A little love sewn in
By Brandon Davis
Published in News on January 21, 2017 12:26 PM
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Minnie Dixon sews buttons on a pillowcase to make a dress at St. Mark Church of Christ, Saturday. She and 50 others got together to make dresses for girls in Ghana.
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St. Mark Church of Christ, Saturday. She and 50 others got together to make dresses for girls in Ghana.
Minnie Dixon has always believed young girls ought to wear dresses.
The mother of three daughters, Dixon clothed her children in sundresses with bright, flowery patterns.
Her daughters are now grown, but Dixon knows there are girls out there for whom a pretty dress might be just out of reach. So she and 50 other women at St. Mark Church of Christ decided to get together and do something about it.
Dixon and her band of volunteer-seamstresses transformed donated pillowcases, Saturday, into beautiful dresses for young girls in Ghana, West Africa.
"I have a love for children," she said. "I like to see little girls dressed up in dresses."
"When my daughters were growing up they never wore pants."
Dixon sewed buttons on nearly 75 pillowcases as a part of the church's women's fellowship group.
Doris Smith, wife of Bishop Alton Smith and chairman of the 60-member group, said the ladies needed a project to start off the new year for the church. She said St. Mark, located at 700 W. Ash St., currently sponsors 30 churches in West Africa, and the obvious idea was to help children.
She researched information about young girls in Africa last August and realized they receive more physical and sexual abuse due to their ragged clothing. She said young girls are less likely to be abused if they wear dresses.
"It looks like somebody loves you and somebody cares about you," Smith said. "They're just not on the street in any ol' kind of way. Somebody really cares about them."
Read more about Mrs. Dixon and the ladies of St. Mark's good works in Sunday's issue of the Goldsboro News-Argus.