Bread pans will be inserted in the solar ovens distributed to each graduate of the solar oven cooking schools in Haiti for the first time this year! Each pan needs a black broadcloth cover to help bread turn golden brown—and you can't buy cloths ready-made!

Photo: Macular degeneration doesn't keep 96 year old Grace Wingarden from helping fellow McCabe UMC volunteer Gail Sperry fold fabric for shipping to other Dakotas volunteers who will hem pieces for baking cloths for solar ovens bound for Haiti.   Submitted photo.

Already, 1,200 baking cloths have been hemmed/serged by eager volunteer stitchers across the Dakotas Conference for the spring shipment, a wonderful demonstration of God’s love – hands on! 

Under the administrative leadership of Karen Workman, a member of the Haiti Solar Over Partners (HSOP) steering team, volunteers will hem 1000 more baking cloths for the next shipment. Barb Emery, a quilter at Bismarck Legacy UMC, will cut all that fabric off the bolts into exactly the right size with the help of her Legacy quilters.

Want to join the miracle of sun-baked bread? Donate funds to purchase black cloth or other oven components; send your contribution through your local church treasurer marked Haiti Solar Ovens” #637.