Handmade quilts are often made to warm the heart, not just the body. That's what Pastor Renae Calva prays will happen with the 18 quilts a group of volunteers handmade for incarcerated women. Renae says she wants "these women to feel like they've been blanketed in prayer. They've been covered in prayer by people that love them."
The women receiving the quilts are graduates of the Prison Fellowship Academy® at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee (MCF-Shakopee). The Academy helps participants replace criminal thinking and behaviors with renewed purpose and biblically based life principles.
Renae connected with a local ministry called the Nobility of a Quilt, whose motto is "Hope restored, one woman at a time," to fund and make the quilts. But making 18 quilts—just like restoring hope—is no small feat.
