Tapestry Interfaith Women Show Love to Homeless Youth with 'Stir Crazy Bags'
Members of Tapestry Interfaith Women, a Plymouth-based organization with a mission to promote religious understanding and friendship through dialogue between women and youth of different faiths and backgrounds, have rallied to bring joy to homeless youth.
“We all need to feel that we are adding to the solution when a crisis hits us, and it’s hard to know where to begin until someone puts an idea on the table,” said Tapestry co-founder Peggy Fairbourne, who learned of the need from her daughter, who works for Lutheran Social Service.
Last month, Tapestry Interfaith Women had to cancel its gathering, which was scheduled at St. Barnabus Lutheran Church in Plymouth, due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
The group meets every other month, at a place of worship, and typically includes a guest speaker and a service project. The group had planned to pack baskets of cleaning supplies and other items for Our Saviour’s Housing permanent supportive housing program.
The organization’s members decided instead to focus on an urgent need due to COVID-19 and to pack bags of activities for the young people, ages 16-24, experiencing homelessness and living in either transitional housing or emergency shelters in the Twin Cities.