Conversations with Barnabas-Elfu Moja
Today's Conversation with Barnabas is a big one. Today we welcome Elfu Moja to the Prayer/Mission Bear Family. Elfu Moja means one thousand in Kiswahili and he is the 1000th bear made by one of the most caring, sweetest individuals you will ever meet. So today we are interviewing Lynda S. who makes 99.95% of all the bears we will be talking about. This one will be more interview style since it was done via email. I am also going to try and include some of my personal memories as one of the bears she made along with pictures. Barnabas (B): When did you start making the prayer/mission bears? Lynda (L): It all started in 2010 when someone asked the prayer shawl ministry group if they did anything special for kids who were in the hospital. The next meeting they brought a bear they had made. B: Did you have a pattern to get you started? L: Well I first took the pattern used to make that first bear but it ...