"Top to Bottom"
             We'll Get Them Covered
               (Diaper and Baby Hat Ministries) 

THE DIAPER PROJECT was started in 2004 by two women from Salem Lutheran Church in Deerwood, MN. As a group from Salem Lutheran was preparing for a mission trip to Honduras, these two women prepared "homemade" diapers made from t-shirts for the group to take along. Several large suitcases filled with diapers were transported and delivered to a large teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, the capitol of Honduras. The then First Lady of Honduras heard about the delivery and asked to meet the group leaders. She expressed gratefulness for the helpful gift and asked if more diapers could be given to her country. Diaper-making began all over the Northeastern Minnesota Synod. The t-shirts into diapers ministry now extends beyond the synod's borders.

Over 100,000 diapers have been delivered to Honduras since February 2004. Your support of this on-going project is welcomed and encouraged. Diapers can be made from t-shirts or any other absorbent fabric. Click here for a diaper pattern. The diapers do not have to be exact in size and if you have a different pattern, use it! Cash donations to off-set the shipping costs are needed and can be mailed to the NE MN Synod, 1105 E. Superior St., Upper Suite, Duluth, MN 55802. 

Making BABY HATS has become a project  for covering those baby "tops." Many shapes, colors, and sizes are needed. Click here for a baby hat pattern. This is only a suggestion - feel free to use your favorite pattern. Crocheted hats as well as those sewn from knit fabric are also welcome. The synod office is one drop off site for diapers and hats. Drop-off Sites for others.

  Honduran babies 
  in their new hats!