Chileleko Crochet exists to promote gospel ministry using needlecraft to bring people together. We want to share the good news of Jesus Christ while walking out the gospel where people live. We partner with missionaries, using handicraft projects that build fellowship, enhance church friendships, and create outreach opportunities in local villages and communities.
Anita teaches crochet lessons to small groups of women, providing all the tools and materials needed for classes. As a certified crochet instructor, Anita is able to cover all the range of learning, from the basics to complex works of art. By building friendships while helping with skills training, she is able to share the heart of Christ in tangible one-on-one ways. Depending what location our missionary partners have arranged, classes may vary form 2-8 ladies. Smaller classes allow for better teaching time. Our missionary partners have also shown impressive crochet teaching skills, and there are even some young ladies in the villages who pick the needlecraft up quickly, and help others along the way.
There is another great benefit for the women learning to crochet – they are gaining skills with which they can create marketable goods. The hats, washcloths, sweaters and other things that they learn to create can be taken to market and sold. It gives them another means of income.
Baby Blessing Kits is one of the ministries of Chileleko Crochet.
In the rural areas where we serve, expecting mothers are required to bring to the hospital all the things necessary for baby to be delivered. When parents are not able to provide the right items the baby’s health and long-term vitality may be compromised. This breaks my heart.
We wanted to share the love of Jesus to these parents and babies, and so we have put together kits with all the basic necessities for birthing. Our partners, who are local missionaries, have established relationships with the people in villages and are able to provide these kits to the ones in need of them.
Though the focus of Chileleko Crochet is on rural areas in southern Africa, Anita has also had some opportunities to share her gifts with groups in more urban settings. In Zambia, she led crochet lessons in a local deaf school near where the missionaries live, and also in a local children’s home.
We want to share the heart of God with people there in southern Africa, and one way we can do that is by helping our missionary friends there with new and different avenues of ministry, service, and friendship. We thank God for His work among the people in southern Africa.
Our other partners in ministry – our prayer and support champions – extend a vital helping hand of encouragement, as they share their love for Jesus into far-reaching places, as we are all knit together in love, and grow into the body of Christ.
Baby Blessing Kits 