I started Lifeline Gifts in the fall of 2019 to help needy children of all ages around the world. I have a chronic illness that leaves me unable to perform normal daily tasks. I’m mostly confined to my bed or mobility chair but I was seeking something that I could do, and discovered another dream — to help needy children of all ages around the world. So, I started gathering the needed funds. I was able to order all the supplies and, with the help of many willing hands, we prepared 200 boxes that were sent out in November 2020. You can watch the video documenting that project on our homepage. (The picture above shows the volunteers who helped out with that project!) I grew up on the mission field of Mongolia in orphanage work with my family. After we came back to the States, I went through LPN school with the hope of becoming a medical missionary. However, my health took a nosedive due to multiple chronic illnesses, diagnosed in May 2018 that left me unable to perform normal daily tasks, and mostly confined to bed or recliner.
After 8 and a half years my health has improved somewhat although still feeling so weak and sick my heart has become very happy which allows me to be brave and push through the symptoms to do things for Jesus. In Dec 2025, I “graduated” to an electric mobility chair at home. Because of God’s mercies and touch, I am able now again to help with organizing the various facets of Lifeline Gifts as well as ordering and sorting supplies and taking pictures for updates. Though limited to the use of one hand, I sew baby quilts for layette bundles and uses my embroidery machine to create greeting cards, and other items for sale in our NEW LLG Store! We also put embroidered cards in every box and bundle.
Anita (Mom to Amaris) is the will and way behind LLG. She is a mission-minded, stay-at-home mom, who loves children and was an English teacher for many years in Mongolia. She enjoys sewing and has been creating baby quilts for years. Now she is the one who turns the quilt tops Amaris creates into completed quilts for the layette bundles for Lifeline Gifts. She keeps up with a host of responsibilities, including shopping for and collecting items, organizing and laying out the items for filling boxes and layettes, assisting with the embroidery machine, and communicating with the various pregnancy centers about their needs for layettes. She is Amaris’s full-time caregiver so she shoulders a lot of responsibility including LLG.
- Lifeline Gifts is for providing gifts and the gospel for both children around the world and for women who choose life for their babies.
Also Our vision expanded in the fall of 2020, to supply a little layette bundle of supplies for the baby, as well as a small gift for the mama-to-be, including a Gospels now in over 30 pregnancy resource centers in the USA. Contact us if you know of a ministry that can use them! - For the past 6 years, Lifeline Gifts has packed over 1200 boxes or backpacks filled with hygiene supplies, school supplies, arts and crafts, toys, clothes, and Bible Story book. They are then sent around the world by missions for children who are in very needy situations, or Operation Christmas Child (OCC or Samaritan’s Purse). Contact us if you know of a ministry that can use either the boxes, backpacks, or layettes.
We are still considering the possibility of turning Lifeline Gifts into an official non-profit organization as others support LLG, as we want our ministry outreach to touch as many lives as possible. We have a wonderful team to help with all that is involved with this undertaking.
~Amaris