Handmade Care and Comfort at Valley Baptist Church Bakersfield

This ladies group is called Handmade Care and Comfort. It began in 2016. They have an average volunteer rate of about 10 women per week who meet every Monday evening at the church. They cut fabric, sew various items to give away, stuff Poly-Fil into assorted items, and iron on labels when completed.

They make neck pillows, Ouchie Buddies (a simple doll to hold for comfort), Comfort/Lumbar pillows, and two sizes of Port-a-cath pillows that protect patients while wearing seatbelts. They deliver comfort items to local Hospice, health care, and cancer centers and they also donate shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child.

One of the volunteers explained, ” Through the items we make, this ministry seeks to bless people, whom we will never know, with some measure of physical comfort as well as emotional comfort in knowing someone cares about what they are going through at this time in their life.”