The Prayer Partner form and information about being a Prayer Partner is on the website under Literature and Forms/International Chapters.  Complete the form and return as requested.  Partners will be matched only by countries until we get necessary contact information from country coordinators.  We do encourage you to pray for Daughters throughout the world and hope that this will work for your chapter.  I will be glad to address any questions you may have concerning Prayer Partners.

Marjorie Rogers

Prayer Partner Chair

(H)631-567-1919

The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple was celebrated in our churches Sunday, February 2, and is celebrated by our In-gathering Day for the Self-Denial Fund also February 2.  We hope that Daughters have remembered to send in their Self-Denial donations for our mission grants.  We are low on funds to support the many great mission projects and some grant requests have been on hold since August 2013.  While the "official" date for the In-gathering of the Self-Denial Fund has passed, the fruit of your self-denial (your collected monies) are welcome throughout the month of February, even throughout the year.  I am including a Wish List to spark an interest for your donations.

Wish List:  Afterschool Program outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Girls-at-Risk Program in Washington, D.C.; refurbishing facilities in The City of God, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; school program in Ghana; missionaries working in Haiti; and St. George's Church missions in Baghdad, Iraq. 

I thank you for all the funds you have contributed for mission work and hope you will continue the valuable work we are doing to reach out to others with the love of Christ.

We now have a Leader's Guide specifically written for leaders of International Daughters in preparation for membership. International Daughters do not pay dues, fill out individual membership applications or pay membership fees. While they may purchase their crosses, often the crosses are paid for by the Order (scholarshipped). This new guide eliminates a lot of the confusion surrounding these issues. 

The appendix includes new sections on the trademark and logo, tips for leaders who have been in chapters in the United States, and a discussion of the differences between our Order and the Mothers' Union. 

The International Leader's Guide may be downloaded from the "Resource" section of the website under the "International Daughters" section in "Literature and Forms." Or you can use the quick link "Forms" at the bottom of the Home Page.

Emily Thrasher

International Chair

Candlelight Service, Junior Daughters, Our Little Roses Mission, Honduras.

I was blessed with the opportunity to visit Our Little Roses Mission (OLR) in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in January 2014.  Their Junior Chapter had graduated out of the program and gone off to their new lives away from OLR, and their Directress had gone off to do something else. Not knowing what I would find, but trusting in the Lord, off I went.  Once there, we were able to find fairly easily a Daughter who was willing to be the Junior Directress, and we scheduled a meeting with girls interested in becoming Junior Daughters.  Fifteen girls showed up at our first meeting.  Several of the girls were quick to serve by acting as translators for me.  We met again a few days later for their Candlelight Service.  At the point in the service in which we gave each girl a candle, we also gave them a Spanish Bible. However, we discovered at that point that we did not have 15 girls, we had 17.  What an overflowing of blessings.  The service was done in both Spanish and English, but before the service, when I was telling the girls about the service and talking about Junior Daughters, I was again blessed with one girl who was quick to serve as my translator.  In addition to the blessings of restarting this Junior Chapter, the good Lord blessed us in many other ways.  On the Sunday we were there, nine girls at OLR were baptized and we, on the team, were given the opportunity to be Godparents to these girls. I am now blessed with a 3-year-old Goddaughter and feel like my cup just kept running over on this trip.

Susan Keith

National Junior Directress

We recently posted our Fiscal Year (FY) 2012-2013 audit report to the Order's website.  We are pleased to report that our financial position is in good standing.

Below is an excerpt from the Independent Auditor's Report:

The entire Audit Report is posted here.  

Thank you to the National Office Staff; our accountant, Karen Dobkin; the auditors, Fulton & Kozak CPAs; and others involved in preparing for and conducting the audit this past year.

Annemarie Delgado
National Treasurer

Sharing How Chapters Keep Our Vows for Prayer, Service, and Evangelism

In response to the terminal illness of a beloved member of our congregation in 2004, St. Gabriel Chapter of the Daughters of the King at St. Gabriel's in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, has sponsored the Prayer Quilt Ministry.  This ministry has grown slowly but steadily.

The recipients of the quilts are experiencing difficult times in their lives and are on our prayer list. Before a quilt is presented, we ask the recipient if he or she would like a prayer quilt.

We rely on donations of fabric and other materials for all the quilts.  We sew with what we have been given. Recently we have received cash donations to cover the cost of batting.  We meet once a month to design quilts, add the batting and attach the backing to make a "quilt sandwich". Then we sew ties into the quilt to hold it in place. This forms the prayer part of these quilts.  The quilts are blessed at both services and the congregation is asked to tie a knot in the ties we've sewn, saying a prayer for the recipient so the whole congregation is invited to be part of this ministry. The quilt is then given either by a member of the clergy or by one of the Holy Comforters. 

Why is this a ministry and how does it fit into our service and evangelism?

In 2013 we blessed 22 quilts.  Two quilts were sent to victims of the Colorado Floods.  

Kimberly Winston's book, Fabric of Faith: A Guide to the Prayer Quilt Ministry has been our guide in this ministry.

Barbara Morrison, St. Gabriel's Chapter of the Order of the Daughters of the King, provided the information contained in this article about Holy Comforters.