bless America!







Saturday, September 20, 2008

Updates. . .

Just wanted to give a quick update on our progress. . . It looks like all 15 quilts we needed by Christmas have been committed to being made/donated. Praise the Lord! Donations of cash are still needed to pay for the finishing of some of those, and to keep this project rolling. I had the opportunity to talk with Steve and Ronda this week and Ronda received an email from her contact at Fort Bragg. They are excited about what we are doing and look forward to receiving the quilts. She also thought of a couple more people we should've included in our original count, plus three more men have joined the Unit. So, if possible (of course it's possible!) we're going to add another 5 quilts to our total for Christmas. And, I really pray that people remember and realize, that this project shouldn't stop with this first round of quilts. So many more men and women need to know we care and are praying for them and are supporting them.
Articles about us were in the Wakarusa Tribune and the Advance News the past two weeks. I have a meeting with a gentleman from the Goshen News this week, and Steve and Ronda also gave information to the Elkhart Truth (haven't heard from them yet). Pastor Jon Andrews stopped in to see me yesterday and asked for brochures to give to a Quilt Guild in Lakeville, and brochures were also printed to be distributed at the Farmer's Market on SR19. If you have a Quilt Guild or Church that may be interested in more information, have them contact me.
Another thought I had was to set up an email newsletter to inform of urgent requests/needs. Not everyone reads a blog every day, but most of us check our mail. If you are interested in being on that list, just send me an email with "add to QOH newsletter" in the subject line.
I must confess that at times I feel overwhelmed and inadequate, but I know God laid this on my heart and He will see it to completion, whatever form that may be.
Remember Ronda in your prayers this week.
God bless you all, Dawn
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